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Questions or additions? Just call or email Ken Rockwell at (858) 453-2099. For questions about any particular trip contact the trip organizer.

Everyone is welcome, member or not, to our meetings. Trips are open only to members, which is no big deal since the trips are free and membership is only $25 a year. See our home page to join.

Photos from previous outings here. Old calendar archive here.

Monthly Meeting Time and Location: We meet at 7PM on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Wesley Palms, 2404 Loring Street, Pacific Beach 92109, (858) 581-8423. Directions. All meetings are free. (We met at the zoo back in 2006.)

OUTINGS: Photo section outings suggested below merely suggested activities at fixed public locations and are NOT formal Sierra Club Outings. Anyone may come and go as they please. We just get together for fun, even if we meet out of state or out of the country. Smoking is absolutely forbidden. You ought to make advance contact with the organizer, otherwise the leader may not bother to show up if they feel too few people are going to be there. Of course as suggestions you may do as you please regardless of what we do, by all means show up on your own and go Italian, even if no one else is. You are responsible for making your own travel and lodging arrangements for everything.

Live satellite images of cloud conditions over San Diego here. The entire Western USA is here, then just click any area for a close up. Be sure to wave to the satellite! Here's the index page to more images from the same source.

Generalizations about wildflowers: Flowers start in the lower Southwestern deserts and move north and to higher elevations. They can start as early as January in the lower deserts and will have peaked and gone away by April or May. In April or May try the Owens Valley or the Great Smoky Mountains. By early August the flowers in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada should be peaking. Try Anza Borrego, Death Valley, Carson pass in the Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Joshua Tree and Lake Elsinore. Try Organ Pipe in Arizona. Try the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina, Yankee Boy Basin in Colorado and Glacier National Park in Montana. (adapted from Christopher Talbot Frank in Outdoor Photographer, August 2005, p. 48.)

Sun and moon data here.

No outing today? Help out by watching some frogs at Frogwatch USA!

Contests

San Diego Natural History Museum Best of Nature Show. Deadline: 15 March, 2009.

Mission Trails Regional Park Annual Photo Contest. Entry deadline: April 24, 2009

National Wildlife Federation 2009 photo contest is open for entries until Monday, 20 July 2009.

Ongoing

Borrego Wildflowers are predicted to be at their best during the first two weeks of March. It should be a
good year for blooms due to the generous and regular rainfall we've had this winter. Check the internet
for info before heading down and if you need some additional advice, stop by the ranger station.

http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca_abdsp.html

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July 2009

Meeeting, Thursday, 16 July 2009, 7PM: Lin Craft: South Georgia: Island of the Kings

Situated in the sub-Antarctic region of the remote southern ocean, the island of South Georgia is home to the vast majority of the world's population of King penguins. Our visit to South Georgia begins at the historic whaling station of Grytviken where Ernest Shackleton is buried. Although the human history of this remote and rugged island is extremely interesting, it was the rich natural history which drew me like a magnet. The program includes in-depth encounters with the beautiful and fascinating King penguins and also introduces a variety of other sub-Antarctic birds and mammals, including fur seals, elephant seals, albatross, gentoo penguins, skuas, and even reindeer.

About Lin Craft, APSA, FSCACC

Lin Craft is a highly accomplished nature and landscape photographer. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Lin has called Southern California home for over 25 years. She began her serious photography underwater in the Caribbean while pursuing a master’s degree in marine biology in Puerto Rico followed by teaching at the College of the Virgin Islands. While a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California she was a scientist on a research project which involved diving under the ice in Antarctica. She has made a career in the environmental consulting field, but in her spare time pursues making images of the natural world. She has photographed under most of the world’s oceans, on all 7 continents, and in over 25 countries. She also loves to explore closer to home and has become deeply enamored with the desert southwest and its fabled red rock country.

Lin is very active in amateur photography groups at the international, national, regional and local levels. She is especially active in the Nature Division of the Photographic Society of America where she has held several positions. She is in demand as a judge of photography and competes in International Photography Salons where she has garnered numerous medals and awards. Lin is regular exhibitor at the San Diego County fair and currently has three images on display. A popular presenter, Lin has given over 185 slide programs of her photographic adventures to groups of all ages and backgrounds.

Lin has been honored as an Associate of the Photographic Society of America (APSA), and as a Fellow of the Southern California Association of Camera Clubs (FSCACC), of which she has twice been president,. She is currently President of the Fallbrook Camera Club, where she now resides.

Lin’s images have appeared in calendars (including two that were exclusively of her images), on book covers, in corporate brochures, and magazines, and are available for purchase as custom fine art prints and photo greeting cards. Her work has been featured in galleries and she has had several exhibitions of her prints.

She has been shooting Nikon cameras for over 35 years and is currently shooting SLRs in both film and digital formats.