Birds of a feather……Tuesday morning at the Laguna de Santa Rosa. -Kent Porter    

First I wanted to be a baseball player, then a meteorologist.  When those two failed (torn rotator cuff and horrible math skills) I returned to the sage words of my High School counselor. "Your test scores," she said, "favor you in the English teaching field, or journalism."  Wow, a choice! [...]

Updated 11Am, Monday Jan.14, 2014.  The below Fire Weather Watch has been upgraded to a Red Flag ,Warning. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... .Yeah, it's winter here in northern California.  The wall calendar says so. It must be real. As many of us are aware, there hasn't been much rain for 13 months.  What? [...]

My first trip to North Carolina has been a quick one.  I did have part of Saturday to explore the backroads near Charlotte.   Someday, as with every destination I've been fortunate to travel to for the Press Democrat, I would like to spend a few days getting to know [...]

On my way to Charlotte NC to cover the 49ers and the Panthers, I made a quick stop at the Laguna de Santa Rosa Friday. Lucky. -Kent Porter

Cloudy skies...natural for this time of year, but nonetheless eerily absent this past fall and present winter.  This week could be the closest Sonoma County gets in the next couple for ANY kind of precipitation.  Meanwhile...I see trees... at the Laguna de Santa Rosa. [...]

Another day of shooting drought photos gave me the opportunity to drive back through the Laguna de Santa Rosa.  With light fading quickly, I ended up with…you guessed it, bird photos. -Kent Porter

Just when you thought it was winter....Summer is back for an encore, as are the offshore winds and  low relative humidity. Not surprising, since California is on the threshold of one of the driest calendar years on record.  This means that a red flag fire warning is effect for the [...]

There is a line from one of my all-time favorite baseball movies, The Sandlot.  It goes something like this:  "Just stick your glove in the air (Scotty) Smalls, and I'll do the rest."  Spoken by Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, who then hits a pop-fly in to Smalls baseball mitt. What [...]

There are days on the Laguna de Santa Rosa when all a person will see are birds.  Like today.  Beside a couple of  hunters, an angry bee and some admittedly goofy looking holstein cattle, it was a bird paradise. I was able to make quite a few decent images.  The [...]