Outdoors

Hello fellow anglers. Renee and I took a few more trips around the Sierra over the last couple weeks, and yes there was fishing involved. We first camped for 5 days on the East Fork of the Carson River. It was brisk in the morning, but very toasty in the afternoon.

Out for a walk Sunday morning at Mills Park in Carson City.

This is my last article for 2023, but I’ll be back early next year. I thought I would look back on all the gardening experiences I had this year. The year started less than auspiciously. We were without power, water or heat for five days. That was followed by flooding, which provided our annual rainfall in one week.

On Sunday, October 29, 2023, Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City, NV will host a Halloween Fun Shoot from 9:00am to 5:30pm.

Fall adds new color to Carson City.

Looking for a way to enjoy this wonderful weather and support the community at the same time? Carson Safe Grad is accepting late registration to their largest fundraiser of the year.

As part of Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s hazardous fuels reduction efforts, both Carson and Bridgeport Ranger Districts’ fire crews will conduct pile burning beginning in October through May, weather and fuel conditions permitting.

This hawk was checking out my dogs Sunday morning in Washoe Valley. What a stunning creature. My dogs never noticed.

I was thinking that autumn was supposed to be a slower time of year for landscape and gardening chores. I have so many tasks lined up, I don’t know where to begin — fertilize the lawns, shut down the garden, finish picking apples, prune trees, decide whether to deadhead perennials or not, shut down the irrigation system, and winterize the tools and machines.

Light cloudiness helped make viewing this morning's solar eclipse easier with the naked eye. This photo was taken this morning at 9:50am, just after the eclipse's peak.

Carson Now Reader Clare Holland submitted this photo of the beautiful trees changing on the way to Marlette Lake!

This morning there was an annular solar eclipse. The clips started about 8:05 a.m. and lasted for a couple of hours. The pictures are part of a series and were taken at 10 minute intervals. The GIF file is a combination of the series. Although the start was shrouded in cloud cover, the majority of the eclipse was pretty clear.

Through all the gardener’s challenges this year, vegetable gardens in the Ranchos still provided a bountiful harvest. Something to be grateful for. A pleasure to share with neighbors, friends, and colleagues alike.

On Saturday morning, eyes went to the skies for the annual solar eclipse that took place. Photos were submitted by Bill Hopp, Donald Scott, Edward Howell and Randy and Vivian Spiker.

Fall is upon us. While many of us are enjoying pumpkin spiced lattes and carving pumpkins, we are also strolling along the river corridor to look at the changing leaves in our cottonwoods.

Fall is a great time to get out and add to our cottonwood population along the river. Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space invites the community to come out and plant young cottonwoods with staff at Carson River Park from 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18.

The moon and Venus captured in Eastern Carson City on October 10, 2023.

The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit has begun the annual process of closing National Forest recreational facilities around the Lake Tahoe Basin for the winter season. Seasonal closures apply to many recreation areas and sites including beaches, campgrounds, forest roads, parking lots, and picnic areas.

In late summer, rabbitbrush, a gorgeous plant despite its unflattering specific name which means “nauseating,” lines the highways and clusters in clumps between the sagebrush with a striking combination of golden flowers and silver-green foliage. — Elna Bakker, An Island Called California.

On Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City will host a National Sporting Clays Association Registered Shoot with Registered and Hunter classes.

Registration begins at 9:00am and shooting at 10:00am – 4:30pm. Call (775) 882-9904 for more information. Everyone is invited to come!

It was 39 degrees the morning that I write this and 30 degrees expected before the week is out — autumn is definitely here. I shut down my vegetable garden.

Quiet light along the Carson River on the first day of October. Scroll and click on each photo to enlarge.

Harvest Moon over the Carson Valley.

Hello fellow anglers. You can tell when fall has officially arrived. The sun is going down sooner, and it's time to put the heater in the boat. I have been on a little adventure over the last couple weeks fishing in our area.

Dawn light on the Carson River creates nature's painting.

The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, with the support of the Great Basin Institute, has canceled the popular Kokanee salmon Fall Fish Fest originally planned for Oct. 14.

The event has experienced challenges over the last few years with staffing, crowd and people taking selfies with bears.

The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team is scheduled to begin fall prescribed fire operations today, Sep. 25, 2023. If conditions and weather are favorable, California State Parks may conduct understory burning over the next three weeks in Burton Creek and Sugar Pine Point state parks and the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit may begin burning piles on Angora Ridge near Fallen Leaf Lake. Smoke will be present.

Another look at the early morning sunrise Monday above Carson City.

A beautiful tangerine sunrise filled the sky Monday morning over Carson City.

The heat has passed, but the soil is still warm. Conditions are ideal to plant trees. We all know that trees provide shade and cool a home. They clean the air and absorb stormwater runoff. They add aesthetic appeal.