Raymond Barnett

Living and Writing in the Natural World

The scene as you float down a calm stretch of Sabino Creek

At the site of an O'Keeffe painting

Charles Darwin's daughter Annie, shortly before her death at age 10

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Snowflake moray eel, Echidna nebulosa

emerald waters of Colorado River's Black Canyon

Sierra Buttes of the metamorphic, Mesozoic Sierra Nevada range

Immature White Ibis, coming into adult color

"Bon voyage" to the backpacking daughter

Infamous trail marker, New Mexico

"Fierce and cruel alligators appear to us, but beautiful in the eyes of God. They, also, are his children." --John Muir

Hometown of 4077th MASH Company Clerk

The view from a sea cave

Man and Best Friend, Bennie

2,425 feet of "songs that bear pureheaven in every note"

Sun rising behind over-optimistic paddler, San Pablo Bay

Tomales Bay: North America plate on the right, Pacific plate on the left--and San Andreas Fault immediately below!

Corner room of Mt. Vernon Inn's restaurant. The Colonial Hoecake is not to be missed.

Georgia O'Keeffe's "Chama River" near Ghost Ranch entrance

Ortega showroom, Chimayo

A typical collection of urchins from Puako in the old days, before their return to the tidepool

Harbor seal on a redwood log, Big River

Darwin Falls, up Darwin Wash in Death Valley's Argus Range

Steinbeck and Ricketts pal Frank Wright (right) at Cannery Row

"What? You never seen an otter use a rock?"

Saint John, from wjpstudios.com

One of Monet's famous water lilies

The newest Sherlock

Eagerly awaited harbingers of spring

Zhou Minzhen, Barnett, Ye Duzhuang at Peking Man Cave

Julia Morgan's "Hearthstone" at Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Do you think the females will like my chain, guys?

40 feet of falling water at Glen Aulin

AJ, Kyle in monsoon at Emei Mt

Whitney looms behind Ash, Maya

The young Charles Darwin

lunar new year festivities

Courtenay-Latimer's 1938 sketch

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

A son and Half dome in snow

Celebrating the harvest, S.F. style

40.5 lbs of trouble

A helpful label

Father, Son under Hamilton Dome

Camping among the sequoias

Fathers and sons at Bearpaw Meadow

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Selected Works

Nonfiction

Earth Wisdom: John Muir, Accidental Taoist, Charts Humanity's Only Future on a Changing Planet

His journals reveal a hidden Muir, whose radical worldview challenges

Relax, You're Already Home: Everyday Taoist Habits for a Richer Life

Taoism reveals simple habits for health and balance in our modern lives

Classics Revisited

The Return to Treasure Island

Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins stumble upon ancient Chinese treasure

The Death of Mycroft

Sherlock Holmes discovers his brother has been murdered by a Nazi spy on the eve of D-Day

Historical Fiction

Murder and passion during the 1948 Communist siege of Peking

The China Ultimatum

Nuclear war looms as China demands the return of Taiwan

The T'ae Medallion

A Virginian finds romance in Korea as Chinese and Japanese armies battle, 1895