What is greenravine dot net? a family website; a testing ground; a photo gallery
The name comes from the Green Ravine family farm was founded in 1978 when Craig and Martye Green moved out of the Sacramento suburbs and emigrated to the Sierra Nevada foothills. Green Ravine was our name for our 22 acres of farm and vineyard in the foothills of northern California on the banks of Auburn Ravine. We lived there happily for 28 years raising livestock and children; growing grapes and making pretty darn good wine.
Then, in 2007, an unexpected change occurred - we decided to move. We had many times found ourselves musing about living in different places as we travelled and finally, in late 2006, we travelled to a place that seemed a good fit — San Juan Island, Washington. For two multi-generation Californians this was an enormous change but, in retrospect, not necessarily unexpected. The beautiful golden state of our youth no longer existed and the clearer skies, cooler climate, the peaceful pace of an island community and friendly people of Washington called to us. It was a siren song that we did not resist.
Our children thought we were crazy, our friends thought we were crazy and at times we thought we were crazy. And it truly was a crazy leap of faith but it seems to have worked out well.
Please enjoy what is here.
My own interest in photography started long ago when my parents got me what I think was a Brownie Starflex camera to take on an elementary school field trip to Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. The oldest wildlife refuge anywhere in North America, Lake Merritt was something of an urban miracle. I still remember the photograph I took of a beautiful white swan that was there. I no longer have that photograph nor any others that I'm certain took with that camera although the one to the right might have been one. It's a photograph I took at sunrise while on a Campfire Girls campout at Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains. 
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