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With this week’s unsettled weather, it was a good time to trot out the infrared camera and give our community an other-w...
05/30/2026

With this week’s unsettled weather, it was a good time to trot out the infrared camera and give our community an other-worldly, dreamlike look – at RanchoMurieta.com.

04/27/2026

After 45 years with Rancho Murieta, Rod Hart is retiring. (He is the general manager of the Rancho Murieta Association, and for decades he was the maintenance manager.) There's a video – about his life and times and the many things he has done for the community – at RanchoMurieta.com.

Sunset at Lake Calero.
12/02/2025

Sunset at Lake Calero.

It was at least 60 years ago when a ranch hand built this gate – on site, by hand – for what looks like a livestock pen....
11/15/2025

It was at least 60 years ago when a ranch hand built this gate – on site, by hand – for what looks like a livestock pen. Or maybe the ranch owner built the gate himself in his barn and trucked it to the site, using bits of reclaimed lumber and hardware such as you’d find on a ranch.
Now patches of green lichen cover the gate, which was measured to stretch from one oak to another. Knotholes, bolts and nails have seen decades of weather. The only thing still bright and shiny on the wood is a small spray of BBs. Five strands of barbed wire stretch out to fence posts that have failed, leaving the barbed wire tangled in vegetation in a double-dutch for eternity.
The wood is connected in a mortise and tenon joint that’s clearly hand-cut. The gate is hinged to the tree from above with a metal strap, which doesn’t look store-bought. The tree has grown over the strap.
The ranch was one of a number of properties sold to developers 60 years ago to assemble Rancho Murieta’s 3,500 acres. With woodpeckers tap-tap-tapping on a recent afternoon, it is otherwise very quiet.
Development hasn’t come to this land, in the hills east of Lake Clementia, and maybe, given the infrastructure costs, it never will.

A gate on the way to Granlees Dam.
11/07/2025

A gate on the way to Granlees Dam.

Sunset of barbed wire and thistle.
09/17/2025

Sunset of barbed wire and thistle.

Happy Fourth of July, Rancho Murieta!
07/05/2025

Happy Fourth of July, Rancho Murieta!

Lupines, this morning at Chesbro.
04/10/2025

Lupines, this morning at Chesbro.

Cosumnes River on the cusp of spring.
02/21/2025

Cosumnes River on the cusp of spring.

Rancho Murieta hummingbird, coming in for a landing.
01/22/2025

Rancho Murieta hummingbird, coming in for a landing.

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