By Christine Richard, Sunset senior editor

This morning in an editorial meeting, staff photographer Tom Story sat next to me. He hadn’t been in the offices much lately because he’s been on the road. Because he travels constantly and looks at landscapes in a different light, I asked him what some of his favorite destinations are. Here’s what he said:

Eastern Sierras — beautiful — I'm looking at getting a little piece of land out there to build an A-frame … The Salton Sea is another one of my favorite-est places in the West — the beautiful decay, crazy surreal light and people, the fact that John Waters narrated a documentary about it, tons of bird watching… Orcas Island. Amazing.

When I asked him to explain amazing, he had already hit the road again (but I found a couple of his Orcas photos on the server, above). Executive editor Irene Edwards would back him on that: She has an Orcas Island license plate holder. (She's got a mild obsession with it).