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  • Weekend Ramblings

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    What was begun as a photographic blog seems to be turning into more words than I expected. I find that I do a lot of research, look up a lot of words, and think about what to write before I snap a photo. Being a transplant from the East Coast has led me to explore…

  • Sunsets!

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    Sunsets have always attracted me. Some people are totally oblivious to the beauty that’s presented in Technicolor on the biggest screen in the world, but it gives me such a rush; partly because there’s such a limited time to photograph it, and partly because I’m gasping with rapture because of the beauty before me. Not…

  • Petroglyphs

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    It took a while to find the petroglyphs on the Volcanic Tablełands. In an earlier post last fall: Volcanic Tablełands, Take Two, I talked about the petroglyphs that are on the tablelands and posted photos. You can drive miles and miles over washboard dirt roads and see only sagebrush, rabbit brush, rocks, lizards, mountains, an…

  • Volcanic Tablelands, Take Two

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    News Flashes! I was out below the Tablelands yesterday and found a lake! I was surprised because water out here is so scarce. I had put the car into 4WD because the ‘sand’ looked really soft and decided to drive no further. I stepped out of the car, walked around behind it to get to…

  • Mono Lake

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    I traveled twice to Mono Lake, CA, which is right next to the pass into the back entrance of Yosemite. Mono Lake was created some 700,000 years ago when a volcanic eruption 2,500 times greater than that of Mount Saint Helen’s occurred. The ash settled as far east as Nebraska and debris and ash south…