Happy Halloween!!!

Have a Ghoulish Halloween!!!

Surreal Reflections...

"Weekend Reflections"

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I am taking a short break from blogging...

I have pre posted for ABCWednesdays,

Skywatch Fridays, Weekend Reflections, 

and the Weekend in Black and White.

I hope to be back November 10th...

Thanks for visiting!!!

Steeled in Persistence...

"The Weekend in Black and White"

"Persistence is to the character of a man as carbon is to steel."

Napoleon Hill

I am taking a short break from blogging...

I have pre posted for ABCWednesdays,

Skywatch Fridays, Weekend Reflections, 

and the Weekend in Black and White.

I hope to be back November 10th...

Thanks for visiting!!!

Sky with a Golden Frame...

Skywatch Friday

"How beautifully leaves grow old.

How full of light and color are their last days."

John Burroughs

I am taking a short break from blogging...

Thanks for visiting!!!

I have pre posted for ABCWednesdays,

Skywatch Fridays, Weekend Reflections, 

and the Weekend in Black and White.

I hope to be back November 10th...

Thanks for visiting!!!

Lions and Tigers and Bears...Oh My!!!

"O!"
It's ABC Wednesday!

Oliver the Bear is just letting you know that I will be taking a brief 

rest from blogging...

There will be posts for ABCWednesdays, Skywatch Fridays,

The Weekend in Black and White and Weekend Reflections...

but I will not be commenting...

I hope to return to my regular blogging November 10th!

Fall Color Extraordinaire...

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting

and autumn a mosaic of them all."

Stanley Horowitz

Unless of course, it's a photograph!!!

V-Day Review...

What could be better...

...than our Southern Belle Virginia 

taking a bite of a delectable Violet Macaron in Pasadena???

Fun visit Miss V!!!

C'est Si Bon!

Sunday Bridges

Weekend in Black and White

"The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's 

going to go and where you'll wind up.  Following the bend in the river and 

staying on your own path means that you are on the right track.  Don't let anyone

deter you from that."

Eartha Kitt

C'est Si Bon

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Autumn's Fire...

Weekend Reflections

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day

the dead leaves fall and melt."

William Allingham

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Brilliant Forest...

Skywatch Friday

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, 

but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."

Hal Borland

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Autumn Gold...

Autumn leaves came quickly after the first snow...

NOT on my watch!!!

"N"
ABC Wednesday

Trying to go upstairs???
If you're a big, blonde, dog...you'd better back off...
'Cause Sadie's got the afternoon watch...
And NO DOG is getting up these stairs!!!

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In pursuit of roots...

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the 

artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

John F. Kennedy

It's a kick-@#* red!!!

"Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.
That, or a kick ass red lipstick."
Gwyneth Paltrow


My favorite kick ass red car in honor of
Virginia...a dear blog friend
from Birmingham, Alabama
coming to visit California!!!

Check out her blog...
and her photo book of Paris...
Paris Rouge

It's all in the perspective...

Weekend Reflections

"A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way."

Allen Klein

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It was a Black and White world back then...

This is part of the "stamp" mine in Bodie State Historical Park, California...

If you're ever in this neck of the woods...this is a must see!!!

But don't count on getting back there in the winter...as soon as 

the snow sticks and stays, the road becomes relatively impassable...

You can still visit, but you'd better have some cross country skis or a well 

gassed snowmobile!!!  

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Clouds with a silver lining...

"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Maurice Setter

I have to admit, the other week when the sky was dumping snow on the ground in

the middle of October, I was ticked off.  I grumbled and groused at the fact that just 

that past weekend I had been in flip flops and wearing summer clothes...then 

all of a sudden it was boots, jackets, hats, and gloves...

Then the sun came out...the clouds lingered but didn't drop loads of snow 

anymore and the temperature warmed...

And what a glorious silver lining it was!!!

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Rock the boat, baby!!!

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

Jean-Paul Sartre

It's a Woolly Mammoth!!!

"M"

ABC Wednesday

What could be more fitting for the "M" entry for ABC Wednesday

than Mammoth's very own Woolly Mammoth???

It's been a Black and White kind of weather up here...

Rumor has it that there's actually a Sequoia on this side of the Sierras...

and this is it...

Wish my grandpa was still with us...he'd be able to tell me!!!

Autumn Leaves???

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."

Elizabeth Lawrence

I wonder if we'll still be able to stop and watch the leaves turn...

or has the recent snow hastened the inevitable?

Weekend Reflections...

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,

and not twist them to fit our own image.  

Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

Thomas Merton

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Weekend in Black and White...

"Black and white are the colors of photography.  To me they symbolize

the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."

Robert Frank

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Skywatch Friday....

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

Leigh Hunt

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No...this isn't last year's photo...

I was expecting 2-3 inches at most...

About 10:30am Wed...

and no...this isn't in black and white!!!

Darn!!!  We still haven't put away our summer stuff!!!

Our first driveway plow of the year!!!

It's supposed to get warm and sunny this weekend and next week...

yep...a warm 66 degrees!!!

Thank you Steve Jobs...

...for all that you brought to this world...

"L" is for Lakes!!!

As in Mammoth Lakes!!!

There's a reason why Mammoth Lakes is plural...

Living up here we Locals have won the Lakes Lotto...

I'd be a Liar if I said I didn't Love it up here...

Life has taken a wonderful turn...

Living in a Lodge-Like Log cabin...

Becoming part of a Lively community...

Living, Laughing and Loving our Life up here!!!

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Catching a bit of Summer amidst the gloom and rain...

"I was born in a garden of roses

For so long

I thought my yellow petals were wrong

As I grew into the soil I was planted

I never knew the value of my own bloom

Brown Eyed Susan with the roses

What will she be

Passion burning for tomorrow

Full of possibility"

Brown Eyed Susan

Inohs Sivad

Where's that darned pot of gold???

Can you see the end of the rainbow???

Just the other day I was driving back to Mammoth from Rock Creek Lake

and it started raining...

I was driving towards the rainbow, when all of a sudden, the rainbow

was on the road in front of me and I was right there...

literally on top of the end of the rainbow!!!

I looked all around me but I couldn't see a pot of gold...

but I did hear faint giggling...do you suppose???

Reflections of Summer's Passing...

Summer only arrived in June here in Mammoth...

Now there are predictions of snow for next week...

Yesterday, Kelly and I went down to Rock Creek Lake and Rock Creek...

It was cloudy and rainy...chilly too...

Summer's just a little too short up here!!!

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City Daily Photo Theme Day...

"Mystery Object"

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And for more participants in The Weekend in Black and White....click here!!!