Wanna Buy a Town???

This is Dunmovin, and it's for sale!!!

Legend has it that during the Dust Bowl years, a group of Oklahoma settlers

drove to California, and when they arrived at this spot on Hwy 395 they said...

"We're dun movin'!!!"

Well...I don't know who lives there now...

but it's for sale...

Actually, in the early 1900's it served as a freight station for silver ingots from the 

Cerro Gordo mines...

Charles and Hilda King purchased it in 1936 and changed the name to Dunmovin...

There was a post office there for all of three years...

The rest of the settlement was a roadside service station, a store, tourist cabins, and a cafe...

The property was sold in 1961 and the cafe and store stayed busy for many more years...

It's deserted now...and for sale...

...And that, folks, is the rest of the story...

Anybody interested???

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The Breath of Angels...

"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious.

And why shouldn't it be? -it is the same the angels breathe.

Mark Twain

Roughing It

Is it just a coincidence that Mark Twain's book Roughing It was written

about his travels to the west, including the Eastern Sierras???

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It's Survival of the Fittest...

Not every pine sapling makes it through the piles and piles of snow...

:=)

Shhh...It's Wordless Wednesday!!!

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Our Little Corner of the World...

Say Goodbye...

...to another Mammoth winter...

Last week was most likely our last big snow...

...and what we gained last week is quickly melting...

And I can't say I'm sorry to see ol' winter go!!!

Hellooo Spring!!!

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Mellow Yellow...

"They call me mellow yellow..."

Donovan

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Winter's Reflections...

"Silent icicles, 

Quietly shining to the moon."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

While icicles hanging from the eaves of the house is an amazing sight...

especially when they're as magnificent as this one...

I find the intricate detail of the close up so much more interesting!!!

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Moonlight over the White Mountains...

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."

Les Brown

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Yeah...Snow is Definitely Beautiful...

"Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile,

and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.

Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir

I think Silverlake is one of the prettiest lakes in the Eastern Sierras...

The mountains surrounding the lake are magnificent!!!

Kelly, of course, prefers the lake...

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Signs, Signs...Everywhere Are Signs...

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

Henry David Thoreau

But I'll bet there are a whole lot of men (and women) who are getting out their gear 

and getting ready to catch "the big one"

as soon as fishing season opens!!!

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Spring in Black and White...

"All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud,

you have first an instinct, then an opinion,

then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.

Trust the instinct to the end,

though you can render no reason."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our Little Corner of the World...

Yep...it's snow!!!

Finally!!!

This was from Saturday night's snow storm.

Sunday was clear and warm...until the evening...

It's been snowing ever since!!!

You're welcome LA!!!

(For my international visitors...our little corner of the world

is a source of water for Los Angeles)

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