Critters Galore!!!

Just a few of my favorite Critter pics...

and giving Kelly, Sadie, and Cleo a rest from their demanding schedules

as models...

Miss Daisy, at Bodie...may she rest in peace...

Taking a short break...

Posting some of my more unique pics from my archives!!!

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I'm not Crazy...

"I'm a Blue Footed Boobie!!!"

"But don't forget my baby Boobie!!!"

Some of my favorite birds from the Galapagos...

Taking a short break...

Posting some of my more unique pics from my archives!!!

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Our Little Corner of the World...

"To every thing there is a season, 

and a time to every purpose under the heaven..."

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Turn, Turn, Turn...

The Byrds

This is one of my favorite pics from the opening weekend of fishing season in 2011.

Taking a short break...

Posting some of my more unique pics from my archives!!!

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That's Easy for Buddha to Say...

"As a lotus flower is born in water, 

grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled,

so I, 

born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world,

live unsoiled by the world."

Buddha

(That's easy for Buddha to say...)

I may have posted this one before...but I tweaked it a bit...

Taking a short break...

Posting some of my more unique pics from my archives!!!

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A Window of Opportunity!!!

"If a window of opportunity appears,

don't pull down the shade."

Tom Peters

Taking a short break...

Posting some of my more unique pics from my archives!!!

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On the Lookout for Nemo...

"A wonderful bird is the pelican

His bill will hold more than his belican.

He can take in his beak

Food enough for a week,

But I'm damned if I see how the helican."

Dixon Lanier Merritt

On the lookout for Nemo...

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In Search of a Sunset...

 

  "When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills,

it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region,

earth being so intermixed with sky,

and gradually transformed into it."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The day before the last snowfall, I headed up to Mono Lake in search of a sunset.

There wasn't a lot of color...but the clouds were spectacular!!!

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She's a Snugglepuss...

"Until one has loved an animal

a part of one's soul

remains unawakened."

Anatole France

Cleo hasn't gotten a lot of press lately...

Kelly and Sadie tend to hog the lens...

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"F" is for....FLAMINGO???

Really???...a FLAMINGO???....in the Eastern Sierras???

The Lee Vining market knows a good selling beer...

but shouldn't there be a bear in the sign???

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Our Little Corner of the World...

Is it still winter???  Are we slipping into spring???

We're in the in-between!!!

We've only had a bit of snow here and there since the last big storm in December...

and the brown earth has started to surface, the snow melting in rivulets...

Yet, we're expecting a fairly big snow fall tonight and tomorrow...

Yep...We're in the in-between!!!

Still great snow on the mountain...

and 99% occupancy this past weekend...

and traffic congestion in the Von's aisles!!!

Life is good in God's country!!!

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Snow White...

"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."
Andy Goldsworthy


There's profound...
and then there's confession...

" I used to be Snow White...but I drifted."
Mae West


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A New Perspective...

"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man;
it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him."
Baudouin I, King of Belgium


An interesting thought about war...while it was directed at the
vulnerability of the soldier in combat, it can aptly be applied to
those interred here at Manzanar.

A new perspective of the watchtower at Manzanar.


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Searching for the Sun...

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine-

and shadows will fall behind you."

Walt Whitman

For more wonderful Black and White photography...

click here!

Wonders of the Eastern Sierra Sky...

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever;

its loveliness increases;

it will never pass into nothingness."

John Keats

Click here to hear Sunrise, Sunset!!!

Perry Como

This beautiful sunset was the same night as last week's Skywatch Friday...

just on the other side of the horizon!!!

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A Valentine's Kiss...

...from Kelly!!!

And a Valentine's bouquet...

...from TheChief and TheChieftess!!!

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These Boots are Made for Walkin'...

"These boots are made for walkin'..."

Nancy Sinatra

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