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Showing posts with label Mammoth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mammoth. Show all posts

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Singin' in the Rain...



If you want to hear good music, and drink a little beer, wine, or even tequila...
Come to Mammoth for one of our awesome festivals in the summer!!!
This weekend was the Mammoth Wine and Music Festival...
Vintners from all over California as well as imports
were available for tasting...



Of course, Mother Nature had another idea...She just wanted to make sure
we didn't get all dusty tramping around on the wood chips in Sam's Woods
while listening to great music and sipping wine...
so she let loose with a solid downpour!!!


The J. Lohr Vintners were great though...they pulled their tasting table into their canopy
so a lot of us could crowd around the tasting table...and drink their wine!!!
(I think it was one of my favorites!)




The best part of the evening though was the final concert...
with Kenny Loggins!!!
He was fabulous!!!  
He was as good as he's ever been!!!  The crowd loved him!!

I do have to tell a little story though...
I was at the Do It Center (now DIY Ctr) at the cash register...
one of the two guys behind the counter asked who was playing at 
the concert this weekend...
(keep in mind, they were both somewhere in their twenties)
The other guy and I responded Kenny Loggins...
The first guy said...Is he famous or something?
The second guy and I laughed and I explained that he
was very famous...in the 60's and 70's!!!
The second guy was laughing and I said I'm impressed 
that you knew who he was...he then told me 
"my dad named me after Bob Dylan"!!!


Winter is special up here...
but summer is awesome!!!



Thursday, July 12, 2012

Let There Be Light...




"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion
to a person who has never experienced it
than we can explain light to the blind."
T.S. Elliot

What is your passion???




Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Our Little Corner of the World...





Horseshoe Lake last year, after an epic snow year...



This year after a near epic lack of snow year...


The far, tree lined shore is the same...the tree root from the above photo is
to the right of the beach that is slightly wet above the photo edge....

What a difference a lack of snow can make...

Monday, June 25, 2012

Kelly and Diego...




Kelly and Diego...just a week and I think he's doubled in size!!!


Kelly kept eating the little bully sticks I got for Diego...then she'd commandeer 
the big one too!!!


But that didn't stop Diego!!!


Diego thought Kelly was awfully fun to climb on...


...then Kelly's pop came home...and look out!!!

For more Macro Monday shots...click on Lisa's Chaos!!!





Sunday, June 24, 2012

Just Another Sunset...



"I have spread my dreams beneath your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
W.B. Yeats


For more participants of Shadow Shot Sunday 2...click here!!!









Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Under the Table...



...takes on new meaning with these two!!!


"U"
ABC Wednesday

Under the table bantering for the chew bone...


...then...under the stool...


...unadulterated and unabated pleasure...


...it's tough being the underling in the pair!!!

Kelly and Diego...(Joanne and Byng's new puppy...and Kelly's new best friend...)








Monday, May 28, 2012

Kelly's New Best Friend...




Guest photographer Joanne Hunt took this close up on my iphone of Diego Byng...
Kelly's new best friend!!!




"He's kinda lil' mom...


...but he is kind of cute...


...you still love me best though, don't you???


...I guess he's pretty cute...


P-o-p!!!  
...that's MY favorite spot!!!"






Sunday, May 13, 2012

Celebrating Moms...Mammoth Style!!!





These ladies were riding in the Pampered Pedalers bike ride...
(Eastside Velo)
the day before Mother's Day!
I have to say...they're awesome!!!

The ride started at Footloose Sports Shop in Mammoth...
and 43 miles later...ended at the Elks partk in Bishop...

Yeah...mostly down hill...but enough uphill that I don't think 
I'll be joining this ride any time soon!!!

Now...you have to understand...the ride is all women..
and the theme was Nature...
so of course, all the riders followed suit with costumes 
depicting nature...
with a gentleman/woman thrown in as support!!!









Great fun was had by all...
A rather gruelling ride up and down the mountains to Bishop...

Happy Mother's Day!!!






Saturday, May 12, 2012

Stormy Weather





"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
Morris West


Morris West was an Australian novelist and playwright...
His best known works were The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman.
I remember seeing The Devil's Advocate...the one with Al Pacino
playing the Devil...
and I vaguely remember seeing The Shoes of the Fisherman 
with Anthony Quinn...
Do you remember either of these???


For more participants in the Weekend in Black and White...click here!







Tuesday, May 1, 2012

My Little Corner of the World Again...





"The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description;
one must travel through one's self to be acquainted with it."
Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield


I travelled from my front door to the street for this one...
Just sayin'....










Wednesday, April 11, 2012

WooHoo!!! "M is for Mammoth Mountain!!!


It's "M" week for ABC Wednesday...
So what else could my post be but...

"M" is for Mammoth Mountain!!!


MAMMOTH is one of the fashion capitals of the ski and snowboard world...


MAMMOTH has wonderful ski patrol helping to keep us all 
safe and patching us up when we fall...


MAMMOTH has great skiing and snowboarding...


MAMMOTH has giant snowmen...


MAMMOTH has guided snow shoe tours...


MAMMOTH has awesome AlpenGlo...


MAMMOTH lakes has great fishing...


MAMMOTH has clouds...lot's and lot's of clouds...
including the Sierra Waves...


MAMMOTH has awesome sunsets...


...and MAMMOTH has lot's of snow and icicles...even in 
a dry snow year...
(It's supposed to snow again tomorrow through Saturday!!!)
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