Our Little Corner of the World...

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin

One of the best parts of participating in the City Daily Blog world 

and the Our World Tuesday meme,

is meeting so many new friends all over the world.

I have thoroughly enjoyed "virtually" meeting each and every one of you!!!

And if you're ever in the vicinity of the Eastern Sierras in California...

let me know...I'd love to meet you in person!!!

Just this weekend I met with long time Daily blogger Petrea Burchard, 

blogger Karin Bugge, and former blogger and ultimate commenter...Katie!!!

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Said the Violet...

"Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, 

all last winter we slept in the seeming death 

but at the right time God awakened us,

and here we are to comfort you."

Edward Payson Rod

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An Accident of Creation???

"To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God."

John Muir

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Shhhh!!!......Do You Hear It???

"No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied-

it speaks in silence to the very core of your being."

Ansel Adams

One of my favorite things about living here is the drive from Bishop to Mammoth...

I love to watch how the mountains change...minute to minute...

Throughout the day the shadows move and change the visual contours of the mountains.

Then there are the seasonal changes...

snow drifts in Fall, covered with snow in the winter, and rivulets of melting snow in Spring...

As beautiful as the Western side of the Sierras are...it just doesn't compare to 

the stark, rugged beauty of the Eastern Sierras.

These are part of the Sherwin Mountains Range...just south east of Mammoth Lakes...

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More Blue Skies!!!

"I never get tired of the blue sky."

Vincent Van Gogh

Take a moment to sit back and enjoy Ella's version of Blue Skies...

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Last Chance...

...for the season!!!

 

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

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

Wash your spirit clean."

John Muir

We're getting closer and closer to the closure of the roads up to the Lakes Basin...

this trail starts out of Coldwater Camp grounds in the basin, and heads up to Emerald Lake...

The forecast suggests snow again next week...

this trail won't be open much longer...

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Shhhhh...It's Wordless Wednesday!!!

"Your work is to discover your world

and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

The Buddha

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Opening Day...

...is November 7, 2013!!!

Yep...get your skis or snow boards and pile in the car...

it's opening weekend this weekend!!!

But don't count on running into TheChief and me up on the mountain...

I think we're gonna pass this season...

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Long Gone...But Not Forgotten...

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

What you have caught on film is captured forever...

it remembers little things long after you have forgotten everything."

Aaron Siskind 

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Alfred Stieglitz
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Be Still...

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 

and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

Indira Ghandi

Another moment from Santa Fe...
window in the Loretta Chapel...

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Anything but Ordinary...

 "Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."

John Ruskin

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Soaring to New Heights...

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

Steven Wright

One of the downsides of the aging process is the upside of the scale numbers...

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