Where Oh Where Has Our Lovely Lake Gone???

Ever see the drain at the bottom of a lake???

Photo courtesy of Dan Watson...iPhone!!!

Horseshoe Lake is one of the Lakes in the Mammoth Lakes Basin...

This actually is a crevice that drains the lake...

But no one knows where all the water actually goes!!!

With our lack of snow this year...the lake has emptied extraordinarily fast and 

completely...

See the difference from last year here and here...

The Call of the Wild...

"You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods

that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns."

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

My granddaughter Kasey stayed back from a rather big hike with me on our

last full day in our special place...

She taught me how to play the game of LIFE on her iPad...

we each won one game...

Then she went into the dining area and was getting her table decorations 

out for dinner...she came running out to the back patio where I was reading 

and told me there were deer at the salt lick...

I grabbed my camera and we quietly went out the front...

The most we counted at one time were 7...

all doe and a fawn or two...

The lighting was getting a bit dark so these were the only pics of many

that came out...

Our Special Corner of the World...

Over Labor Day Weekend we partied (and I recuperated) with family and friends

 in our special corner of the world...

Blowin' in the Wind...

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, 

while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Bruce Lee

And the elderberry is hard to capture when the wind blows!!!

It's All in the Details....

"That all-softening, overpowering knell,

The tocsin of the soul - the dinner-bell."

Lord Byron

Yep!!!  It really is a dinner bell!!!

One of the small details of our special place in Sequoia!!!

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Labor Day Weekend Reflections...

"Sometimes a girl just has to dive under the duvet and regroup."

Jody Gehrman

I think I'm finally coming out from under the covers!!!!

Be sure to check out more reflections at Jame's Weekend Reflections!!!

I'm Baaaack!!!!

"It is impossible to watch a sunset and not dream."

Bern Williams

Hope all is well with you all!!!

I'm bouncing back!!!

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Still Breathing...

Actually...I had a medical procedure last week and am still 

recovering...nothing serious....

I should be back online in a week or so...

In the meantime...we're heading for our special place in Sequoia...

for a family and friends get together...

and lot's of rest for me!!!

(And given that it's about 2000 feet lower than where we are in Mammoth...

easier breathing!!!)

Just Breath...

I'll be taking a breather for the next week or two...

check back in a week...

I'll be visiting other's blogs, but will be away from my computer 

and photo files...

Love to you all!!!

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!!!

A Silent Moon...

"See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence;

see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...

we need silence to be able to touch souls."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Powder Puff Clouds...

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...

It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now.

But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds,

and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough

to see beyond horizons."

Richard Bach

These clouds were billowing up above the clouds and smoke from the 

Indian Fire at Mono Lake...taken the same day as the fire shots I posted last week..

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