Category: Places I Like
Return to Rock-a-Hoola … soon to be reopening … ? *Updated*
Beautiful infrastructure: The Sacramento River intake facility
Shots from the road: The Central Valley in April, plus an afternoon in the Delta
Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach
Out and about in the Owens Valley
I’ve been slowly working my way through the chore of cataloging my photos, and as I get ready to file things away, here is a collection of odd shots from in and around the Owens Valley from last year. (I’m not going to include the dust control project much; I’ll post links to those at…
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest: Spending time with the oldest living things on earth
Klondike Lake and satellite dishes
This is Klondike Lake, sort of secret locals-only sort of place in the Owens Valley.
Zurich Station, Owens Valley
This is Zurich Station, an old railroad station on the Carson & Colorado Railway which used to run down the eastern side of the Owens Valley. We discovered this gem on our way back from the Bristlecone Pineforest.
Camping at Lake Isabella: The black and white forest and other things …
In June of last year, we went camping at Lake Isabella, which is just above Bakersfield. Behind our campground was a grove of sycamore trees (at least I think they were sycamores … ) where a fire had swept through not too long ago. I named it the ‘black and white forest’. After setting up…