I'm all lost in the supermarket

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuart on a recent trip to the market.

 

Rice Grass

 

Eastern Sierra.

Creek Grass

 

Grass along Green Creek in the Eastern Sierra

Late June Wildflowers

 

Mule's Ears

 

 

Great Basin Garden

 

 

Lupins and Irisis

 

Some of the images from a June 27, 2010 trip over Hinkey Summit in the Santa Rosa Mountains. Much like the rest of the desert in the Great Basin, there is a beautiful but brief explosion of color each year.

How's That?

 

Sam, this is for you!
Shot and posted from the sidewalk with the iPhone.

Reconnaissance

 

 

Went back up to the Santa Rosa mountains over the weekend. This is a great time of the year in the northern part of the Great Basin. The roads have only been open a little while, the snow drifts and mud holes have pretty much given way. The main roads seemed to have been recently bladed.

Everywhere you look there is a little brook carrying away the cold, cold water. It's a big country, and it was completely empty.

 

 

Hardheads

I have much more to say on this topic, but not right now, it will have to wait.

Aquereberry Point

A view of Badwater, the lowest point in the United States, from Aquereberry Point.

Pete Aguereberry, the miner that built the trail to this spectacular viewpoint, was apparently one of the very few good guys that populated Death Valley in it's early mining days. Late in his life Pete built the trail to this "Grand View" of Death Valley with a wheel barrow and his hand tools, so he could share the view.

This is Bill, having a look:





Badwater
Close up, sort of.

This is the bottom of Death Valley, so people like to walk out and see for themselves. 282 feet below sea level.








Rhyolite Ghost Town














The train depot at Rhyolite badly needs structural repairs. Administrators with the BLM need to develop a new visitor experience. The chain link fence with the razor wire on top that surrounds the entire building makes it look more like a crime scene than a historic treasure.

Blue Mountain from the iphone

This is the second picture I took with my new phone. The first one was of my lap.

Delicious

(Click it up Big)

What is he building in there? - Tom Waits

This is another Wordle, made up of the tags from my own delicious bookmarks. May give you some idea about where my attention is much of the time. If you want to investigate further, you might try here: http://delicious.com/bsims

If you want to give it a try, and you can spend hours at this if you are so inclined, you can create your own Wordle here: http://www.wordle.net/