Random Photos

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A random taste of photos:
Tufa towers at Mono Lake. This building reminded me of an old decrepit church. (It was probably an emergency snow cabin or something.) Natural CO2 outgassing from a magma body beneath Mammoth Mountain asphyxiated more than 100 acres of trees near Horseshoe Lake in the early 1990s. The gasses become concentrated to deadly levels in enclosed structures such as cabins. A tight cluster of thin red-orange seaweed at the beach.
Green landscape in Pacheco State Park, California. I believe the body of water shown is the San Luis Reservoir. Macro of a purple flower with yellow pollen and green stems. (If you know the species, please let me know and I\'ll add the info!) Tufa towers at Mono Lake.
Ground squirrel, ready for his closeup on the boardwalk. This building reminded me of an old decrepit church. (It was probably an emergency snow cabin or something.) Natural CO2 outgassing from a magma body beneath Mammoth Mountain asphyxiated more than 100 acres of trees near Horseshoe Lake in the early 1990s. The gasses become concentrated to deadly levels in enclosed structures such as cabins. A natural pink salt marsh.
Tufa along the shore at Mono Lake. Red roses. A male seagull and some other birds, standing on a coastal boardwalk.
Macro of orange plants. Red and yellow berries on a green tree. Shoshone Falls (sometimes called the
A zig-zaggy boardwalk leads to the Environmental Education Center in Alviso, California. Strange and wonderful geology in the northern part of Yosemite National Park, from Hwy 120. A lavender daisy-like wildflower by a stream.
This building reminded me of an old decrepit church. (It was probably an emergency snow cabin or something.) Natural CO2 outgassing from a magma body beneath Mammoth Mountain asphyxiated more than 100 acres of trees near Horseshoe Lake in the early 1990s. The gasses become concentrated to deadly levels in enclosed structures such as cabins. This is either a Sharp-shinned Hawk or a Cooper\'s Hawk, eating a smaller bird. I believe it is a juvenile (fledged some weeks ago). This hawk family lived in a eucalyptus tree on a golf course. Salt beds form a strange landscape.
A flimsy fence somehow manages to contain a huge hill in Pacheco State Park, California. A family of deer in a meadow. Wailua Falls.
Egrets, pelicans and other sea birds near an islet. A hut constructed of driftwood and seaweed on the beach. Yellow and black warning sign with a skull and crossbones that says,
A tadpole with legs in the shallow water of TJ Lake or Lake Barrett (not sure which). White mushroom on red leaves. Succulent plants growing in the beach sand in Morro Bay, California.
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