California's Eastern Sierra is celebrating a record snowfall and the Winter rains. Camping along the lower slopes, the abundance of flowers, of water, and of gorgeous light, provide a Spring like few others we have witnessed.
Here are the results of just four days.
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South face of Lone Pine Peak. |
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Recapturing water to refill the Owens Lake |
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Granite canyon below Mt. Langley |
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Sunrise in the Buttermilks |
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Spring |
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The Buttermilks in bloom |
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Owens Valley backroads and Mt. Tom |
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Lower Rock Creek |
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Jeffrey Pines, Rock Creek |
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Jeffrey Pines |
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A comfortable pine needle stop |
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Winter still holds on at 8000 feet in Upper rock Creek |
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The lava flow blooming along Highway 395 near Big Pine |
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Out of pure lava rock, Apricot Globemallow |
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Too many miles, content to be spoiled |
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Wide open |
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Flowering Joshua Tree |
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Desert Cholla |
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The Kern River as full as it gets |
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Kern River |
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The entrance to Kern Canyon, this waterfall is from an overflow hardly used. |
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Rolling hills turning to gold |
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Epic Spring growth near Parkfield |