They’re Eating My Peaches!

August 31, 2010 by Eastern Sierra Leave a Comment

But they are beautiful, so I’ll let it slide…

"I'm watching you watching me!"

Contemplating the risks of movement

Hmm...Is that a threat?

Better safe than sorry!

I had 2 beautiful peach trees this year.  This small tree that produces large numbers of small-ish white flesh fruit, and a much larger one that produces smaller numbers of large, ultra-sweet yellow flesh fruit.  We managed to harvest about 5 dozen white flesh peaches before the birds got to them.  We only maneged 4 yellow flesh peaches…

But the birds and the bees are happy as you please, and all is as it should be.

Thanks for taking the time to look!!

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Up, Up, and Away!!!

August 25, 2010 by Eastern Sierra Leave a Comment

Sometimes, you just gotta put the chores aside and get out there to play with the kids.  It’s not about doing anything constructive, or trying to accomplish something.  You let the kids be kids, and somehwere, somehow, deep inside your soul, you feel something of your own kid waking up to laugh with them…

What do you do when you don't have a mulberry bush? You go 'round the fence post

Rosie Posie getting airborne

She always told me she wanted to fly...

I hope you enjoyed them.  I know we did!!

Thanks for taking the time to look.

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Sunflower Sunrise

August 21, 2010 by Eastern Sierra 4 Comments

I went to an area known locally as “Farmer’s Pond”, this morning.  In the winter, this entire area is flooded, and provides a lot of waterfowl habitat.  In the summer, they drain the water off, and the entire area becomes flooded with wild sunflowers.  One of the few places in the area that changes so drastically during the seasons, yet remains incredibly photogenic… 

Sunflower Sunrise

 

Self Portrait

 

John

Bee

Grasshopper

Wheeler Crest

All in all, it was a really decent morning.  Thanks for taking the time to look!

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Rock Creek Lake

August 17, 2010 by Eastern Sierra Leave a Comment

I went with Annette, Rose, and my good friend John for a short walk around Rock Creek Lake yesterday afternoon.  Any excuse to get up in the mountains and out of the heat works just fine for me…

Fireweed

False Helleborne

John shooting Fireweed

Lupine

Some cultivated bright orange thing

Rose, Rex, and Annette

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

Some sort of Phlox, I think.

And that’s about that.  Like I said…any excuse to get out of the heat of the desert and up into the elevation is a good excuse for me…

Thanks for stopping by!

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Some Random Shots

August 8, 2010 by Eastern Sierra Leave a Comment

I took some random flower macros, walking around town yesterday morning, paying bills, and killing time before work.  It was a fairly decent day…

English Plantain

Peavine

No idea what this one is. Not wild, however...cultivated in a garden.

No idea. A big, weedy looking plant growing next to my porch.

No idea. Another weed growing near the BBQ grill. Nasty thorns on this one.

Another garden cultivation. Anyone know what it is?

And a shot of my buddy Rocky, smiling at me from the water…

Rocky Turtle

After work, my friend Rich called and asked if I wanted to go out to “The Ears”.  “The Ears” are a group of HUGE satellite dishes, used by researchers and scientists at a variety of universities and institutions to study the night sky.  I don’t know the specifics…

This photo pretty much sucks.  But I can see this 30 meter dish from my front porch.  One of these nights I’m actually going to get a decent shot of one of these beasts…

Big-ass satellite dish...

Thanks for taking the time to look!

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