Tag: california

Sunset over the Pacific from the plane Sunset over the Pacific through the plane window Golden sunset ten thousand feet above California High cirrus clouds and low fog over the Pacific Ocean Eww..  the pool at our condo turned green with algae a few weeks ago. Whorls of Hedgehog Agave from Mexico Marsh mallow flowers - not quite ready for s'mores Greek Myrtle bush and flowers at the Berkeley Botanical gardens Flowers of the red hot poker (Kniphofia Uvaria) The Torch Lily or Red Hot Poker Striking red flowers and the Berkeley Hills Stopping to smell the Lily of the Nile (Agapanthus) Yellow Tecoma Stans flowers with cacti in the background Easter Lilly cactus flower, Echinopsis SP. Three Easter Lilly cactus flowers Cactus reaching up to the sky At the Berkeley Botanical Gardens in the sun Best pals! Corpse flower detail Bloom of the corpse flower Giant Corpse Flower just after bloom and corpse flower stalk. What's that smell?  It's the giant corpse flower! San Jose Taiko rocking the main stage Japanese Taiko drummers on the Fourth Ecstatic about funnel cake She fell asleep while using her iPhone, I had to take a picture... Tilek's last dinner before leaving Mountain View Charles Babbage's difference engine is cranked by hand Columns of gears in the difference engine The difference engine at the Computer History Museum The Father of the Forest at Big Basin Redwoods State Park Panorama - Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park Sand tufa and the Sierra Nevada Water channels in sand tufa Sand tufa on Navy Beach Sand tufa cathedral Sand Tufa at the Navy Beach area of Mono Lake Tufa eroding back into the sand Don't touch By the sand tufa Twisted sand tufa landscape Tufa on the shore of Mono Lake Blue-green water of Mono Lake Strange landscape On the beach in the south tufa area On the beach at Mono Lake Tufa urbanism On the shore of Mono Lake In front of the Pink Floyd tufa Swifts nest in the tufa Tufa towers in Mono Lake Father egret stands guard Seussian tufa towers Tufa stone arch Amazing Tufa towers Millions of alkali flies line the shores of Mono Lake At Mono Lake Watching the demonstration Tufa formed when fresh water flowed up through the salty lake Tufa castle Amazing landscape at Mono Lake Desert, tufa, and snow-capped mountains Mono lake scene Shoreline of Mono Lake Tufa garden Amazing tufa of Mono Lake Mono Lake rock garden The Sierra Nevada mountains from Mono Lake View from the Mono Lake basin Walking the path to Mono Lake Dry Mono Lake basin landscape Calm, clear water of Tenaya Lake Picture on the shore of Tenaya Lake in Yosemite Tenaya Lake's glacier-polished granite shore Pine branches at Tenaya Lake Smooth granite domes curve into the lake On the boulders by the lake Snowmelt from the mountains feed the lake Gentle waves across the surface of Tenaya Lake Pristine mountain lake in Yosemite Through the pine trees Cracks in the granite mountainside at Olmstead Point Small flowers find purchase in the granite joints Picture at Olmstead Point Twisted tree at Olmstead Point A tiny tree seems to grow straight out of the rock Glacial erratic boulder at Olmstead Point The other side of Half Dome Hearty tree at Olmstead Point in Yosemite The view from Olmstead Point Cathedral Rocks from across El Capitan Meadow Yosemite Point from below Cathedral Rocks from the El Capitan Bridge Exhausted Sitting on the rocks above the rainbow Directly below the Upper Yosemite Falls Can we get closer? Double rainbow in the spray of the waterfall About to get soaked Waterfalls, rainbow and Half Dome