California

From the Air.57

At the top is one last photo looking back at Lake Tahoe, which somehow escaped my attention in the last “From the Air” entry which was meant to get us from California fully across the Sierra Nevadas and into the state of Nevada. The gallery above the and image below show you more of that Nevada landscape including the easily identifiable Walker Lake. All from the my SF to Pittsburgh flight in early May.


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Country Canals.77


County Views.146

Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County, California where I spent a lovely morning exploring the redwoods and other trees, creeks, trunks and stumps.


Small Wonders.246

Most of the remaining wonders from my last vacation in California 🙂


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Coasting.106


From the Air.56

If your browser loads this as I hope, you’ll see one large photo above that shows Lake Tahoe at the top (north) and the snowy Sierra Nevadas below it; one large photo at the bottom which looks back west and north across the arid western Nevada landscape, to Lake Tahoe and the Sierras. And in between, ten photos I took during the six minutes that elapsed as our plane flew across the Sierra Nevadas, leaving behind California and beginning its flight across Nevada.

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City Views.235


Small Wonders.245


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County Views.145


From The Air.55

Central Valley with west slope of the Sierra Nevada hoving into view at the top right; below, the next two shots with the snowy Sierras in view and I think that’s Lake Tahoe at the top.

Coasting.105

It’s a panorama, so the river doesn’t really curve like that. Pacific, off to the right. Mendocino, probably the Albion River?

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Village Views.84


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Coasting.104


County Views.144

Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve, Mendocino County, California


Mountains.44

Enlarge the photo just above, and follow the peak of the roof up to see Mt Diablo as seen from the rolling hills of West County near Sebastopol. I referred to the photos I took on this last-evening walk w/Howard back in late April before I headed north to Mendocino County the following morning. If I managed to get both Mt Tam and Diablo in the same frame, as I mentioned in an earlier post, then it would likely have been the middle image just below, but I’m not sure I see it any more. Oh well.