Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Bus Gogh

Bus Gogh At Mineral Lodge, outside of Lassen National Park.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Monoscape

Mono Pass 04 Summit Lake north of Mono Pass, John Muir Wilderness.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Janine On Her Birthday

Janine On Her Birthday My favorite bartender, at the Polo Grounds near the ballpark.

Friday, July 19, 2013

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Blues and a Hot Red Dress

Three Shades of Street Brew Blues and a Singer in a Hot Red Dress She was not part of the band, she just stepped up and asked if she could sing a song with them. And then she absolutely KILLED IT. I don't know, I just thought that was one of the coolest -- and, for some reason, the totally sexiest -- moments I have ever witnessed. She's not beautiful, but she was hotter than the sun at that moment.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Travels With Brewer: Bloody Canyon

Mono Pass Trail 14 After crossing the pass, the way leads down Bloody Canyon—a terrible trail. You would all pronounce it utterly inaccessible to horses, yet pack trains come down, but the bones of several horses or mules and the stench of another told that all had not passed safely. The trail comes down three thousand feet in less than four miles, over rocks and loose stones, in narrow canyons and along by precipices. It was a bold man who first took a horse up there. The horses were so cut by sharp rocks that they named it “Bloody Canyon,” and it has held the name—and it is appropriate—part of the way the rocks in the trail are literally sprinkled with blood from the animals.
--William H. Brewer, July 1863

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Beware of Giant

Hat Creek 06 Along Highway 89 in the Hat Creek Valley.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Road to Nowhere

Mono Basin 10 Looking south from Panum Crater near Mono Lake.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

American Microbus

Mono Basin 03
At the vista point above the Lee Vining Mobil Station.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Travels With Brewer: Fort Tejon

Fort Tejon 21 After Uncle Sam had located here and had built buildings costing at least $60,000 to $80,000, spending here in all over half a million, of course it turned out that it is on a Spanish grant, and is private property. Under the virtuous reign of Buchanan the proof was got, and the grant was confirmed to a political friend—now a rank Secessionist—a Mr. Bishop, who got the buildings all built to his hand. As there was no further use for the fort, it was vacated two or three years ago.
--William H. Brewer, April 1863

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The Line Up

The Line Up A scene from the 10th annual World Naked Bike Ride, held Saturday, June 8th.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

In the Space Between the Heavens and the Corner of Some Foreign Field I Had a Dream

In the Space Between the Heavens and the Corner of Some Foreign Field I Had a Dream

See Your West: Lake Tahoe

Tahoe 08 Beautiful as Lake Tahoe is from the south, it is yet more so from the north—from having a finer background of high, rugged, black mountains, some of them eleven thousand feet high, or near it, their dark sides spotted and streaked with snow.
--William H. Brewer, 1863

Sunday, June 2, 2013