#Carrizo Mountains

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Ute Peak, The Knees, East Toe, and Other Peaks and Ranges of the Colorado Plateau and Ute Mountain Area by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the northeast while walking around and exploring the Four Corners Monument area. My thought on composing this image was to use some high ground I was located on and capture was sweeping view across this high desert landscape. I wanted to use the mountains off in the distance as a backdrop for the setting and have a more or less balanced, leveled-on view with the horizon off in the distance. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image.

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Carrizo Plain National Monument

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Spring!

What does spring mean to me? That’s the question posed by Sofia of Photographias in this week’s Lens-Artists Photography Challenge. For me, spring equals two things:  road tripping and wildflowers. Ajo Lilies in Anza Borrego State Park This way of celebrating spring started for me when I used to work winters as a ranger in Death Valley National Park. There, I fell in love with the desert spring…

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An explosion of wildflower species appears to paint Temblor Range, a mountain range that rises from the east side of the San Andreas fault at Carrizo Plain national monument near Santa Margarita, California, US. Spectacular wildflower blooms, referred to by some as a superbloom, are occurring across much of California following a historically wet season that drove 31 atmospheric river storms through the region, resulting in widespread flooding and record snow depths in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The extreme weather comes after years of record drought for most of the state

Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images

[letstakeawalk]

I unfortunately couldn’t get to Carrizo Plain National Monument at the height of its late March/early April super bloom, but plenty of wildflowers were still surging a mile up around Caliente Mountain where the cooler temperatures keep the blooms alive.

Let’s go see some flowers!

After the blooms dry up, this is what the plains become! The San Andreas fault is just out of sight directly behind me.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Carrizo Peak in the Sierra del Sacramento, Alamogordo Co, NM. Photo: Carrizo Works (Aug 23, 2022)

(Scott Horton)

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“He acted like he had no relatives,” Leaphorn thought and grinned wryly at the old-fashioned expression. When he was a boy, it was the worst thing his mother could say about anyone. But then the Navajo Way made the relatives totally responsible for anything one of the family did. Now that was changing and there were more young men like Horseman. Souls lost somewhere between the values of The People and the values of the whites. No good even at crime.

The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee #1) :: by Tony Hillerman

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The only clouds this morning were high-altitude cirrus so thin that the blue showed through them. Beautiful to Chee. He was back in Dine’ Bike’yah, back Between the Sacred Mountains, and he felt easy again—at home in a remembered landscape. He stood beside his pickup, postponing for a moment the four or five hours he still had to spend driving, and studied the mountain. 

It was something Frank Sam Nakai had instructed him to do. “Memorize places,” his uncle had told him. “Settle your eyes on a place and learn it. See it under the snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it, touch the stones, and it will be with you forever. When you are far away, you can call it back. When you need it, it is there, in your mind.” 

This was one of those places for Chee—this desert sloping away to the hills that rose to become Dook’o’oosli’id, Evening Twilight Mountain, the Mountain of the West, the mountain built by First Man as the place where the holy Abalone Shell Boy would live, guarded by the Black Wind yei. He had memorized this place when he worked out of the Tuba City agency. He leaned his elbows against the roof of his pickup and memorized it again, with rags of fog drifting away from the snowy peaks and the morning sun making slanting shadows across the foothills. “Touch it with your mind,” Frank Sam Nakai had told him. “Inhale the air that moves across it. Listen to the sounds it makes.” 

The sounds this place was making this morning were the sounds of crows, hundreds of them, moving out of the trees around the trading post back toward wherever this flock spent its winter days.

The Ghostway (Leaphorn & Chee, #6) :: by Tony Hillerman

[emptyingthebucket]

Day 62. Mile 4579. Laredo & Covid.

We drive to Laredo TX. We take 277. It goes through many small towns, like Egle Pass and Carrizo Springs. Not thriving communities. The roads are rolling hills. We have left the mountains behind.

First stop is urgent care. I think I have Bronchitis. The OTC meds I've been taking are not making me any better.

I'm diagnosed with Covid, an ear infection, and my cough is more productive. But my throat is no longer sore! I'm given a dose of antibiotics. Wow ,that hurt my butt. Prescriptions for a z-pack, Paxlovid, an inhaler and cough medicine.

We find a pharmacist who fills my Rxs. I wait 30 minutes. No English is spoken here, just Spanish. The exception is when they talk to me. When did we cross the border into Mexico. I missed that! They report that the side effect most notable for the Paxlovid is a bad taste in your mouth. I will discover others!

The coach continues to challenge us. I can't unlock the Generator latch. I don't so much need to get at the generator, but this is where I access the windshield washer fluid. It is not streaming right away. You have to hold the button down for nearly a minute before it streams out. If it eventually does come out, then it can't be empty. Something is gumming up the works. We both try to pull the latch. No go. I crawl underneath the coach but I cant see the latch, just feel it. Grrrr.

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Westmont of Carmel Valley in San Diego, CA

The Westmont of Carmel Valley apartment have extraordinary senior care North San Diego services. No wonder the people there don’t find it hard to care for their seniors. At Westmont of Carmel Valley, you can select from Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care. It would depend on your lifestyle needs. It’s also interesting to note that their friendly team will give exactly the support you or your loved one need, whether that’s simply an active, maintenance-free routine, help with everyday tasks, or expert care for someone living with memory loss. Lastly, their residents are stimulated to participate in and lead daily activities offered on campus, as well as local outings.

San Diego, CA

These days, making a travel itinerary is easier. If you’re looking for pre-scheduled activities in San Diego, CA, it is essential to check out online posts. First, there will be Nostalgia Nightclub: The 90s TV Takeover SDCC Afterparty 2023 event this coming Thursday, July 20, 2023, at around 8:00 PM at Parq Nightclub. In addition, the Hot Latin Boat Party is scheduled on Friday, July 21, 2023, at around 7:00 PM at Hornblower Cruises & Events. Besides, the 626 Night Market Mini @ Downtown San Diego will take place this coming Saturday, August 12, 2023, at around 1:00 in the afternoon.

Belmont Park in San Diego, CA

The Belmont Park in San Diego, CA is famous among tourists. If you like sightseeing and relaxation, it is also one of the best places you can visit today. Interestingly, it is an oceanfront historic amusement park located in the Mission Beach area of San Diego, California. After all, the park was developed by sugar magnate John D. Spreckels. In addition, it opened on July 4, 1925 as the Mission Beach Amusement Center. Aside from providing recreation and amusement, it also was intended as a way to help Spreckels sell land in Mission Beach. Moreover, the park's most iconic attraction is the historic Giant Dipper roller coaster that is considered a local landmark.

Good Samaritan tries to help hikers with heat exhaustion in Jacumba, dies in heat

There are numerous shocking news reports in San Diego, CA. Recently, there was a topic about a victim of heat exhaustion. Reportedly, scorching temperatures through the mountains and deserts keep rescue crews busy in San Diego County. It happened subsequently a biker in Carrizo Gorge helped hikers who had no food or water on Sunday, Cal Fire crews found him unresponsive about a quarter mile from the trailhead. Brent Pascua, Fire Capt. with San Diego County Fire stated that, “This was a good Samaritan just trying to help out.” He added: “Unfortunately, bad things happen to people out there when it's this hot.”

Link to maps

Belmont Park 3146 Mission Blvd, San Diego, CA 92109, United States Get on I-5 N from W Mission Bay Dr and Sea World Dr. 9 min (3.9 mi) Continue on I-5 N to Carmel Valley Rd. Take exit 3 from CA-56 E 13 min (14.9 mi) Continue on Carmel Valley Rd to your destination 4 min (1.4 mi) Westmont of Carmel Valley 5720 Old Carmel Valley Rd, San Diego, CA 92130, United States

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Elegy for My Younger Sister | Luci Tapahonso

#nativeamericanheritagemonth2022

-Navajo poet For Marilynn Nihideezhí, it was a moist June afternoon when we buried you. The Oak Springs Valley was dense with sage, cedar, and chamisa; and gray, green, and brown shrubs cradled the small cemetery. The sky was huge overhead. Your son said later, "Did you see the sky? It was purple. I knew it would rain," he said. The dark Carrizo Mountains were so clear. There were so many…

[don-lichterman]

Discoveries...America National Parks: Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Devils Postpile & Carrizo Plain

Discoveries…America National Parks: Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Devils Postpile & Carrizo Plain

Price: (as of – Details) Yosemite National Park First protected in 1864, this park in California has the reputation for breathtaking splendor with soaring mountains, giant sequoias, crystal clear rivers, miles of hiking trails, challenging rock climbing and inspirational locations for photography. Perhaps best known for it’s numerous waterfalls, Yosemite Falls is one of the tallest in North…

[thorsenmark]

Navigation of Four Corners Monument Navajo Tribal Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While standing in the New Mexico portion of Four Corners Monument Navajo Tribal Park with a view looking generally to the north into Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. My thought on composing this image was to capture a wide angle view, looking across all the states, while capturing some of the surrounding portions of this multi-state and tribal park landscape. The rest was a long waiting for those few seconds in between people moving to the states line crossing.

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Carrizo Plains National Monument

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Carrizo Plain National Monument, California.

My second trip up Caliente Mountain was a warm spring day. It could have been hot, but there were just enough clouds to shade the land at opportune moments. This took the much shorter route starting from an old ranch and climbing far up along a ridge. Flowers abounded. The old fire lookout was a little flatter, of course. From May 2018.

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stupid simple graphic made in class for an exercise

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Standing in the immense darkness, surrounded by the white alkali flats of Soda Lake, you can almost hear the silence.  

Only a few hours from Los Angeles, the Carrizo Plain National Monument offers visitors a rare chance to be alone with nature.

A trip here means planning for a backcountry adventure with plenty of water, food, and fuel.

Photo by Jesse Pluim, @mypubliclands Bureau of Land Management. Photo description: A night sky Milky Way view from a desert mud flat with mountains in the background.

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2019 Photography Destinations – A Baker’s Dozen of My Personal Favorites Part 2

2019 Photography Destinations – A Baker’s Dozen of My Personal Favorites Part 2

The countdown continues. A few days ago I posted spots 13 through 7 of my favorite 2019 photography destinations.  This week, I list the best ones of all, the destinations that rated 1 through 6 of my personal best.

6) Joshua Tree National Park

Superbloom. Joshua Treehad one this past spring. Need I say more? This coming spring should be fairly good, too. It’s been raining and snowing with more…