#Sierras

[frankfosterphotography]

fading tracks,

Little Lake, California

[goshyesvintageads]

Joseph Garneau Co, 1974

[jaymsramirezphotography]

Over the mighty Merced River

[williammarksommer]

The Long Road

California

All The Time In The World

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[thechembow]

Disruptive storm to produce life-threatening flooding, intense winds and snow in the West

Feb. 4, 2024 - Accuweather

An intense and impactful storm has begun to move onshore in California, ushering in rounds of soaking rainfall and mountain snow that is expected to persist through at least midweek...

The expansive reach of this storm will mean potential impacts for at least five western states, with California expected to bear the brunt of the wind, rain and snow...

AccuWeather Senior Director of Forecasting Operations Dan DePodwin stated, “Roughly 94% of California’s population, up to 37 million people, is at risk for life-threatening flooding...

The first ever hurricane-force wind warning was issued for the state of California early Sunday morning, covering a corridor south of the San Francisco Bay area. Hurricane-force winds are categorized as winds exceeding 74 mph...

The majority of the state will have a chance at collecting at least 1-2 inches of rain from Saturday night to Tuesday, but a large portion of southwestern to north-central regions can observe between 2-4 inches of rain. Locations surrounding the Los Angeles basin, the Central California coast and upslope regions west of the Sierra Nevada range could pick up 4-8 inches of rain...

As moisture continues to expand across the higher terrain of the Sierra Nevada and mountains surrounding the Los Angeles basin through Monday night, forecasters say that between 3-6 feet of snow can occur in places above 7,000 feet...

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[wingedjewels]

Northern Checkerspot Butterfly by Ruby 2417 Via Flickr: On low-growing pussy paws. South Lake Tahoe, Ca. July, 2023.

[hellokelsea]

[sunnyspringmama]

Photo by my Dad, taken in 2008 in the Sierra's.

[double-dare-designs]

Nothing but snowy/rainy, windy weather for the past few weeks.

[bohemioatemporal]

Así arrancamos

[charlesbeckart]

Charles Beck - East Sierras

This painting was started years ago after a trip along the east side of the Sierras in October. The aspen had turned color along a trail that led to granite peaks in the distance. It reminded me much of my youthful excursions in Colorado.

The mostly finished painting sat, face to the wall, in the studio for a dozen years till one day I looked again and decided to repaint most of it.

[frankfosterphotography]

dry lake bed, Sierras,

Little Lake, California.

[wordpimp]

College wine parties with tea lights

Up the mountain road, living on top in some sierra campground, crowded, is this the sequel to another mountain dream. I give up, uninterpreted. I have cash in bag, produce, narrow to walk on a happy path with you. It's soft, rocks in a terrarium don't got an edge. I go up the gravel road with a car, up the five lane highway, an impossibly steep climb. Is it you in the backseat. I have some breakfast. I turn to look in the shower, not so much around as in. My face looks inside me, where the brain physically hurts. Touch it. Time on a loop that makes us fall back, we need some valley in which to centrifuge. Cool and gray in the churchyard, but it's where the parties are. Sex and cleaving. Someone showed me not too long ago. Think it might've been you. I know it was you.

I've been thinking of a chairlift, of a path up that weeping place in the side. It has a waterfall. I dream of a mist, it's a paradox to dream of, a pinion. It's aspirating. I fall out of the dream wet and cold. Blue as a child.

[jaymsramirezphotography]

The conversations seem more deliberate and meaningful out here….

[williammarksommer]

Train Tunnels 

California

Abandoned West

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Tmax 400iso

[thechembow]

"Atmospheric river" (OR induced storm) drenches Los Angeles with record-setting rain, blasts Sierra with 160-mph winds

Feb. 6, 2024 - Fox Weather

A deadly [storm] brought life-threatening extreme weather to California this week, breaking rainfall records and slamming the Sierra Nevada mountains with wind gusts that rivaled a Category 5 hurricane...

Multiple daily rainfall records have been broken across the greater Los Angeles area. Downtown Los Angeles recorded 7.04 inches since Sunday. That makes this the third-highest two-day rainfall total on record. The city averages 14.25 inches of rain annually and received half of that in 48 hours.

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) recorded 1.76 inches on Sunday, breaking a 1958 record of 0.56 inches. Since Sunday, LAX reported receiving 4.38 inches of rain.

Santa Barbara Airport recorded 2.39 inches on Sunday, blowing the previous record out of the water set in 1990 of 0.50 inches.

The National Weather Service office in San Diego recorded the highest rain totals for California within 24 hours at higher elevations. By Tuesday at 4 a.m. PST, the NWS said that the area of Lytle Creek recorded 12.22 inches of rain. Deer Creek Dam received 9.21 inches...

Mammoth Mountain Ski Base in California recorded 33 inches in 12 hours by Monday morning. Aspendell, located in Inyo County, picked up just under 28 inches.