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Sunday Sierrablogging
There's a place in Ansel Adams Wilderness, along the Hemlock Crossing Trail, called Surprise Saddle. You hike mostly through viewless forest for 5 or 6 miles, climb up a few set of switchbacks, turn a corner, and see...this. Surprise!
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Friday Random 10
Growlers - Old Cold River El Michels Affair - Glaciers of Ice Voxtrot - The Future Part 1 Nyles Lannon - Next Obsession Tricky - Cross to Bear Man or Astro-Man? - Television Fission Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women - Que Sera, Sera Sonantes - Mambobit Colin Newman - Not Me Young Marble Giants - ...
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Wednesday Wildflowerblogging
Redwood Lily ( Lilium rubescens ) in lower Long Canyon, Trinity Alps Wilderness. More below the fold... More...
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Quote of the Day: Beyond Parody Edition
Republican flack (and full-time Palin apologist) Matthew Continetti : Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.
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Sunday Sierrablogging
North Fork Kid Creek basin (and beyond) from Glacier Saddle, Monarch Divide, Kings Canyon National Park.
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Wild Thing
Eat your heart out, Henri Rousseau
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Friday Random 10
All eMusic this week, because--yeah, you guessed it--I forgot my iPod again . Maybe if I had better headphones I wouldn't keep forgetting it... Link Wray - Please Please Me Fall - L.A. Essential Logic - Stereo Tuxedomoon - Incubus (Blue suit) Link Wray - Four Gray Walls Kinks - Holiday Enrique ...
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Wednesday Wildflowerblogging
Field Chickweed ( Cerastium arvense ) near Point Arena Lighthouse, Mendocino County.
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Blue Crow
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Friday Random Ten (OMG Deborah got an iPod!)
1. Little Green -- Joni Mitchell: Except the sound was screwed up, so now I have to figure out if I need to remove and re-upload this one. 2. Whispers from a Spiritual Garden -- Yusef 3. Louisiana 1927 -- Randy Newman 4. My Romance -- Michael Feinstein 5. Know Now Then -- Ani DiFranco 6. El ...
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Forgot my iPod Again
Maybe someone else could post the FRT this week?
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Wednesday Wildflowerblogging
Lemmon's Paintbrush ( Castilleja lemmonii ) at Red Devil Lake in the Clark Range, Yosemite National Park.
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Monday Movie Review: I've Loved You So Long
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) (2008) 8/10 Juliette ( Kristin Scott Thomas ) has just gotten out of prison after fifteen years, and moves in with her sister, brother-in-law, and young niece. I've Loved You So Long is a quiet film, quietly watching a broken woman ...
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Sunday Sierrablogging
Ward Mountain Lake, LeConte Divide, John Muir Wilderness.
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Double-Crested Cormorants
This pair of juvenile Cormorants put down at our lake for a day about two weeks ago when we had some early snowsqualls. Their outer plumage is not entirely waterproof, so maybe they needed to dry off? Or maybe they were tired and hungry. Whatever the case, they are not commonly seen here. My ...
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I Will Amuse Myself With Terror
No FRT this week; a selection of Halloween-appropriate videos below the fold. Suggest your own in comments. More...
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Teaparties of the Rich and Famous
Shorter Peggy Noonan : "The chatter's of holding our breath until we go Galt."
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Wednesday Wildflowerblogging
Western Pasque Flower ( Anemone occidentalis ) in upper Long Canyon, Trinity Alps Wilderness. This has an unusual seedhead, which one writer has (jokingly) suggested was the inspiration for Dr. Seuss' truffula trees. More...
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Sunday Sierrablogging
Merced River canyon above Bunnell Point, Yosemite National Park.
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