Clifford Beshers

  • Time for a #VisualPuzzle.

    White crystals sit on a dark background.

  • Crooked.

    A rough wooden fence borders a high mountain meadow.

  • Light on the meadow, touches of brilliance in the darkness.

    The tips of a coyote willow plant are lit in a meadow as the sun goes down, with shadow behind it.

  • Sierra profiles. From North Lake, looking west.

    A series of mountain ridges with distinctive outline recede into the distance.

  • Boulders, still too large to blend in with their new modestly-sized neighbors, yearning to return to the heights from which they have fallen.

    Two large boulders stand out amid the scrub in eroded landscape while craggy granite peaks can be seen in the background.

  • A tiny waterfall in the outflow from North Lake.

    Water spreads in a sheet after bouncing off a rock.

  • North Lake, from the eastern shore.

    A few rocks stick out of the water near the shore of a mountain lake.

  • Time for a #VisualPuzzle. If you find this too easy, consider it a Rorshach test instead.

    An surface of grey speckled material, with black lines running through it, somewhat randomly, but also with patterns that seem to be drawings.

  • North Lake, where people had spent time skittering chunks of ice across the newly frozen surface.

    A mountain lake is frozen, with chunks of ice thrown by visitors sitting brightly on the surface.

  • “All right! Yes! I’m guilty! But that valley deserved it!”

    A mountain is in shadow except for a horizontal band of light, like a noir film.

  • I’ve been listening to Klangphonics the morning while I work and am very happy with it. I’ve seen their shorts, dubbed “techno without computers,” but they hadn’t released an album yet. I revisited them while trading music this weekend with my friend Joe. One topic was that I like EDM/Techno/Trance..until they repeat. Synth sounds with none of the variations of physical instruments quickly leave me bored, usually within a few bars. But Klangphonics seem to follow more in the footsteps of Thievery Corporation or Boards of Canada, which have an organic component that satisfies my ear.

  • Blue light in Pine Creek Canyon after fresh snow.

    Jagged granite mountains look slate blue in wintry light.

  • Light on the volcanic tablelands and the White Mountains.

    High desert landscape lit by late afternoon light through clouds.

  • Leaving the Wells Meadow, returning to the sagebrush.

    A man walks along a grassy road, exiting the forest, heading out to high desert, with mountains in the distance.

  • Now I breathe flames each time I talk
    My cannons all firin’ at your yacht
    They say, “Move on”, but you know, I won’t
    And women like hunting witches, too
    Doing your dirtiest work for you
    It’s obvious that wanting me dead
    Has really brought you two together

    – mad woman, folklore, Taylor Swift.

  • A broken tree, still standing, sort of.

    A tree in a grove runs horizontally, having fallen incompletely.

  • Hiking through the cottonwood trees in Wells Meadow.

    A man hikes along a dirt road through green woods with falling yellow leaves.

  • This little guy is going to be laughing at me all day.

  • Time for a #VisualPuzzle.

  • Peter Sagal reposted an essay he wrote in 2020 about the preamble to the Constitution. Perhaps not surprisingly, he begins with the wisdom of a rabbi.

  • A clear mountain stream in autumn, a few hundred yards from the spring.

    A closeup of a stream bed, with tiny green water plants and fallen leaves on the surface.

  • Standing at the side of Mayfield Canyon, looking down to Wells Meadow, Round Valley and beyond. If you think the camera isn’t level, look at the mountains in the distance in the top left. The land is just that dramatically sloped.

    A hiker stands on a hillside above a large desert valley, with a meadow in fall colors at the base of the hill.

  • An extraordinary endorsement by Harrison Ford, in two videos, one here and another here.

    Simply and elegantly stated. And, of course, impeccably produced.

  • A glade of Locust trees in Wells Meadow.

    An open space beneath trees with pale yellow to light green leaves.

  • We took a hike to Wells Meadow to see the fall colors, which aren’t really prominent in the sagebrush.

    A man in hiking gear stands next to a tree with bright yellow leaves, a huge mountain rock face in the background.

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