Clifford Beshers

  • In small doses, the smoke can be quite spectacular.

    Sun rays streak through smoky clouds.

  • The smoke has mostly cleared, but the memories linger on. The Eastern Sierra foothills, with visibility decreasing with altitude.

    A view of foothills to high mountains, getting hazier from smoke as you go up.

  • The smoke from the Garnet Fire is starting to clear, but this is what the view has looked like for much of the week.

    A view of houses is obscured by smoke.

  • Sunday’s smoke cap from another perspective. We are now just encased in grey.

    A layer of dark smoke floats over a mountain valley.

  • Sunday the Garnet Fire jumped to a new area with plenty of dead trees and no burn history. We noticed, though we are fifty miles away.

    A dark plume of smoke fills the sky and discolors the sun.

  • The Sierra Wave, with smoke from the Garnet Fire.

    Wavy clouds have an odd color from smoke.

  • Wildfire moonrise.

    The full moon rises over mountains blurred and discolored by smoke.

  • A classic vehicle.

  • A puffball hiding in the sky.

    A cloud shaped like a fluffy white ball peeks out from a hole in a bank of grey clouds.

  • Same canyon as yesterday’s post, but now full of smoke from the Garnet Fire.

    A mountain canyon is obscured by thick smoke.

  • Pine Creek Canyon looking splendid today.

    A deep vee between mountains reveals glacially carved peaks in the distance.

  • “Victor Victoria” is still a fabulous film. Lesley Ann Warren’s performance is exceptional.

  • Black to grey to blue and white to black again..

    Dark storm clouds float over dark mountains, with wispy grey falling rain coming down through a gap of blue skies and puffy white clouds.

  • Curling rain over the White Mountains.

    Dark rain clouds over dry mountains let a dark curtain of rain fall, curled by the wind.

  • I just saw a Roadrunner jump from my front deck railing to my roof. I’m very confused.

  • A rainstorm descends on the eastern side of the valley in the late afternoon, dividing the view into contrasting horizontal bands.

    Sun on the high desert contrasts with the deep shadow of a storm behind.

  • Intermittent shadows on the Buttermilks are always fun.

    Alternating shadow and light bring out the structure of foothills.

  • Tungsten Hills, which slope to the east and are quite knobbly, always look good in late afternoon light.

    Low foothills stand out in a beam of slanting sunlight below dark clouds.

  • Wheeler Crest in summer.

    Partial clouds over a large granite escarpment.

  • A typical late summer afternoon in Round Valley.

    Green pasture, granite escarpment, and blue skies with puffy white clouds.

  • Cumulonimbus that hasn’t been torn, appearing so different than in my two previous posts. So friendly and fluffy.

    A bank of cottony clouds appears around the shoulder of a a mountain.

  • Here’s a closeup of the spikes. They definitely look wind-drawn to me. And there’s a surprise bit of rainbow.

    Low sunlight highlights bits of a bank of storm clouds.

  • We’ve had some interesting clouds, unusual in August. I’ve been seeing this spiking cumulonimbus recently, and I’m speculating that this is caused by rising winds tearing the normally smooth clouds. Something to follow up on, for me.

    A bank of clouds over a mountain is lit by low sunlight.

  • Firebird in the cirrus.

    Wispy, white cirrus clouds vaguely form the shape of a bird.

  • More clouds with character.

    Pink cumulonimbus clouds look vaguely animated.

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