Clifford Beshers

  • Weather coming over the ridge at Swall Meadows.

    A few pine trees on a ridge are lit from behind by a gap of light in the clouds.

  • Time for a #VisualPuzzle.

  • Fog snaking around the valley.

    Low lying clouds curve through rounded hills.

  • Fog and snow settled on the valley floor.

    A pasture with trees next to a road has a light dusting of snow, with patches of fog.

  • My tab usage may have gotten a bit out of control during recent research.

  • Snow on the Horton Creek drainage highlights its ruggedness.

    A deep canyon between two mountains runs out to rugged foothills below. Snow covers the heights and high valley, while the foothills are brown.

  • White Mountain getting a makeover.

    A large mountain is shrouded in clouds and covered with fresh snow.

  • A cow with a view.

    A black cow stands in a pasture below a huge snow-covered mountain.

  • Satire is doomed.

  • Grouse Mountain, wearing a feather boa, looking dark and mysterious.

    A small dark mountain separate from a larger, higher range is surrounded by a long white cloud lying on the ground.

  • Wheeler Crest, all dressed up for winter.

    A mountain of granite with snow on the heights looms above a valley pasture covered in dry grass. Light slanting on the mountain shows the triangular structure of fracturing granite. A bare cottonwood tree stands alone in the pasture.

  • Fresh snow on Mt Tom will bring the skiers in droves.

    A craggy, triangular mountain is covered in fresh snow.

  • Clouds flowing down from the Sierra, looking to me like white horses. Perhaps this is what Frodo saw during the flight to the ford to Rivendell.

    White clouds sit close to the ground in the dark foothills of the Eastern Sierra.

  • California Quail doing their daily commute along the rock walls. #birds

    Three California Quail walk in a line on a rock wall.

  • A Bewick’s Wren dropped by my deck. They don’t stand still for long, so this was the best shot I could get. #birds

    A wren with a long, slightly-curved beak sits on some wooden boards.

  • Winter sunset over Bridgeport Reservoir.

    A photo of the setting sun. The land is dark but a body of water running through it reflects the sky. Strange clouds fill the sky.

  • Thankful for the clouds and sunsets, which are forever entertaining.

    An arc of clouds above a mountain range is pinged pink by the sunset.

  • Light on the gables with fresh snow.

    Sunlight streaks through clouds onto high, jagged peaks with some fresh snow on them.

  • Dawn, November, when the clouds start to gather early in the east.

    Wispy clouds fill the eastern sky, turning pink in the pre-dawn sunlight.

  • Loomings. It might be time to read Moby Dick again.

    Dark clouds loom over a mountain valley.

  • Late fall in Round Valley.

    A tree of yellow leaves stands in pastures with large mountains behind.

  • A Belted Kingfisher was hanging around the artesian well in the Owens Valley. #birds

    A Belted Kingfisher bird sits in a tree.

  • A closer view of the smoke of late season fires flowing from the high sierra down to Owens Valley.

    Wildfire smoke flows down from high mountains.

  • Smoke from fires in the high sierra, drifting down to the Owens Valley. This was nearly two weeks ago and the weather turned cold soon after, so this fire is mostly done, but a new one has cropped up. There is no end to fire season.

    Smoke flows from mountains on the right into a large valley.

  • Time for a #VisualPuzzle.

    White crystals sit on a dark background.

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