• Jacob Collier at the Walt Disney Concert Hall after performing God Only Knows in honor of Brian Wilson, accompanied by his mom, Susie Collier, on violin.

  • Puffballs over the high mountain crest.

    Soft grey fragmented clouds over mountain ridge.

  • Mount Whitney looms over the Alabama Hills.

    Dusty brown hills in the foreground, granite peaks in the background.

  • Soft palette clouds.

    Grey, soft clouds, and soft pink sky.

  • A nearly full moon, setting over Wheeler Crest.

    A full-ish moon sits just above a granite ridge.

  • Owens Valley lava field, with Rabbit Brush in bloom.

    Yellow flowering bushes, black lava forms, and granite mountains.

  • Rabbit Brush blooming in the Owens Valley.

    Bushes bloom yellow i the foreground on a flat plain, jagged mountains rise in the background, while clouds rise in a long line over the plain.

  • Storm coming down Bishop Creek to the Owens Valley.

  • Heart of grey.

    Rain falls on a mountain ridge and valley, obscuring most details.

  • A storm over the White Mountains meets clear weather coming up the Owens Valley.

    A storm over mountains on the left gives way to blue skies on the right.

  • A gap in the storm lets light through.

    Dark clouds cover a mountain valley, but a gap in the center of the clouds lets light through.

  • An anvil cloud that looks like…a cobra?

    An odd sheped cloud rises from a long bank of low-lying cumulonimbus clouds.

  • Comet Lemmon.

  • Cloudscape in black and white.

    Cloudscape over the White Mountains in black and white.

  • The negotiation between wet and dry.

    Storm clouds form an arc over a mountain valley, blue sky to the left, clouds to the right.

  • Storm versus granite.

    A storm gathers over a mountain valley.

  • One homeowner with a small yard decided to make a small railway for the amusement of passers-by. The skulls are a bonus for Halloween. Bungalow. Heaven, Pasadena.

  • Halloween spirit showing up in Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena.

  • The layered storm, again, rain floating over the hot air of the desert valley.

  • A band of cumulonimbus clouds over Pine Creek.

    Cumulonimbus clouds over a mountain ridge.

  • This place brings new meaning to the phrase “sun shower”.

    Rain falls from dark clouds over a high desert valley, while the view under the clouds shows clear skies in the distance.

  • Having grown up on the east coast, where the land is flat and cloud banks smother whole states in grey, I’m always tickled to see localized rain storms from the side.

    A bank of rain clouds hovers over a mountain valley in the distance.

  • The parade of cumulonimbus continues.

    Closeup of cumulonimbus clouds.

  • That white fluff looked large in the last photo, but here is the whole eastern sky.

    A large flotilla of clouds makes large mountains below look small.

  • Grilled cheese noir.

    Grilled cheese on a tortilla lit in a film noir style.

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