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Mount Lassen from Brokeoff Mountain, October 2019. The trail up Brokeoff is arduous with a massive payoff A mountainous landscape featuring the prominent Lassen peak in the background. The foreground has scattered trees and rugged ridge terrain. The sky is clear and blue with wispy cirrus clouds.

Weather was nice today! Summer is waning and so I guess outdoor photography season can begin. Here are a few dragonflies enjoying an overcast and hazy day. #Fujifilm

An in-flight green dragon fly against a blue sky.A long view to the Northern California Coast range. It's a hazy and overcast day. Oaks and rolling golden hills are in front of some rugged mountains.Within a muddy area with green algae, a stick juts out and a red striped dragonfly rests at the stick's end. The insect has red patches at the ends of its transparent wings.

Woodpecker granaries are really neat. This one was right on a trail at Pinnacles NP. We did see an acorn woodpecker nearby though the photo isn’t great.

A dead pine tree pecked full of holes meant for woodpeckers to store acorns.A close up of actual acorns in the holes of the granary.

Gorgeous day today in Northern California. This is from the same place where we saw the Northern Flickers (and Nutall’s and Acorn Woodpeckers).

blue skie with subs cliffs above golden grasses, a dead oak stump, and trees plus buttes on the horizon.

Here’s me on the Snyder Creek trail gazing at the talus field, but still wanting to be out of there (rockfall is the reason for this talus). This is pretty near the end of the trail where there’s a camping area and a paternoster(?) lake, Snyder Lake.Stacey 2022 09 23 11 58 26

California Corn Lilies contrast with a burned Forest. There’s possibly shallow groundwater below this patch.

Green corn lilies amidst dark brown and black burned trees and soil broad green leaves of corn lily with a few red ladybugs

A Shooting Star (Primula) flower in the August Complex burn area about 1/4 mile north below the summit of Black Butte.

A purple, yellow and black shooting star

Glacier Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum) from near the summit of Black Butte in California’s northern Coast Range. Rocks always make a photo great, but I am biased.

Finally had a chance to visit the summit of Black Butte on the Mendocino NF. About time. A geologist’s wonderland: several identifiable glacial landforms (been deglaciated for an undetermined time AFAIK), metabasalt, gneiss, and 360° views.

one view from the summit of Black Buttebenchmark monument

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