Thank you!

"Great many wild places of Earth I have not visited...but I have known some of them intimately, with delight, and thus claim citizenship of all the wild place of all the states and nations of all the continents and seas.
From citizenship comes responsibility to care.”
― David Brower

#EarthDay

“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer

For Earth Day Eve...

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #monochrome #blackandwhite

The poll tax started today. The Better Half got a passport photo. Next is the passport fee. All because it was somewhat customary to assume a husband's last name 35 years ago.

Misogyny then, bullshit now...just in case so she can prove she is who she's always been to support a lie

Yum! Yes, I am in!

One from the archives, 7 years ago today...a few feet from where we set up camp, well off the grid and far from pavement in the Mojave for one last night of desert adventure

Roughly a month ago up on the local mountain...when it really was that verdant and the poppies were getting started

Some dappled light over Yosemite Valley...

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome

it is said universe is expanding

perhaps our hearts and minds should, too

“I find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.”
-Edward Abbey

I love people, but I'm not too fond of crowds.

And there's something to be said for quiet contemplation without the throngs...

Well...I captured a lot of images of waterfalls when we visited Yosemite not too long ago. They were flowing quite nicely, so why not?

When the flow of the fall bends and breaks...the contrast of shadows, falling water and warm light on granite...

I'm a sucker for all that. Happily.

YUM YUM YUM!

Yes, it is!

Thanks!

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."
— Winston Churchill

Truth must be our benchmark...for a gubernatorial candidate...for a president...for each of us.

Shine a light on ALL OF IT

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
-Carl Jung

#landscape #nature #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite

Thank you so much, Sherri! 😊✌️❤️🤘📷

“Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.”
― Michael Palin

I wish to believe this

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome

“Nature must be described with scientific accuracy but without being deprived thereby of the vivifying breath of imagination.”
― Alexander von Humboldt

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #monochrome #blackandwhite

Yes! I am in!

A #MonochromeMonday submission...from back in January while hiking in the hills of Contra Costa County

#landscape #photography #landscapephotography #monochrome #blackandwhite

“The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.”
- Charles Dickens

Difficult as it may be, one must...if one can

"If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy...to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libelous...let the name of libeler be engraved on my tomb"
-Thomas Paine

A reminder:
The servants are in the halls of government, they are elected to serve US.
Those on the streets today are not servants to any leader. NO KINGS
#NoKings
#NoKingsDay

Transitions...
Headed up the mountain this morning...I liked the shadows falling on the small ravines on the hillside.
The morning sun comes up over a shoulder of the mountain to the right of this view, which shows the transition from our greens of winter and spring to the golden tones of summer...

This morning, on way my down the local mountain...rounded a bend and saw this little scene. A hillside full of oak trees calmed the light and provided some nice shadows and highlights.
No idea about the flowers, except they are yellow, purply and wonderful

Congratulations!

he's such a ginormous DB

Another from the 'pre-heat dome' days, just 11 days ago (it was still 85 today)...gonna head back up the local mountain tomorrow before all the green is gone.

Buuuut...there should be lupine (purple and yellow), poppies and other colorful flowery thingies

Why...

Why does it seem like the branches of many oak trees lay somewhat parallel to the slopes of hillsides? Just another feature of these wonderful trees that I appreciate.
I'd post more but character limits blah blah. My posts challenge and oppose policy, etc..so I'm an enemy of the state.
WHY?