Garden of Paintbrush
On the very top of Summit Lake Mountain, south of Denio, there are lush pockets of wildflowers. I like this particular wildflower photo because of it's softness.
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On the very top of Summit Lake Mountain, south of Denio, there are lush pockets of wildflowers. I like this particular wildflower photo because of it's softness.
Carolyn Dufurrena and I are preparing a slide show/talk for the Elko, Nevada Western Folklife Center to be held the evening of June 30th. This will coincide with the NABO (National Association of Basque Organizations) gathering. I have also been working on an exhibit that is now hanging in the Northeastern Nevada Museum in Elko, Nevada for the summer months. This image is part of the exhibit that presents Basque people in their enviornment and landscape.
It is not uncommon to be driving through the narrow, twisty streets of the small villages in the Basque country and see people and their animals. We always drove slow and were delighted to find scenes such as this.
While searching for images to decorate offices about the Lake Tahoe area I stayed overnight at the Mt. Rose Campground and woke up to this beautiful isolated spot.
Around this time of year foxes are building dens up and down the soft dirt on both sides of Highway 140. Our home ranch is in from the highway a couple of miles and as the foxes get older they become part of the ranch landscape along with the other young spring animals. They soon get used to all the travel and people stopping to check them out. This photo was taken in the late evening while they were enjoying the last of the sun.
Quite some time ago I needed to capture Nevada in a different way for an ad agency. I took the grandkids and went to Great Basin National Park near Baker, Nevada, hoping to find an image that would work. This photo of a child reading in the comfort and warmth of an ancient bristlecone turned out to be the one.
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