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10.6.11

Goodbye Peavine Mountain

Two (digitally enhanced, yes) wildflower photos from a last hike on Peavine Mountain. The first is a lupine, and the second is.......that red plant that grows all over Peavine. You know that plant?

I'll miss living on the side of a giant piece of BLM land. I'll miss wildflower hikes with my friends here. I'll miss the high desert, although I will not miss snow in June. And I think I will adjust to life (and photography, and skiing) around the Alps just fine.

21.11.10

Snowy Saturday

Truckee River in the snow

Thistle (I think?) with ice

It snowed! So I bundled up and took my new camera outside. I love desert plants in the snow...so pretty. If the roads clear out today, I might head to Pyramid Lake for a photo adventure. We shall see...

22.6.10

Hi, ant.

I just despise ants. I can't believe I got close enough to this one to photograph it.

Ant Detail Spooner Lake by Madeline Mundt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

16.6.10

Ophir Creek Log

The Ophir Creek Trail is an 8 mile hike from Washoe Valley up to Rose Meadows (and 8 miles back). I got too lost to do the whole hike, but I did get some nice photos.

Ophir Creek Nevada Log by Madeline Mundt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

14.6.10

Knot

Detail of giant log on the Hunter Creek trail near Reno. Hunter Creek is a good first and last hike of the season...it's lower than most of the Sierra hikes, so less likely to be snowy.

6.6.10

Pyramid Lake

Dear Pyramid Lake, why are you so ridiculously photogenic?!

30.5.10

Pyramid Lake

First snow of the season, 2008

Google's Picasa has this "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature that is actually pretty good. Yeah, I know it basically just rebalances the histogram as appropriate, and yeah I technically know how to do this in Photoshop myself, probably with better results. But I'm lazy and I don't own Photoshop.