Prairie

More Springtime Snow

Snow continued to fall overnight, accumulating do a depth of about an inch, coating the spring flowers with crystals. The morning sun revealed nature's gentle touch.

Springtime Snow

A cold Arctic air mass in Springtime produces granular snow / small hail enough to accumulate on the leaves of the newly opening rhododendron flowers. Moments later, the sun pokes through a hole in the clouds and melts most of it but the shade cast by the flower bud preserves some long enough to capture this image.

Awaken

Beckman Auditorium

The Beckman Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology.

Delicate

Vasquez Rocks County Park

Hidden away in a remote corner of Los Angeles County called Agua Dulce lies the Vasquez Rocks County Park [Wikipedia]. Recognizable from many films, television shows (notably Star Trek), commercials, and music videos that have used it as a shooting location due to its striking geology, the park is open to the public. Visitors can hike, climb its many rock formations, picnic, and explore. Some bring their horses and ride around the area. I was fortunate to catch it at a time of foreboding skies and stark contrasts, making an already visually interesting terrain, all the more so.

Other posts featuring Vasquez Rocks County Park

• Shutter-Eye: Southern California Firestorm: Ground Truth
• Shutter-eye: Rescue
  
• Pixelmeister: Moon on the Rocks
  

Tacoma Narrows

The Tacoma Narrows Bridges.

These two suspension spans, the older completed in 1950; the new one in 2007, stand at the same location as the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also known as Galloping Gertie due to its tendency to undulate in high winds and eventual collapse. The debris from the original bridge sunk to the bottom of the roughly 150' deep channel, and remains there today.

More on the failure of the original bridge [WSDOT].

Yosemite & Half Dome

Yosemite Valley & Half Dome


Half Dome Closer


Half Dome Stereogram
Click to enlarge; then cross your eyes to converge the two images into one that will appear 3-D in the middle of three.

More Yosemite views on Wild View Yonder

Rescue

Floating Alone

Sailing

Lunar Eclipse

Life Forms

Griffith Park Observatory and Planetarium

The Griffith Park Observatory and Planetarium.


The main dome houses the planetarium.


Brand new, state of the art planetarium projection system.