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Fireside

There’s just that time of day when everything of color comes together. A burst of color bounces off surfaces in all directions. The colors saturated and pure offer warmth and refuge.

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Serrated

The knife’s edge of a leaf on this tree within the San Gabriel mountains looks more imposing than it really is. While coming back to trek this path a number of times, this overhanging limb remained in place season after season.

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Soft Shade

Fall Colors Emerge Early in Season

With the shade and sunlight, the colors of Spring shift with the breeze only to pull on the imagination. Here in Sequoia National Park, the forest brings out shades of color that bring you in closer.


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Western Sky

The sunburst here in the Western sky shows an unavoidable change. From minute to minute and hour to hour, there’s a difference in the quality of the wilderness.

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Fire Cloud

The soft hues below are accentuated by the fire in the sky above. As the overcast clouds above burn off from the sun overhead, the sunlight fades and passes away. To withdraw and leave behind the darkness. To make way for the promise of a new day.

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Unfolded

When the evening sky opens up, there is a state of wonder that comes as with scenes such as this. How the symphony and balance of light between heaven and earth unfold to hold you in place.


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Ancient Gathering

The difference between a conifer and a tree is that it produces seed-bearing cones. And these Sequoias are conifers that took thousands of years for them to grow at the dizzying heights we see.

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Boole Tree

The Boole Tree is a lone survivor within the Converse Basin area of Sequoia National Forest. Surrounding it are the numerous exploited Sequoia’s that was logged many years ago.


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