High Sierra

8/2/06
At 9000 ft in the Sierra Nevada just past ebbits pass, that perfect high sierra landscape, granite boulders and bonsai like trees, hot, dry, smells of sage and dust. We camped at "High lakes" for the last two days, 8600 ft. Hiked up to 10,000 ft, covered in flowers,Mariposa lillies, like a California poppy but a soft warm white with purple black spots. we climbed over a saddle and into an astonishing meadow, carpeted in wildflowers. Then bushwhacked all around the ridge above the tree line, Darby loved it...
Great to be back on our own, a few weeks of the eastern Sierra then Las Vegas. Now it's just the sound of the wind in the trees, these sureal twisted, stunted shapes, bursting out of the stone in a display of perseverence and fortitude. Life at the edge of endurance.