On the road through the Sequoia National Forest.
Within a few hundred miles we have driven a desert road and now a forest road….
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This Sequoia beauty is 1500 years old and 245' tall |
Lyrical sounding names - Ponderosa Pines, Sugar Pines, Incense Cedars, White Firs coexist with these giant Sequoias. I even glimpsed my first chipmunk for the trip, cute Alvin….
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Wolf lichen adding vibrant color on the bark of a White Fir |
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Filtered light in the forest. |
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Exposed roots of a Sequoia that fell in the 1800's. |
PS: I was in a coffee shop in Reno, and Alvin was looking down at me from the lintel. Asked him to join us and took a quick photo - what attitude.
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