I guess some of you would not really have expected it anymore but, despite all the “throwbacks” and “cleaning out the vaults”, I actually do make new photos, still! Just last Sunday, Shuwen and I drove up to the Laguna Mountains together with our friend Tracy because the “monsoon forecast” sounded pretty good.
Weather
When I tag a post with “weather” it probably translated to “storm” most of the time… who doesn’t like nice dramatic clouds?
Hesse
“How beautiful the world was when one just looked at it without searching, just looked, simply and innocently.” (Hermann Hesse)
Kneiffelspitze, Berchtesgaden
For the sake of completeness, here’s a “single B-side” from my Germany trip in 2019. After hiking back down into the valley from Reiter Alpe through the first snow of the season and dropping off Simon and Florian at their car, I continued to Berchtesgaden, where I had booked a room at a hotel for two nights – and I was definitely looking forward to a hot shower!
Reiter Alpe in the rain
A short but wet and unsuccessful attempt to summit Wagendrischlhorn at Reiter Alpe during my Germany trip – in rather unpleasant weather. With mildly entertaining wardrobe problems and solutions.
Monsoon in the Laguna Mountains
Last week a couple of my appointments all shifted forward by a day so I “took the day off” and after running some errands in the morning drove up into the Laguna Mountains, hoping for some fine weather and drama under an influx of monsoonal moisture – which is a warrant for towering clouds, thunderstorms and cloudbursts during the summer months here in Southern California.
Cedar Creek Falls, April 2019
Ever since I hiked to Cedar Creek Falls on a weekday morning with my friend Joe in 2015 and we completely beat the crowds (see A Piece of Eden from March 2015), it has become a bit of a personal challenge or perhaps “tradition” to try and repeat this experience – which is a bit of a reversal of my earlier take on this location. :-)