Photographic meanderings

Mono Lake once spanned
across the desert sage plain
to the distant hills

spilling into the
Great Basin, an inland sea
now sere and arid.

Mono Lake remains
taking, taking water from
The Sierra crest.

Mono Lake Tufa, sunset. It just doesn’t look real, does it? 8×12 print, $20. Only 3 available. As always, that includes shipping.

Sand tufa on the Mono Lake margin.  These structures mark where freshwater springs bubbled up through the sandy bottom of the salt/alkaline waters in Mono Lake.  Once the lake level lowered, and the sand blew away, the tufa were revealed.  Calcium in the freshwater bonded with the alkaline  to create these otherworldly, delicate flutes.  See more here.