Leon Turnbull Photography

So there apparently were great sunsets all week at Lake Tahoe. Except the day we were there of course.

It looked like it might be another good one when we headed up to the north shore on Thursday after work. There were plenty of clouds, the possibilities looked very good, but alas there were too many clouds. It was raining when we arrived, and it was a good drenching, even though it apparently only rained 0.1 inches. Well, we had dinner, then walked around, got ice cream, before heading back to the lupine fields.

I had seen and heard plenty about these lupine fields along the shore of Lake Tahoe, and was wanting to get a good sunset photo from here. Well, this is the most color that ever showed that night. It is not a bad photo, really, and Tara and I had a very nice date night, so it was all good. But I’ll be heading back here some day again.

This is the fourth waterfall on the beautiful Middle Fork San Joaquin River, 30 ft. high.

June has been awfully hot, much too hot to go hiking, and there is no end to the heat in sight. I’ve been taking it easy at home on the weekends lately. I don’t imagine July or August will be any better. The waterfalls are already done for the year. What am I going to do all summer? Stay home and get fat? No no no.

This is number three of eight significant waterfalls on the Middle Fork San Joaquin River (above Devil’s Postpile – there are more below). That is just one awesome river. This falls is about 40 ft. high. I have pictures of some of the others but unfortunately not all. A long story but essentially I thought I was going to be back on the river the next day in better light, but we changed our planned route, so there are two falls that I missed getting pictures of. Anyway, enjoy this beauty. And I hope you are enjoying the hot weather. I sure am not!

It has been SLOW going processing all my photos from our Eastern Sierra trip. I seem to be so busy with stuff and have no free time. Well, this is Lower Mammoth Creek Falls, about 30 ft. high. It is a bit nicer than the upper falls and more of a straight drop.

I did go hiking this hot weekend but I struck out, and it ended up being more of a scouting hike for next time. The rivers are all very low now, and it is only mid June. They have dropped dramatically in the past week of hot weather. Waterfall season is officially over. Over and out. It is going to be a very long summer.

This is Lower Garnet Lake Falls, about 30 ft. high. Three fantastic waterfalls on the same stream, so close to each other. I think I hit it at peak snow melt for this year too. In a normal year there would be a lot more flow of course, but for this year, this was about peak flow.