In the amazing Sierra Nevada mountains, is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. It is known as Temple Crag, to many. The water is really that color, due to the powdered material from glacial run-off. This lake can be found while on the trail that eventually leads to the Palisade Glacier.
...And you thought California was just desert and beaches with smog and earthquakes!
This photo was another one NOT taken by me, but I was at the location (many years ago, now), and I did go to the glacier. If I had a scanner, I would gladly show my own photos.
--Dan
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That is beautiful! I haven't visited that particular area yet, but I'll be sure to. It is true that California is more than beaches and desert. Eve though the Antelope Valley is a desert, there is always something different each direction away from there.
Hi Dan.
Lucky man you are, having such wonderful sights to choose from!
I wouldn't mind seeing a few of those.
Anyway I am a blessed man as well: just over half an hour by car takes us to Belgium, a totally different country, 2 hours after that we are in France or Germany!
Stunning photo, Dan!
That cirque is the same colour as the lakes around my mountains.
I see you also have the severe forest fire threat where you live as we do here. Luckily there have been no lightning strikes to ignite fires in the backcountry... yet.
Speaking of earthquakes, when we were in Las Vegas a few years ago, an earthquake hit Joshua Tree in the Sierra Nevada (I believe) & it had our hotel swaying & creaking for several minutes. A wee bit scary, to say the least.
You do live in a beautiful place!
Hope all is well with you & yours.
Dale
That is an amazingly beautiful spot Dan. I would love to go to the Sierra Nevada's. I have been to the Canadian Rockies, which are equally impressive. The glacial lakes are stunning. To stand before this emerald-green-blue water is really incredible. I just couldn't get over the water right up in front of it - I just wanted to dive in. But then, to step back and look around and the stunning mountain backdrop all around - there is really nothing that can compare.
Hope you get to go back soon Dan. I know I want to! You folks in California are really blessed (despite the fires and freeways!)
Hey Dan, I thought you might like to know - this should make you feel all warm and cuddly, eh? These guys are fucking beauties!
It’s all about the Mu$ic.
The Richest Rock Stars of 2006 - U2, Stones, Green Day make our annual list.
The lesson of Rolling Stone's fifth-annual list of music's biggest moneymakers? Touring, more than ever, is where the money is: The vast majority of artists in our Top Thirty made the bulk of their cash on the road in 2005. Album royalties pale in comparison. "The music business has changed," says Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of U2, who came out on top last year, taking in an estimated $154.2 million after selling out more than 100 arena and stadium shows around the world. "Our recording income is not insignificant, but it's less than we make from touring. The figures used to be closer together." U2 make an estimated $15 million in advances for each album they release, plus additional royalties; they grossed $139 million on the road in North America in 2005 -- including as much as $150,000 per night in merchandise sales.
The Rolling Stones, whose touring in 2005 was limited to forty or so U.S. dates, came in at Number Two, earning $92.5 million. The rest of the Top Ten is occupied almost exclusively by veteran artists, from the Eagles (No. 3, $63.2 million) to Rod Stewart, still riding the success of his Great American Songbook albums and tours (No. 8, $40.3 million). The two rock artists under forty nearest the top were Dave Matthews Band (No. 9, $39.6 million) and Green Day (No. 12, $31 million). Mariah Carey, who had the year's best-selling CD with The Emancipation of Mimi but didn't tour, is nowhere on the list; 50 Cent, who had the year's second-highest-selling album, landed at Number Nineteen. In contrast, Neil Diamond's Rick Rubin-produced album 12 Songs sold fewer than 500,000 copies, but he still hit Number Six, earning $44.7 million -- thanks almost entirely to an extensive world tour. Touring is simply far more profitable than selling CDs, explains Jim Guerinot, who manages Gwen Stefani (No. 16, $23.9 million). "With CDs, you're making between fifteen and twenty-five percent royalty," he says. "On the road you get a royalty of eighty-five to ninety percent" [from ticket sales].
Why do artists with lengthy histories outgross their younger, more fashionable counterparts on the road? "People want to see artists that they've seen before and who they know," says Rod Stewart's manager, Arnold Stiefel. "They want a show where they're going to hear things that are signposts of their life and experience." McGuinness points out that fans themselves are aging. "The audience is expanding demographically upward," he says. "People don't stop listening to rock & roll in their forties -- they continue." And it doesn't hurt that mature fans have more disposable income. "Only the older audience can afford ticket prices at the highest level," says Dennis Arfa, president of concert agency Artists Group International, which reps Stewart, whose touring income has quadrupled in the past decade.
Hi Dan,
What an amazing place. Never been to California, but it will happen some day, I'm sure. That photo is just so beautiful.
Your bushfire post was very evocative for me. Fires are terrible things, and living in Australia we see a lot of them. In the bush, fire is a natural process. Many of our native species of plants have evolved to rely on a cycle of fire and regeneration, and also some animal populations (not a happy thought). However, as in California, much of the human population has a love of living in the midst of nature, and that brings risks.
Having been in a bushfire as an 11-year-old, I still can't smell eucalyptus smoke or face a hot North wind without feeling slightly sick. My mother, sister and brother and I were unable to leave the area in time (Dad had the car in town, and the roadblocks meant he couldn't get through to come and get us.) With the main front of the fire heading towards us, my sister and I were watching from a balcony for "spot" or ember fires, pointing them out to my brother below who was beating them out. It was about 43 degrees C, but we had to wear woollen clothing and boots for protection. Mum had a dozen or so soaking wet woollen blankets all ready for us to get underneath in a "dip" in the middle of an expanse of short green grass if the fire came any closer. The house was timber, and too big for us to defend properly, so it would certainly have burned. In the end, the wind direction changed, blowing the fire back on itself when the front was just a few hundred metres from the house. I had schoolfriends who lost their homes in that one. Many of our fires, however, result in the loss of lives, sometimes including the firefighters themselves when the become trapped in firestorm conditions. They are very, very brave people.
Enough of that. It's now the middle of winter here, and I'm sitting in the midst of suburban Melbourne, so no risk here! Summer on the Coast will be a different story ...
Good grief I don't half go on, do I? I really came here to say thanks for your post on mine, and to say that I will certainly check out the Moodies' songs you mentioned. Thanks for the recommendation!
Best to you and your lovely family,
M x
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