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Trip To Eastern Sierras, June 2008

Not much out in the desert except power lines, solar plants and aqueducts taking water to LA.	And, of course, the usual CA wildfires	Another view of the fire near Haiwee Reservoir
Extent of the fires near Haiwee reservoir	And the fireman fighting them, getting some well-deserved rest	Helicopter dropping water on fire
Helicopters fighting the fires, through miles of smoke	Getting a refill	Helicopter filling up in Haiwee Reservoir
Helicopter filling up in Haiwee Reservoir	Manzanar, where 10,000 Japanese were interned during WW2	The memorial
The original guard posts, near being the one assigned to the Manzanar police, the far one for military police.	Reproduction of the fencing - barbed wire.	Manzanar. This auditorium/gym is all that's left of the original buildings.
Reproductions of the housing being built for display	From the Manzanar displays, words worth reading carefully as it applies to today. Thomas Jefferson understood the trials that American Democracy would endure, so what is going on today would be no surprise to him. What would surprise him would probably be the complacency of the majority of Americans to losing their freedom and privacy.	From the Manzanar displays, worth reading carefully as it applies to today.
From the Manzanar displays, worth reading carefully as it applies to today.	From the Manzanar displays, worth reading carefully as it applies to today.	Furniture made by one of the Japanese from fruit crates
What's left of one of the rock gardens	Wonderful rock gardens - in the desert	Another rock garden near the hospital
Perhaps you remember this as an Ansel Adams picture from his visit there.	Perhaps you remember this as an Ansel Adams picture from his visit there. His was B+W.	Origami left instead of flowers
We stayed in Lone Pine, near Mt. Whitney. This is the view from Whitney Portal where hikers begin their ascent of the mountain.	Mountain stream at the beginning of the Mt. Whitney trail, 8,300 ft.	Descending from Whitney Portal at dusk.