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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient.” ― Catherine DeVrye, The Gift of Nature

An image of scrubby pines and ground cover at the base of rocky terrain.

This spot catches my eye every time I visit this place...the trees and ground cover are at the base of a very large and tall talus slope and they're just about the only things making their way in the sea of rocks.

There is a nice little trail of scrubby aspen to the right, but that's an image for another time...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ― William Blake

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wandering and wondering among the aspens...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An inconvenient truth based on science...even if we don't like science anymore because it's 'woke' or scientific findings run opposite of capitalistic aims. Glaciers recede and fracture as a climate warms

sfchronicle.com

A ‘charismatic landform’ is being lost in California

New scientific research offers a particularly comprehensive look at the state of glaciers across the Lower 48, including those in the Sierra Nevada and on Mount Shasta.

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“The elders were wise. They knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.” - Chief Luther Standing Bear, Sicangu and Oglala Lakota Chief For Indigenous Peoples Day...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Space and scarcity give us dignity. And liberty. And thereby beauty.” ― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water #infrared #classicmono

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." - Buddha The sun was dropping below the slope behind these trees, with nice backlighting. A breeze was moving through the canyon and the leaves were quaking... I slowed the shutter for leaf motion and still, quiet trunks...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“The question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.” ― Albert Schweitzer ...the will and hope part is being tested, daily

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface" - Aldous Huxley

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world...Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples." - Wallace Stegner Maybe...

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object possessed something that would be good for us to have also—even to the very stones.” Luther Standing Bear #classicmono #infrared

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.” ― Albert Schweitzer A recent morning in the Eastern Sierra...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little late afternoon/early evening zen above 9000' in the Eastern Sierra

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief--like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.” ― E Abbey

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“It’s okay to get gaslighted once in a while; that’s how you learn to burn brighter without guile.” — Philusufar I mean, I can really do without the daily barrage from the party holding all the levers. On the other hand, it strengthens my resolve... Oops! Another opinion slipped past the goalie

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the autumnal equinox... This image is from a day where we were lucky to be around when winter and fall had a meetup...we were among the first to be in this place that morning and enjoyed a peaceful walk in the snow.

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gratuitous Yosemite autumn appreciation post...for the autumnal solstice

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that." - Nick Cave

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now." - Richard Bach Out for a walk today, enjoying the mild temps, overcast skies and a slight breeze. Found this vine with turning leaves on a soundwall along the main drag...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“It is easier to do trivial things that are urgent, than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking.” ― John Cleese Sierra transitions...foothills, deciduous woodlands, pines...and the alpine

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"...Don't ask what you are not doing Because your voice cannot command In time we will move mountains And it will come through your hands" - John Hiatt

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting." - John Cleese A high spot in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. — Marcus Aurelius

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. —John Steinbeck

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A Quiet Time (if you can believe it) At the right place and the right time, it is possible...in that often hectic, incomparable valley

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I encourage you to vote...use a ballot box or vote in person, but VOTE. eedition.sfchronicle.com/infinity/art...

eedition.sfchronicle.com

Officials: Skip mail, vote via drop box

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Sherri Mabe @starlitwaltz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope." - WENDELL BERRY🤍🤍🤍 #infrared #classicmono #bnw #blueskyphoto

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An autumn appreciation post on the first day of meteorological autumn

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.” ― Bill McKibben Seemed appropriate

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“...when confronted by small men doing big and stupid things, we need to resist with all the creativity and wit we can muster, and if we can do so without losing the civility that makes life enjoyable, then so much the better.” ― Bill McKibben Seemed appropriate

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is." - Margaret Atwood For National Parks Week... If you buy acreage next to a National Park boundary...doesn't mean you get to exchange public land (a National Park) to improve access to your profit venture

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"Close your eyes and listen So that you may truly see No kings, no kings, no kings That the killing of my foe Indeed, destroys a part of me No kings, no kings, no kings" youtu.be/kWG0K3Y8ZU8?...

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No Kings

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands...even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone...and many other natural treasures." - John Garamendi

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“Awe is the moment when ego surrenders to wonder. This is our inheritance - the beauty before us. We cry. We cry out. There is nothing sentimental about facing the desert bare. It is a terrifying beauty.” ― Terry Tempest Williams For #NationalParksWeek

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses." - Paul Gruchow

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“In a world that is becoming increasingly virtual, the parks remain places of visceral beauty. Places where we can remember that we are but a small part of the life on this planet, and that it is a truly wonderful planet and the only one we've got.” ― Nevada Barr For National Parks Week...

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

She swam towards us to snack on tasty morsels (for ducks) as we enjoyed the view earned from hiking to this lake. It was sublime... Protect public lands

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” ― C.G. Jung

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It was a summer and early autumn of wildfires that year... Then a significant early-season storm blew through and put them out. The smoke that had been prevalent up until the prior evening was gone by morning. Tufa towers highlighted by the morning sun as the storm moves on...

Tufa towers in Mono Lake are highlighted by the morning sun as clouds from an overnight storm move on. A color image converted to black and white

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past." -Richard Bach From a 2yrs back. I had missed how the flying pelican's head was in focus. I looked at the group on the rocks. “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” was a fave of dad's...stirring thoughts about him

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“The Machine may seem omnipotent, but it is not. Human bodies and human wit, active here, there, everywhere, united in purpose, independent in action, can still face that machine and stop it... There is, after all, a better way to live.” ― Edward Abbey

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J G Layne @jglayne.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The President, today: "We have 22 waterfalls and most haven't worked for over 50 years." Wondering where that is, as it doesn't appear to be here in California. You know...the hellscape, failed state, blah blah blah blah blah Feeling a little snarky today

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