What would the world be,
without our gardeners,
who tend the flowers,
where flutters fly by,
and make friends with humans?
Gardeners,
are like the flowers,
they tend,
they make the world beautiful.
Cheers to you, and all the world’s gardeners, from The Flower Fields in Carlsbad California~
Got slammed with 111 inches of snow in the most recent 5 day storm.
UC Berkeley’s Snow Lab records this as the snowiest 5 day stretch in 40 years.
But the Sierras are once again,
silent,
still,
serene.
Even the twin waterfalls are sleeping!
Life perseveres, waiting for spring thaw.
The White Mountains (in the back), are home to the few surviving California herds of wild mustangs who are now going to be captured and removed by helicopter roundup and bait water trapping. See prior post on these magnificent wild creatures and their keystone place in the wild habitat:
The US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are moving forward with plans to capture and remove approximately 500 wild horses from their home near Mono Lake in California’s Eastern Sierra. The mustangs have lived here since the 1800’s. The Forest Service and BLM claim the horses are a danger on roads and disturb sensitive habitats.
Interestingly, cattle are allowed to graze in much of this “sensitive habitat.” Reports indicate wild mustangs are consuming habitat allocated for privately owned cattle. In more than 50 years I have never seen a wild mustang on a road, and neither have my friends and family, some whom live in the area, and had no idea they were even here.
https://www.easternsierrawildhorses.com
Cheers to you from The Eastern Sierra and her not long remaining, wild & free mustangs~
