I recently took a weekend trip with my husband up Owens Valley and into the deciduous groves that were changing colors on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. As we passed by Owens Lake we were surprised to see water in it again, it has been depleted for decades, creating toxic dust storms from the dried alkaline deposits. Instead there was water, and flocks of birds. So we made a point of making time to stop on the way home and caught a sunset over the mountains with the temporarily renewed lake in the foreground.
Timothy Dahlum 