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| A beautiful flower that I cannot identify |
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| Alpine aster |
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| The Callahan lava flow is about 1,100 years old, the youngest in the monument. |
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| a squirrel being squirrely |
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| Mule deer parading past my apartment |
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| Yellow-headed blackbird |
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| This landform is Castle Rock. The locals call it the Peninsula because it was once a peninsula of land surrounded by Tule Lake. The lake was drained in the early 1900s to make farm land. Today Tule Lake is only about a tenth of what it once was. Tule Lake war relocation center where 18,000 people of Japanese ancestry were interned during WWII was just on the other side of Castle Rock. |
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| White pelicans on Tule Lake |
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| Mount Shasta as seen from the northern part of Lava Beds |
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| My friend Christina and I hiked up Gillem Bluff one evening and did ballet poses with Mount Shasta. Great way to spend an evening! |
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| Medicine Lake is about sixteen miles from where I live up in the Modoc National Forest. It's a beautiful place to get away and go swimming! The lake sits inside the caldera of the Medicine Lake shield volcano. |
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| View looking south over the Modoc National Forest near Medicine Lake |
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| showy penstemon |
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| A couple of ravens doing raven things |
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| This is an area of the monument that had a wildfire last summer but is now showing new life with abundant blooming phacelia. |
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| Paintbrush |
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| Sunshine coming into Sunshine Cave |
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| the same burned area with phacelia |
