Angier+Fox, Celebrating Rural America & beyond

Smallest in population (less than 1500 souls) and considered "California's Alps", Alpine County sits on the Sierra Nevada crest south of the Lake Tahoe Basin and north by a pass or two above Yosemite National park.

The California Desert, including Mojave and Colorado Deserts, Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, Mojave National Preserve, Anza-Borrego State Park and the Imperial Valley. Included are sand dunes, mud, landscape, people, outhouse, plants, wildflowers, wildlife, details.

Middle Bar fire, July 22, 2011, started about 4:40 pm and involving about 60 acres of wildland on East Bay MUD land south of the Middle Bar Bridge at the slack water of Pardee Reservoir on the Mokelumne River. It was fully contained the same day. Tentatively started by a vehicle malfunction that also consumed the vehicle. Moke Hill Fire, CalFire and East Bay MUD fire responded along with 2 hand crews from Pine Grove Camp.

Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada and the area close by, mainly Inyo County and San Bernardino County. Death Valley is the Continental United State's largest National Park and contains the lowest spot in the western hemisphere at Badwater, -282 feet (about -100m) below sea level. The valley is bordered on the west by Telescpe Peak at 11,000+ feet and the Funeral Range on the east. There are dunes, mud hills, wildflowers, and more within the park. It is famous for the 20 Mule Team Borax wagons that once hauled this rare mineral from Death Valley in the late 1800s.

America's deepest valley, the Owens, between the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains, including the ancient Bristlecone Forest, Laws, Bishop.

Since the mid 1960s, Marta Becket has entertained with her dance mime performances to both packed and empty houses at the Amargosa Opera House in Death Valley Junction, California.

Bodie and Bridgeport, California

Randsburg is a ghost town in eastern Kern County in California's High Desert and dates back to 1895 when gold was discovered. It was named after the South Africa gold region. Today, it's a sleepy little "ghost town" where off roaders and desert explorers stop for refreshment while out enjoying the desert. There are tons of neat outhouses all over town, too!

Sacramento Valley the upper portion of California's Great Valley.

Spring time in the western Sacramento Valley including Colousa and Yolo Counties, the Dunnigan Hills, Capay Valley, almond trees, crop dusters, and helicopters spraying.

California's Salton Sea in Imperial County.

By the Salton Sea town of Niland, out by "The Slabs" is a kind and wonderful man who's mission in life is to spread the word of God's love. Leonard Knight is this man who started his Salvation Mountain about 1980. So far, Leonard has used more than 100,000 gallons of paint on his monument to God's Love.

The San Joaquin Valley is the southern extension of California's Great Central Valley and one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.

Sierra Nevada, Range of Light stretches from just below Mt. Lassen in the north to the Tehachapi Range in the south and marks the eastern boundary of California's Great Central Valley to separate it from the Great Basin of Nevada.

Wildflowers of California, many from the SIerra Nevada foothills, mostly identified to the Genus-species. These flowers are seen from the Gold Country and Sierra Nevada to the Mojave and Colorado Deserts.

Ansel's haunt, Yosemite National Park, SIerra Nevada, California. Set aside in 1862 as a reserve, it's one of America's first National Parks and most famous of those in California.