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Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake. These salts also make the lake water alkaline.
This desert lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp that thrive in its waters, and provides critical nesting habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp.
The human history of Mono Lake is associated with its productive ecosystem. The native Kutzadika'a people derived nutrition from the larvae of the alkali flies that live in the lake. When the city of Los Angeles diverted water from flowing into the lake, it lowered the lake level, which imperiled the migratory birds. The Mono Lake Committee formed in response, winning a legal battle that forced Los Angeles to partially restore the lake level.
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Sept 2007 - in Baron Grayson's Sanctum Sanctorum
Mono no aware -
is described in "Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia", as "a deep, empathetic appreciation of the ephemeral beauty manifest in nature and human life, and it is therefore usually tinged with a hint of sadness".
Here are few quotes from a Utata article by Gary Fallis on Mono No Aware :
""The sound of the bell of Gion shôja
echoes out the impermanence of all things."
"So begins the Japanese classic Tale of the Heike Clan. In those few words we find the expression of a worldview that suggests life is as short and as hauntingly beautiful as the thrum of a bell resonating in a courtyard. A gentle sadness accompanies that perspective. The Japanese call it mono no aware.
Nothing lasts. All existence is as ephemeral as a passing shadow. But knowing that everyone and everything will wither and fade isn't cause for existential despair; instead it offers us the chance to more fully and deeply appreciate the world now. The very transience of nature intensifies its beauty. The inevitable ending of that beauty touches and moves us. At its heart, mono no aware is about cherishing and being connected to the moment. It's appreciating what is, exactly as it is, mindful that it will eventually be gone.
We are haunted by all the moments that have passed, the great moments and the small. A dusty cigar box resting on the dashboard of an old car stored in a shed reveals such a moment. It doesn't matter who sat in the car and smoked the cigars, it doesn't matter what things were said or what thoughts were considered; what matters is knowing the moment took place and now is forever gone.
It's a pleasurable sadness. Although the moment has long since passed, it continues to resonate. We can feel that moment in our bones, like the lingering, melancholy tone of a bell echoing through the courtyard at Gion shôja."
Almost dried out by the city of Los Angeles, in 1990 its water level had dropped by 45 feet. Conservation efforts are ongoing now, with somewhat encouraging results.
Me n Mrs Vik have been road tripping round California, heres a few of the thousands of images from our trip
Mono de Sykes, Sykes's Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis.
Isimangaliso Wetland Park
KwaZulu-Natal
South Africa
I don’t often do B&W. not because I don’t like it, but I just don’t “think” about it. For some reason I rarely do a B&W conversion, but this time I did and I must say, I LOVE the outcome.
There are two processing techniques here. The first is an HDR treatment, using 3 shots at 2 stops apart. I liked the result, but I then started playing with my Lightroom Presets and I really liked the result on this.
As stated in a previous post,, California will be closing Mono Lake State Park next year due to budget cuts. This is what prompted us to go see this lake again.
Hope you like the B&W
From my blog over at www.albertdebruijn.com
Mono Lake (/ˈmoʊnoʊ/ MOH-noh) is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake. These salts also make the lake water alkaline.
This desert lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp that thrive in its waters, and provides critical habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp and alkali flies. Historically, the native Kutzadika'a people derived nutrition from the Ephydra hians pupae, which live in the shallow waters around the edge of the lake.
When the city of Los Angeles diverted water from the freshwater streams flowing into the lake, it lowered the lake level, which imperiled the migratory birds.
Mono Lake is believed to be 1-3 million years old and one of the oldest lakes in North America. The tufa towers rise out of the water due to the unique water chemistry. It is almost 3 times as salty as the ocean.
Mono Araña Común o Marimonta
Ateles Belzebuth
Son diurnos, se pasean por altos árboles ayudándose con su larga cola, en las selvas y bosques nublados que habita, en zonas húmedas o templadas.
* Parque Chorros de Milla, Mérida, Venezuela.
South Tufa, Mono Lake, CA
"In the middle distance there rests upon the desert plain what appears to be a wide sheet of burnished metal, so even and brilliant is its surface. It is Lake Mono."
—Israel C. Russell, Quaternary History of the Mono Valley, 1889
AGE
At least one million years old. One of the oldest continuously existing lakes in North America.
SIZE
Area
1941: 86 square miles 13 X 9 miles
1982: 60 square miles 12 X 8 miles
Volume
1941: 4,200,000 acre feet
1982: 2,200,000 acre feet
WATER
Primary water sources: Runoff from Sierra in Mill, Lee Vining, Walker, Parker and Rush Creeks, and groundwater springs.
Contents: Sodium Chloride, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Sulfate (a chloro-carbonate-sulfate "triple water" lake)
Salinity (% of dissolved solids):
1940: 5.2deg.%
1982: 9.5deg.%
pH 10
BIOLOGY
Primary lake life: algae, brine shrimp and brine flies
Nesting birds: California Gulls (50,000) Migratory species: Wilson's Phalaropes (150,000), Northern Phalaropes (50,000), Eared Grebes (1,000,000) and 79 other waterbird species.
GEOLOGY
Mono Basin: Tectonic basin formed by faulting and downwarping of earth's crust. One to three million years old.
Volcanism: Chain of 30 domes of explosive rhyolite (75% silica) erupting continuously during last 40,000 years, as recently as 640 years ago. Negit Island, Paoha Island and Black Point also of volcanic origin.
Sierra: Rising one thousand feet every million years.
Sagebrush, Jeffrey pines, volcanoes, tufa towers, gulls, grebes, brine shrimp, alkali flies, freshwater streams, and alkaline waters comprise an unlikely world at the transition between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Great Basin desert.
Pronghorn antelope graze in the Bodie Hills while yellow-bellied marmots bask in the high Sierra summer sun. Great Basin spadefoot toads fill the evening air with an endless chorus of croaking while nighthawks hunt for insects in the fading twilight. Trillions of brine shrimp eat and mate beneath the briny waters of Mono Lake as Wilson's Phalaropes feast on alkali flies in preparation for their non-stop flight to South America.
Embracing 14 different ecological zones, over 1,000 plant species, and roughly 400 recorded vertebrate species within its watershed, Mono Lake and its surrounding basin encompass one of California's richest natural areas.
Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve
Lee Vining, CA
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Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline lake covering about 65 square miles on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevadas. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old -- one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet. Throughout its long existence, salts and minerals have washed into the lake from Eastern Sierra streams. Freshwater evaporating from the lake each year has left the salts and minerals behind so that the lake is now about 2 1/2 times as salty as the ocean and very alkaline.
At its height during the most recent ice age, the lake may have been 900 feet but In order to provide water needs for the growing City of Los Angeles, water was diverted from the Owens River into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. In 1941 the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power extended the Los Angeles Aqueduct system farther upriver into the Mono Basin. So much water was diverted that evaporation soon exceeded inflow and the surface level of Mono Lake fell rapidly. By 1982 the lake was reduced to 37,688 acres having lost 31 percent of its 1941 surface area. As a result alkaline sands and once-submerged tufa towers became exposed and Negit Island (seen in the center of this picture) became land-bridged, exposing the nests of gulls to predators (chiefly coyotes) and forcing the breeding colony to abandon the site.
The good news is that conservationists have succeeded in reversing this trend and a goal has been set to restore it to and stabilize its level at 6,392 feet:
4.3 million acre-feet at 6,417' asl (in 1941 before diversions)
3.1 million acre-feet at 6,392' asl (future stabilization level)
2.6 million acre-feet at 6,383' asl (2002 level)
2.1 million acre-feet at 6,372' asl (1982, lowest recorded level)
It's expected to take at least 20 years to achieve this.
Leica-Park, Wetzlar, Germany, 20.02.2015, Fuji X100T f/4 1/250 iso800
Ralph Gibson "MONO" Leica Galerie Wetzlar
Mono aullador de la costa (Alouatta paliatta) en el sendero "Guayacán de los monos", junto al P.N. Machalilla, manabí Ecuador. No es el del mismo grupo de la hembra de la foto anterior. En este recorrido es fácil ver 2-3 grupos de esta especie.
Mantled Howler Monkey
Bloodhound SSC carbon fibre monocoque arrives back at the workshop. Made by URT it's a beautiful (and very large) piece. It'll house the cockpit, 1000L HTP tank and also serves as the intake for the jet.
Alejandro Mono González (Curicó, región del Maule; 2 de marzo de 1947) es un artista y escenógrafo chileno, reconocido por sus trabajos en murales con temática social.
Durante 1969, participó en un grupo de trabajo creando murales, durante la campaña del entonces candidato a la presidencia Salvador Allende; entonces se creó la Brigada Ramona Parra, con la cual seguirá trabajando durante los siguientes años. Cercano al pintor chileno Roberto Matta, trabajaron en coordinación con la Brigada y habitantes de la comuna de La Granja en el mural El primer gol del pueblo chileno.
V MONO Energy TorTura Leszno (11/09/2022)
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The Mono–Inyo Craters are a volcanic chain of craters, domes and lava flows in Mono County, Eastern California. The chain stretches 25 miles (40 km) from the northwest shore of Mono Lake to the south of Mammoth Mountain. The Mono Lake Volcanic Field forms the northernmost part of the chain and consists of two volcanic islands in the lake and one cinder cone volcano on its northwest shore. Most of the Mono Craters, which make up the bulk of the northern part of the Mono–Inyo chain, are phreatic (steam explosion) volcanoes that have since been either plugged or over-topped by rhyolite domes and lava flows. The Inyo Craters form much of the southern part of the chain and consist of phreatic explosion pits, and rhyolitic lava flows and domes. The southernmost part of the chain consists of fumaroles and explosion pits on Mammoth Mountain and a set of cinder cones south of the mountain; the latter are called the Red Cones.
Eruptions along the narrow fissure system under the chain began in the west moat of Long Valley Caldera 400,000 to 60,000 years ago. Mammoth Mountain was formed during this period. Multiple eruptions from 40,000 to 600 years ago created the Mono Craters and eruptions 5,000 to 500 years ago formed the Inyo Craters. Lava flows 5,000 years ago built the Red Cones, and explosion pits on Mammoth Mountain were excavated in the last 1,000 years. Uplift of Paoha Island in Mono Lake about 250 years ago is the most recent activity. These eruptions most likely originated from small magma bodies rather than from a single, large magma chamber like the one that produced the massive Long Valley Caldera eruption 760,000 years ago. During the past 3,000 years, eruptions have occurred every 250 to 700 years. In 1980, a series of earthquakes and uplift within and south of Long Valley Caldera indicated renewed activity in the area.
The region has been used by humans for centuries. Obsidian was collected by Mono Paiutes for making sharp tools and arrow points. Glassy rock continues to be removed in modern times for use as commercial scour and yard decoration. Mono Mills processed timber felled on or near the volcanoes for the nearby boomtown Bodie in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Water diversions into the Los Angeles Aqueduct system from their natural outlets in Mono Lake started in 1941 after a water tunnel was cut under the Mono Craters. Mono Lake Volcanic Field and a large part of the Mono Craters gained some protection under Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area in 1984. Resource use along all of the chain is managed by the United States Forest Service as part of Inyo National Forest. Various activities are possible along the chain, including hiking, bird watching, canoeing, skiing, and mountain biking.
Source: Wikipedia