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| Rabbit brush or rabbit weed. The pollen is guaranteed to make you sneeze and your eyes itch. |
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| Mono Lake with the Eastern Sierra range in the background |
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| Artsy tufa |
GOLDFIELD, NV - - Welcome to the land of rabbit brush. This weed's pollen, combined with the nearly constant windy conditions here, is one of the only things which sets my allergies raging.
Before leaving Lee Vining, we took time to (again) visit an area of Mono (moe-noe) Lake which we like. The tufa 'sculptures' there share a common trait with what we saw at Yellowstone's Mammoth Hot Springs. Both are created from calcium carbonate. In Yellowstone, the creation is done by hot water where in Mono the results are from the evaporation of the lake's cold, very salty water. Costly and very fancy travertine tile can be created from the hot water version.
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