This morning I am sharing a bit a news about this blog — a sort of “heads up,” if you will. During recent weeks we’ve been busily preparing for this summer’s main travel event. We’ve lined up house-sitters who will live here and take care of the place while we’re away, finalized plans and itineraries and reservations, started packing, and more.

At times I won’t be able to update the blog every day. On other occasions you may see a new photograph but not the usual descriptive text. Long-time followers probably know that I’ve shared a daily photograph here since the early 2000s without a break. (I think I’m coming up on twenty years soon!) I don’t want to break that streak!

In order to keep things running — and the content flowing — I’ve been working to pre-load a lot of material. If things go as planned you should continue to see new daily content.

What will that content be? Some of it will be photographs that I made earlier — the work is new here, but less recent. Some comes from as recently as June, but some may be from earlier this year.

Because our travels will take me away from the usual Sierra Nevada and California sites, you won’t be seeing as much of “the usual” here. (Watch for new Sierra work in late summer and fall.) However, I’m hoping to share at least some new work from our travels, perhaps along with some stories about it. I can’t predict what that it be just yet, but keep watching! You may enjoy some surprises!

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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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Over a decade ago I photoshopped this fake image as part of a 2011 April Fool’s Day joke post at this website. Working from an iPhone snap, I flipped some digits on the then-crazy prices on the sign to make it look like the price was almost $10/gallon. I fooled quite a few people — more than I expected. Even more ironic, the photoshopped fake prices were picked up by right wing disinformation bloggers and turned into a fake news meme about California gas prices. (I found out when the media contacted me for interviews about it.)

Here we are, approaching April Fool’s Day 2022, and the price at this always-outrageously-priced gas station is now actually higher than the then-unbelievable price in my fake photograph! An online gas price tracker that I checked just listed $9.99/ gallon there!

Yes, gas prices are high. No, they are not that high, even in California. I would never buy gas at this price-gouging station. It usually has the highest price in the state, and this is the worst season for pricing there. I’d at least drive to Stovepipe Wells, where park concessionaire price controls make it $1 or $2 cheaper. Better yet, drive across the border to Nevada if your plans take you out that way. And tank up on your way into the park!

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G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.

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