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Winter Wetlands

            Winter Wetlands. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Flooded winter wetlands with broken-down tules .

Places like this fascinate me. The location is in California’s Great Central Valley, a 400+ mile long area that runs up and down the state, separating the coastal mountain ranges from the Sierra Nevada. Most people are probably familiar with it from driving through it or across it on their way to some other place. It is largely agricultural, though these days a number of population centers are expanding rapidly and increasingly urbanizing parts of the valley. Bottom line? It is hardly a place that most people would regard as a scenic attraction.

I get it. And most of my visits are more of the “passing through” than the “going there” sort — except in winter when I do make it my destination. Winter provides a relief from the generally hot and dry climate there during most of the year, and when rain falls there are many very wet areas, especially where rivers meet and were old marshes once existed. The soft light and the expansive sky can be a relief from the urban experience. Here, wetland ponds are full from recently rains, and interesting tule islands stand where someone has chopped town the vegetation.

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.

Taken on: January 17, 2022

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