Dusty Lake Basin Panorama

This landscape just cries out for panoramas - it's so wide and open. This is the environment that my last set of photos were all taken in. It's shrub steppe. Quite dry, but not desert. Very hot in the summer, cold in winter. It can only support trees where there is a year round water source - a spring or pond. Most of the more visible vegetation is comprised of grasses and sage brush, but in the spring when there is a bit more water, many types of flowers can be found. Beetles and spiders are common and birds can be found where water is available.

lots more scenery on my flickr account - https://flic.kr/ps/MMu5N