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Death Valley Dreamlapse

I am miserably sick today, thanks to the mountain cedar tree’s inability to fertilize without releasing something like 47 pounds of lung-choking immunostimulatory genetic material per tree. I mean look at these evil bastards:

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Really? Is the mating efficiency of this species so low that we need to emit pollen by the dump-truck load? Evolution, we need to talk. We can do better than this.

Anyway, in my histamine-induced mucosal brain haze, this is just the kind of peaceful mind escape that I need. It’s this, or take a power drill to my sinus cavities.

Enjoy this time-lapse of the 2012 Geminid meteor shower peak as seen last December, captured from starkly beautiful Death Valley by Sunchaser Pictures.

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