Ms. Jen

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Southbound US-395 highway flanked with sagebrush, to the right is the southern Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and above is large, dark summer thunder clouds with a small patch of blue skies. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on Saturday, July 18, 2026 near Olancha, California.
A young female deer drinking from the backside of a trout pond amidst aspen trees and tall green grass.The above is reflected in the pond though with some wind ripples. Photo taken on Sat. July 11, 2026 by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, at Silver Lake Resort, June Lake, California.
A backlit, filling most of the photo, Giant Sequoia tree rising majestically out of the surrounding forest of dogwood trees, sugar pines, and incense cedars. The Sequoia has a massive base and rises hundreds of feet up to touch the sky. Photo taken on Sun June 28, 2026 by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, while hiking the Calaveras South Grove at the California Big Trees State Park.
Big thunderclouds bearing rain creeping over a ridge of mountains with deep blue sky above and the tops of early summer green aspen trees below. Photo taken in June Lake, California by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, on Sat. June 13, 2026.
A photo of a multiple sracked lenticular cloud over Glass Mountain, Long Valley Caldera, California. The foreground is grass, the middle of the photos is of the storage area and store of Brown's Owens River campground, as well as the Glass Mountains. The top of the photo is a Sierra Wave elongated lenticular cloud that has about five layers of lens/wave shaped clouds and a blue sky behind it. Truly gorgeous. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on Sat. June 6, 2026.
A spectacular sunset in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, dark gray puff clouds covering about 50% of the sky with dark mountains in the background and in the middle is an amazing gold to orange red glow in the western sky. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, taken on Saturday May 23, 2026.
A beautiful, serene dark blue high mountain lake surrounded with pine trees now has the quivering joy of the beginning of Dog-Stick-Lake-Swim season! Yes, Ellie the Dog is on her annual spring tour of Eastern Sierras high mountain lakes as their roads are cleared, gates open, here comes Ellie to get that stick. Fishmas is for fisherfolk, this is Stickmas at Rock Creek Lake up at 9,000 ft. There was still snow on the north facing lake side. So exciting! Photo by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, taken on Friday May 8, 2026.
A photo of Silver Lake with the rocky and snowy bulk of Carson Peak behind the lake, as well as reflected in the lake. Spring pale green leaves of the willow and Aspen trees ring the lake. Horsetail Falls are in full spring water glory on the western flanks of Carson Peak. Lovely afternoon in June Lake, California on Thursday April 30, 2026. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, with her camera phone.
A snowy start to the Eastern Sierra Nevadas fishing season! View from the RV's back window this morning after it snowed last night. In the foreground is a wood picnic table with a dusting of snow on it, in the middle ground is tufts of short grass with clumps of wind blown snow on them, and in the background are snow covered Glass Mountains. The just after dawn sky is golden with grey clouds. Photo taken on April 26, 2026 by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, at Brown's Owens River campground in Mono County, California. Happy Fishmas! p.s. A wolf with a tracking collar was nearby last night. Awesome!
A photo of four mountain peaks, two in the front arecbig and imposing flanks with little snow and the two behind are tall and are covered with new snow. The sky is a gorgeous blue with four cute little puff clouds. The foreground is a long plain of sagebrush marching up to meet the mountains. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, on Aprul 23, 2026.
Travis the border collie lab mix is mostly an all black medium to large dog with white paws and a white muzzle. He is currently lying in his favorite spot next to the bamboo where he can spy any human, car, ground squirrel, pr heaven forfend, another dog pass by on the road. It is a tough job but Travis is diligent and alert between naps. Photo taken April 2026 by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com.
The head of a black dog watching another black dog roll around in and two horses eat grass in a spring green glade while two people talk in the background. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on Sat. April 11, 2026 in Bishop, CA.
Photo of a desert landscape with a large Palo Verde trees in full bloom with pale yellow flowers. Slightly cloudy sky and pinnacle peak in the far background. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on Saturday March 28, 2026 outside of Parker. AZ.
Moonshadow, the dark buckskin horse, has come over from next door to garden. Aka beautiful large black and beige horse is eating fresh spring grass in front of a yellow and white house. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, taken on Sat. April 4, 2026.
Twilight at the Moovalya Keys on the Colorado River. Dark water with an open lot, a one story house lit up by a lone street light. A few dark palm trees, a band of dark gold orange on the horizon with a sky with last light. The planet Venus is in the middle of the sky above the house. Photo taken on April 29, 2026 by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, in Cienega Springs, Arizona.
A desert road in the middle of the photo going up to the mountainous horizon with a spectacular sunset just behind the mountains. The sky just above the mountains is a bright gold moving into a orange before melding into the twilight blue sky. Scattered clouds are glowing apricot from the descending sun. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, taken on Fri March 27, 2026 on the Kennedy Meadows road.
Last night's late twilight leaving Adelanto turning on to the northbound US-395. The photo is mostly sky with a bit of road and a few palm trees. The sky is a dusky orange at the horizon with some whisky dark gray clouds. Middle of the sky is the New Moon and the sky goes to a dark blue at the top of the sky. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, taken on Sat. March 21, 2026.
Mandu the Cattle dog shows us his amazing kitchen door closing skills on command before dinner on St. Patrick's day. Video taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com. Cabinet door closing by Mandu.
The high Eastern Sierra Mountains with some snow still on the upper flanks in the dark as the sun sets behind the mountain range and layers of thin clouds scatter the setting sunlight. Photo taken between Independence and Big Pine, California, on the northbound US-395 by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on March 10, 2026.
Close up photo of a camellia flower, pale pink in the interior of the flower and a cream color at the exterior petals. Three dark green leaves framing with blurred out tree trunk and foliage in the background. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, taken on March 9, 2026 in San Marino, California with a camera phone.
A city scape at twilight with ten tall California palm trees in the fore and middle ground. The city part is many dots of light and the shy is a marvelous gradient of red orange at the horizon to a dark blue at the zenith. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, on March 7, 2026 in Irvine, California with a camera phone.
Local tiny horse, think as tall as a great dane dog but in horse shape and horse temperament, came up to the RV's door and stood on the steps until I fed him to small carrots. Jack comes over to eat the new March grass and beg for carrots. The photo is mostly Jack's cute brown white and black horse head filling up the photo plane. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, late February 2026 with her camera phone.
Looking west towards the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains from the middle of Dixon Lane with snow on the ground, winter bare trees and the tarmac of the street a little worse for the wear due to the snowplow. There are wispy low clouds obscuring the snow covered mountains and a patch of blue sky. Photo taken on Wed Feb 18, 2036 by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, with her camera phone in Bishop, California.
Thursday's snow storm over the top of the White mountains. Owens Valley floor full of sagebrush is in the foreground, blue sky with some floatly clouds over the valley. To the right extending into the background is the White Mountains with a floof of chaotic white clouds with with rays of snow falling down. It looks very dramatic. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, aka Ms. Jen, taken on Feb 12, 2026 north of Bishop, California.
Driving south on the US-395, a few miles before Topaz Lake, at twilight this evening. Light blue sky with fluffy gray clouds in the middle ground and bright pink, with the last sunlight, thin clouds hugging the tops of the snow covered Mt. Patterson and the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains the the far background. Photo taken on the Nevada side of the Stateline on Sun Feb 8, 2026 by Jenifer Hanen, aka msjen.com, with her camera phone.
A very small brown and black shaggy horse wearing a halter and lead is grazing on a few bits of green grass popping up after January's rain. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Feb 2, 2026 in Bishop, California.
A small coton de tulear dog sitting on a leopard print blanket. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on Jan 24, 2026 in Arizona.
Late dusk after sunset looking west towards a horizon that is morphing from dark gold to deep dark blue, the sky colors are reflecting is a black body of water in the foreground. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Jan 24, 2026 in Cienega Springs, Arizona.
Parti-colored cattle dog sniffing a human and avoiding looking at the camera.
Close-up camera phone photo of a finch sock with 5 small goldfinches picking out thistle seeds. Background is a wood fence. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken with her camera phone today Jan 21, 2026.
A close-up photo of a small juvenile hawk standing on an electrical outlet near a bird feeder. Wood fence in the background. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, on Jan 19, 2026.
A photo of a rustic metal water trough, of which was frozen over but a layer of liquid water is now over the ice and a dog ball is now sitting on the ice - except by optical illusion it appears the dog ball is floating on top of the water. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, Jan 2026, msjen.com.
I walked up a local hill amongst the sagebrush and found a small post-rain pond with a littered can of coca-cola rolling against the near shore. In the background to the right is the White Mountains covered in need snow and to the left a row of telephone poles marching into the distance. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, msjen.com, taken on Sat. Dec. 21, 2025 north of Bishop, California.
Photo of the century sagebrush brush high desert ecosystem in the foreground, winter nude trees and mountains in the middle ground, and the sky is spectacular with three rows of lenticular clouds and blue sky peeping out between the clouds. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on December 21, 2025 while on a walk in the sagebrush north of Bishop, Calif.
A photo of a frozen lake with a few pine trees on the right shore and a snowy, rocky mountain in the background along with a clear blue sky. The ice on the lake is interesting as part of it is clear ice and part is full of air bubbles obscuring what is underneath the ice. There are a number of pine cones and sticks on top of the ice. Photo by Jenifer Hanen taken at Intake Lake #2, Bishop Creek, Inyo County, California Dec. 2025.
Photo of an iced up lake with a lightly snowy mountain in the background. To the left is the concrete hydroelectric dam, to the right is a steel and concrete bridge to the intake control (not the technical term). In the middle is a line of frozen swimming buoys to keep folks away and an interesting shadows. Photo by Jenifer Hanen at Intake Lake #2, Bishop Creek, California taken on Dec. 9, 2025.
Late afternoon near sunset photo of the Dixon Lane - Meadow view big pasture that is a mixture of sagebrush and grass ecosystem in the foreground. Middle ground has a few trees, along with one big round tree that has the last of autumnal leaves. Background is dark mountains with a smattering of snow at the peaks. Said peaks are also swatted in clouds. Big late day blue sky with layers of different clouds. Photo by Jenifer Hanen on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 in Bishop, California.
A photo of a pencil and ink drawing of six storyboard panels in a stetchbook of people as birds in Regency era clothing and hats. Drawing and photo by Jenifer Hanen.
A boat makes big ripples in the Colorado River near Buckskin State Park. Bottom half of the photo is the dark blue green of the Colorado River with bushes in the right foreground and on the left middle ground is two large dark sandstone rocks and an RV park along the river. The top half of the photo is blue sky with a few whispy clouds. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on Nov 8 2025 in Parker, Arizona.
Big dark blue late twilight sky with a bright red dot that might be the Planet Mars and it might be a plane. Middle ground is backbiting black high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Foreground is short sagebrush and autumnal yellow grass lit by car headlights. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Nov. 4, 2025 in Bishop, Calif.
Gloriously yellow autumnal trees framing a black dog, aka Ellie, walking amongst the leaf litter with a few random tufts of green grass in a backyard. Photo by Jenifer Hanen in the last week of October 2025.
Close up of two white hibiscus flowers with scarlet red inner petals and big cream colored stamens or possibly inflorescences. In the larger hibiscus flower is a bee, all we see is bee butt sticking out as the bee sips away at nectar or gathers pollen. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen in Bishop, Calif. on October 25, 2025.
Photo of a lone backlit autumnal yellow cottonwood tree at the end of a lane of not fully yellow cottonwood trees along a water canal through the sagebrush north of Bidhop, California in the late afternoon. Photo by Jenifer Hanen taken on Oct 19, 2025.
Oct 2025 first snow scene at the Silver Lake Campground in June Lake, California. Foreground is a paved single lane road cleared of snow. The middle ground is a line of yellow autumnal aspen trees and occasional dark green pine tree with a white small motor home. And the background is the majestic Eastern High Sierra Nevada Mountains covered in a new layer of snow with a sunny sky. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
Screenshot of a Webcam view with a beach, a small over, ocean with small waves, and what appears to be an island in the distance.
Mountain campground scene in the snow. Foreground is a cement USFS picnic table and a brown metal bear box covered in a few inches of new snow. Middle ground is autumnal yellow aspen trees with a stand of dark green pine trees. The background is two rocky, craggy mountains. The whole scene is covered with new snow. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on Oct 14, 2025 at Silver Lake USFS Campground in June Lake, California.
This afternoon at Convict Lake: Autumnal bright golden aspen trees in the foreground and middle ground reflecting all of their golden glory into the varied teal azure blues of the Lake. Photo by Jenifer Hanen on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at Convict Lake, Mono County, California.
Walking up a lane with Cooper the mini Aussie, a black, white and brown dog. Yellow rabbit brush just past peak flower lines both sides of the lane. Big blue skies at the top of the photo. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
The top half of the image is big fluffy snow clouds dropping snow on the high mountains and rain in the Owens Valley. Middle ground is the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains with new snow. Foreground is low hills and a ranch fence with sagebrush. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken just south of Big Pine, CA on Oct 3, 2025.
A screenshot of an Amazon.com review from Wendy on Jenifer Hanen's book, "A Quiver Full". The text says, "Unique Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2025 Format: Kindle This is an unusual story, odd, but, in a good way. Fantastical. Humorous. Well written, unique story. But odd. I read it twice before leaving a review."
Most of the photo is low lying big puffy white clouds in a dark blue sky. Foreground is the Glass Mountains, a few buildings, and stubble late summer yellow grass and sagebrush. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen of the Glass Mountains, Long Valley Caldera, California, after the rain, late September 2025.
Newspaper headline reads, "Disappointed Chrtians say 'God is delaying the Rapture until the Epstein Files are released. Irony is not dead.
Yvonne, a red head with red lipstick and a red shirt on the left, and Jackie, with dark bobbed hair and red lipstick and a dark shirt, at a club somewhere in LA, sometime between 1999-2003.
Photo of a high mountain lake with singling framed by autumnal yellow aspen trees in the foreground and the background is the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains at the Bishop Pass. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
Sunset at the Owens River, looking west. The skyis mostly low lying patchy dark clouds with some blue sky peeking out, along with the last rays of the sun lighting up cloud tops with a golden flair. The land is autumnal yellow brown grasses and the river is reflecting all of the moody and bright sky colors back. Photo by Jenifer Hanen taken at Benton Crossing on Friday Sept 19, 2025. Just realized that today is not Sunday but I am going to post anyways.
A small dirt road path winding through the sagebrush while walking back to the Coleville KOA. The sage brush was mostly grey green with a few patches of cheerful rabbit brushes in flower. In the distance is a bowl of mountains and a clear blue sky with big fluffy clouds. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on Thursday Sept 11, 2025 on her walk in Coleville, California.
Dark foreground with road, middle ground is layers of wildfire smoke draping and obscuring the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Above is a red brown smoke cloudy sky with a fiery red sun. There are peeps of blue sky but the smoke is rolling through. Photo by Jenifer Hanen.
Late dusk sky in shades of violet and dusty pink with a Crescent nearly first quarter Moon high in the southern sky. Foreground is a darker chalk hill with the high Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in the farther background. Photo by Jenifer Hanen taken Aug 30, 2025.
The morning after the rain: Big blue sky with a few layers of puffy sky. Eastern high Sierra Nevada Mountains in dappled sunlight in the middle ground. A high ridge behind Mt Morrison and McGee Mountain may have snow on it. Foreground is the open grass of a mostly empty Brown's Owens River campground. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on August 24, 2025 just before 8am.