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Ms. Jen
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Creator : Maker : Photographer : Writer : MSc, PAW, PPITA, FOA TA
Books: https://books2read.com/ap/RQe612/Jenifer-Hanen
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Sometimes when I have writer's block, I draw out a potential scene with the people as birds... from 2017 when I was working on A Quiver Full.

#birds #storyboard #drawing #writing
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.
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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#SilentSunday
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.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Might be Mars over Mt. Tom, it might also be a plane. Late twilight tonight in Bishop, Calif.

#Mars #PerhapsAPlane #MtTom #EasternSierras #California ##Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
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.
November 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#SilentSunday ##Photography
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.
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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View from this afternoon.

#Autumn #EasternSierras #SilentSunday #Photography
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.
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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##SilentSunday #Photography
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.
October 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The view right now at sunset looks lovely:
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.
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Yesterday's snowstorm.

Photo by Jenifer Hanen, October 14, 2025, Silver Lake Campground, June Lake, California.

#Snow #Autumn #JuneLake #EasternSierras #Mountains #California #Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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#SilentSunday
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.
October 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #Cooper
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.
October 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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New snow on the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains today, it was snowing in the high country as I drove away from Bishop, Calif. this afternoon.

#snow #October3rd #EasternSierras #California #Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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I am deeply happy that a random Amazon reviewer of my book, A Quiver Full, truly in a few sentences not only sums up my book, but also about 98% of my life. Thank you, Wendy!

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#AQuiverFull #Book #BookSky #HappyWriter
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."
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography
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.
September 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Or my favorite meme worthy headline of the week:
Newspaper headline reads, "Disappointed Chrtians say 'God is delaying the Rapture until the Epstein Files are released. Irony is not dead.
September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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After crying a lot today, I give you William Carlos Williams - The Act

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded.
They won't last, she said.
But they're so beautiful where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she said,
and cut them and gave them to me in my hand.
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.
September 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Autumnal Aspen Trees on the Bishop Pass trail above South Lake, Inyo County, California at 10,000 ft or so. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen on the upwards hike this afternoon.

#Autumn #Photography #SouthLake #California #AspenTrees #EasternSierras #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #ItIsSundaySomewhere
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.
September 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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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.
September 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#GarnetFire smoke creeping through the passes to the Eastern Sierras yesterday. AQI in Mammoth Lakes was in the 500s yesterday afternoon.

Photo taken in Bishop, Calif by me looking west. The sky actually looked like this.

#Photography #EasternSierras #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
September 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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#SilentSunday #Tonight #Photography #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
August 31, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #EasternSierras #PhotobyJeniferHanen
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.
August 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #EasternSierras #PhotobyJeniferHanen
Second photo of the smokey skies of August: One evening past full Moon rising over the trailer storage area. The sky is dusky red and purple with clouds and wildfire smoke. The partially risen Moon is large on the horizon and dark red. The foreground is dark with a few campground trailers in the fading light. Photo by Jenifer Hanen, taken on Aug 9, 2025.
August 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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#SilentSunday #Photography #EasternSierras #PhotobyJeniferHanen
Vivid sunset in wildfire season. Other places have the dog dogs of August, California has smokey skies of August. The Photo is 90% smoke filled sky in vivid, neon shades of orange and yellow as the sun is deep in the western sky, set behind the smoke obscured Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Small band of dark foreground is some cars and tents at the Campground. Photo by Jenifer Hanen on Aug 9, 2025.
August 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Small alpine lake nestled in amongst tall dark green pine trees and mountains. The reflection of the blue sky with puffy clouds can be seen on the lake. Photo taken by Jenifer Hanen.
August 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM