Highway 395 on the eastern side of California is an endless road of paint-able images. On one side you the steeper side of the Sierra Nevada range that peaks out at 15,000 + feet near Whitney with flat green and brown hills below.
Summer is short in these dry and tougher areas. In the past, some hardy folks have build houses in the Owen Valley Corridor that have been abandoned for years that make for great paintings. Here is a painting of an abandoned house near Mono Lake.
Tree House Studio 