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A few days around Whitney Portal Rd in the Alabama hills is a nice start to any trip. Beautiful sunrises on the two highest mountains in the sierra as wells as rock formations like the face and cat.
Owens Lake affords wide open vistas of the local high Sierra. A picture of the dunes near Keeler and one of  the views afforded by the Cerro Gordo road.
The Owens Valley overlook from the ridge by Darwin provides a good panorama of the Sierra, unfortunately the morning sunrise was a bust because of clouds. (Sunrises are usually Alpenglow)
I stopped off and spent a few hours hiking out on the sand dunes near Stovepipe wells on a generally overcast day. I ended up spending two nights around Lone Pine, one near Darwin, seven near Rhyolite and two in the Panamint Valley. Around Rhyolite I climbed Sawtooth Peak and explored Chloride City and the Sarcobatus Flat (Titus Canyon was open when I got in the area but closed a few days latter because of two small storms that blew through dropping snow down to 5,800'). I drove down to the mouth of the canyon but it was gated off just as the upper approach was. In the Panamint Valley I went to the Wildrose charcoal kilns and Mahogany Flats for good view of Death Valley.
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