Month: May 2017

Half Dome from the Meadow 1/3 – Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 295

Jeff

Half Dome from the Meadow

Half Dome as seen from the nearby meadow.

It seemed as though Half Dome was following us wherever we hiked in and around Yosemite Valley. As reported in a number of posts in this series, it had rained a number of days prior to our arrival and there was a decent amount of snow melt. Because of those two factors, puddles remained in the meadow near our lodging and I was able to take several photographs of Half Dome with puddle reflections.

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170509

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“We all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.” — Unknown

“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.” — Edward Gibbon

“We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.” — Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“You can’t lose a homing pigeon; if your homing pigeon doesn’t come back, then what you’ve lost is a pigeon.” — Sara Pascoe

 

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Merced River – Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 294

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Merced River meanders

The Merced River in the Vicinity of El Capitan

As you might have gathered from my previous posts about Yosemite, the Merced River meanders throughout the valley and this too will cross your path a number of times if you do much hiking in and around the Valley.

We were delighted that the river was flowing well and there were both rapids and more placid expanses to reveal the full character of the Merced.

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170505

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

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“Don’t hate, it’s too big a burden to bear.” — Martin Luther King

“This isn’t just ‘another day, another dollar.’ It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” — Victoria Moran

“If you’re going to make every game a matter of life or death, you’re going to have a lot of problems…for one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.” — Dean Smith

“I’ve got my faults, but living in the past isn’t one of them; there’s no future in it.” — Sparky Anderson

 

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El Capitan’s Eastern Exposure – Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 293

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El Capitan's eastern exposure

A view of El Capitan’s eastern exposure

To end this series of different views of El Capitan, many of which are similar to previous photographs, in the picture above, I am providing a view of El Capitan’s eastern exposure taken from the nearby meadow.

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170504

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.” — Zen Proverb

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” — Ralph K. Sockman

“For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?” — Stanislaw Lec

 

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El Capitan Midline – Year of Yosemite (YOY) – Day 292

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Midline view of El Capitan

Midline view of El Capitan

The previous two photographs show El Capitan with the sun coming strongly from the west and blocking details and a photograph taken during the early evening hours from the west.

The photograph above presents El Capitan from a midline perspective somewhere between the east and west side. The “nose” ridge is almost straight ahead. I was standing in the nearby meadow when this photo was snapped.

In this view you can note the color variations, ridges and other geographic formations.

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170503

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Be sincere, be brief, be seated.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The things that made you weird as a kid make you great today.” — James Victore

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” — John Steinbeck

“I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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