“Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars.” — Bette Davis
“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.” — Stanislaw Lec
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” — Agnes de Mille
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” — Doug Larson
I was taught that when taking photographs, always look all around. Occasionally there is a great scene waiting to be captured, but it is behind the photographer.
That can also be somewhat true of hiking. When returning along the same trail, if it is not a loop, the scenes usually look different. It may be the lighting or the way the branches of a particular tree align with the background, but there is something along the twice trodden path that makes it different when viewed in the opposite direction.
We were leaving Hetch Hetchy as the sky was threatening and on the way out, across the lake, I noticed the scene above. There was something there I hadn’t noticed prior to the return trip. A house was beautifully positioned at the edge of the cliff; a lakefront view. It is nestled so nicely among the ledge and the trees that it blends well with the surroundings. (right-hand side about 1/5 of the way left of the margin)
I wouldn’t mind spending some time in there, but then again, who would?
Do you have a question about our visit to Yosemite? Ask it in the comment section.
See previous Year of Yosemite (YOY) posts HERE. If you want to read the introduction to the YOY series, CLICK HERE.
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“Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.” — Yiddish Proverb
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Stop talking the moment when you find that you are not being heard.” — Vikrant Parsai
“Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch.” — Dave James
Bears often find trees to use as scratching posts. Those who study bears will often place wire on trees they understand are popular with the bears to harvest the hair and analyze DNA for tracking information, etc. We don’t often get to see the bears enjoying themselves so much, but I think you will also enjoy this humorous video that is accompanied by a very fitting musical score.
From the YouTube Video Listing:
Published on Nov 11, 2016
Sometimes bears have an itch they just have to scratch! Episode two details below. The second episode of Planet Earth II focuses on mountains.
Please check local listings for specific information:
· UK, BBC1 13th Nov, Sunday, 8pm
· Nordics (BBC Earth channel), 13th Nov, Sunday, 8pmA BBC Studios Natural History Unit production, co-produced with BBC America, ZDF, Tencent and France Télévisions.
Subscribe to the BBC Earth YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c…
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This is a channel from BBC Worldwide who help fund new BBC programmes.
NOTE – Similar pictures have been labeled as Clarkia williamsonii, but I could not definitively identify this specific variety as such. Any clarification would be appreciated and this post would then be modified if appropriate.
You can read more about the Clarkia family of wildflowers at the link below:
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
California Native Plant Society
Do you have a question about our visit to Yosemite? Ask it in the comment section.
See previous Year of Yosemite (YOY) posts HERE. If you want to read the introduction to the YOY series, CLICK HERE.
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“Guests bring good luck with them.” — Turkish Proverb
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” — Marie Curie
“…Memory is a glorious grab bag of the past from which one can at leisure pluck bittersweet experiences of times gone by and relive them.” — Hal Boyle
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
“Have a Happy Thanksgiving”
Picture courtesy of http://happythanksgivingday.us/
Do you have a question about our visit to Yosemite? Ask it in the comment section.
See previous Year of Yosemite (YOY) posts HERE. If you want to read the introduction to the YOY series, CLICK HERE.
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** NOTE ** — STATUS QUOtes will be on hiatus for several days. We will resume with quotes and quips on November 28, 2016!
“You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.” — Larry Page
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” — Francis of Assisi
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.” — Henry David Thoreau
“If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.” — Ogden Nash
