This used to be a great place to sit quietly and listen to frogs, and wind. Now it’s bone dry, and there’s no glacier runoff, or even a glacier. All gone.
Dried Up Frog – Pond in The Range of Light | Yosemite, Headwaters of The Drought
Nature
Nature
Slave Cabins | Dogwood Trees | The Hermitage | Shame
Today, a day after the aniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s eloquent Gettysburg Address. Here’s an example of contradictions and duality.
A Quiet Afternoon in Anchor Bay
The road winds slowly north to Anchor Bay.
Cells say “No Service”. Redwoods and moss breathe
salty sea cooled mist as Inner oceans
grow calm and clear. This balance is ancient.
Sunset at Evelyn Lake
“High Plains Black Sea Coral”. Sunset at Evelyn Lake, Cathedral Range, Yosemite 10328 ft. My second pilgrimage in a month to this holy place.
Just Before the Storm
Leaving Evelyn Lake, Cathedral Range, Yosemite 10328 ft. Just before an afternoon thunderstorm.
High altitude parade in Puno, Peru
14, 225 ft where I stand, higher up there!
Puno is 12,565 ft above sea level
Proud, local Indigenous family in Puno
Another High Altitude adventure. A city wide parade / festival in the narrow side streets of Puno.
Erratics at First Light
No sunlight hitting the plain yet.
Just after the sun hit the plain.
Erratics and Lake Evelyn at first light.
Glacial Erratic Boulders at First Light, Cathedral Range, Yosemite 10328 ft.
Before First Light
Cathedral Range, Yosemite 10328 ft. Before Dawn
Last Light
Evelyn Lake, Yosemite 10328 ft
Pescadero Creek | one
A decade later some things look the same
while brambles’ insidious creeping weaves
new textures each year. Old pathways are gone.
So stand still, here. This is Pescadero.