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My Yosemite adventure… part 13… no words, just pictures…

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Sunset over San Francisco… smoke, clouds and fog…

I decided to give you a break from all those Yosemite pictures to post a few photos I took one night on my recent visit to my mom for her 95th birthday. I drove up to one of my favorite … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 12… in which I try, one more time, to explain how really huge those granite formations really are…

I used the telephoto lens to zoom in on a rock that was hanging over the edge of a cliff near Half Dome. That rock is probably the size of a small house. Or maybe even a big house. That’s … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 11… sunrise…

  This is why I tend to get up super early on my adventures… I got to watch the sun come up over Yosemite. I took this first series of photos after driving partway back out of the park. (The … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 10… yes, they have a big, fancy hotel there, because rich people need to see nature too…

I know, it sounds crazy. The same rich people who want to dump coal sluicing waste directly into streams and cut down all the forests to build towers still want to see a tree now and then. I mean, they … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 9… Bridalveil Falls…

Another series of photos to highlight how being in Yosemite right after the wildfires had closed the park, and therefore made it virtually free of pesky humanity, allowed me, over two days, to take pictures of interesting things from an … Continue reading

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My Yosemite adventure… part 8… El Capitan…

I know, this is just going to be photos of one of the famous granite formations in Yosemite. I am doing this for a reason. Because the park had been closed due to all the wildfires burning in California, and … Continue reading

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For the birds… part 3… the final chapter…

Okay, these are the last of the photos of birds that I took, sitting in one spot, over a ten-day-period, in my mom’s back yard, when I drove up to the Bay Area to visit her for her 95th birthday. … Continue reading

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For the birds… part 2… with no words about the birds, because I put the words with the birds in the first post…

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For the birds… part 1…

My mom is a bird watcher. While I was visiting her for her 95th birthday, we spent some quality time together watching the birds in her garden. That is a Hummingbird. It turned into a game, to see how many … Continue reading

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