HUMAN KIND AND NATURE
Take 2
There is chilling new information since yesterday's post about the great white shark taking a bite out of kayak just off Cambria's Moonstone Beach. The Cambrian and San Luis Obispo Tribune reporter Kathe Tanner has details.
IF YOU LIKE THESE
YOU CAN SEE IT LIVE
Magnificent Yosemite
You may recall previous blogs where in I profess my passionate love for the majesty of Yosemite National Park,
one of the wonders of the world. If you would like to see the park from your screen, you can visit live.
You have your choice of six cameras.
See you down the trail.
I remember the first time I saw Yosemite when I was ten years old. Like the Native Americans who called this valley home, I also believed that if there was a Great Spirit, this is where he would live. I was in Yellowstone the year before last, and I still thought the same thing.
ReplyDeleteWhen my girls were little we spent a weekend on our sailboat anchored in Orleans Harbor on Cape Cod. On Saturday morning my daughter Stephanie and I were up early and she was swinging around the forestay. I was drinking coffee in the cockpit. I noticed a big Blue Shark swimming along the boat. I told Steph to come back to the cockpit without scaring her. That night we rowed our dinghy to the Orleans dock, had dinner and went to a movie. When we headed back to the boat, it was windy and rough. All I could think about while I rowed the dinghy the half mile back to the boat was, if we capsize that big blue is going to eat one of us. Our crummy old O'Day 22 never looked so good.
ReplyDeleteThOse are SOME mountains. Are they yours? =w=
ReplyDeleteThese are part of the Sierra range in Yosemite. Those are my photographs, yes.
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DeleteOutstanding! On BOTH parts. Thnx.
DeleteWhen do you have time to go all these places? --w--
I am disturbed, maybe in general, but particularly about the subtext of "See it live on your computer." To keep it merely in the electronic context, it's a little like watching a "wide-screen" movie, or even I-Max, on a cellphone. But that's only part of it. Remember the "Where's the beef?" commercial? Where's the sound? Where's the smell? Where's the spray? Where's everything together, along with the breeze in the pine-tops and on your face, etc.? What would John Muir say? (I know, 'John who'?) Jeezuz, is the next step virtual-virtual reality? There IS no reality in virtual reality. Try taking virtual reality up to home plate with you facing CC Sabathia.
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Sorry, it must be the non-virtual pollen in the air.
I understand your pain!!! I heard a TV News Anchor last night say something like-"Now you don't even have to leave home to see Yosemite..." I about jumped out of the chair. Lana and I both thought, how stupid. No, nothing is like being there...but when you get a jones to be there and don't have the three or 4 hours to make the drive, it still might be fun to take a peek.
DeleteTom, as it so happens, I'm going over there the first week in June. As I'd worked for the Mariposa School District for more than two decades, I got to see the beauty up close and personal, as they say, for all four seasons. To say I'm not anxious to return is an understatement. Thanks for the pictures (and adding to the anticipation). Ah, shades of that Carol King song.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine how you are fired up to get back over there. That area is very special. There is nothing quite like it.
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