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Summertime: Yosemite National Park
On June 30, 1864, Abraham Lincoln signed legislation granting the Yosemite Valley to California “for public use, resort, and recreation.” Twenty six years later it officially became a National Park- inspiring the writings of naturalist, John Muir, the photography of Ansel Adams…and Yosemite Sam!
Kick your feet up- turn off the news-watch the video and sit a spell…
Visit Yosemite National Park HERE
DMac
June 30th, 2010
I am just south of Yosemite, and it truly is the most beautiful place in California.
You’d better enjoy it before the Chinese own it.
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jclady
June 30th, 2010
@illustr8r — thanks for providing such an enjoyable break!
Although I’ve never been to Yosemite, I have often dreamed of the type of life that Michael Adams lived during a more innocent time.
BigFurHat
June 30th, 2010
nice post.
Like a xanax.. which I need.
Papadoc
June 30th, 2010
Nice vid. Got a bunch of Adams’ books. A true master of his medium. The pursuit of perfection.
illustr8r
June 30th, 2010
I think I am living my elusive summer vacation vicariously through posts about the National Parks!
FreeManinPA
June 30th, 2010
Awesome place.
I have “Oak Tree” in my office at work and just love it. Besides sharing his last name I only wish I had a fraction of his talent.
FreeManinPA
June 30th, 2010
Oops – forgot the link
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Skorpion
June 30th, 2010
Been there several times (it’s about a four-hour drive from my perch on the edge of San Fransicko). Like the Grand Canyon, no combination of words or images can adequately prepare one for actually experiencing the place, and feeling humbled by it.
Stirrin the Pitcher
June 30th, 2010
A refreshing break from all the other daily garbage that seems to surround us. It reminds you of the very real need to escape and marvel at God’s beauty. Thanks for change of pace.
Berlet98
June 30th, 2010
Joe Biden and “Recovery Summer”
Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. may go down in history as the most quoted VP America has ever had.
Until now, Nixon’s disgraced Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew may be said to have held that title thanks to his inimitable alliteration such as his classic putdowns. They included “nattering nabobs of negativism,” “pusillanimous pussyfooters,” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”
Biden could never hope to match those and doesn’t seem to be much into alliteratiion anyway and his most recent classics aren’t fit for family viewing. Those include his remark to Obama after the passage of Obamacare that “this is a f***ing big deal” and his comment to a custard store manager that he was being “a smarta**” for asking him to cut taxes.
His latest excursion into memorable quotations may not even be Biden’s originally but it’s being associated with him. At least his reference to “recovery summer” is not rated PG 13 like the others. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1763)
Bigun
June 30th, 2010
It is pretty if you can put up with the congestion, traffic, idiot drivers, foreign drivers driving motorhomes, and not to mention the granola heads.
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Bill
July 1st, 2010
Bigun’s right, you should have visited the park before they put the travel restrictions in. I read a while ago that you have to park and take a bus in now, is that right?
You used to be able to drive through the park in your own car. It was a great ride and worth the trip.
Chris
July 1st, 2010
Yosemite’s beautiful and awe-inspiring, but for relative solitude and the same effect, I’ll take Sequoia NP any time.
Stay in the Buckeye Flats campground and take the trail to the river-looks like paradise.
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