May 26--Crash-Barrier Waltzer
May. 26th, 2021 05:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zyzylyWe are home after our little trip to Yosemite. Our next adventure is a trip to Costco later this morning. I'm looking forward to it. I' be sure to post pictures.
After seeing a photograph that someone else made of a sunrise over Yosemite Valley, I decided I would try and get something similar. I got up at 4:15 and drove the hour or so up to the Tunnel View, where I could see most of the valley.
I was not alone. I arrived there at about 5:45, and there were lots and lots of people with the same idea. I managed to wedge myself into a spot and waited. It wasn't super cold, and I had a thermos of coffee, so I was all set.
The sunrise, when it arrived at about 06:20, was much less spectacular than I had hoped for. The low smoke pretty much obscured everything, and the lack of clouds didn't help. That's ok. I learned something from this, and will be back next year, a week earlier, when the sun should be rising right over Half Dome.
When we were walking around in Mariposa the other day, we stopped into a little shop that sold all sorts of blank journals. I found one I liked, and decided it would be the journal where I write down what is going on at different points in the year, so I can remember to go out and take pictures of whatever it is. Sunrise over Half Dome in mid May is my first entry.
I drove down and made a loop around the valley before I headed back to Mariposa. The fires are still smoldering, and there was a crew setting up to do some more burning. I took some pictures, then headed back to have breakfast before we headed for home.
After seeing a photograph that someone else made of a sunrise over Yosemite Valley, I decided I would try and get something similar. I got up at 4:15 and drove the hour or so up to the Tunnel View, where I could see most of the valley.
I was not alone. I arrived there at about 5:45, and there were lots and lots of people with the same idea. I managed to wedge myself into a spot and waited. It wasn't super cold, and I had a thermos of coffee, so I was all set.
The sunrise, when it arrived at about 06:20, was much less spectacular than I had hoped for. The low smoke pretty much obscured everything, and the lack of clouds didn't help. That's ok. I learned something from this, and will be back next year, a week earlier, when the sun should be rising right over Half Dome.
When we were walking around in Mariposa the other day, we stopped into a little shop that sold all sorts of blank journals. I found one I liked, and decided it would be the journal where I write down what is going on at different points in the year, so I can remember to go out and take pictures of whatever it is. Sunrise over Half Dome in mid May is my first entry.
I drove down and made a loop around the valley before I headed back to Mariposa. The fires are still smoldering, and there was a crew setting up to do some more burning. I took some pictures, then headed back to have breakfast before we headed for home.
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