There was still snow in the higher parts of the park where we were and snow melt was running off everywhere. It even broke through the roadway in one place, coming up as a spring through the asphalt and running off into a canyon that was filled with the roar of a whitewater stream.
The yucca is in bloom and its white blossoms are visible all the way down. I read that there are 130-some curves and 10 or 13 hairpins in this stretch of road. I think that they may have missed a few...
The road actually passes between Sequoias - one lane between these two and the other between another set.
Third largest tree, nation's Christmas tree, 29' in diameter and 267' tall. Big-ass sumbitch! There are a couple people at the bottom of the picture, for scale.
It's difficult to keep the scale of these trees in my head less than a week after seeing them.
The guy in the background is more than 6' tall. I believe that this is the Lincoln Tree, which is reported to be 22' in diameter at breast height.
I love the contrast between the still pool and the waves, the rocks and the flowers, the now and the long gone...
Loved the different colors, shapes petals of the roses. Everything from climbing roses with a single set of petals to complicated blooms like this one.
There are places on the highways north of San Francisco where the road is a single lane because the other lane has fallen away from the hillside. It makes for a more interesting drive...
The fog didn't, as Sandburg said, come on little cat feet. It lay there, swirling, dripping, undulating, hiding and disclosing, and then later faded away.
This church is in downtown Tucson.
