Hoping to find some real spring weather in California, we left Oregon for a week of adventures down south. This was our second visit to Yosemite; our first was during late November a year and a half ago. Yosemite National Park is impressive partly because of its size. Many of the natural features are of majestic dimensions in the park, from the numerous waterfalls to the granite precipices that form the walls of Yosemite Valley to the ancient giant sequoias in the park’s three groves. It seems that everyone should leave impressed by these larger monuments of geologic forces and biological wonder.
The wonderful thing about nature in general is that beauty is present from the largest monuments of natural forces down to the smallest scales visible to the human eye. Yosemite most impressively illustrates this principle. Stately Pacific dogwoods and conifers are juxtaposed with both immense grey granite cliffs and soft blankets of small mosses and lichens on rocks. There are cloud patterns in the sky, tree patterns on mountainsides, and rich patterns of bark ridges and valleys on the trunk of a single pine tree. From big to small, Yosemite is a treasure.
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