Yosemite National Park

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Yosemite National Park is a world-reknowned destination for rock climbers, hikers, outdoor enthusiasts, campers, vacationers, and photographers from all over.  Its natural splendor is unsurpassed, and its beauty has captured the minds and imaginations of all who have visited.  John Muir once wrote, "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."  Our country's third oldest national park is just such a place; Yosemite helps to fulfill that need in me, and our annual sojourn to the valley is a much anticipated event.  It is the only reason I can think of for wishing that the years would go by faster!  

This page contains thumbnail images of some of my Yosemite photos.

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" Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. Nowhere will you find more company of a soothing peace-be- still kind. Your animal fellow-beings, so seldom regarded in civilization, and every rock-brow and mountain, stream, and lake, and every plant soon come to be regarded as brothers; even one learns to like the storms and clouds and tireless winds. This one noble park is big enough and rich enough for a whole life of study and aesthetic enjoyment. It is good for everybody, no matter how benumbed with care, encrusted with a mail of business habits like a tree with bark. None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree."
John Muir