Yosemite National Park has many features and areas of great beauty. I will show you some photos of five of these areas: Mirror Lake, Bridal Veil Falls, El Capitan, Half Dome, and Yosemite Falls. Above is Mirror Lake. I had heard that Mirror Lake had dried up and was no longer a lake; even that they had changed its name (not to Mirror Meadow, I hope!). However, as these photos show, that is not true. It isn't really a lake, but a pond or wide place in a river; but that was always true. And in the fall it does dry up, but that was always true too. (These photos were taken in early June, 1999.) So, whoever you are who told me that, eat your words!

What can I say about Yosemite? Well, you could spend many, many days there without seeing it all. You would never grow tired of it, I'm sure. For one thing, it is always changing, from hour to hour, day to day, season to season.

Bridal Veil Falls

El Capitan

Yosemite Falls

This last photo and the one below were taken earlier in the spring, March I think, or early April, 1996.

Half Dome

I have just touched the surface of this glorious national park. Still to come: Glacier Point, the Tioga Pass Road, Tuoleme Meadows, the whole Wawona area, the Big Trees, and still more. Maybe I can get there in the fall.

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