After posting earlier this morning on the subject of the 100th anniversary of Muir Woods, an irony occurred to me. As the SFGate article in my earlier post reminded us, there had been a plan to construct a reservoir where the Muir Woods monument is today.
It was close to this same time early in the [...]
From an article in SFGate:
It is difficult to imagine a time when anyone would contemplate chopping down the magnificent redwoods in Muir Woods, let alone drowning the valley under hundreds of feet of water. Those scenarios were actually being contemplated 100 years ago, until one of the Bay Area’s first conservationists stepped forward.
U.S. Rep. William [...]
From an article in SFGate:
Yosemite National Park received a treasure out of its own past Friday when philanthropist Bill Lane presented the park with the original “Grand Register of Yo-Semite Valley” at a small ceremony at Stanford University.
The Grand Register was a fixture at the Cosmopolitan, a bath house and saloon in the early days [...]
A photo from today’s hike at Calero Park:
Autumn Hiker. Calero Hills, California. December 15, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
I see that photographs of a couple of places with meaning to me have been posted at The Little Red Tent blog.
A photograph of a long-dead Bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains and the accompanying commentary remind me of what a wonderful and mysterious place the White Mountain Bristlecone pine forest is. High (very [...]
Evan Esar. “Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.” [Quotes of the Day]
Seen in an article in SF Gate:
“The United States in particular is behaving like passengers in first class in a jumbo jet, thinking a catastrophe in economy class won’t affect them,” said Tony Juniper, a spokesman for the environmentalist coalition [at the Bali climate talks]. “If we go down, we go down together, and the [...]
Winter should be just around the corner - or at least what passes for winter here in coastal central California. It has recently gotten cold (I can hear the midwesterners laughing outloud, “You call that cold!?”) but we still haven’t seen much in the way of winter-type storms here. Oddly, we had a series of [...]
Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Whalers Cove. Pescadero, California. December 8, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
I had some business in Santa Cruz this weekend - more accurately, my wife had some business there - so I took the opportunity to spent a few hours driving up the coast on Highway 1.
Something Tells Me It Is Snowing At Tioga Pass…
From the current Tioga web cam image:
Could someone please ski up there and wipe the lens? :-)
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