"More Big Stone"

When our son Doug was two we took him camping in Yosemite Valley. He loved throwing small stones into lakes, steams and puddles. His vocabulary was still limited and Ron and I were amazed when he looked at El Capitan in Yosemite Valley and pointed and said, "More Big Stone." That's not a bad description of Yosemite. Here's naturalist John Muir's description of Yosemite: "But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life... as if into this one mountain Nature had gathered her choicest treasures." - Nancy

El Capitan on the left - "More Big Stone"

One Last View When Leaving the Valley

"No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light..." - See more at: http://www.seeyosemite.com/john-muir-quotes.html#sthash.SMVtW3FD.dpuf

"No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light..." - See more at: http://www.seeyosemite.com/john-muir-quotes.html#sthash.ALwsEZrK.dpuf

"No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light..." - See more at: http://www.seeyosemite.com/john-muir-quotes.html#sthash.ALwsEZrK.dpuf

"No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light..." - See more at: http://www.seeyosemite.com/john-muir-quotes.html#sthash.ALwsEZrK.dpuf