Preview
Transcription
Intensely white & glowing snow fell last night storm cld [cloud] breaking always intensely luminous. Flower in full bloom Washington lily more purple than [north] Pyrola Speraea [ Brodiasa]
Huckleberries ripe. raspberries, blackberries
Apples grow well here also pears, so I am told.
July 13 Shasta glorious in clouds & sunfire – a white crown of filmy satin [fibrous] texture bent down on the summit with delicate touch & adjustment. all the rest of the mtn [mountain] with its massive sculpture fully revealed & standing out in the glowing floods of clear sunshine. All the colors washed in the frequent rains. As the day advanced clouds began to grow on either
side of the [cone] 1000 ft below the summit [then] with up swelling piles of pearly gray on the [outer] ends & creeping [points] & [fringes] at length [found] a ruff or collar separating a large mass of the summit with its glowing glistery snows from the road [forested] [base]. ever changing in bewildering [tones] & forms. Heavy shower in afternoon then clear & glorious sunset with magical changes of light & shade & wafting of fragrance from the piney woods The summit clear with fringes immensely high looming castles in the air but substantial as rock & ice & snow can make them.
Date Original
1888
Source
Original journal dimensions: 8.5 x 14.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
MuirReel27Journal05P28-29.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Rights Management
To view additional information on copyright and related rights of this item, such as to purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
