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Wawona. A vast assemblage of pines none finer in Sierra Cross Big Creek has Fish camp. Fine pictures of Yosemite at Hill’s studio. Fine mountain water living water Aug. 1. Glorious ride to Yosemite. Aug. 2. Start from Yosemite. Azalia just going out of bloom. Bahiu and Soledago coming in, Garraya in fruit at Nevada falls ______ in glory, Silver plums in perfection- Wildcat fall in glorious foam. Moderate strength of falls Vernal falls very beautiful. Ferns all gone by grubbery and grabbing. Waiting, watching reverent attitude of onlooking trees at head of Vernal falls. Pleasant company. Soil where sloping and friable not yet planted, penstemon Castelleia, lovely emerald meadows, Juniper on Clouds Rest tale, Large pink mimulus abundant and showy on Clouds Rest ridges on toward Cathedral peak, Grand mountain pines. Byranthus out of flower until 9000 feet in glory at Cathedral Lake fringing bald rocks in seams, and decking covering bowlders in sod- Small dodecatheons decking daintily pool sides next the water Blue and purple penstemons small at Cathedral meadows and lake the sod much diversified by small cloudlike patches of gnaphalium very tall in moraine drie meadows the wet ones fine emerald, touched with yellow buttercups and potentella and soledago, the last now in flower at 8000 feet. Panicled grass and sedges among rocks and dry meadows. Dwarf sod of huckleberry not yet in flowers polygomene in flower Ledum in flower White low elder berry at Cathedral lake Two species of willow heads of
Date Original
1895
Source
Original journal dimensions: 10.5 x 17.5 cm.
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MuirReel28Journal09P02-03.tif
Publisher
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
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Keywords
John Muir, journals, drawings, writings, travel, journaling, naturalist
