Month: May 2012
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Edie’s Image of the Day: A Place in the Sun
Fen is another word for marsh or swamp, and The Fen in Yosemite is a place of incredible life and color. It can be found just north of the Happy Isles Nature Center. In this image, lady ferns emerge from horsetails in a bright spot of sunlight. Berry canes grow profusely in the back ground. …
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Showy Milkweed
Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) leaves, the habitat plant for monarch butterflies(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Our Heartfelt Sympathies
Our deepest sympathies go out to the young man’s family and friends who took his own life at Glacier Point last night. It saddens me deeply when a young person with their whole life ahead of them decides their problems are so bad they can’t go on.
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Edie’s Image of the Day: In velvet
Buck mule deer, antlers still covered in velvet. (Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Swallowtail Butterfly
One of over 550 species of swallowtail butterflies. This one is probably a tiger swallowtail butterfly. (Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Spicebush
Spicebush (calycanthus occidentalis) flower. Stems were used as arrow shafts.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Hanging Garden
Plants grow from a crack in Glacier Point Apron(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Expect Weird Weather for Memorial Day
If you’re heading up to the park this weekend bring some warm clothes and a rain jacket. It’s going to be cold and could get wet as cool air mass passes through Central California bringing unseasonably cool temperatures and a chance of thunderstorms with rain, hail, lightning and, as usual in the Sierra, maybe even…
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Edie’s Image of the Day: The Fen
A fen is a marsh or bog, a low area of land subject to seasonal flooding.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Half Dome Cables Up This Friday. Got your permit?
The cables will be in place for visitors wishing to climb Half Dome via the shoulder route starting this Friday, May 25th 2012. Permits are required to hike to the top of Half Dome for all visitors. Visitors are required to have a permit to ascend the Half Dome cables seven days per week. The…