Snow Trees

Published March 20, 2009

I like these together as a triptych.  This was early morning  as seen from Tunnel View looking over Yosemite Valley.  When I saw this, I was reminded of John Muir’s writing:

“These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be . . . . the whole body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one’s flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable. One’s body then seems homogeneous throughout, sound as a crystal.”

– John Muir