The Cathedral Range within the Sierra Nevada is the source of many of the boulders in Yosemite Valley, deposited by a series of glaciations. This shot was taken from the top of Pothole Dome at the western end of Tuolumne Meadows.

A rare spot of vibrant color on the margin of a gloomy grove.

Cathedral Peak July 29, 2006.

On my peripatetic meanderings one morning in Tuolumne Meadows, I was invited by a group of camp employees to join them on their way to Tenaya Waterslides. This is one of the most beautiful areas in Yosemite, and very few folks know about it. Watching those young adults enjoying themselves in the boulder mills was a treat!

Here, Tenaya Creek flows over smooth granite on its way to Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley.

Yet another image salvaged from the Data Disaster of December, 2010. This was shot on the 4 Mile Trail in Yosemite National Park. Enjoy!

This image was created in July of 2008, during the Telegraph Fire.

Well, I’m back in the Ozarks of Missouri, having spent Christmas and New Year in New England. Work has begun on reorganizing my images, and I’m also spending time with my neighbor down the road. It’s taken a while to get used to the feel of the land here, but I’m ready to do a bit of exploring soon.

The Ozarks are not mountains as I know of, but more like a patch of wrinkled land. Hills and hollers, granite and limestone. Brilliant red clay is the mortar that holds it all together.

It’s good to hear that the Sierra finally got some snow, that Badger Pass has opened for business. Tioga Pass and Glacier Pt. Road have finally closed, which means winter has truly arrived. I wonder if folks are making book on when it will reopen.

Finally, I hope to be back to Yosemite in the 3rd week of February. This is only a visit, unfortunately. I will be back for good at the end of May, when Glacier Pt. reopens.

Flickr users can darken their images for 24 hours as a symbolic gesture to raise awareness of the dangers of SOPA/PIPA.

Google has blacked out their iconic graphic. Boingboing is “unavailable today”. Congress needs to know that censoring the web under the guise of preventing piracy is ill-advised and would cripple the legitimate flow of information on the world-wide web.

I am not a data pirate. I rarely use other people’s work on my website. I am a content creatrix, and I depend on sites like Google.com and BoingBoing.net to inform, educate and inspire my work. I depend on the ebb and flow of link-sharing, the good will of fellow bloggers to share my efforts with their readers.

In all probability, this site would not be affected by SOPA/PIPA. But far too many of the sites I depend on will be impacted.

Take a moment and head over to Google and sign their petition. take action!

I am currently in the small town of Uxbridge, MA, staying with my dear friend Susan. she has asked me to watch her dogs for her while she takes a trip out west to visit her brother and sister I law. While the weather is clear and sunny, it is bitter cold, with highs during today in the 20s, and tonight it will be in the single digit range, and with a wind chill in the negative.

I’ll be returning to Missouri after the 20th.