Looking across the Merced River towards the southeast from Valley View on a beautiful summer day in Yosemite after recent rains had recharged the waterfalls and streams.
Even in the midst of prolonged drought, if you go early enough in the year, you can see Yosemite as it should be, where the summer gold and granite glare is replaced by lush greens everywhere, with water in all the falls. Here's hoping that this year's El Niño brings the park and all of California some much-need relief.
The blue skies, green trees, and gray granite of a midsummer meadow in Yosemite Valley, looking southwest towards Cathedral Rocks.
