Posted on 02/19/2017 1:41:16 AM PST by Daffynition
While winter in Yosemite National Park offers a spectacular opportunity to witness the national park's unparalleled beauty, there's one phenomenon in particular worth planning a trip around.
During the last two weeks of February, the angle of the setting sun transforms the 2,130-foot Horsetail Falls into what many have nicknamed "The Yosemite Firefall." The effect is so convincing that it almost appears as if lava is pouring out of the granite cliffside. For photographers, this spectacle is not to be missed, with many snatching up the best spots to catch the phenomenon as early as 5 a.m. each morning.
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One of the links in #16 has a neat vintage movie.
Sorry, don’t have time right now to find it exactly for you ... The weather is beautiful here.....following my own motto; *GET OUT AND STAY OUT*.
Have a wildly wonderful day, Fiji!
Not only at 5 AM, but 5 AM in the morning, just in case you didn't know when it is. ;-)
... and yet you continue to eat them because there is no such thing as a “bad” tamale. Not to my knowledge anyway!
I was born and raised here. I can’t think of a reason to leave. We have possibly the best weather. I can’t imagine trying to live without a car ... I come and go all day and night if I feel like it. I got my first car from my mom when I was 15 1/2. Jobs pay well here. Lots and lots of things to do in the city ... tomorrow is a Bonsai and High Tea at the famed Huntington Gardens. No, I usually do not talk politics with people.
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