[Uri’el-2012]

The backdrop for the luncheon will be Lincoln-esque as well - the painting "View of the Yosemite Valley" by Thomas Hill, borrowed from the New-York Historical Society.

The painting, which will hang behind Obama, is a landscape of Yosemite Valley at dawn - representing Lincoln's signing of the 1864 Yosemite Grant that set aside the land as a public reserve.

I think this is ironic with all the volcanic activity in Yosemite.

There may soon be a new view of the Yosemite valley

[clamper1797]

Actually ... the volcanic activity is in Yellowstone ...