On the way to Yosemite and our FIRST day!!!

Sept 24, 2013

Sorry I have not been able to post, no wifi in Yosemite !!  These are just a FEW of the 300 or so pictures that I took!  

Here is a beautiful lake, near Don Pedro Reservoir in California on our way to Yosemite!  

As you turn around in that area, you see a much different scene..

And a closeup of the Granite texture, which I find very pretty.

And our scene outside the camper as we stopped for lunch, So pretty!

More snippets of the wonderful scenery.

And FINALLY, we got to the YOSEMITE entrance!!

And one of the First neat things we saw was Tunnel Rock and Yes, we DID fit into it with our Truck and 5th wheel!

One of the Great Textures, that I seem to be drawn to.....  this is a Cedar tree.

And Bridal Veil Falls, although not much water is flowing now, due to the dry season they have had here.. this year......

Another Texture shot, as this was a stump with an opening in it....

And I am not sure if someone PAINTED this "Snoopy" on the wall or if it was just a lighter colored rock, but it was maybe 300 FEET off the ground!!!!!!!!

A closer shot of the Bridal Veil Falls....

LOVE the texture of the bark on this tree!

 We saw several deer in a meadow  and some of them decided to walk right across the road, not minding at all that they were holding up traffic!  I didn't mind EITHER!

And our FIRST view of El Capitan!!!! Amazing!!!

In the valley, there was a meadow with a stream running through, at the Swinging bridge (which no longer swings, BTW!  and some Sweet person placed these rocks in the shallow stream, to impress his Sweetheart!  Since our Anniversary was coming up SOON, I thought it was especially Sweet!!!!

This is the Breatheaking view looking PAST the 'heart rocks'.

And a Buck holding traffic as we made our way out of the park on this (our FIRST) day of visiting the park!!!

And as we left for the evening, a huge boulder, in a serene reflection.......

More for Tomorrow!!!!!
This place is just SO incredible!!!!

CHECK BACK, More to Come!!

Blue Lake to Miss Martha!

Sept 23, 2013

Left our campground at Blue Lake, and traveled down the road to Columbia, California at Marble Quarry and got to spend a bit of time with Martha Wilson - and she is as Sweet as ever!  I sure have missed her!  We were SO busy finding the great Thrift Stores around her and even found a bit of time to go out for a few meals at the local WONDERFUL restaurants!   We caught up on our lives since we last met and had some GREAT "Girl Time"!! Den stayed home (at our campground) and caught up on our laundry (I am ONE LUCKY GAL!!!!)

Sad thing is:  I TOTALLY forgot to take pix of us when we were together!!!!  Way too short of a visit, for sure!!!!! (ALSO: sorry to have missed seeing our Friends, Patty and Torben, missed them by one DAY!  BUMMER!  Hoping to see them soon.....

Said our Goodbyes to Martha and got as many hugs as we could, and we headed down the road on Sept 25, and saw some BEAUTIFUL Scenes of a small area of the Wine country!  Rolling hills, dotted with Vineyards and Wineries along the way down to Yellowstone area!  I can see where the "Plen Air" painters found  their inspiration...

We saw many, many fields of crops, nut trees, fruit trees, etc. along the way.

And this Mountain range just seems like the inspiration for a Painting...........

Below is a bit of the Sacramento skyline....

And more gently rolling hills and ranches along the way.

This is the "Butte Store", long since abandoned.....  No longer has a roof ......

We came across this sign at a bridge, which was built to cross the River,

Curiously, the Capstones all along the retaining wall, were capped with Precious rocks... Turquoise, Copper, Petrified wood, and a very sparkly green stone....

The Bridge over the waterway.

Petfified wood used as a capstone for the Retaining wall.....

A caprock that was half black granite, half turquoise rock...

This is the waterway and bridge to the right.....

Tonight we are at the Yellowstone KOA for 3 nights.....

Will be exploring Yosemite in the next two days! Can't WAIT!!!!!!

SO:  as I ALWAYS SAY:  STAY TUNED!!

It took me over 12 hours to post these pictures and get them on the blog, so it will probably a couple of days before I can post pix of our FAB Yosemite  Visit!!!!!  Our Dear Friend, Don Wilson, was our tour guide as he lives just a few hours away, and has been here MANY times! He knew the BEST places to go for prime photo opps!  

Down the 101 and over to a part of the Redwoods!

Sept 22, 2013

This was our sunset at Klamath Camper Corral last night!  BEAUTIFUL! 

And on down the 101 to see a few places along the coast - however, pretty foggy, so did not get many.....

Got into the redwoods and was AMAZED at these trees that we have been seeing for the FIRST TIME!

Another view of These FABULOUS  trees and some are over 8000 years old!

This was a GREAT root that someone has saved - sure wish it could have been ME!!!!!! LOL!

And this stump has been cleverly used to make a great piece of ART!

Denny and a HUGE downed TREE!

Moi with the same tree!

Another HUGE log!

Here we are, stopped along the road to do a bit of walking to see more GREAT trees!

A huge burl with lichen on it.

And this was a HUGE log with carvings on it...

Looks to be a deer or something..

Another log, with great Texture..

And at a gift shop, we saw "Sasquatch"... From another HUGE log.

One of the stumps we saw where you can drive through a tree....

Flowers at another gift shop, and they had the SWEETEST fragrance!

A carved Panther in front of the gift shop.

And on down the road, saw the mountains in the background !!

Got to our Campground at Blue Lake and what a VIEW!

Nice sites, very quiet but no wifi and TV, even though they were advertised!!!!!!

Heading to Marble Quarry at Columbia, California tomorrow to see Miss Martha !!  It will be  SO good to see her - it has been TOO long!

Stay tuned!!