Robert Rounkle – My beloved Yosemite National Park
4 September 2013
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Juan Manuel Grijalvo
This Must Be a Photoshop.
Is it?
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Robert Rounkle
Nope. It is my beloved Yosemite National Park, where I worked as kid. […]
Colin Davey – Horsetail Falls, Yosemite
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‘Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks,
and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day
will shine upon the keyhole.’
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For a few days in February, the Sun’s angle is such
that it lights up Horesetail Falls, Yosemite, like fire.
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Why does it not surprise me that nature
is better at ‘interpreting’ Tolkien’s work
(The Hobbit particularly
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B – Robert Rounkle – John Muir – Yosemite
JOHN MUIR (1838-1914)
Another great Scottish American.
Born in 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland.
Immigrated to the United States
with his family at age 11.
They settled in Portage, Wisconsin…
not far from the Boyd family farm.
He is considered the ‘father’
of America’s National Parks. […]