yosemite sam

i cannot tell you how many times i said out loud to myself, today and yesterday

"holy shit, what is this place?"

 to catch you up..

i left san francisco tuesday early afternoon for a quick and brief layover at scribe winery in sonoma, ca

 http://scribewinery.com/

(check it out and buy their wines)

i got a glorious private tour and free reign of the premises to photo explore

i spent my morning trampling through a vineyard and searching for the apiary and stopping to smell the peonies

i relunctantly left and begin a 5 hour drive towards my final destination, yosemite

but not before having a divine lunch on the side of the road in napa

5 hours on California route 99 and 41

i stumbled into the sierra foothills

and the mouth of south yosemite

i drove into wawona to the historic wawona hotel

where i sat on the porched and sipped a california white wine cocktail

and dreamed big day dreams of the valley and el captain and half dome

and my following days of adventure

i spent the night at a very comfortable and quaint b n b called the hounds tooth inn in oakhurst

and woke up this morning around 7 am to trek into the park

i made it all the way to glacier point

for a short hike and photo opportunity

can you believe that they used to let you walk out into the edge of this cliff?

let the wet plate process begin..