Dear Friends
I greet you from Yosemite
John Muir’s Yosemite Valley cabin… had a stream running through it. John Muir, America’s most famous naturalist and conservationist lived, worked, and played in the Yosemite that he loved. The photographs that my iPod took show the location of his cabin and the plaque mounted on a granite rock in his honor.
Muir, wrote, “I boarded with Mr. Hutchings’ family, but occupied a cabin that I built for myself near the Hutchings’ winter home. This cabin, I think, was the handsomest building in the Valley, and the most useful and convenient for a mountaineer. From the Yosemite Creek, near where it first gathers its beaten waters at the foot of the fall, I dug a small ditch and brought a stream into the cabin, entering at one end and flowing out the other with just current enough to allow it to sing and warble in low, sweet tones, delightful at night while I lay in bed.
The floor was made of rough slabs, nicely joined and embedded in the ground. In the spring the common pteris ferns pushed up between the joints of the slabs, two of which, growing slender like climbing ferns on account of the subdued light, I trained on threads up the sides and over my window in front of my writing desk, in an ornamental arch. Dainty little tree frogs occasionally climbed the ferns and made fine music in the night, and common frogs came in with the stream and helped to sing with the Hylas and the warbling, tinkling water.
My bed was suspended from the rafters and lined with libocedrus plumes, altogether forming a delightful home in the glorious Valley at a cost of only three or four dollars, and I was loath to leave it.” John Muir’s Yosemite Valley cabin… had a stream running through it. When you come to Yosemite, visit this beautiful spot where one can see both the upper and lower Yosemite Falls. You will see for yourself….why Muir built his home at this spot. Stay with Scenic Wonders when you visit Yosemite. Our vacation homes and condominiums are handsome and convenient for the Yosemite traveller.
Another terrific day in Yosemtie
Bye for now, Laura
photos taken by my iPod
pics..hi ardi
yosemite falls
plaque
bye for now,
Laura
