Showing posts with label yosemite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yosemite. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Friday, March 27, 2009

Happy Yosemite Valley Discovery Day! (Not you Indians)


Today in 1851, explorer Lafeyette Bunnell and other members of the Mariposa Battalion became the non-indiginious discoverers of Yosemite Valley.
Which begs the question, "Do the French really name their Battalions after butterflies?"
Please to enjoy one of my many Walkabout 2007 pictures of the Valley.
CORRECTION: Bunnell was an American. But the question is still funny. So I kept it in.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

I Could Photog for Wiki

While planning my Walkabout 2008 I began reminissing about Walkabout 2007 and headed over to Wiki to read up on Yosemite. It was there that I saw this:





which reminded of this picture I took.

Vanabout 2019 Day 28: Aberdeen

Still South Dakota. Found a cute campground that most of the year is a hopping family holiday retreat. But it’s cold and snowy and latish Oc...