Best of Yosemite Photos

The best photos from our May 2011 trip to Yosemite:

Ellwood Butterfly Preserve

Butterfly

Cold keeps Eucalyptus awake

all night.

Silent giants crowded in their own shadows, waiting for

lazy morn to wake up, for her

fingers of sunrays warm and hum of breeze low

to put them at last to

sleep,

where clouds

form islands afar, ocean befogs

the mountain and leaves scatter into butterflies, all

in a gust of dream.

Yawn-borne dreams of Spring swirl as Carmen

once did. How

the edge of her skirt loud with

red and yellow sheds such

muted allure

no one awake knows.

So they swirl through many a past

life and life to come in me.

Streams of worlds bloom and fade at the

flutter of their wings.

Here's a movie I put together of the experience. Enjoy!



And a couple of more beautiful videos from youtubers with better video equipment than I have :) . . .

The Eternal Battle Baby Ducks vs. The Wind

Goleta Beach / UCSB Campus