Merganser had to walk a bit...sorta like the rafts bottoming out!...saw all Three Fawns in Stoneman Meadow...third one popped up at last...three hops...then settled into the grasses again before I could get clip....missed Bear again over at Sugar Pine...but heard two loud reports from Ranger's noise maker...they try to condition them to stay away...I have a watercolor of Sugar Pine that corrects the parallax!...one of my favorite spots and tree....
Last couple days I've found small bits of pottery (crockery!...bits of dinner plates..and a soap dish!) in the Creek...thought today to go look for them with a purpose...and found a couple more...and this odd piece of machinery...I left it where it was....but likely when the Creek drys up pretty much someone will come along and snag it...found some other things!....a Fireman lost their camera by the Tiki Temple...they're clearing away things...mostly the Bear Clover...maybe for a proscribed burn in the future...will check by tomorrow to return it...found a Raven feather by the Stables...big enough for a quill pen!....
And in reading today I found these: Wawona is a Miwok word derived from the sound the Great Horned Owl makes...and the Owl was thought to be the protective totem of the Big Trees...the Deer House was built by the Army in 1912...and then remodeled extensively in 1928....it went through several floods...notably 1937 on December 11....and in 1955...like the '97 flood..after which it was boarded up and abandoned....these floods happened in late December or early January....what happens is a long warm Pineapple Express rain comes along after substantial snow...and melts everything...the old house routinely floods on the first floor...so much so that the residencies expected to move the furniture upstairs ...and escape in a boat!...Chief Tenaya's lodge was over by Camp 4...until the Army absconded with it...and the Creek was rip rapped in the 1920s....I've been reading the Three Volumes!...and picked up some of Shirley Sergeant's books!
Blue pleasantly warm day...
Oh...that's LodgePole Point at Creek's End the Mergansers turn at...
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