Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Oak And Half Dome























Location of the Half Dome watercolor sketch is at the Black Oaks at the beginning of the Path that goes across Bobcat Meadow...the Art Activity Center classes (see second watercolor sketch!) has a new instructor come up once a week (classes were free, now a modest donation!), and for certain, at least once, each instructor's class will set up under these Oaks...on one side of the Path is Half Dome, and on the other Bobcat Meadow looking out towards the Elm, and the Cathedrals in the distance, Sentinel off to the left, and the Artist's Grove by Sentinel Parking Lot...photogs like the spot too, and tourists posing, sitting on a fallen Oak Branch with Half Dome in the background...the watercolor of the Activity Center I did sitting on the deck at the Grill and Sport Shop...hopefully my fondness for that location is in the sketch, a favorite!...sunny blue hereabout, warm...it's described in one of the newer geology books, and if one studies the views of Clouds Rest, and Half Dome, one can see it...they're scalloped, just like the sandy bottom of rivers and seas are scalloped by the movement of water, so the Glaciers made this scalloping on the Valley Domes and Walls...maybe I can find this on web...brb...well, I tried to snag the pdf text, and have forgotten how to do that, which I think I always do, and end up transcribing!...but this should do:

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Geologic history of the Yosemite valley

https://books.google.com/books?id=elVYAAAAMAAJ
François Matthes - 1930 - ‎Geology
... Mount Watkins, whose southeast side was gouged into by the Tenaya Glacier, and by the shallow glacial cirques that scallop the great cliff front of Clouds Rest ...

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