Two Fawns

Woke up too late for Breakfast...grabbed a left over chocolate croissant, and gator aid, and Shuttled over to the Post Office....poster print of Owl came...but too dark....talkabout with returning High Camp friend took up walkabout time, so Shuttled back to the Cabin and to work...did see Chicaree out back....sunny warm blue....came across one Fawn on the way to the Lunch Sit Log...asked tourists on the Rooms' balcony where the second was...'thataway'..the way I'd just came...took just clip of the one Fawn, and sat awhile at the Log...Bluejays were scolding Owl somewhere off in the Woods...didn't pursue...clip had used time...car alarm kept going off, marring an otherwise pleasant lunch...picked up, and turned around to see Mama Doe, now with Two Fawns...clips...and car alarm went off again!...the Cabin's next to the parking lots, and the alarms are always going off day and night...anyway...report of Owl over by the A. Rooms...and I found some good John Burroughs quotes...been reading 'The Art of Seeing Things' 'Essays by John Burroughs' Edited by Charlotte Zoe Walker....lemessee if passages are online..brb...well...I found it in the middle of an eclectic blog worth a looksee in itself!...but here's the one of the quotes I liked:

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A man must invest himself near at hand and in common things, and be content with a steady and moderate return, if he would know the blessedness of a cheerful heart and the sweetness of a walk over the round earth. This is a lesson the American has yet to learn, — capability of amusement on a low key. He expects rapid and extraordinary returns. He would make the very elemental laws pay usury. He has nothing to invest in a walk; it is too slow, too cheap. We crave the astonishing, the exciting, the far away, and do not know the highways of the gods when we see them, — always a sign of the decay of the faith and simplicity of man.

John Burroughs, The Exhilaration of the Road

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link to the blog it's posted up in:

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http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Highways of the Gods
John Burroughs, The Exhilaration of the Road:

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here's the other passage I liked:

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Indeed, a race that neglects or despises this primitive gift, that fears the touch of the soil, that has no footpaths, no community of ownership in the land which they imply, that warns off the walker as a trespasser, that knows no way but the highway, the carriage-way, that forgets the stile, the foot-bridge, that even ignores the rights of the pedestrian in the public road, providing no escape for him but in the ditch or up the bank, is in a fair way to far more serious degeneracy.

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the first was for 'near at hand and the commonest things', and the second for 'no community of ownership'

I can take to a phrase like Owl preening a feather....

Sentinel Sunset

After Breakfast, Shuttled over to the Post Office...oh...before the Shuttle, paddled back to the Creek... Creek during the rain must have been fast and furious...high water just long enough to leave a lot of debris on the banks...and to float away the Great Turf Log!...which was a great sit awhile log...took some pics...circled back to the Rooms through the Woods...and then caught the Shuttle!...hopped off on way back at Lower Falls...explored a bit in the Delta...debris swirled around thereabout too...very nice to hear again the Creek flowing in the Delta...the Falls have already gone down a lot...pics....to the Cabin and to work....sunny warm blueblue......at the lunch walk, the sun on Sentinel was knockdown, and walked out aways to gain vantage point...pics...and while taking pics, heard Owl...and sighted Owl up in the Tall Cottonwood...pic...very cool that Owl, Sentinel, is pretty much looking upon the same scene as in the pic up....the lunch walks now are in good alignment with sunset.... in awhile, to stay aligned, I'll need to be taking lunch around four thirty!..last week...cant remember what day!...saw the Violet Green Swallows soaring over the Deer House and above the Path....been meaning to post that up...the noise in the clip...and in several others of late...is a bangity fan on the roof of Last Chance...dont know but a survey of noise making things in the Valley might be in order!....it can be so quiet, and is at night...but during the day it can be pretty noisy...

Falls After Rain

Shuttled over to the Post Office...and walked back through the Oak Grove...just to sort of bask in the Falls roar!...but didn't have camera along...had thought I had time for a short walk, but at the Cabin, discovered the little battery powered clock I depend on has slowed....needs new battery I suppose...fortunately, I glanced down at the gear watch, and realized I only had a few minutes to work...so...so missed taking pics on a gorgeous afternoon!...did get some sleep....at lunch, went to the Cabin, got the tripod and took the little Falls clip up....light almost gone....it is now just a great and unique time to take pics of Yosemite Falls....tomorrow the sky will be blueblue, and the Fall colors will be in the Trees....usually in mid October, the Falls are gone, but there was so much rain, that the Falls should be strong for a few days.....tomorrow I'll be out myself early....promisepromise myself!...actually, what happened, I went to sleep early last night, thinking to make an early walk...but woke up and couldn't sleep...then when I finally did fall asleep, after the talk shows, my usual time!, I was really sleepy!....anywayanyway, sunny warm blue with a few clouds of different sorts going through....one hanging about Half Dome at sunset....back at Creek's End, three Mallards...two females, one male, and Ouzel....I may have missed the little birds too!...hmmph...report of Bear by the Giant Tiki Cans...over in the Scorched Forest....and the Merced in the Canyon is bank to bank....hereabout, water was high enough to flood the Diversion Channel...has already dropped from that high mark by several feet...as the Channel dry with just puddles now...oh!...Mama Doe and Two Fawns right by the Rooms after Breakfast, and the Bear reporter reported them by Ozone Beach in the afternoon...

Hawk And Rain

Shuttled over to the Post Office...and back as far as Lower Falls...hopped off and over to the Deer House, across the Creek, and to the Cabin....pic of Mama Doe and Two Fawns....and it was Raining a bit the whole time....wasn't sure what to do?...paddle out, or spend the afternoon in the Cabin...Bones was on TV...but repeats...so got out the rain gear, and paddled out!...Ouzel and Mallard back by Creek's End...had the 20x with, and the waterproof for the scope, also waterproof....pics with the waterproof....made a slow tour of the Woods, and came out at the Small Fallen Cedar at the Merced....and in some bare tree branches across the River, saw what looked to be Big Wings perched....set up the scope for looksee...and Hawk was in sight!...very cool, and very reminiscent of last Fall's Rainy Day Hawk...almost same tree!.....looks to be the young Red Shoulder Hawk...Martin...but the white on Hawk's head is a bit of a mystery....first clips were with scope eyepiece at it's low setting...I rarely use the higher ones....too tough to sight things...and the light dims...but after moving the tripod...and setting all up again...in a place where I could see Hawk's head without branch in the way....I took the second clips with the eyepiece at high...and was quite pleased!...Hawk was far away!....wanted to take stills, but Hawk flew off just when I took the pic of the digi with the 20x....happy to be out on a walkabout, so I kept walking!..out to Two Top Pine Meadow....quiet...but scenic!...oh...while taking Hawk clips, a boulder came tumbling down Sentinel...nearyby tourist saw it, and related their experience of the Siberia rockfall....and expressed a preference for the Rooms, which are well away from the Rims!.....lots of Juncos about...even with the Rain coming down...Rain fall heavy towards dusk...and Falls falling....Creek up a little bit....cloudy rainy cool...need new rainpants and winter boots need repellant on the boots, snoseal or something....they have rubber toes with leather uppers...and I think the waterpoofing in the leather has given out...the rainpants are just worn out...though the laundry didn't help!....Mama Doe and Two Fawns were near while I was taking pics of Hawk...earlier, lot of Robins in the Backyard Dogwoods...Rain today much like the Rain on the Rainy Day Hawk post up...which was November 1.....

Sentinel Buck

Clip from, and for!, yesterday, pic from a short walk this evening that hardly made it out to the Backyard...Buck was on Dirt Road...leg's getting better, but last two days have been 'down' days, and maybe tomorrow too, if RainRains as much as the weather reports.....would have liked to have paddled about today, as the light was subdued with clouds coming in, and the leaves beginning to turn, and tomorrow the leaves may all get knocked off by the Rain!...but Rain is always welcome, and Rainy days good walkabout days...cloudy sunny warm with wind...report of Big Wings out in Two Top Pine Meadow midday...Owl swooped low over reporter and perched nearby in the Scorched Forest, I believe....first time sighting of Owl for reporter, who, I think, was very pleased to regale me with an Owl report, after hearing so many of mine!!

Young Sentinel Buck

Didn't get out for a morning walk...hurt my leg...tying my shoes, I think...stretched the tendons too much!....been hobbling about, but got through work, and out to the Lunch Sit Log....Young Buck was there with small thin antlers...pics and clips....Buck was pretty much just a few feet from me the whole sit....sunny warm blue...will add clip and pic tomorrow!...

Ouzel Rings

Power outage last night...so no post up....report Ring Tail Cat got into the electrics down aways in the Merced Canyon...Ouzel and White Headed Woodpecker clip is from yesterday's walk....heard Hawk...walk was just out to the Creek and Merced Riverbank...sits and a stretchout...very nice afternoon....keep trying for the little birds...but most pics blurry...some Owl pics and clip at yesterday's lunch walk (heard Hawk too)....and these were to be posted up, but ones up are from this evening's lunch walk...Owls were closer!!....Owl on Ponderoda Branch is CottonwoodOrAspen, I think!, and sighted by following call...Owl on Snag is Sentinel...walked right under on way back to work...and lucky to look up!...took five or six knockdown pics...when I get this close to Owl it's by accident....sunny hot blue, both days, with breeze....very dark walking back to the Cabin after work last night!....oh!...some sightings I skipped during last weeks...and shouldn't have!....a flight of Cranes above 395...would have really liked to have pic...the Elk thereabout in the Pastures....a lizard in the desert road....one Hawk call today too....Bobcat report...(was asked if there are Lynx hereabout)...Kingfisher's call yeseterday at lunch....Bear report, near in Village....trying to remember what else...as they come to mind!!