Bridalveil Falls,Yosemite; Plus Cloudy Spring Day on Clarksburg Branch Line Trail, West Sacramento

The falls in Yosemite were roaring after this wet winter and on this first warm day. I've never seen Bridalveil like this. You really couldn't stand at the observation point for any length of time because of the wind and spray from the base of the falls.







Then the next day I went to the converted rail trail in West Sac. This was the most like Pennsylvania a place in California has ever seemed to me, like a late spring day (in fact much like when I ran the upper Schuylkill River Trail in Berks County.) High sixties but breezy and overcast and just a little humid, with flat green fields and the smell of recently cut vegetation. The occasional palm tree broke the illusion.















And finally, below: a beautiful spring day on the American River Trail (where I saw a young rattler crawling across the trail - seen any? Add to the rattlesnake encounter map) and some old school liver and onions at, where else, Lil Joe's in Del Paso Heights, Sacramento.