Yosemite in a Dry Year [pp. 99-108]

YOSEMITE IN A DRY YEAR
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clear-cut, so that when you return it seems
as if you had come back to a place you had
seen but yesterday. Little changes you
notice in the foreground, but none at all in
the great whole. Even the little things of
the foreground are but slightly changed.
Late showers make the floor of the Valley beautifully green this year, and the
cattle have been kept from grazing promiscuously, so there are patches of the most
vivid emerald as you look down on the Valley from Glacier point or Eagle peak.
YOSEMITE FALL
You can picks out the' exact spot of the
former camp. This tree was over your camp
fire; that supported one end of your table;
through the branches of that great oak you
gazed, from your spruce bough bed, at the
great white plume of the Upper Yosemite,
or the massive form of the Half Dome.
The Stoneman house is gone, and only a
part of its brick foundations mar the Valley, as the whole incongruous structure
did when it stood there. The simple architecture of the Sentinel house, enlarged to
sustain its new dignity as the principal
hotel, is far more appropriate than the