From a shadowed viewpoint in a valley (actually an earthquake fault) in which dusky-green trees and shrubs are just visible, we look out on a flat plateau, and beyond that, the sun is shining on a number of buttes. Through the clow clouds, another higher butte is just visible. Billowing clouds reach up into a blue sky. On this day in 2003 there was no sense that someone who could run multiple casinos into bankruptcy could possible become US President, nor that he could somehow be more ludicrously incompetent at that job than in operating casinos

View from Indian Gardens / Bright Angel Trail
23 November 2003

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An image of Half Dome at sunset. A shadow line across the rock face shows the progress of the setting sun. In front of the rock formation, a line of pine trees are silhouetted. Above the rock the sky is a cloudless blue.

In a wide stream, sandy banks on both sides, an orange reflection of Half Dome framed by reflections of trees and a blue sky. The stream narrows further up the frame as it flows through meadows and green trees.

Half Dome Sunset - Yosemite NP - 23 September 2002

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A coyote sitting in a clearing. The ground is in mixed shadows from the surrounding evergreen trees.

A coyote standing amid long wild grasses. There are a few tree trunks visible behind it.

Coyote - South Rim Grand Canyon - November 2003
This was the only time I saw a coyote in my many visits to GCNP.

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