Yo Semite--from San Francisco

While with friends in Oakhurst, outside Yosemite National Park, I was making fun of myself for pronouncing Yosemite as "Yo Se-Mite" when I first saw the name in a Mark Twain story in 1964.  I found the old textbook, and I see that it's written that way! It's from A Tramp Abroad, CHAPTER III "Baker's Bluejay Yarn" [What Stumped the Blue Jays]  http://www.online-literature.com/twain/tramp-abroad/3/  It takes about 20-30 seconds to come in.

In the photos in the Oakhurst-Yosemite Dropbox Album  I've included this final paragraph, "But then he was a good deal disappointed about Yo Semite too," (showing how difficult to impress a Nova Scotian owl was).  

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/nnbog3f78g94jhq/AACQkgB8K-GjKDaRFVfDnG_ha

Here are  Kathy, Evelyn, and me posing behind a sign that says "Sierra Beauty Day Use Only."  (We don't do nights!)

Here's the cat watching the sunset with us!

 Javier's special walking shoes--a little too special--and toilet paper in this era of top security.

Why, among the friends laughing on the deck, is it the women, not the men?

You'll also see the beautiful fire with and without the fireplace screen decked with Peg's nightgown warming.

Note Javier's choices of food when we went shopping--Jello and some kind of breakfast snack. He had the wisdom to choose Kathy's pancakes when the moment came to eat.

The colorful dish is gallo pinto, which Javier and Walter made for us!  It was beautiful and delicious, but so were the chile and Nigerian stew dishes, not photographed because  I was too busy eating.