Warm and bright, the valley was spanned by fibrous bows of white cloud, heated masses of air from currentless ovens of chambered and bushy rocks lifted by newborn winds and bourne whole or in fragments about the open gulf of the valley...the richness of the light of these days recalls our best mellow autumns and springs.
John Muir, January 24-26, 1869
(via my new Twitter stream, Muirtweets)
(image from an astounding HD video posted today on YosemiteBlog)
