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Yosemite's Splendor

Winter in Yosemite can be a real adventure. You can't really ever count on anything except that whatever conditions you have at any given moment most likely won't be what you have later. Storms move in and out of the valley on a regular basis.
This was actually captured during one of those periods where the storms stayed away and blue sky was the story of the weekend.

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Yosemite's Splendor

You’re standing in the stillness of a Yosemite winter morning, the air so cold it bites at your lungs. Before you rises a sheer granite wall, its face washed in soft blue light. A ribbon of water plunges from high above, but the fall is transformed—spray whipped sideways by the night wind has frozen into a delicate white beard clinging to the rock. At the base, a pale snow‑cone mound glows softly, shaped by hours of icy breath.

The waterfall’s movement feels muted, thickened by the frigid air; you can almost hear the muffled, crystalline crackle of frazzle ice forming mid‑drop. Pines at the valley floor stand dark and still, their needles dusted with frost. Above it all, the sky is a clear, piercing blue—the kind that only appears after storms have swept clean and cold through the mountains.

The scene carries a quiet intensity: the sharp scent of frozen earth, the faint roar of water slowed by winter, and the overwhelming sense of nature paused between breath and motion.

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