Not very amusing

This cartoon was in the Willamette Week right before I left Portland. Some Scary stuff happening in the US right now.

Centre of the universe

I was talking to a guy in Portland and told him in conversation that I was going to Yosemite and saying goodbye he told me to enjoy my trip to the centre of the universe. I think he's right. Katje and I spent a few days around San Francisco and then headed out to Yosemite for 4 nights camping in Wawona. We didn't over exert ourselves, choosing to just relax around the river in Wawona which is a beautiful spot in the southern area of the park. Some pics below from a morning we went to Glacier Point pre-sunrise and a return to the enormous trees I saw here last year. They're just a tiny bit bigger now :-)



Have a look at the picture of the tree with the fire-scar in it - it's called 'The Clothespin Tree'. You can walk through the middle of the tree which is still very much alive and probably will be for many hundreds of years. The almost invisible figure at the bottom of the tree is Katje and you are seeing much less than half the tree in the photo. There isn't any way to describe how big these trees are.

Jon Stewart for Pres

This is hilarious, until you think about it and realise that these talking heads are the people supported by half the voting population of the worlds most powerful country...