June 30, 2012 Yosemite National Park is a treasure trove of wildflowers. I saw nearly 60 flowers that were new to me, they helped bump up my lifelist! We were in the park the first week of July and learned the flowers had just begun to bloom in the higher elevations.
June 30, 2012 I found this plant growing at Ohlmsted Point in Yosemite. It is amazing how some of the plants are happy growing in the cracks in granite.
Glaciers smoothed this granite tens of thousands of years ago. The ice contained lots of sand, pebbles and rock dust that it picked up as the glacier moved along the solid rock. It worked much like sandpaper. In some areas the rock is shiny and often has marks (stripes) that indicate the direction the glacier was moving.
