Chasing the Big Trees and Dogwoods

We (Trail Guy, Hiking Buddy, and Mr. Hiking Buddy) joined in with the madding crowd (I don’t know what “madding” actually means, but I liked the book and the movies “Far From the Madding Crowd”) and visited the main part of Sequoia National Park.

I wanted to see the dogwoods in their autumn colors and gather more photos of the big trees, AKA Sequoia Gigantea AKA Redwoods (Redwood High School, Class of ’77, yea for us). It was a fun day, but also smoky and crowded up there.

Smoky – this mess is coming over a ridge or two from a lightning fire in the Camp Nelson area.
Dogwood is a tree that blesses us twice – flowers in spring, colored leaves in fall. This is by the Crystal Cave Road.
Crescent Meadow
A fallen giant next to a midget man.
We walked on top of it and the midget man became Trail Guy, who helped us get down off of the big tree.
Woodpeckers go after redwood trees??
Tharp’s Log as it appeared when we approached it from a different trail.
I’ve painted this fence (not itself, but oil paintings of it) several times.
This big tree fell recently and its roots landed on a boulder.
This is the brightest one we saw.
It is tricky to find colored dogwood with redwood trees nearby, good sunlight, and a turnout off the road all together.
The colors were brighter in person.
Dogwood berries?

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2 Comments

  1. Lovely pictures Jana! Maybe Jeff and I can go up soon, maybe eat at Wuksachi for lunch!!! Thank you for sharing:)
    Melissa

    • Thanks for checking in, Melissa. No reason to eat at Wuksachi any more because they no longer have sweet potato fries on the menu. Sob.

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