Hetch Hetchy

I went to Yosemite last week to chill for a couple days. Here's the classic shot of the Valley from Wawona tunnel. Bridalveil Falls on the right...flowing strongly. Some other falls are dry at this time of year.

Yosemite is not known for fall color, but there is some. This is near Hetch Hetchy.

Wapama Falls, running into Hetch Hetchy reservoir. It's about 500 feet high.

Hetch Hetchy reservoir. It's beautiful as a lake, but until the valley was dammed in the 1920s, the scene was described by John Muir as being equal in grandeur to Yosemite.

Granite and water meet in Hetch Hetchy, enhanced by the low autumnal sun. The large rocks in the foreground are glacial erratics, left behind after the passage of the Pleistocene ice sheets.