After our trip to New York last week, I thought we'd hop over to the West Coast this weekend to get back to nature after the hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps!
There's quite a bit on today, so feel free to 'dip in and out' of it throughout your weekend.
Yosemite National Park is located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s renowned for its huge, ancient sequoia trees, and for Tunnel View, the iconic vista of towering Bridalveil Fall and the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome.
Yosemite is widely popular as the landscape is so varied. At 2,425 feet, the park is home to one of the highest waterfalls, Yosemite Falls, which is actually three separate waterfalls that falls in three cascades. Yosemite’s granite rock formations are also a hugely popular and visited a lot at sunset. The rocks are said to glow like fire at sunset as the sun illuminates the rock formations in brilliant reds and oranges.
I've arranged a tour of the Yosemite Museum for us to enjoy next! Follow the link below and you can 'walk' around the park, to the gallery, village store, and more! Listen to as many or few of the talks as you like, but do have a play around - I think this is a particularly good (and fun!) tour.
https://www.xplorit.com/yosemite-mariposa-county-tourism-bureau/yosemite-museum
Now to finish up our day we're taking a quick 600-odd mile pop up the road to the world's first National Park, Yellowstone. Many parallels are drawn between the two parks, but today we'll be learning about one particular group of residents in Yellowstone that, for me, make the whole place seem just that little bit more special! But before we get stuck in, have a quick tour of the park and make sure you don't miss the "must-sees"!
Grey wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995, which led to huge knock-on changes throughout the entire park's ecosystem. The Yellowstone Wolf Project has amazed biologists all over the world with their findings and the cascade effect their presence has had in the environment.
If you'd like to see a bit more about the wolves and how they saved the collapse of the park's ecosystem, National Geographic have a fab little video that will tell you more:
Or for an insight into the experience of tracking wolves, there's another great documentary you might enjoy: https://youtu.be/PhRIIAQYu1w
This week we've been treated to some more updates of what you've all been up to around the parish. Let's take a look:
Corrine has crafted this beautiful air dry clay leaf ring dish tray:
Corrine says, "here is my ring dish made with air dry clay using a leaf and it's celebrating the beautiful nature God has made". Thanks Corrine!
And here are a few more from Di's outings, capturing this year's harvest for us all to share:
Have a great day - Becky x