Snow plant

This is a fungus that lives off of dead roots.


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Moth?

When flying, these are brigh yellow and have really pretty long "feathers" at the tip of each wing.


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Prescribed burn

Sections of sequoia were bring burned to help the growth of the forest. The top pix shows smoke chiming out of a sequoia. The bottom shows the forest floor





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Western azaleas?

Not sure what these are but they were in the Mariposa Grove at Yosemite.


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Next to the giants

Here are a couple of snapshots showing how small we are next to these giants!











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General Grant Tree

The third largest tree in the world, 1,700 years old, 268 feet tall, 1,254 tons.





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Dragonfly

It's hard to see, but this is a really cute little dragon fly in the Sequoia Forest.



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