If you go to Yosemite National Park, don't make the mistake I made. Do not go in the fall, when the weather is warm and dry. Go in the spring, preferably after a wet winter. Why?
You need water to make a waterfall. You can see the barest glimmer of a waterfall plunging over this cliffside. I am guessing from the discoloration of the surrounding rock that the dark color is the maximum water flow in the wettest years. That's a whole lot more water than the tiny trickle visible in this shot.
At least in the fall, on a weekday, after the school year has long started (back in the pre-COVID days when children would physically attend schools in actual live person), Yosemite was relatively empty. Still, Yosemite without waterfalls is like Yellowstone without geysers. Or Rocky Mountain National Park in the plains. Something important is missing.
Visited September 2002. Before the advent of digital photography (in my life, at least).
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