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photo by Aaron Meyers
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I watched an old movie on TCM the other night, and wondered about the fire tumbling over a waterfall in Yosemite. I'd never seen anything like it. It looked as if gasoline had been dumped over the falls and lit. What I didn't realize, is that two weeks out of every year, Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park, California, lights up by sunset and turns into a wild thing: "Fire Fall". On these rare few days, the waterfall catches the setting sun at a certain angle, reflecting bright gold and orange, resembling hot molten lava. This brief window of light happens every year around the third week in February.
My daughter gave me a lovely book for Christmas,
Yosemite, Art of an American Icon, a wonderful collection of photos and essays on Yosemite National Park. Voices are calling me west. I feel a long road trip coming on. If you see an old green Land Rover heading west on I-70 going about 90 mph, it's me.
