Brown Motion

This Memorial Day Holiday we took to the mountains - again.  We visited two most amazing pieces of real estate that are managed and maintained by the US Department of Interior - the Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. Both parks are located around 150 miles due south / south-east of the SF Bay Area and reside amidst the southern flanks of the Sierra Nevada mountains. As parks go these amazing stores of information and beauty are all over the United States and California has a large share of them.  We visited Kings Canyon first and Sequoia NP the following day. Kings River and South Fork merge in the valley in Kings Canyon NP Entering Sequoia NP   As one of the plaques noted (image below) it certainly is a treat to simply visit with nature and gape.  As an aside I find that the word Sequoia (named for a Cherokee Indian credited with defining a written language) is fascinating in that it contains all vowels and is only ...