
With family afar, Harriet and I set our sleigh for the Sierra, specifically the Merced River Canyon and Yosemite, for serenity and snow, over the Foothills, to

Cathey's Valley, up

Guadalupe

Ridge, under the

skies of Mariposa,

down towards

the Canyon, beyond

the Landslide

Bridges, past
Savage's

Trading Post to
El Portal and Cedar Lodge (the latter with Mt. Trumbull looming) for Christmas Eve dinner and gifts and visions.