“To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.” ~ Hal Borland

Hiking along the beginning of the John Muir Trail, near Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley, the river's edge is near overrun by the abundance of large Flowering Dogwoods.