#john-muir-trail

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Hiking down the switchbacks to Garnet Lake on the John Muir Trail

California

1989

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Mount Ritter, just south of Yosemite National Park on July 1, 2022

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#MiniatureMonday

Wildflowers of the John Muir Trail

This the finale to our little summer series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas.

This is also my last Miniature Monday post, as I am moving to my new job after graduating this spring. It has been great sharing all these lovely minis, and I am looking forward to seeing those that are posted in the future! --Diane

This wonderful collection of illustrations features plants painted by Donna Thomas while she was hiking the John Muir Trail with Katy McLaughlin.

"They identified these flowers together & Donna painted them on the spot. Donna made this book, using handmade paper made by Peter Thomas. "--Colophon.

Continuous accordion folded strip made from five sections folded to form forty leaves.

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

[musician-not-magician]

August Books

I used 🌈 to indicate LGBTQ+ featured characters within the book. I rated each book from ⭐️ - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The books are listed in the order that I completed them.

“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Blacktongue Thief” by Christopher Buehlman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Renfield” by Barbara Hambly ⭐️⭐️

“Steep Trails” by John Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Dark Tales” by Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Time of Contempt” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” by Moniquill Blackgoose ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Darkening” by Sunya Mara ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Faebound” by Saara El-Arifi ⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Handmaid’s Trail” by Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Baptism of Fire” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Burning God” by R. F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Wicked King” by Holly Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Lightstruck” by Sunya Mara ⭐️⭐️

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Tower of Swallows” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Dearly Devoted Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay ⭐️⭐️

“Clytemnestra” by Costanza Casati ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Stop hiking; start sauntering

We hiked a small section of the 145-mile Sunrise Coast Birding Trail , which starts at the mouth of AuSable River in Oscoda and meanders along the Lake Huron coast, all the way to Mackinaw City

Wait - let me amend that; we didn't actually hike. We sauntered, which, in my opinion, is what people should do when they find themselves surrounded by beauty - natural, or otherwise.

Why rush through it when you can linger in it ...? Nobody hikes through an art museum.

John Muir, the famous naturalist and "Father of the National Parks" was a noted champion of the stroll:

“I don't like either the word (hike) or the thing," he once said. "People ought to saunter in the mountains - not 'hike!' ... These mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.”

Above, some of the sights along the trail ...

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Beautiful conifer forest trail. John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada Mountails, Californiia, USA  Photo by Van MIller

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Yosemite National Park

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Mount Ritter (13,143’) from Thousand Island Lake (9,846’)

Ansel Adams Wilderness, just outside Yosemite over Donohue Pass, California

July 1 2022, 4:51 PM

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Nevada Falls a few years back 🏞️

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8 Spectacular Hiking Trails in the Mountains

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[vintagecamping]

Adventure complete! Arriving back to their truck after 16 days on the John Muir Trail.

Sierra Nevada, California

1990

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Donohue Pass from the north, in Yosemite National Park on July 2, 2022

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