To kick off National Park Week, which starts today, we"re turning our lens on Vernal Fall in California"s Yosemite National Park. This time of year, the waterfall flows in a torrent, but by late summer it can be reduced to a trickle of small streams slipping over the edge. Most years, Vernal Fall is at full power by May, as the spring thaw in the mountains melts the snowpack, turning the falls into a raging tumble of water spilling to the valley floor where the Merced River flows.
National Park Week begins
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Fiddlehead fern fronds
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Up in the Highlands
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A light at the edge of the world
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Angkor, Cambodia
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The forecast calls for blooms
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A hermitage with a view
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’Chess on ice’
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The old guard at Old San Juan
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Silvereyes in South Korea
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Unearthing a queen s lost tale
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National Park Service Founders Day
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A good time in the Badlands
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National Mushroom Month
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Male kori bustard, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
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Earth Day and National Park Week
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Paris is photo-ready this week
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Big sky at Big Bend
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Cinco de Mayo
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La Rocque Harbour, Island of Jersey
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Jane’s Carousel delights
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A wetland in Västmanland, Sweden
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Castle Frankenstein in Darmstadt, Germany
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Prayer flags in Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan
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Veterans Day
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Yarn for Distaff Day
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International Day for Monuments and Sites
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Winter scenery near Kuhmo, Finland
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North Cascades National Park at 50
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Blackbird in Essex, England