We often see unusual and interesting things and take pictures of some of them. On Sunday we travelled from Visalia, CA up to Kings Canyon and the Sequoia National Park. On the way we were driving through an area with lots of citrus groves and we came across a very ornate iron gate at the entrance to a home. It is made to look like a sprawling oak tree. The gate splits in the middle to swing open.
In Sequoia National Park there are numerous very large trees, the largest of which is also the largest tree on earth when measured by cubic feet of the trunk. This tree us known as the General Sherman and it is 275 feet tall, 36 feet across at the base and contains 52,500 cubic feet of trunk area. It is difficult to show how large these trees are in a picture, but below is picture of the General Sherman from the ground up and another which shows the upper portion of the tree. There are also large Ponderosa Pines and other varieties of trees, but the Sequoia are by far the largest.
Below is a picture of another very large Sequoia in the park, this one has two trunks which are joined together at the bottom.
On Monday we went to Yosemite National Park. Below are pictures of El Capitan, Briday Veil Falls and Half Dome.
