173 scenery. Massively sublime 17 ribs braided together trees in shadow & light feathery spiny exactness of spires [poised], contrasting with slopes & ribs of rock part spires in light coming up out of darkness like plants breaking through sod. Foreground a huge stormwise live oak & lichened rock [silvery] pine thrilling with light Back ground Marysville Buttes, & coast range blue & [unedged], with yell [yellow] plains between, sky best of all. Yell [yellow] bands, then icy blue 174 Ferns & mosses v [very] ab [abundant] Atrichium polytrichum cheilanthes -- [Leptodon] * & down [frond] over [frond] with running water beneath & no end of plush moss & the shadows of rock & tree One frond 6 ft [feet] long without a single [one] imperfection [pin...