Winter on the Valley Floor, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger.

If silence has sounds, then so I suppose does serenity. Like the sound of the wind brushing softly through snow-clad trees in the photograph (above) of the floor of Yosemite Valley in the winter, the soft noise of snow flakes falling on newly formed ice on Mirror Lake (below), or the crackling of ice contracting in the Merced River in the spring (far below).

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