Contemplate the beautiful – The Joy Trip Project

Contemplate the beautiful – The Joy Trip Project

Yosemite on Fire-4

“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”

Edgar Allan Poe ~American short-story writer, editor, poet and critic (1809-1849)

Photo by Joseph Mikus

This photograph along with several others was taken by Joseph Mikus during a massive wildfire that raged along the north side of Yosemite in late August. The artist, whom I met in Curry Village while on a coffee run, shares his work with my gratitude.  -JEM