South Yuba River

This is the lower stretch of the South Yuba River Canyon, right near where the covered bridge is.  We had fun climbing on these chunks of granite this morning.  This section had a neat stripe intrusion pattern going.  Looking at it now I wish I had a slightly different angle, but I recall being sort of unstably perched up there, so I probably couldn't move any further to the left. 

Taken for Granite

I probably shouldn't admit this, but I think I was a young adult before I realized the phrase was actually "taken for granted."  Granite just made sense to me.  I put it in the same category as "set in stone" or "rock solid."  My kids tell me there is a TV trope named "taken for granite" that means a character has literally turned to stone.  Ha ha.  As for the photo, I really liked how much the light temperature is changing as the stairs curve around.  I don't really see this on my own, but the camera is much more sensitive to the light temperature, so once I see something like this in the display panel then I can play around with how to compose it.  I have another photo taken from the underside of the stairs that is really interesting too.  I'm heading up to Seattle today so I probably won't be able to post again until the weekend, but I'll upload the other photo just in case.  Hope everyone has a good week!