Snow in Yosemite

I have a dear friend who lives and works up in Yosemite.  She just finished telling me about the amazing sights up there.  She works outside raking in the gardens around the Ahwahnee because she loves it outside.  Every morning she is followed by a buck and a doe from her dorm to her job. The snows have fallen and the place has transformed.  Sometimes when it is raining in the valley she said you can look up and see it snowing on Half Dome.  

These names mean nothing unless you have been up there.  For us in the lowlands, winter coming on is rather dull.  The leaves are only just beginning to change now.  It won't get cold enough for snow here in the San Joaquin Valley.  So the sounds and sights of the snow call us valley people up into the mountains that surround us.  I hear the call.  To sit in the peaceful white meadow and look up into the majesty of those mountains, Half Dome, Cathedral Rock, the Three Sisters... I'd love to run up there now and paint the awesome sights.  But obligations keep me in the valley.  Audible sigh!