California’s most direct and scenic all weather route to Yosemite National Park is itself a wonderful destination with many attractions that are open all year. Highway 120 winds through rolling hills dappled with heritage oaks, past picturesque small towns where Gold Rush history was made, and on into the dramatic high country with commanding views of the majestic Sierra Nevada. Open into Yosemite Valley all year, Highway 120 is the widest and most direct route into the Park from most of California.
Opportunities abound to leave the fast lane and relish the slower pace of bygone era along Highway 120. Hike inspiring wilderness trails, fish crystalline wild trout streams, raft the challenging rapids of the beautiful Tuolumne River, explore charming gold mining towns with colorful pasts.
At the end of the day, settle into inviting accommodations at wilderness campgrounds, modern motels or historic inns, and enjoy pizza, country fare or 4-star cuisine.
Highway 120 is open to Yosemite Valley all year — make sure you have chains in your car or that your four-wheel drive vehicle is equipped with snow tires before venturing too far into the hills. Winter storms — as the Donner Party discovered — can be sudden and have severe consequences.
Above information from here.
I am also currently featuring Yosemite in my photoblog.
TWTW comes every Thursday (Wednesday to me), so if you photos of roads, roadsigns, signage, paths, street, etc to share, join us.
Since 1974, The Merchants, Restaurants, and Professionals, as well as the twin cities of Albany and Berkeley CA, have hosted the Solano Avenue Stroll, the East Bay’s largest street festival! I have tried to attend every year since I first heard of this festival. After all, it’s 26 blocks of fun, entertainment, food, and lots of people watching. I’ll show you what I saw.
There were foods!
Lots of music. Every block features a different type of music.
Interesting exhibit. I want this car!!!!
There were dancing on the streets, and belly dancing on the stage.
Belly dancers with hair action too.
And I saw this booth. It’s owned by a fellow blogger, Louis, who blogs
This is Solano Avenue. It’s filled with great restaurants and shops, extremely difficult to find parking, but always a great place to visit. This was the weekend when we had some rain here in the Bay Area. This shot was taken just before the sky opened up.
Early this year I went to Vegas and had a short vacation. I thought I’d share with you the “water” I saw while there. 
I was quite surprised to see the winter-like weather on Labor Day, although foggy/misty day was not unexpected. I was very worried that the out of towner (in brown) would be disappointed because of this very thick fog. As we were walking towards the lighthouse, the coast was covered in fog. I was talking about the beautiful waves and all she can see was fog.
But she flew coast to coast to see the lighthouse and despite the heavy fog, there were a lot of people including some elderly visitors braving the cold strong breeze and thick fog, she went down to take a closer look and snap some photos. I was happy to see the fog lift after 30 minutes. As you can see the fog has thinned down.
Want to showcase your world? MY WORLD is 
It was a hot August day with temps in the 90s but the breeze made the hot and dry temp bearable. We came on Saturday, which we found out was wrong timing as the bbq contest was happening the next day. Therefore we did not even have a taste of pulled pork sandwich.
Instead, we decided to sample different varieties of tomatoes. It was after all a tomato festival, so why not taste some tomatoes, right? We paid 2 bucks per head and entered a huge tent where volunteers like her give out samples. She also tells you what you are tasting, etc, etc.
So, which one has the best cyber taste fellow tasters? Personally, the one I really love wasn’t pictured here. I had some brain freeze as I forgot to snap a photo of the small pink tomato variety called Juliette. Yes, we brought some tomatoes home. They are after all grown in this valley.
FRANKLY MY DEAR....... 
