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The violets are coming on the sunny places the oaks Balm of Gileads are having out their catkins, but we have occasional snow
storms nevertheless, burying flowers butterflies ------------- I dont know from present appearances how much money I will
be able to send you this fall or whether I shall leave California at that time I mean to spend a month or two on the summit
peaks this summer botanizing sketching making observations on the old glaciers which filled all the higher basins some short
time ago I will try to obtain company but will likely have to go alone My love to all John Muir