Snow is beautiful. So is technicolor fall foliage. Last week they occurred simultaneously in Yosemite National Park when the first snowstorm of the year came early, and there’s a really good word for the results: “snowliage.”

“The colors of fall were so vibrant as they peeked through the white blanket of snow,” said Michael Castaneda, a photographer who traveled to the park from Los Angeles. “It was like walking through a snow globe … and every couple of hours, someone would shake the globe and we’d have a pretty heavy dumping of snow that would send us all scrambling to our vehicles.”

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