The Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 75th anniversary in 2009
Next year marks the 75th anniversary of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Seventy-five years ago, from donations collected from the public and private sectors, the land in North Carolina and Tennessee that now boasts 800 miles of ...Jade Mountain Origins
Jade Mountains was started originally in 2003 and the first posting was written in the cabin where I'm staying at the moment. Earlier in 2003 I met Helmut, who I've know for quite a number of years, he greeted me saying, ...
Notes form the Field: Colorado, from the mountains to the desert ...
We ended up spending 2 more days in Rocky Mountain National Park before heading west to Colorado National Monument outside of Grand Junction and spending the the evening shooting from the rim of the canyon in the vicinity of the Cove ...
Hallcrest
A beautiful July afternoon saw us out and about in the mountains, visiting a few wineries we haven't seen in a while. First stop was Hallcrest, one of the oldest wineries in the mountains. The original Hallcrest was founded in 1945; ...
MOUNTAINS IN MORNINGSUN
weirena a posté une photo :. MOUNTAINS IN MORNINGSUN. Ahrntal - Southtyrol May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” Edward Abbey.
AKZ125: Western Prince William Sound and Kenai Mountains
Today... Cloudy. Showers. Heaviest near prince william sound. Highs in the upper 50s to mid 60s. Light winds becoming east 10 mph in the afternoon.
Auction On Rio Grande Finale 2 Mountains Montrose and More - Great ...
Everyone is jealous of how great a deal I got on my very own Rio Grande Finale 2 Mountains Montrose and More on Ebay., that I recommend you get one for yourself... before all my friends get them first. ...
American dream or nightmare?
The Associated Press recently went looking for optimism in this place called America and found little as this country slides deeper and deeper into both a recession and depression. America the beautiful has become America the worried, ...
I love the mountains, I love the rolling hills
First of all, happy birthday, [info] shinataku02! May your next twenty years be twenty times as happy as the last twenty~ ^_^ Over here, all is well. That "short" hike yesterday turned into an 11 mile tromp through the wilderness. ...
Memory and Intuition—Not all They’re Cracked Up to Be
I’ve been told that I have an uncanny knack for remembering things—particularly the written and spoken word. I’ve also been told, in no uncertain terms, that this is maddening. People, particularly people roughly my age, don’t like to ...
Master Musicians of Jajouka Bring the Sounds of Morocco's Rif ...
The music and secrets, the hypnotic drumming, chanting vocals and soaring pipes of Jajouka have been passed down through generations from father to son, by some accounts for as long as 4000 years, in the Rif Mountains of Morocco. ...
Chenoa's Spiritual Journey 1: Intro
Becky Dice's Chenoa's Spiritual Journey is about Chenoa Fawn Gray Owl, who initially lives with her family in Whiteriver, Arizona, on the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation. Her father, a doctor, decides to move the family to Ohio ...
Friends turn mountains into molehills
Creative Commons License photo: Hamed Saber. The New Scientist reports on a study at the University of Plymouth where students were asked to assess the slope of a hill. Those with friends estimated the slope at 10 to 15 degrees less ...
An Experiement, Unsuccessful
The series of posts based on the song “Our Country” was an experiment. And I don’t think it was a successful one. By the time I got to the last couple of posts in the series, I wasn’t as into it as I thought I was going to be at the ...
An Experiement, Unsuccessful
ugordan posted a photo:. The "Voyager" Mountains. TBD.