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Very early one morning while hiking up to Big Yellow Mountain under a canopy of starlight I stopped to enjoy this view.
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I made this shot the day after my boreal forest hike with Colleen and Michael (see two previous images). Yep, October 1st, I had to scrape snow and ice off my windshield. Luckily I had put winter tires on my car a few days earlier. Didn't think to toss a scraper and snow brush into the trunk, though!
I really liked the transformation. Fine, tiny snowflakes were falling as I started for home (a 700 km drive via a circuitous route to visit a major wildlife sanctuary), and I stopped often. It wasn't especially cold; that is coming, but it's still a few weeks away. As I got farther south the snow gave way to rain. This week, at home, we're basking in warm fall weather. Most of the leaves are down and the prairie palette is a textured brown, very subtle and beautiful. The snow was just a first taste.
I think, though, that up there the snow didn't melt. Colleen has posted a beautiful shot of aspens in the snow, taken after my visit. What a difference 700 km makes...
Photographed near Wakaw, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Just a bit of compare and contrast. The dunes of Namibia's Namib-Naukluft National Park are a little like chameleons in their ability to alter their appearance, prompted by the time of day, the geological make-up of the sand, the weather and sky conditions and the individual quirks and settings of the photographer's equipment.
The old mill at Chatsworth. Built in 1761 to a design by Joseph Paine , it stands about 100 yards from the nearby River Derwent . The mill war powered 3y water from the river fed by a partially underground culvert . Last used in the 1950's it was destroyed by falling trees . The buildmg was made safe and is nowadays an architectural feature of the Beeley end of the park.
Great Basin National Park
Nevada, USA
Minolta X-700
35mm Kodachrome Copied into Sony A850 with Minolta Bellows & Minolta Auto Bellows Macro 50mm f/3.5 Lens
Autumn in Meteora, Greece. One can clearly see the Roussanou monastery surrounded by a fall-colored canvas through the gaping chasm.
Meteora is the name of the group comprising many impressive and lofty rock formations: The sandstone rock masses were formed 60 million years ago, are geologically unique and listed in UNESCO world herage sites. The Roussanou monastery (aka St. Barbara's) was built c.1528 on an extremely precipitous rock formation (1,588 ft or 484 m high) with very limited space available on its plateau.
Sequiota Creek mid-way through Springfield Conservation Nature Center. Yesterday mid 60s. Today rain, changing to freezing rain, to sleet, to snow, to single digits. Ah roller coaster weather.
Almost hidden in the trees, an African elephant holds its trunk high among the tree trunks and appears to be feeding in the bush during the dry season. Hard to believe that a 3 ton animal just a few feed away could be almost invisible among the bare branches. Mabula Private Game Reserve, South Africa.
25/08/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
In 1520 St. Bēssariōn (bishop of Larissa, Greece) had a bridge erected to cross the river Pēneios (aka Peneus) close to the village Sarakēna (aka Sarakina). The stone bridge was 394 feet long (120 m) and had six arches. In 1970 two arches collapsed; then they were built anew using concrete.
The bridge was deliberately cut off (severed) in three points by “Klefts” [¹] in order to intercept (or impede) the march of Ali Pasha’s troops [²] raiding against villages in Thessaly.
On and around the historic bridge a battle took place on April 6, 1878: three warlords’ revolutionary contingents [³] inflicted a heavy defeat on the Turkish troops.
The rock formation “Petra” (a climbers’ favorite) is viewed behind the bridge. It is similar to the nearby Meteora rock formations. A chapel was built beneath Petra in the 17th century; it was dedicated to Christ’s Apostles.
[1] KLEFTS: at first armed outlaws or irregulars in insurgency against Ottoman occupation, soon to become the first warriors of the Independence War in 1821
[2] ALI PASHA was the infamous satrap or tyrant of Ioannina, a Muslim Albanian who held sway over Epirus and other Greek-inhabited territory in the years before 1821
[3] The 3 WARLORDS were: D. Koukouravas, V. Chostevas & N. Paschalis)
Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh,
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch.
Up there all summits
are still.
In all the tree-tops
you will
feel but the dew.
The birds in the forest stopped talking.
Soon, done with walking,
you shall rest, too.
In 1780 Goethe wrote this poem in this wooden cabin.
In 1831, six month before he died, he visited this place for a last time.
www.goethezeitportal.de/index.php?id=2366
A West Country midwinter encapsulated in an image—a bare oak tree by a muddy little lane in the Somerset village of Rodney Stoke (pop. 1,333). Rodney Stoke is 5 miles/8 km from Wells and 3 miles/5 km from Cheddar, in the heart of the Mendip countryside.
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