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Amelie and Aven on the Mount Indefatigable ridge with Lower Kananaskis Lake and Upper Kananaskis Lake
Gunung Merapi (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian/Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. In late October and early November 2010, eruptions at Indonesia’s Mount Merapi produced ash plumes, lahars, and pyroclastic flows.
Mount Tomah Botanic Garden is 105 km west of Sydney in the Blue Mountains. Here, on 28 hectares at 1000 meters above sea level, many plants not suited to Sydney's climate can be grown successfully.
Mount Royal hill in Montréal Quebec, Canada.
Great walk to top of hill and watch over downtown Montréal. This statue for Jacques Cartier his journal where he wrote he named it in honour of his patron, King François I of France. He wrote in his journal:
Et au parmy d'icelles champaignes, est scituée et assise ladicte ville de Hochelaga, près et joignant une montaigne ... Nous nommasmes icelle montaigne le mont Royal.
("And among these fields is situated and seated the said town of Hochelaga, near to and adjoining a mountain ... We named this mountain, Mount Royal.")
at the Police Equestrian Competition in Morristown, New Jersey, 2006. This guy (Sgt. George Survillo?) works in Boston, Massachusetts. Such a presence! Huge horse, both of them larger than life. A very friendly guy but I wouldn't want to cross him... :-)
Hiking parts of Mount Rainier, is definitely not for the faint of heart.
After an overnight stay at Mowich Lake's campground, my girlfriend and I set out this morning to make a six-mile hike from the Mowich Lake campground to Spray Park, a sprawling meadow on Mount Rainier's northwest side.
Unless you are in optimal physical condition and can hike up switchbacks on a 90° slope, I would not recommend this hike. For the majority of the hike, you are on rough, rocky terrain and the last mile and a half of the hike is a 1,300 foot elevation gain up some of the most grueling switchbacks I'd say both of us have ever hiked.
But, even in spite of me being out of breath most of the time going uphill, and both of us having severe leg cramps for the bulk of the hike, these scenic vistas made it all worth that trouble.
Mount Dora is more than antique shopping, leisurely walks, scenic streets and an early to bed mentality. It is also ripe for bar hoping with lots of delicious food to taste to help soak up the spirits along the way.
Offering a magnitude range of wine and spirits is The Palm Tree Grille and Bar. The all glass dining room is spacious and offers impeccable service. A sophisticated yet casual place to dine. The light spills in the front windows and back walls are adorned by hundred of impressive bottles. Around back the bar is a casual relaxing space to share bottles and meet new friends.
(Photo/ Julie Fletcher)
U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 346th Military Police Company hosted and conducted a 3-week gunnery training and range for approximately 30 vehicle crews to qualify day and night on crew serve weapons that included the M2 .50-Caliber Machine Gun, the M240B Machine Gun, the MK19 Grenade Launcher and the Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS) at Fort Riley, Kansas, May 3-22, 2018. Soldiers from the 603rd MP Company also participated in the training and qualification lanes. Each crew was assigned to one specific weapon system and a vehicle for qualification. Vehicles included both the up-armored Humvee and the Armored Security Vehicle (ASV), which was equipped with both the M2 and the MK19. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
Mount Evans is the highest peak in a massif known historically as the Chicago Peaks.] The peak is 38 miles west of Denver, "as the crow flies", and approximately 51 miles by road, via Idaho Springs.
The Mount Evans Scenic Byway consists of Colorado State Highway 103 from Idaho Springs on I-70 about 13 miles to Echo Lake, and Colorado 5 from Echo Lake 15 miles), ending at a parking area and turnaround just below the summit. The latter has long been the highest paved road in North America and is only open in the summer.
Mount Shasta – this was an incredible team roundtrip from SoCal all the way upstate in a rented van. It kept surprising me how drastic were change in the landscape as we were passing SF. Shasta is the final (or one of finals) volcanoes in Cascade Range (as it scarcest towards the south), but you can surely feel the NW vibe (with pines, greenery) - drastic contrast to what we get in SoCal.
Knowing that Shasta is a local variation of (4th tallest) – aka Baldy (in terms of visitors) we took the Hotlum Bolum ridge, avoiding crowds on the main trail and indeed it paid us back by a decent feeling of solitude and isolation. The approach was actually quite straightforward, but that year was high on wildfires so it was somewhat hard to breath until we broke through smoke around 10k-ish ft. I don’t hold precise memory of where we camped, but I think it was 13k and the weather was good enough for us to just cowboy-style bivy near some large boulders to protect us from the wind. Because it’s a volcano, boulders are sharp and unsteady – surely something to keep in mind.
Summiting we’ve met a great number of people and at that time it indeed felt more like Baldy on summer Saturday morning, but it was ok.
Blue Ridge Mountains view while hiking down Mount Mitchell. The trail starts at Black Mountain Campground and is 5.5 miles ascending around 3600 feet to the summit. Mt Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi river.
This picnic shelter is located in Douglas Fir Campground in northwest Washington State. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930's.
Sagarmatha arrogantly swaggering its "i'm the biggest mountain in the world" ego-networking credentials over petty contenders Nulptse and Lhotse. From the 8000 metre oggling DrukAir flight from Katmandhu, Nepal to Paro, Bhutan.
Mount Baker as seen from Lookout Rock, below Heliotrope Ridge. I was trying to get some alpenglow here, but alpenglow in the Northwest needs more coaxing than in the Rockies or Alps. It never happend.
Better large. No tricks here. No retouching, no polarizer, no nothing.
This Orchid plant has been shaped by the light that feeds it.
The main stem has bent nearly 90 degrees from the plant base, into the direction of the window light.
Counting the two blossoms and all the buds that are close behind, I'd say that the light and other growing conditions appear to have done it some great measure of good.
Karen, who has tried for years to grow Orchids, is well pleased.
Note: Taken with a Voigtlander K-Mount to E-Mount adapter and the mighty fine Vivitar 28mm f2 Close Focus lens.
As we drove towards downtown Pittsburgh, I got to see the tunnel that is supposed to provide a dramatic view of the city as you come out on the other side... and I was not disappointed by the view!
Mounted police on the streets of Leeds.
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The house was originally designed during the 1550's. The River Tamar can just about be seen in this shot. The house was hit by a German Incendiary Bomb. All that remained was most of the outer walls of the house. The interior of the house was destroyed. From the late 1950's to 1964 the then Earl of Mount Edgecumbe rebuilt the house. The house was then sold in 1971 and is now jointly operated by Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Council.
The Elizabethan external walls now surround a modern interior. If you were unaware of what had happened to the house you would believe that the interiors dated from the early 19th century.
This Carthusian Priory is now in the care of English Heritage.
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/mount-grace-priory/
This shows the chapel buildings.
Mount Grace Priory was founded in 1398 by Richard II’s nephew Thomas de Holland.
It is the best-preserved Carthusian monastery in England. The priory is even used by historians as a ‘type site’, or model, for the study of other medieval Carthusian buildings.
Mount Grace was one of only nine Carthusian monasteries, also known as charterhouses, in medieval England.
Carthusian monks lived solitary lives. They spent most of their time in isolated cells and lived according to a strict timetable.
Mount Grace was one of the last monasteries in Yorkshire to be suppressed during the Reformation.
In the 17th century, part of the priory was remodelled as a mansion.
In the early 20th century, the site was bought by wealthy industrialist Lowthian Bell. Bell enlarged and remodelled the mansion at Mount Grace in the Arts and Crafts style championed by William Morris.