Thursday, March 25, 2010

One More Mountain

House Mt
This mountain is the Bald Eagle Mt. along the Susquehanna River in Northern Pennsylvania. This Fall picture highlights the mountain with the farm house in the center.
Date: October 19, 2003

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

A Monolithic Mountain

DevilsTower.01
Devil's Tower in Wyoming is an iconic sight. It is also a holy place for many. One can see how it would appear to be something supernatural when traveling across wide open spaces.
Date: July 25, 2007

Thursday, March 18, 2010

A Ship in the Desert

Shiprock73
Shiprock, a sacred place in Navajo Land, in Arizona. The haze and sun in the background add to the holiness of the vision.
Date: September 1973 (Scanned from slide)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

My First Glacier

Glacier2
This is the glacier near Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps. This was the first (and so far only) real glacier I have seen in person. It was a day trip from Salzburg where I was a student in 1970.
Date: Summer 1970 (Scanned from slide)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Pointing the Way

Crazy Horse.03
A model and the mountain being carved into the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota. May it remind all of us of the greater history of our land.
Date: July 23, 2007

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Old, New, Green, Blue

Alhambra4
Contrasts in color and style at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
Date: April 10, 2002

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Catching Rays

Flower along way to Elba Fire Tower
Spring flowers finding the spot of sun near Elba, MN.
Soon! Soon!
Date: May 31, 2009

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Snow White Tree

SnowWhiteTree
White trees always stand out in the woods, even with the snow, as if they are taking their color from the ground covering. In the woods at Mt. Morris Camp near Wautoma, WI.
Date: 12/31/2004

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Birds and Building

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The tower of one of the buildings at Ellis Island in New York. The nearly invisible birds in the upper left go with the reflections on the tower from the water around the island.
Date: June, 1999

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Snow At the Edge

SnowPier
Snow and the entrance to a lakeside pier at Mt. Morris Camp near Wautoma, WI.
Date: 12/31/2004

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

An Earlier Olympic Venue

Berlin '70 Olympic Flame from 1936
With the Olympics going on now, I thought I would show the site of the historic Berlin Games of 1936 with the Olympic flame still standing. It has been significantly renovated since I took this picture nearly 40 years ago.
Date: Summer 1970 (scanned from slide)

Thursday, February 11, 2010

A Spring Reminder

Hanging
Hanging flowers cover a walkway at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Spring will arrive here one day, too.
Date: April 10, 2002

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

A Farm Horizon

Farm
The farmstead makes the horizon easier to discern with the snow and reflected sun.
Date: 1/2/2010

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Stars and Planes

StarTrailPlanes
Star trails around the North Star taken near Lenhartsville, PA, at a friend's lake home. And moving across them are the trails of two airplanes- human inventions across nature.
Date: Summer in the late 1970s (scanned from slide)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Color in the Cemetery

SnowCemetery
The cemetery at Berea Moravian Church near St. Charles, MN, has color from the cemetery itself. Not as much an irony as one might think when you consider Christian theology.
Date: 1/2/2010