Welcome to the Land of the Standing Up Rocks, aka the Chiricahua National Monument, a collection of standing stones worn by wind and weather into weird and wonderful shapes. Those mountains in the distance are the Dragoon Mountains, where the Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise’s Stronghold is. He died there and his people rode their horses…
I took this panorama standing on top of a dune at the far end of the loop that goes into White Sands National Park. It is one of the most extraordinary places I’ve ever been and I wished I’d brought one of those big green trash bags with me. Read on. You know that cheap…
Pictures of cherry blossom trees near peak bloom in Washington, D.C. I would love to see this one day. (h/t 1440) Ladies and gentlemen, the Yodabug. More Star Wars bugs here. The Latin tags are great, too. (h/t Kottke) Quote: “Maybe the next movie in the Terminator franchise will be “Terminator: Trade War,” in which…
These National Park Service Lego vignettes make putting up with Facebook worthwhile. Love the poster on the wall. They did a good job of keeping count of the not-so-funny government shutdown, too.
THAT AFTERNOON I INVESTIGATE the camp’s nature exhibit, where I learn how to tell how old a Dall sheep is (think tree rings), examine resource files labeled Aurora through Giardia (from the sublime to the ridiculous), and reverently touch the wing feather of a golden eagle. “What is it you want guests to take away…
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ON A SUNNY DAY in southcentral Alaska, an official indicator of just how nice a day it is is, “The mountain’s out.” Which mountain? Well, obviously, you don’t live here. “The mountain” is of course, Denali, all 20,320 feet of it. A hundred miles from Anchorage, it looms up substantially on the northern horizon nonetheless.…
Read more “The mountain’s out.” Which mountain? Well, obviously, you don’t live here.