Tag: mountains
group name: travel
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October 07, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
By Marc Ethier
Gather Correspondent
The days became weeks and the weeks months and suddenly we were staring down the departure date for our return to The States. We wanted to end with something spectacular. . . .
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July 24, 2009 11:58 PM EDT --
I'm amazed at how many pictures I took at both Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Park. Both parks have given me a new appreciation for nature & preserving it, instead of using and harming it. . . .
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April 27, 2006 07:38 PM EDT --
I used to smoke. I used to climb mountains. I used to climb mountains and smoke.
Now I don't smoke, but I will climb mountains when I get to China next week.
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October 10, 2006 02:31 PM EDT --
I took this picture last month and I don't know what kind of fruit tree it is. The picture was taken in the Pocono Mountains, PA in September. In the Spring the tree gets big . . .
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October 20, 2007 07:36 PM EDT --
This is the more of my Fall photos from the Pocono Mountains from the beginning of October.
These are all the beautiful tree photos. I took a walk from our place down to the ski slopes and . . .
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November 01, 2006 02:24 PM EST --
Hi, I'm from the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. My favorite means of transportation is my frog. I live near a pond, (that's where my frog came from) and enjoy the four . . .
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October 17, 2006 11:51 AM EDT --
Well, the news keeps telling me that the colors haven't piqued yet in the Poconos, but I know better. We went up again this past weekend and the colors at Lake Harmony and Big Boulder were not . . .
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October 31, 2006 04:53 PM EST --
We went up the mountains this weekend after being away for two weeks due to my grand daughter's first birthday party last weekend. We got a big treat this weekend. Deer! Last year . . .
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September 25, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
Hermit's Peak looks alien, looks sharp against our softly curved sky. The mountain is littered with crevices and caves, its peak rising 3700 feet above Las Vegas. The monolith was once called . . .
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September 11, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
It's time to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy the peace and beauty that nature has to offer. More than 5,000 years ago, the Native Americans were the first to settle this nature . . .
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June 18, 2009 01:39 AM EDT --
Hong Kong is a city more than anything else: big buildings, traffic, lots of people. But there are places that allow locals to commune with nature and get a bit of exercise.
This is one of my favorite . . .
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April 26, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
North Carolina’s Yadkin Valley – with its perfect climate and soil composition - plays host to a growing number of wineries. The Swan Creek area, tucked safely in the Yadkin Valley between . . .
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October 02, 2007 06:50 PM EDT --
I just finished the best vacation I ever had by touring seven states aboard the California Zephyr traveling from Toledo, Ohio to Roseville, California to visit my sister. I feel like I had two vacations . . .
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May 21, 2006 02:08 AM EDT --
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a perceptive observer of both man and nature. The Russian novelist was a brilliant writer as well, and if you have not read anything by him perhaps you . . .
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August 15, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
Well, maybe not the top of the world, but at least the top of Albuquerque.
Many of you have seen my photos of Albuquerque, as taken from the top of Sandia Peak. Some of you have asked how I got . . .
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March 28, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
Spring is almost here and I look forward to the many forms of life that Spring brings. Among them are the frogs:
The Bull Frogs fill the pond at our Pocono Mountain home. They sound . . .
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February 17, 2008 06:47 PM EST --
My youngest son left in January for a 4 to 6 month deployment in Afganistan. He doesn't like it very much because it's very cold and the poverty he sees bothers him. He sent these . . .
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August 21, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
I got home Wed. night late in the midst of the violent storms that hit the midwest. Even the pilot had to fly around and between the storm cells before we landed in St. Louis. . . .
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August 22, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
Being so close to the border of Mexico and on the main crossing highway, we see Border Patrol constantly. Even going to Tombstone and then again going to the airport we had to stop . . .
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July 13, 2006 09:48 AM EDT --
Sometimes, the best experiences in life really are free. Great Smoky Mountains National Park encompasses 800 square miles in the states of Tennessee and North Carolina and is the showcase for some of the . . .
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