 |
| riding the Gondola down to Telluride from Mountain Village |
 |
| box canyon behind us |
 |
 |
| riding the lift up at 9 am xmas eve |
 |
| from the top of lift 10. wide open trails |
 |
| tired but happy |
 |
| luxury |
 |
| sunset, eastern journey home |
 |
Black Canyon   |
12.30.2013
+ Telluride
My first time to telluride was wonderful and amazing. We had the mountain to ourselves with our freshly waxed boards, soaked in hot tubs after coming down the mountain, ate like royalty and slept in luxurious hotel rooms. We rode gondolas everywhere and had 5 course meals paired with wine from all corners of the world. Barbara and Nona really treated us this year. Here are my favorite pictures of sites, a couple of us, and amazing views from our small plane home to Denver. the ravine you see in a couple of these is the Black Canyon state park.
12.20.2013
12.19.2013
+ El Curiot (a.k.a Flavio Martinez)
El Curiot is a mexican street artist and one of my favorite artists of today. Communicating with gestures enacted by fantastical creatures composted of energy, texture, light and color, El Curiot pushes the envelope on street art, children's illustrations, monsters, and magic.
+
Lalibela is a mountainous area in Ethiopia famous for its a peculiar complex of twelve religious constructions built probably in the 12th or 13th century. These “Monolithic Churches” (Church of the Redeemer, of Saint Mary, of Mount Sinai, of Golgotha, of the House of the Cross, of the House of the Virgins, of Saint Gabriel, of Abba Matta, of Saint Mercurius, of Immanuel, of St. George) have been carved out of red volcanic rock in the Middle-ages probably for the will of King Lalibela. The local sovereign wished to found a a “New Jerusalem” after Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land was forced to stop due to Muslim conquest.
images by Biete Giyorgis
text by fosco lucarelli on http://socks-studio.com
+ John Muir
1. “Most people are on the world, not in it. ”
2. “Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here all the world’s prizes seem nothing.”
3. “Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.”
4. “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
5. “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
6. “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
7. “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
8. “This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
9. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
10. “There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties”
11. “I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”
12. “One day’s exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books.”
13. “Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”
14. “I never saw a discontented tree.”
15. “None of Nature’s landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.”
16. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
17. “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
18. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”
19. “The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains – mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature’s workshops.”
20. “Going to the mountains is going home.”
12.14.2013
+ Winter Walkabouts
12.07.2013
+ Nevalyashka Dolls
Most of us are familiar with the Soviet classic Matroshka, but what about Nevalyashka, the first toy for millions of Russian children in the early 1900's. The doll was inspired by the Japanese Daruma doll, which was a Zen good luck statue made to resemble the Bodhidharma Buddhist Monk.
12.06.2013
+ The new paradigm is there is no paradigm.
+
 |
| Dan Ng, Albright Training Center, NPS |
A few days ago, on Friday, November 29, The Grand Canyon was taken over by a rare weather phenomenon that filled the entire canyon with a thick layer of fog. The occurrence, called a temperature inversion, caused everyone, including rangers, to flock to the rim to take photos of it.
An inversion happens when cold air is trapped near the surface of the earth by warmer air above. Humidity in the cooler air creates the fog. While most only fill up parts of the canyon, it's rare to see the entire canyon enveloped in a sea of clouds. Text from Alice on mymodernmet.com
 |
| photographer: nameless_cat |
more pictures taken by visitors @ http://www.mymodernmet.com/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)