by Don McGowan | Dec 5, 2020 | December 2020
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park is a sacred, special place. Located along the northeastern border of Arizona and southeastern Utah, and wholly within the Navajo (Dine) Nation, it is a land of massive sandstone buttes and mesas enfolding five square miles of lithic...
by Don McGowan | Nov 28, 2020 | November 2020
It is sometimes true that things are not what they seem. Often when I am in the massive forests of the Great Smoky Mountains I see the trees as they have been seen by human eyes for many thousands of years; and their beauty in those forms carries me completely away....
by Don McGowan | Nov 21, 2020 | November 2020
As if to offer an encouraging wave to the passing waters, an old sycamore, whose roots long ago reached into the flow of Big Creek, extends an autumn colored branch to the rippling stream. Perhaps the golden throng will join an already-fallen sibling, poised on a rock...
by Don McGowan | Nov 15, 2020 | November 2020
Just because the autumn leaves are on the ground does not mean the season of color has gone. Some of the most appealing intimate landscapes of fall can be found only when the leaves have loosened their grips on the stems that have held them since spring and allowed...
by Don McGowan | Nov 7, 2020 | November 2020
After passing through a wonderfully forested and lightly farmed portion of Alger County, County Road H58 turns northeastward to skim the boundary of the eastern reaches of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on its run to Hurricane Beach and beyond to the village of...
