by Don McGowan | Feb 29, 2020 | March 2020
When the entourage of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado came to what is now Northern New Mexico in 1540, the inhabitants of the Village of Taos Pueblo had been living along that portion of the upper Rio Grande Valley for perhaps 250 years, maybe longer. By 1680, the...
by Don McGowan | Feb 21, 2020 | February 2020
The lilypads at Schooner Head Pond, one of Acadia National Park’s out-of-the-way beauty spots, are taking on water in the wake of a morning onslaught of onshore wind from the Atlantic. A cloudless sky’s deep blue tones have joined the sun’s golden...
by Don McGowan | Feb 15, 2020 | Image for the Asking
From the advantage of the La Sal Loop Road, high above Castle Valley and the flow of the great Colorado River, it is an awesome view to the northwest and into the dusk-blue fastness of Arches National Park. The lines of the great butte known as The Rectory, with its...
by Don McGowan | Feb 8, 2020 | Monthly Archives
There are so many wonderful locations that lend themselves so readily to panorama expression; but for me none more so than City Pier in the Village of Bernard, Maine. There are innumerable possibilities, for example, looking across Bass Harbor through the everpresent...
by Don McGowan | Feb 1, 2020 | Monthly Archives
Although its headwaters are found within the footprint of the Blue Ridge Parkway, West Fork of the Pigeon River quickly leaves that boundary and begins a corkscrew journey through Pisgah National Forest on its way to join the mighty French Broad just outside of...
