by Lui Umano | Sep 10, 2015 | September 2015
For fourteen Septembers I found myself excited to be in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. There is the most beautiful fall foliage I have had the privilege to encounter. Over all of those years my sense of the beautiful has been expanded immeasurably by all...
by Lui Umano | Sep 3, 2015 | September 2015
It is called Kuwahi, Mulberry Place, where the Bear Clan gathers for councils and to dance before retiring to their dens for the winter months. At 6643′ it is the second highest peak in eastern North America and the highest point in Tennessee. In the early light...
by Lui Umano | Aug 28, 2015 | August 2015
The Burr Trail Road is named for a man who was born aboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean in 1846. His family, moving south from Salt Lake City, established the town of Burrville, Utah in 1876. The man, John Atlantic Burr, became a rancher and opened this trail as a way...
by Lui Umano | Aug 22, 2015 | August 2015
The high desert is beauty in innumerable forms. Just south of Taos you can look westward across the long slash of the Rio Grande River Gorge and into the convergence of that great river with its tributary, Rio Pueblo de Taos. Beyond this, the La Madera Mountains rise...
by Lui Umano | Aug 14, 2015 | August 2015
There is a point at which a 40′ wide strip of land is all that connects the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park with the rest of the plateau. One day Shafer Canyon will erode itself through that strip and Island in the Sky will become an...
