by Lui Umano | Feb 21, 2015 | February 2015
Whatever else it may be – and I say this thinking about the winter of 2015 and our friends in New England – the relationship between snow and old barns is magical. In Madison County, North Carolina one of those particular magical relationships is the Dolph...
by Lui Umano | Feb 13, 2015 | February 2015
In one of our favorite Madison County barns there is a beautiful old threshing machine, an implement known more simply and affectionately as a “thresher.” Threshers make easier, more efficient work of the task of separating the grains and seeds of small...
by Lui Umano | Feb 7, 2015 | February 2015
At 8803′ Point Imperial on the North Rim is the highest overlook in Grand Canyon National Park, and since it faces primarily eastward there is no chance of a sunset opportunity, yet something almost as spectacular can sometimes be seen. Looking to the northeast,...
by Lui Umano | Jan 31, 2015 | February 2015
To peer into the vastness of the Grand Canyon from any vantage point is to peer deep into the seeming endlessness of geological time. To gaze into its depths down the axis of Bright Angel Canyon looking toward its confluence with the greater chasm is to be given an...
