by Don McGowan | Oct 29, 2016 | October 2016
Chaco Canyon is special to me beyond words. It is a place that always evokes the twin feelings of awe and mystery, and the more we learn about the Chacoans and their culture, the more enigmatic they seem to become. It is quite possible, even likely, we of this time...
by Don McGowan | Oct 21, 2016 | October 2016
Seventy-two million years before the present, give or take a few, but not too many, igneous intrusions began welling up beneath what is now the east central region of the Colorado Plateau. The floor of the upwellings was fairly level and the upper portion was...
by Don McGowan | Oct 16, 2016 | October 2016
When the glacial ice sheets retreated from Cape Cod, they left a dry depression in the land – a kettle – where a great block of ice had melted. Eventually, over millennia, as the rising seas lifted the fresh water table of the land, the depression began to...
by Don McGowan | Oct 8, 2016 | October 2016
I have been to Pete’s Lake quite a few times over the past 14 years, and each occasion is a completely novel experience. From being shrouded in fog to a clarity that pierces the eye, Pete’s is always a treat; and this year was certainly no exception. We...
by Don McGowan | Oct 1, 2016 | October 2016
If I photographed Bond Falls a thousand times, I would wish to photograph it a thousand more. The beautiful upper cataract on the Middle Branch of the Ontonagon River, surrounded by Ottawa National Forest, is always so captivating as to draw me back and to look for...
