by Don McGowan | Mar 20, 2020 | March 2020
There is a thin peninsula of a headland that juts into the great chasm of the Grand Canyon from the southern extremity of the North Rim’s Kaibab Plateau. Though technically part of the Kaibab, it has been given the separate name of the Walhalla Plateau. One day,...
by Don McGowan | Mar 14, 2020 | March 2020
One hundred and Seventy (170,000,000) million years ago, a vast inland sea covered what is now South-central Utah. Over time large deposits were laid down along the margins of that body of water. Eventually, those Jurassic deposits were exposed and weathered; one of...
by Don McGowan | Mar 7, 2020 | March 2020
When the sun sets in Chaco Canyon, it lights up the western flank of that sacred, Cretaceous sandstone remnant, Fajada Butte, a fairly spectacular sight all by itself. Nearly 180 degrees away from Fajada, on the day following the new moon, the Syzygy (new moon) for...
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 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...
