by Don McGowan | Jun 27, 2021 | June 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
While many of our days during the past two weeks of our Acadia adventure(s) were filled with bright sunshine and the contrast that accompanies it, the day chosen to visit the White Birth Path during the second week was marked by an overcast sky and a near complete...
by Don McGowan | Jun 20, 2021 | June 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Over the past twenty-three years Little Hunters Beach has become a spiritual pilgrimage component of my adventures on Mount Desert Island and in Acadia National Park. It’s impossible to imagine that my time here would not include a visit to this special place....
by Don McGowan | Jun 12, 2021 | June 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
For quite a few years Bonnie and I have had the privilege and the pleasure of conducting photography workshops based at the Seawall Motel in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Our hosts have been Dave and Vickie Lloyd and their family, whom we have come to know as dear friends....
by Don McGowan | Jun 4, 2021 | June 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Almon Thompson, who was John Wesley Powell’s brother-in-law and accompanied Powell on his second expedition in 1872, was given the honor of naming the set of mountains that were found south and west of what is now Hanksville, Utah. They were the last mountain...
by Don McGowan | May 28, 2021 | May 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
Cowee Mountains Overlook sits astride MM430.7 about one-half mile from and, at 5950′ in elevation a mere sixty feet lower than Richland Balsam Overlook, the highest point on the entire run of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Many of the cross-stitch ridges off the...
by Don McGowan | May 23, 2021 | May 2021, Monthly Archives, Uncategorized
As I wandered along the confluenceof Middle Prong of Little Pigeon and Porter’s Creek in Greenbrier, it occurred to me that the spindly, downward reaching limbs of an old red maple (Acer rubrum) had come to form a curtain of lacy green through which I could peek...
