crater lake: Tuesday Travelogue-July 21st
- 07/21/15 01:41 AM
Tuesday Travelogue-July 21st Welcome to the ongoing weekly series called Tuesday Travelogue. We are in our fifty-fifth week! Each week, some ActiveRain bloggers are spotlighted to take us somewhere we may not have been on some kind of virtual travel (and it doesn't cost a dime!). Here is the purpose:
" to enjoy the ride" "take a trip without even leaving the farm" "expand your horizons" "see through someone else's eyes" and hopefully much more!
We are on our alphabetical trip across America. Today it's my state--OREGON!!! Sunriver Oregon is one of my alltime favorite places. I had not seen this video before, from 2010 and it is STUNNING, start to finish. (20 comments)
crater lake: John Muir's childhood home now a nature preserve!
- 11/04/14 08:26 AM
As you all know, nature is very important to me and I hold her in high esteem. So did John Muir! I wanted to share this special story supporting and saving a beautiful part of America, John Muir's special place called Fountain Lake Farm.. With the Sierra Club's help, the Fountain Lake Farm has been purchased and protected as part of a 1,400-acre natural preserve. He is the founder of The Sierra Club and a great naturalist who truly loved nature and kept it sacred throughout his life. He was an influence on and friend of one of my all-time favorite photographers, (12 comments)