Tiny tendrils
reach out,
slender shoots
of purple
create intricate design.
17 July 2011
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Colorado
Category Archives: National Park
Purple flowers, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve 1
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Purple flowers, Mount Rushmore National Memorial
The 2010 tour of the northern Great Plains
took Tricia and me to the
Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
We marveled at the mammoth stone
and the incredible feat of design and engineering
cut into the rock.
We marveled at the intricate beauty
of purple flowers
found along one of the trails.
5 September 2010
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
near Keystone, SD
Filed under National Park, Photo, Travel
Purple flowers, Rocky Mountain National Park 5
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 July 2011
Delicate, tiny petals
create a field of purple.
See you along the Trail.
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Purple flowers, Rocky Mountain National Park 4
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 June 2011
A
solitary
purple
sentry
stands
at
its
appointed
post.
See you along the Trail.
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Purple flowers, Rocky Mountain National Park 3
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 July 2011
The journey through
Rocky Mountain National Park
continued.
At some point,
I learned that
National Park Rangers
enforce the speed limit.
But he was nice
and allowed a warning
to suffice.
This may have been before,
it may have been after;
for certain it is
a different spot in the park
and
a different shade of purple.
See you along the Trail.
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Purple flowers, Rocky Mountain National Park 2
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 June 2011
As in other places,
bees enjoy purple flowers in
Rocky Mountain National Park.
See you along the Trail.
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Purple flowers, Rocky Mountain National Park 1
Rocky Mountain National Park
9 July 2011
During the summer of 2011,
I spent a couple of days in Rocky Mountain National Park
where I found many purple flowers –
even if I don’t know their names.
Several photos from that trip will follow over the next couple weeks.
See you along the Trail.
Filed under National Park, Photo
Purple flowers, Riverside Discovery Center, Scottsbluff
Riverside Discovery Center and Zoo
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
6 September 2010
The 2010 Great Plains Tour made its way through Nebraska.
There we paused to visit the small zoo in Scottsbluff.
Never did figure out why the town is called Scottsbluff
and the National Monument is called Scotts Bluff.
Of course I never tried.
See you along the Trail.
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Hamilton Grange
After preaching at St. James Presbyterian Church, a true blessing, I walked a short way up 141st Street to visit my first National Park of the year. Historians believe that the Hamilton Grange National Memorial is the only home owned by Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
The home has an interesting tale. It stands on its third site – having been moved twice as the city grew around it. Hamilton owned the land.
The site involves a brief tour. Only a few rooms on the first floor are open to the public. There is an informative display and two movies. One tells the amazing story of moving the Grange. The second move involved the use of hydraulics and lifting – yes lifting – the building over the church beside it. The second tells the amazing story of Alexander Hamilton. It hooked me. I need to learn more.
From the Grange, I walked home through St. Nicholas Park and the City College of New York on a beautiful, cool January day.
See you along the Trail.
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It is a game
I took this on 8 July 2011
in Rocky Mountain National Park.
It seemed an incongruous place
to see a football.
Yet tonight, while looking through old pictures,
it seems a metaphor
for how tangled athletics can become,
particularly at major colleges.
Amidst a tangled, overgrown culture
that can emphasize winning
demand sports generate income, and
tolerate alcohol abuse, exploitation of women, homophobia;
amidst a tangled, overgrown culture
where athletes can receive preferential treatment
that may included academic assistance (and more) or
a bending of disciplinary processes;
amidst a tangled, overgrown culture
where athletes may receive scholarships and
leave school without actually learning anything;
amidst a tangled, overgrown culture,
it becomes too easy to forget,
to fail to see,
that at its heart,
it is a game.
22 November 2011
Shire on the Hudson
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Along the Graybeard Trail 