Nothings says get out of bed early like the prospect of a day of waterfalls. That is how Laura and I started, but before we hit the waterfalls of Watkins Glen State Park, we decided to visit its town and search for coffee. We later learned that this town of...
Back home again, we decided to have an outing at John Forrest National Park. Inspired by all the water we saw on Lover’s Lane and Noble Falls, we were sure THIS time there would be water in the waterfalls at John Forrest. The last times we went, there was not...
{Could be subtitled, “Our Vacation and What We Came Home To“} The content of this post and its title are not going to appear to match, that is, unless you read it all of the way to the end. Most of the content will be about a quick trip to...
We have been to Lesmurdie Falls back in the spring of 2013, but since we recently had some rains, seemed like a good idea to revisit the falls. Since this time we are in the beginning of autumn and unlike before, the end of rains season, there wasn’t as much...
After Upper and Middle Falls, and then the lookout, we made our way to Lower Falls. To be honest, at this point, I had had it with hiking and declined to take the steps down to Lower Falls. When Rubi returned from even more hiking, she wasn’t too tired to...
In between waterfalls we stopped at a look-out. The first inhabitants are known by the Native people as the “Old Ones”. The first Old Ones followed the great Mastodons (such as the Pike Mastodon found in the Park’s Museum) and other animals to the Valley when it still resembled an...
When you need a place to stay for 10 people, what could be better than a farmhouse close to gorges, waterfalls, and cute towns? Enric and Laura found a charming and cozy 1860’s farmhouse in Spencer, New York, which we quickly found out on our arrival, the photos on the...
So after hours of travel, we were finally at our first destination, Taughannock Falls State Park. We parked at the visitor center and to my surprise, greeted with the Maryland state flower right here in New York! Taughannock Falls State Park’s namesake waterfall is one of the outstanding natural attractions...
Well Laura did the driving and I did the taking photos. (Or as John calls it, “Drive by Shooting.”) Laura asked me if I wanted to go with her one weekend to New York to see some waterfalls. I said YES! I didn’t have to think about it much, I...
Things you remember as a child… My mom turned on the movie Born Free one evening, she made a big deal out of it, and I was instantly in love with lions and of all things, the Indian Ocean. There was one part of the movie where the lion cubs...
“In the roar of Your waterfalls, ancient depths surge, calling out to the deep.” Psalm 42:7 Inspired by all the rain and the waterfalls we have already seen, we decided to go to Lesmurdie Falls.
Less than a month ago we went to John Forrest National Park, hoping that we could see a waterfall, but there had been no rain to speak of and no waterfall, not one drop! With a holiday weekend ahead and two good rains behind us, we thought we would try...
Often when John takes me somewhere, I think of my children, if only they could see this…but today, I REALLY thought of my kids. They love a nice hike and the prospects I saw for Enric to enjoy mountain biking were abundant here in John Forrest National Park. John Forrest...
Sometimes with the Terragen program, after the render, I would put the image into a graphics program and give it some post work. Sometimes the actual render had an atmosphere of something not real, something make believe, fantasy images, if you will.
