Sunday Nature Quote: Natural Wonders

“In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask you to keep this great wonder of nature as it now is. I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.”

~  ~   Theodore Roosevelt

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Cee’s Fun Foto: Roads

Death Valley National Park, California

 

One Word Photo Challenge: Cream

Creamy White

 

For the Love of Geography: Pyramidal peak

Grand Teton

A pyramidal peak or glacial horn is a sharply pointed mountain peak usually with three sides. When three or more glacial cirques erode backwards to a central point they form a triangular peak, a pyramidal peak or horn.

 

Glacier National Park

The number of faces on a horn depends on how many cirques come together, however the most common is three or four. When a peak has four symmetrical sides it’s called a matter horn after the Matterhorn peak in the Alps.

Teton Range

Travel Theme: Orange

Summit Lake State Park, Indiana

 

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Monochrome Monday: Spooky Sky

Sunday Nature Quote: In the wildness…

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

~  ~   Henry David Thoreau

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

 

Fray

 

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Lavender

 

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Black and White Photos

Poseidon’s Fury – The Lost Continent, Islands of Adventure, Orlando Florida