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A Winter Escape: Blackwater Falls State Park
I was longing for some snow. Serious winter snow. So when our friends proposed a pre-New Year escape to the Blackwater Falls State Park in West Virginia, we signed up. One of the stores at the park We...
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Winter Calm at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
Our autumn sunrise at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge ended up among the favorites in the assortment of impressions and memories of the past year. The Refuge is a serene and meditative place in...
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Point Lobos: The Sea Wolves Calling
If the cozy views of Carmel-by-the-Sea get too saccharine for your taste, head four miles south to witness “the greatest meeting of land and water in the world,” Point Lobos State Reserve, 554 acres of...
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Skygazing at Lick Observatory
With the haunting beauty of Point Lobos behind us, we headed north to the Diablo Range and Mount Hamilton, a four-thousand-foot giant overlooking Silicone Valley. A domed structure crowns the...
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Hilo’s Magic: Sacred Stones and Waterfalls
After soaring over lava, our afternoon in Hilo was a bit of a blur. I remember the rows of colorful, two-story buildings, frayed, but cheerful, many dating back to the sugar boom of the 1920s; the...
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The Dancing Men of Puako
Thirty miles north of the tranquil Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park is another hidden gem, the Puako Petroglyph Archaeological Preserve, one of the largest petroglyph fields in Hawaii. Over...
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The King’s Golden Plover
This week’s Photo Challenge is Object. Here’s mine — an object I almost overlooked: the golden plover of the Ahu’ena Heiau, the temple that Kamehameha the Great chose as his own when he returned to the...
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