BS: Special places

Subject: BS: Your special places
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 10:33 PM

Everyone has a special place. Care to share them, pictures or otherwise?

Here is one, Sable Island, far offshore Nova Scotia....great pictures that take you to an important place that only has about two perminent human residents:

http://www.greenhorsesociety.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 10:41 PM

Many years ago, I drove thru Capitol Reef when it was not yet a National Park. I have not been able to get back, but I love the views, and the internet allows me to be amazed again.

..and yes, Sable Island looks like a wonderful place to explore.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 11:44 PM

Several years ago, I took the dawn mail boat across the glassy waters to Isle au Haut, a part of Acadia National Park that is just off the coast of Maine in Penobscot Bay ("where the bays come together").

This place is so pretty that Gordon Bok wrote two songs about it, Hills of Isle au Haut, and Isle au Haut Lullaby.

HILLS OF ISLE AU HAUT
(Gordon Bok)

Away and to the westward
Is a place a man should go
Where the fishing's always easy
They've got no ice or snow

But I'll haul down the sail
Where the bays come together
Bide away the days
On the hills of Isle au Haut ^^^

-Joe

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: open mike
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 03:57 AM

My favorite place has to be Lamoille canyon in the ruby Mts of NeVada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamoille_Canyon
http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2030/
http://www.nevadaweb.com/cnt/cc/lamoille/main.html
http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.aspx?trailid=XFA102-033

The little town at the base of this canyon is over a mile high,
and has its own little herd of deer that inhabit the town. Also
there is a motel there with just 3 rooms. There is lots of wild
life in the canyon...mt. sheep, beavers, and lots of other critters.

It is snowing in the ruby mt.s tonite.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 07:08 AM

We've just built our house (with as light a footprint as we could manage) on a beautiful spot, in the woods of New England in Nelson, New Hampshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:07 AM

I have many special places; Scotland, my favorite city is Edenburgh, Northern England, St. Martin, Vermont, and of course, my home state of Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:28 AM

I don't believe a mere photograph will do justice to Glen Coe

My favourite place in the world. Hauntingly beautiful and desolate is all I can say.

If I did not have arthritis, I would love to tent camp there and wander and walk about for days.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:40 AM

Here is my special place.

And only about 15 minutes from where we live.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:58 AM

Glen Coe! another wise soul!
I stood on the very spot where the bonfire was lit to signal the Campbells to slaughter the MacDonalds. Such brooding beauty I have seen nowhere else.

"Cruel is the snow that sweeps Glen Coe
And covers the grave of Donald
And cruel is the foe that raped Glen Coe
And murdered the house of MacDonald"

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: kendall
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 09:58 AM

And to think, I married a Campbell! What was I thinking?

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: gnu
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 10:12 AM

Your favourite place is really the cellar.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 11:18 AM

I will always have a VERY soft spot for this place !

Thank you mary !

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 11:26 AM

Oh, some of the beautiful places on Earth I saw with my adored wife of ½-century now gone for ever:— Stonehenge back in the old days when you could just walk among the stones; Yong-Hagong lamasery in Beijing; the foyer of the Chrysler Building to look at the amazing elevator doors & the great hall of Grand Central almost next door; Bryce Canyon, Utah, whose 'hoodoos' look as if they are carved out of terra cotta; the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem; the exquisite Strip in Las Vegas, Kitsch Capital of the World, with the Evening Star & a crescent moon shining above Caesar's Palace as part of the light-show; the Chicago waterfront at night from the top of John Hancock; King's College Chapel from the Backs in Cambridge - we'd see it every few days & it never failed to take our breaths away; the Taj Mahal of course — just as one would expect, only more so, with, when we were there, a horse-drawn lawnmower in action in front; the view down over Paris from La Place Du Tertre in Montmartre; the view from Westminster Bridge which is still as Wordsworth said; St Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in the snow (That's enough nostalgia - ed — you'll start crying in a minute...

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 11:39 AM

... but back just for long enough for the Trevi Fountain in Rome & the Signoria in Florence & anywhere you like in Venice — &, oh, it was bullocks, not horses, pulling the Taj Mahal lawnmower...

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 11:49 AM

I have too many to list, but here's a few:

Being on the Mississippi River when the sun is just coming up a dissipating the morning fog;

Brendan's Cove;

Burnham, Dingle, with a turf fire and the craic going;

Craters of the Moon;

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon;

Chaco;

The Great Bone Lick, Kentucky;

Cahokia;

and others.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 01:06 PM

My first visit to Glen Coe was the summer after my daughter Andie passed away. It was all gloom and so suited my frame of mind. Then suddenly we saw sun light over Rannoch Moor in the distance and the chase for sunlight ensued.

That day and the chase did much to help me come to grips with my grief. It was ok to be sad and equally ok to seek happiness.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 01:50 PM

Here are a couple of pics I took years ago at Cannon Beach, Oregon.... a wondrous place. Google it for many more...
daytime
and at nightfall

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: gnu
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 01:54 PM

I used to go to a spot I called "The Top of the Trailer Road" (named by me).

It was the height of land for miles... just 800m from some of the biggest bog country of Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada. On the crest of this small hill, there was an old pulp yard about 100m X 200m, with the Trailer Road running through it at N13.

I used to spend days and nights there, walking many miles around it and also sitting there on an old log and, at night, laying on the ground looking up at the whole sky.... you could reach out and touch forever.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 02:02 PM

An old Alberta outhouse. Quiet solitude.

Alberta outhouse

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 02:32 PM

Lovely outhouse...

reminds me of the old song by Billy Ed Wheeler...
Ode To The Little Brown Shack

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Alice
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 02:42 PM

Special place - where I live, a hiking trail that is lined with wildflowers and gives a panoramic view of the town and mountains.
View from trail on mountainside.

St Mary Lake, Glacier Nat'l Park


Los Chorros falls in El Salvador

falls on the big island of Hawaii

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 03:11 PM

Three more to ponder:

Margaree Valley, Cape Breton Nova Scotia, Canada, in autumn:

http://gocanada.about.com/od/novascotia/ig/Cape-Breton-Pictures/Margaree-Valley--Cape-Breton.htm

Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, Canada(Touristy, but you can lose yourself there):
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=8gw&q=hopewell+rocks+new+brins

Deer Island, New Brunswick< Canada:
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=YPH&resnum=0&q=deer+Island+new

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Alice
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 03:47 PM

Ross Creek Cedar Grove, Northwest Montana


more of the Cedar Grove

and more of the twisted roots

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 04:24 PM

My head is full of childhood memories of Squirrel Island, just down the Mainer coast from Isle au Haut.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 04:44 PM

In southern Kentucky a small creek flows into the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River. About a mile upstream is the most beautiful little canyon I ever encountered and at its end is a waterfall only 4 foot wide but 113 foot tall and its named YAHOO FALLS.   There is some history associated with this little place deep in the woods that may or may not be completely factual but the cave behind the falls played a part in it and you can see it IN THIS PICTURE (scroll down).

In the winter, the falls often freeze top to bottom and as the thaw comes there seems to be a volcano of ice with the falls in the middle-------not the best photo but the only one I could find.

Its a beautiful and almost haunting kind of place and I was lucky to be able to take Karen there for a very romantic day many years ago. If we never make it back, its still a wonderful memory. Its not far from the far better known and lovely Cumberland Falls where one or two NIGHTS a month and under only the right atmospheric conditions you can be treated to something rarely seen anywhere else......a MOONBOW


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: pdq
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 05:11 PM

Here is Rustler Park, high at the top of the Chiricahua Mountains in the southeastern corner of Arizona.   


                                                                                  a meadow

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: DougR
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 05:21 PM

Clifden, Connemara, Ireland.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 06:04 PM

sundogs+arctic

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: RangerSteve
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 01:46 PM

In the Museum of Naturay History in New York City, theres a room devoted to Pacific Northwest Indian artifacts - totem poles, carved boats, etc. For some reason, no one ever goes there. It feels like it's the quietest place on earth. When I lived in Brooklyn, I would go there whenever I needed to get out of the city but didn't have time to travel. It's almost a religious experience.

Without traveling too far from my home in New Jersey I can recommend anywhere along the Delaware River, north of Washington Crossing, especially on a Summer evening. The Delaware Water Gap, especially on the New Jersey side of the river, and then more of the Delaware in New York, north of Port Jervis.

In the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, there are lots of peaceful out of the way places, my favorite being the monument to Emilio Caranza, a Mexican aviator who crashed back in the 20's on flight from NYC to Mexico City. The monument is back in the woods on a road that no one ever travels and few people know about it. Another extremely quiet and peaceful place.

The Catskill and Adirondack Mountains in NY, Letchworth State Park in western NY, the Hudson River north of New York City.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 03:08 PM

Seeing these colours in the sky must be awsome:
http://photoclub.canadiangeographic.ca/photos/randy_burns/category38244/picture147006.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 01:06 PM

My second favourite place

under the trees on the Chickahominy River

The sun on Chickahominy River

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 01:26 PM

If you come out of Castleton, Debyshire, up Winnats Pass you could be excused for thinking it was my favourite place. But you would be wrong! Go a little further, up Mam Tor or Lords Seat, or of in a car simply to Mam Nick, and the vista opens out onto the Vale of Edale. No matter how many times I see, and it must now be in 3 figures, it takes my breath away. Mind you, that could be the climb up Mam Tor...

I cannot seem to link them but you will find pics in Google images. Enjoy

Dave (The Manchester Rambler)

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: gnu
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 03:24 PM

Some in the past.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: gnu
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 03:29 PM

Yes... in answer to a PM years ago... that is me laying out out line in the river. Standing on a rock 4' from 16' deep water, full of Brilliants... some well over 60 pounds.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 02:42 AM

Gnu - you show off :)

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 03:44 PM

This is the neighborhood beach about 2 minutes walk from the house I grew up in.

Willard Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 09:55 AM

Some nice photos of the Faroe Islands, except the pilot whale ones.

Faroe Islands

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 10:05 AM

Photo contest


National Geographic Photo Contest

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Megan L
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 10:37 AM

this is one of my favourite places on earth by Harray Loch
From the side of the boathouse on a warm summers evening looking back across the loch towards Ward Hill on the island of Hoy as the sun is setting.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: maeve
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 10:38 AM

Lovely place, Megan.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:06 PM

This is the first time I've noticed this thread. Such lovely photos. Sadly, some of the links no longer work.

It is probably no surprise to those who've read my comments that perhaps my favorite place is Mystic Seaport. Here's one photo: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150661376719288&set=a.145567649287.112196.27795854287&type=1&theater and here's the website. http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=1

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: gnu
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:40 PM

Ed... fantastic pics of the Faroes. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Special places
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 12 - 02:49 PM

The ONLY bad thing about Juneau, Alaska's scenic beauty is that our water is COLD, so it is next to impossible to imagine sliding gently into the clear streams, turning over and floating on one's back, gazing into a lambent blue sky. Or dabbling bare toes into a running current. A good share of our beauty is look but don't touch. :)