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Nature Quote

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. — John Muir

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Future World

Walt Disney first proposed the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow or EPCOT in a famous episode of Disney’s Wonderful World of Color television show in the late 1960’s. A little over a decade later, EPCOT Center as it was first called … Continue reading

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View 266: Great Fall in the Woods

The name Taughannock comes from the Algonquian-speaking Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Indians, referring either to chief Taughannock or the word taghkanic (great fall in the woods) [Source Wikipedia]. I like the latter definition of Taughannock as you walk on a trail in the woods along a meandering creek to the … Continue reading

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View 265: Water and Ice

The transformation of Ithaca Falls in winter is an amazing sight.  Where water flowed freely was now incased in icicles.  Where the water still flows is now restricted and takes different paths down the rocky cascade. A close up view … Continue reading

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View 264: Dancing Trees

Blustery days are the bane of Landscape photographers looking for static subjects in beautiful light and dramatic sky.  Me, I like to take advantage of how the wind moves objects normally thought of as solid. Trees must sway and move when … Continue reading

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