Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Craters of the Moon, Idaho, lava henry david thoreau, pat bean, snake river plains, weekly photo challenge: pathways on September 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” — Henry David Thoreau
One can walk a pathway through 15-million-year-old lava fields at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho's Snake River Plains. -- Photo by Pat Bean
Posted in Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged James Russell Lowe, postaday2011, weeds, weekly photo challenge: up on September 2, 2011| 2 Comments »
Weeds grown UP tall over the summer. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. ” — James Russsell Lowe
Posted in Nature, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Angel's Landing, climbing, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, hiking, postaday2011, Utah, weekly photo challenge: up, Zion National Park on August 28, 2011| 4 Comments »
Looking UP to the journey’s destination
Up high looking down
These photos were taken in 2007.
Posted in Weekly Photo Challenge, Wildflowers, tagged butterflies, flowers, Hans Christian Anderson, postaday2011, weekly photo challenge on August 24, 2011| 4 Comments »
“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” ~Hans Christian Anderson
What's a flower without a butterfly? -- Photo by Pat Bean
Posted in Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wildflowers, tagged black-eyed susans, postaday2011, weekly photo challenge: flowers on August 22, 2011| 3 Comments »
Black-eyed susans at Lake Walcott State Park -- Photo by Pat Bean
“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.” ~Susan Polis Shutz
Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Claude Monet, postaday2011, Ralph Waldo Emerson, South Llano River State Park, Texas State Parks, weekly photo challenge: entrances, Wildflowers on August 15, 2011| 7 Comments »
South Llano River State Park
Entrance to the visitor center at this Texas state park made me feel as if I had come into a world of faries. In addition to the colorful wildflowers, I was welcomed by a scarlet tanager that hung around the building. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“Earth Laughs in Flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” Claude Monet
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Antelope Island, Frary Peak, Grand Tetons, postaday2011, weekly photo challenge: mountains on August 7, 2011| 2 Comments »
Above Photo: The Grand Tetons from Togwotee Pass — Photo by Pat Bean
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” — John Muir
Antelope Island in Great Salt Lake. Only the top of this mountain, Frary Peak at 6,596 feet, was visible 20,000 years ago when the land was covered by the prehistoric Lake Bonneville. It's a 7-mile steep, round-trip hike to get to the top of the peak, where big horn sheep frolic. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.” Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Posted in Favorite Hikes, Nature, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Aurora Greenwood, Emerald Pools hike, postaday2011, weekly photo challege: broken, Zion National Canyon on August 1, 2011| 6 Comments »
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching.” — Aurora Greenway.
Broken Water
Zion National Park, Emerald Pools hike, lower falls. -- Photo by Pat Bean
I couldn’t find anything in my photo files that fit the theme “broken.” Then I came across this photo of water falling over the edge of a cliff and it reminded me of broken glass.
Is my entry into the contest quite lame or brilliant. I can’t decide, but would love to know your opinion.
Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged postaday2011, weekly photo challenge; hot, Yellowstone Alexis Carrel on July 17, 2011| 2 Comments »
Earth's hot breath: Grotto Geyser in Yellowstone National Park -- Photo by Pat Bean
“Earth leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.” Alexis Carrell
Posted in Nature, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged Lake Walcott State Park, Monica Baldwin, mornings, postaday2011, sunrises, weeklyphotochallenge on June 11, 2011| 1 Comment »
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.” ~Monica Baldwin
This morning's sunrise at Lake Walcott State Park. I'm a morning person, and catching a sunrise is the best start I can give my day. -- Photo by Pat Bean
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Pat Bean is a writer, avid birder, hiker and passionate nature observer with wanderlust in her soul. She spent nine years living and traveling in a small RV. She now lives in Tucson with Scamp, a rescue who was supposed to be a Schnauzer mix but turned out to be a Siberian Husky-Shih Tzu mix who is as stubborn as his owner, her granddaughter says. She was also a journalist for 37 years, and can be reached at patbean@msn.com
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