Wicked Beautiful Scenery

[xotoxi]

Take a time out of your busy schedule to enjoy some beautiful scenery.

Scotland

Finland

Colorado

 

[xotoxi]

Coastal Maine

http://twin-pines-farm.smugmug.com/photos/102388152-L-1.jpg

 

[sitarro]

What's with the sail on that one boat?
Beautiful shots.

 

[xotoxi]

What's with the sail on that one boat?

This link describes it (near the middle of the page).

The lobster gangs of Maine - Google Book Search

Basically, the sail is used on windy days and keeps the boat pointed into the wind to help with stability.

 

[strollingbones]

finland...who knew how beautiful....thanks for sharing

 

[Dis]

Coastal Maine

http://twin-pines-farm.smugmug.com/photos/102388152-L-1.jpg

**packs bags and moved into picture #3**

 

[Sarah G]

Take a time out of your busy schedule to enjoy some beautiful scenery.

Gorgeous. I have a few that my sister sent me that are beautiful as well. I'll post them in awhile.

 

[xotoxi]

**packs bags and moved into picture #3**

Welcome to Portland Head Light

 

[xotoxi]

Mount Washington Hotel, New Hampshire

 

[Phoenix]

Amazing pics. Thanks for putting them out for the rest of us to see.

 

[xotoxi]

I encourage everyone to add pics...especially of the region of the world in which you live.

 

[Coloradomtnman]

Colorado

I lived about a mile from where this picture was taken, near the town of Leadville. This is the Arkansas River (just near to where it begins, that's why it looks like creek, not that Colorado Rivers are rivers to anyone from east of the Mississippi). That mountain in the photo is Mt. Elbert, the highest mountain in Colorado at 14,433 feet above sea level.

Here are some other photos of Colorado:

This area is called American Flats, near the town of Ouray in the Uncompahgre Wilderness Area. What you are looking at is alpine tundra all around 12,000 feet in elevation.

This is Vestal Peak, 13,803 feet above sea level. What you are looking at is 2,000 feet tall. I climbed it naked and without a rope on my 26th Birthday. Most beautiful mountain I've ever climbed.

This is the East Face (aka The Diamond) of Longs Peak: 14,259 feet. That face is 2,500 feet tall. I've nearly died on this mountain 3 different times.

This is the Ice Lakes Basin. One of the most spectularly beautifiul places in Colorado.

You can't drive, four-wheel, or ATV to any of these places and it should be kept that way. If you aren't strong enough, then don't go; stay home and leave it for those of us who make the effort and want the solitude and untrammeled beauty of wilderness.

 

[xotoxi]

Colorado

I lived about a mile from where this picture was taken, near the town of Leadville. This is the Arkansas River (just near to where it begins, that's why it looks like creek, not that Colorado Rivers are rivers to anyone from east of the Mississippi). That mountain in the photo is Mt. Elbert, the highest mountain in Colorado at 14,433 feet above sea level.

Here are some other photos of Colorado:

This area is called American Flats, near the town of Ouray in the Uncompahgre Wilderness Area. What you are looking at is alpine tundra all around 12,000 feet in elevation.

This is Vestal Peak, 13,803 feet above sea level. What you are looking at is 2,000 feet tall. I climbed it naked and without a rope on my 26th Birthday. Most beautiful mountain I've ever climbed.

This is the East Face (aka The Diamond) of Longs Peak: 14,259 feet. That face is 2,500 feet tall. I've nearly died on this mountain 3 different times.

This is the Ice Lakes Basin. One of the most spectularly beautifiul places in Colorado.

You can't drive, four-wheel, or ATV to any of these places and it should be kept that way. If you aren't strong enough, then don't go; stay home and leave it for those of us who make the effort and want the solitude and untrammeled beauty of wilderness.

That's beautiful!

 

[Zoom-boing]

Ok, I give. How do you get pictures to post bigger on here? Everytime I post pics they always turnout thumbnail size. <sigh>

 

[Care4all]

on a stone bench, there was this plaque there, placed by this woman's husband. This was in Acadia national park, on Jordan Pond, Mount Dessert island...the coast of Maine

ALL at Acadia National Park....this is what she was looking at and what she loved about the park....but it wasn't a Park back then...:

 

[Care4all]

other Bar Harbor, Maine coast views

 

[Mrs. G S Patton]

Mt. Evans Colorado, with my pups

 

[Care4all]

Lupines in bloom, in May last year, not too much of a wait for all the spring flowers!!!!!!!

 

[Yurt]

SLO

 

[Care4all]

one of my favorite pics of my favorite house's yard in a town near by called Castine.