Here and There
Mount Desert Island, Maine-- Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. (Robert Frost)
The Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois is the oldest surviving Bahá’í temple. It was designed by French-Canadian architect Louis Bourgeois. Construction started in the 1920s but due to the Great Depression and World War II was not completed until 1953.
The rugged peaks of the Canadian Rockies enclose a serene canyon near Banff, Alberta.
U. S. President Barack Obama in Seoul, Korea in March 2012.
The Burying Ground in Hartford, Connecticut was the colonial town’s cemetery beginning in the 1640s.
The coastline near Cheticamp, Nova Scotia.
Doorway at Christ Church Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick. The cathedral itself is said to be one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in Canada.
A memorial at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 as part of a civil rights campaign to register African-American voters. They were kidnapped and murdered by local law enforcement officials and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Columbia Lake, British Columbia
Morning on Columbia Lake. The morning sun brings a burst of vibrant color to the headwaters of the Columbia River, British Columbia.
A couple resting beside the road in Guerrero, Mexico.
The collapse of a volcanic cone 7700 years ago formed the basin for Oregon’s Crater Lake. It is the deepest lake (1,946 ft./593 meters) in the Western hemisphere, and the third deepest in the world, holding about 4.6 trillion gallons of water. The depth and purity of Crater Lake’s water absorbs the longer red wavelengths of light, reflecting more of the shorter bluish wavelengths, resulting in the lake’s intense color.
Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Ernest Freeman was the Chief Deck Steward on the Titanic, although he reportedly was also an assistant to Bruce Ismay, the chairman of the White Star Line which owned the Titanic. He is buried in Halifax's Fairview Lawn Cemetery along with 120 other Titanic passengers and crew--some still unidentified. The number "239" on the tombstone indicates that his was the 239th body pulled from the water during the recovery efforts.
A fiery sunset over a Nebraska back road.
Hubbard Cottage on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. A Victorian breakfast room looks out over the Bay of Fundy. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt owned a neighboring cottage, and it was there, that FDR was stricken with polio in 1921.
Olana, the residence of famous 19th century artist, Frederic Edwin Church. The house, which Church wanted to incorporate Persian influences, has spectacular views of the Hudson River and the Catskill mountains in upper New York state.
The abandoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Descent of the Holy Ghost in the ghost town of Insinger, Manitoba dates from 1942.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial on the edge of the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC.
Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Lake Annette in Alberta was created at the end of the last ice age when the great glaciers retreated from this beautiful alpine valley.
Portland Head lighthouse, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
The West Quoody Head Lighthouse in Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point in the United States.
A bucolic stream meanders toward Linville Gorge, in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina.
Oak Hill cemetery in Lewiston, Illinois was the inspiration for Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters’ famous collection of poems narrating the lives and epitaphs of residents of the fictional town of Spoon River.
Oak Hill Cemetery in Lewistown, Illinois. The town was the setting for Edgar Lee Master’s poems in in Spoon River Anthology –a series of epitaphs revealing the hidden realities of small town life. The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one? All, all, are sleeping on the hill. The Hill, in Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Staff members affix the presidential seal to the podium before a speech by President Obama.
Prince Edward Island – A field at sunset.
An impressionistic view of Sabbathday Lake, Maine. The village is the site of the only remaining Shaker community.
Courtyard of the Sackler Museum, Washington, DC.
The morning mist shrouds Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Sloss Furnaces was a former blast furnace complex in Birmingham, Alabama, that is now an industrial museum.
A startled deer keeps a wary eye on a hiker on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River near Washington, DC.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney designed this 1931 memorial to men aboard the RMS Titanic who gave up their places on lifeboats as the ship sank. The inscription: “To the brave men who perished in the wreck of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. They gave their lives that women and children might be saved. Erected by the women of America”
The Hernando de Soto bridge crossing the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee. The Spanish explorer De Soto mounted expeditions in Central and South America, and into the interior of what is now the United States. He is credited with being the first European to cross the Mississippi River, sometime in 1541.
Twilight enfolds an abandoned farm in Manitoba, Canada.
A thick morning mist flows from the hills surrounding Jordan Pond, Mt. Desert Island, Maine.
Medicine Lake near Jasper, Alberta. The lake is in a mountain valley carved out by glaciers during the last ice age. The rocks in the foreground date back over 500 million years.
A sunny bayou near Vaiden, Mississippi.
An abandoned farmhouse sinks into decay on the Kansas plains.
Near Asheville, North Carolina
The Maligne River cutting through the spectacular Canadian Rockies near Jasper, Alberta.