I Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them....
"Going to the mountains is going home." John Muir
. . . "To him who has once tasted the reckless independence, the haughty self-reliance, the sense of irresponsible freedom, which the forest life engenders, civilization thenceforth seems flat and stale. Its pleasures are insipid, its pursuits wearisome, its conventionalities, duties, and mutual dependence alike tedious and disgusting. The entrapped wanderer grows fierce and restless, and pants for breathing-room. His path, it is true, was choked with difficulties, but his body and soul were hardened to meet them; it was beset with dangers, but these were the very spice of his life, gladdening his heart with exulting self-confidence, and sending the blood through his veins with a livelier current. The wilderness, rough, harsh, and inexorable, has charms more potent in their seductive influence than all the lures of luxury and sloth. And often he on whom it has cast its magic finds no heart to dissolve the spell, and remains a wanderer and an Ishmaelite to the hour of his death."..............Francis Parkman
Kelly Creek
Timber, Pointing out the Cutthroats
Burned Cedars in Black Canyon
North Fork, in Black Canyon, Sunrise
Water fall in Black Canyon
Elizabeth's Finger, Black Canyon
Wildflowers in Black Canyon
Sunset over Pot Mountain
