Take The Blue Highways

The book ‘Blue Highways’ that this blog is dedicated to gave so much to me; with its carefully shaped & caressed words of observation & wisdom. In it, William Least Heat-Moon sets out in a spartan van named Ghost Dancing with a can of liver “so that there would always be something to eat”,"roughly following the "blue highways" (the most rural of rural roads) along the entire border of the Lower 48 to discover himself, the country, or, whatever, after losing his job & his marriage. "On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk - times neither day nor night - the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.(p 1)"  Heat-Moon encounters people & places in America clinging to fast-disappearing ways & attitudes of life. But in a far larger sense, the biggest message of all is that we should all take the “Blue Highways” on any map in life. The off-the-beaten-pathways that are drawn in blue on any map - that meander through what is America - because it leads to the salt-of-the-earth people that comprise the essence of this country.

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Syd Barrett

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Surrealistic Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd

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The Colors of Yellowstone

Grand Prismatic Spring @ Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Photo by Patrick Brusil

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Kolab Canyon Western side of Zion National Park, Utah USA

Photo by © 2000 Kenrockwell.com

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The Queen’s Garden - Bryce Canyon, Utah

Some of the most awe-inspiring lookouts are situated in this area, including Sunset Point and Inspiration Point – a must for any visitor.

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“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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Zion Park. Utah - Water flows through the amazing sandstone passages and shapes the beautiful alcoves. 

Photos by Joe Braughn

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A rare supercell storm in Texas, USA

In a oh-so-flat open space like Texas a storm like this really is more ominous.

On the thunderstorm spectrum, supercells are the least common type of thunderstorm, but they have a high propensity to produce severe weather, including damaging winds, very large hail, and sometimes weak to violent tornadoes. 

What makes a supercell unique from all other thunderstorm types is that it contains a deep and persistent rotating updraft called a mesocyclone.

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Lincoln, New Hampshire in the Fall

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A Glimpse of the Sky

The night sky seen through the Cyclops Arch in the Alabama Hills. The arch is a double arch, and this view from from the "rear". Looking from the "front" it does resemble a cyclops eye, but from that view it is hard to see both arches. This view is looking Northeast. I assume the green is "airglow". It seems to show up when I am filming towards the darkest part of the sky.

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Turnip Rock.. Port Austin, Michigan

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Fall in the Rocky Mountains, San Juan National Forest, Silverton, Colorado, USA, 23 September 2021.😎

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Fall in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado USA

The always beautiful San Juan National Forest in Silverton, Colorado, USA - 23 September 2021.

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"Maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.”

― Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl

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“Wild moments in the White Mountains“ by | Lewis Hackett

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Taking a little time, out hiking around El Capitan. Yosemite, CA. [OC] [4094X5732] - Author: whatsaustindoin on reddit