a NEW thursday thought
Image
2
Tag Archives: photography
more NEW bucket list updates
Happy Monday! In my book, it’s a pretty great week when I can mark off items from two different bucket lists. Today I’m updating my National Parks bucket list and my 100 Waterfalls bucket list! Woohoo!
Recently, we visited Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio. What a unique national park! It’s basically in the middle of some towns and very close to a large city – Cleveland, Ohio. It was made a national park because the beauty of the area was being threatened by development. We rode our bikes on the Erie-Ohio tow path, then made our way to this awesome waterfall. I’ve wanted to go here ever since Nancy at Two Trails One Road recommended it! It did not disappoint! Thanks, Nancy! We rode further on the tow path and saw this awesome bridge. I believe it’s called Station Road Bridge:
After lunch, we hiked to Blue Hen Falls. However, after visiting Brandywine Falls, these falls were a bit underwhelming (especially after a semi-difficult hike), but hey, any waterfall is worth it in my opinion! I’m thinking perhaps there might be more water in the spring rather than the hot days of August!
On the drive back to our campground, we stopped in the cute little town of Chagrin Falls. We bought an ice cream cone and enjoyed their falls right in their downtown.
Toward the end of the week, we hiked the short distance to Minnehaha Falls and Cascade Falls in Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park. The Minnehaha Falls has a glass bridge that you can walk over the large gorge that the waterfall flows through. Again, I’m thinking there would likely be more water in the springtime than there was in August. But I’m counting them both toward my 100 waterfalls!
So, the bucket list stats are at 29 out of 63 national parks and 68 out of 100 waterfalls. We’re getting there. Being retired will likely speed up the progress!
Have a great day! I hope you learn or do something NEW today!
a few NEW lighthouse photos
Happy Thursday! In honor of National Lighthouse Day, I thought I’d post a few photos of lighthouses that I’ve seen in the last two weeks – and update my Lighthouse List.
The top two photos are of the William Livingstone lighthouse on Belle Isle, Michigan.
And this one is the Milliken State Park Lighthouse, which is close by – just across the Detroit River from Belle Isle.
I’m not sure I’ll count these as “visited” because I was so far away. But these are the Cleveland Harbor Main Entrance Lighthouse and the Cleveland Harbor East Breakwater Lighthouse – taken from across the harbor. Then again, maybe I’ll count them. I just learned they are privately owned, so you can’t visit them without permission. These photos will have to suffice.
Have a terrific day! I hope you get out and learn or do something NEW today!
a NEW National Park checked off my bucket list
Happy Wednesday!
We recently visited our 28th (out of 63) National Park. We explored Indiana Dunes National Park. The weather was perfect. The crowds were small. Yay!
I’m not sure if drones are permitted at this national park (probably not), but there are some impressive photos posted online which were taken from above at some point. Here are a few of mine taken from ground-level. Maybe I should look into getting a drone, haha! (????)
35 more parks to go!
I hope you have a lovely day and learn or do something NEW today!
more NEW photos from South America
Happy Wednesday!
Last week’s post was entirely dedicated to photos of Iguazu Falls, but we were blessed to experience more than just the falls. Here’s a few more NEW photos from our South America trip:
Above is the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse in the Beagle Channel near Ushuaia, Argentina. I’ll have to add it to my list of lighthouses. (Does it count if we didn’t go into the lighthouse?…or even step foot on the island? As you see, the island was pretty crowded with cormorants and sea lions! Yep, I’m totally counting it!)
The photo above is Amalia Glacier and the photos below are glaciers that I don’t know the names of. We traveled through Glacier Alley to see these.
Here is a colony of Magellanic penguins. We watched the documentary March of the Penguins the night before this excursion (even though we knew we wouldn’t be seeing Emperor penguins). We learned so much. Penguins are amazing!
South America’s climate is so varied! We went from seeing glaciers with temps in the 30s to tropical forests with temps in the 90s with high humidity! On our way to the falls, our tour guide encouraged us to look for toucans but told us they were pretty rare and it’s like winning the lottery if we see one. Well, we saw three! Two in one tree and another in a different area. (Maybe the guide was exaggerating?? :o)
I gotta get me a better camera lens that can get me closer!!!
You know I love me a good list! I have a waterfall list, a national parks list, and a lighthouse list. Maybe I’d better start a bird watching list! Here’s a plush crested jay I could add to that list.
That’s about enough NEW photos for today. We’re busy planning our next NEW adventures. I hope you have a great day and are able to do or learn something NEW to you, today!
a couple of NEW quotes
Happy Friday!
I learned something NEW today and thought I’d share. I was listening to Kim Klassen‘s podcast today and she mentioned her Cosmos cluster. I had never heard of the Cosmos site. I understand it’s similar to Pinterest where you can put images on boards called Clusters. I went there because she said she posted the quote below there (which I thought was excellent!). The quote was too long to add to my fall aspen tree photo, so I found another quote on her page that was fitting and which all photographers should strive to do: “Take notice of what light does – to everything”.
Anyway, below is the quote I was originally trying to find on Kim’s cluster. I love it. It’s so true!
“Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Telling people you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Writing a banger tweet about how you’re going to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isn’t doing the thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Fantasizing about all of the adoration you’ll receive once you do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Reading about how to do the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn’t doing the thing. Reading this essay isn’t doing the thing.
The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.” (Source)
What do you think? I know there’s usually some necessary prep work for “the thing”, but overall, I think this quote is spot-on. I hope you have a fantastic day and that you get to learn or do something NEW today!
NEW photos from Glacier National Park
Happy Wednesday!
I promised to post a few more photos of the beautiful scenery we saw while visiting Glacier National Park. We thought if we visited after Labor Day, there would be fewer people. Well….if that was fewer people, I’d hate to go in peak season!!! Wowza, that’s a popular place! Maybe everyone had the same idea as we did?!?
A trip isn’t successful without shooting some tree art:
Our next trip isn’t until December. Can I survive??? :o)
Have a terrific day and I hope you do or learn something NEW today!
Updated Bucket Lists (Waterfalls & National Parks)
Happy Monday!
It’s update time! I get to cross Glacier National Park off our National Parks bucket list and add multiple waterfalls to my 100 Waterfalls Bucket List.
We visited Glacier National Park last week. We were thrilled to see the northern lights while we were there! We had a terrific time hiking and biking, eating huckleberry pie, huckleberry ice cream and huckleberry bear claw pastries! The weather in the 60s was perfect hiking weather. It was an excellent week!
I officially added 3 waterfalls to my waterfall bucket list, but we saw multiple random waterfalls. For instance, while driving on Going to the Sun Road, we saw water pouring over rocks several times.
Here’s my official three:
Baring Falls:
St Mary Falls (someone needs to remove that random log that obstructs the view, right! :o):
And here’s Virginia Falls:
I’ll post more photos of the beautiful scenery of Glacier National Park in the next few days.
Here’s the updated NP list. 26 down, 37 to go!
LIST OF US NATIONAL PARKS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (63 total)
- Acadia National Park {done}
- Arches National Park {done}
- Badlands National Park
- Big Bend National Park
- Biscayne National Park {done}
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park {done}
- Bryce Canyon National Park {done}
- Canyonlands National Park {done}
- Capitol Reef National Park {done}
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Channel Islands National Park
- Congaree National Park
- Crater Lake National Park
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Death Valley National Park {done}
- Denali National Park and Preserve
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- Everglades National Park {done}
- Gates of the Arctic National Park
- Gateway Arch National Park
- Glacier National Park {done}
- Glacier Bay National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park {done}
- Grand Teton National Park {done}
- Great Basin National Park {done}
- Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park {done}
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Haleakala National Park
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park {done}
- Hot Springs National Park
- Indiana Dunes National Park
- Isle Royale National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park {done}
- Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park {done}
- Kobuk Valley National Park
- Lake Clark National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park {done}
- Mammoth Cave National Park
- Mesa Verde National Park {done}
- Mount Rainier National Park
- National Park of American Samoa
- New River Gorge National Park
- North Cascades National Park
- Olympic National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Pinnacles National Park
- Redwood National Park {done}
- Rocky Mountain National Park {done}
- Saguaro National Park {done}
- Sequoia National Park {done}
- Shenandoah National Park
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Virgin Islands National Park
- Voyageurs National Park
- White Sands National Park
- Wind Cave National Park
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
- Yellowstone National Park {done}
- Yosemite National Park {done}
- Zion National Park {done}
Have a great day! I hope you do or learn something NEW today!
a NEW Monochrome Madness entry
Happy Tuesday! When I saw this week’s Monochrome Madness theme, I knew I’d have to post this photo of this lonely road we recently traveled on. It was a hazy morning…you can barely see the mountain in the background. Just to the left of this road was this scene:
Thanks to Dawn at The Day After for hosting Monochrome Madness this week!
Have a terrific day. I hope you get to learn or do something NEW today!
another NEW national park bucket list update
Happy Tuesday!
I’m here (again) to update my national parks bucket list. It seems like I’ve only been posting about this bucket list lately! Oh well, I’ll try to post about other NEW stuff soon. We visited Great Basin National Park recently. Who knew we’d be hiking through snow in June!?! Not a ton of snow, but still…
I loved hiking to these alpine lakes, enjoying the tree art, and touring Lehman Caves.
I hope you all have a terrific day and do or learn something NEW today!
LIST OF US NATIONAL PARKS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER (63 total)
- Acadia National Park {done}
- Arches National Park {done}
- Badlands National Park
- Big Bend National Park
- Biscayne National Park {done}
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park {done}
- Bryce Canyon National Park {done}
- Canyonlands National Park {done}
- Capitol Reef National Park {done}
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Channel Islands National Park
- Congaree National Park
- Crater Lake National Park
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Death Valley National Park {done}
- Denali National Park and Preserve
- Dry Tortugas National Park
- Everglades National Park {done}
- Gates of the Arctic National Park
- Gateway Arch National Park
- Glacier National Park
- Glacier Bay National Park
- Grand Canyon National Park {done}
- Grand Teton National Park {done}
- Great Basin National Park {done}
- Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park {done}
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Haleakala National Park
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park {done}
- Hot Springs National Park
- Indiana Dunes National Park
- Isle Royale National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park {done}
- Katmai National Park and Preserve
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park {done}
- Kobuk Valley National Park
- Lake Clark National Park
- Lassen Volcanic National Park {done}
- Mammoth Cave National Park
- Mesa Verde National Park {done}
- Mount Rainier National Park
- National Park of American Samoa
- New River Gorge National Park
- North Cascades National Park
- Olympic National Park
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Pinnacles National Park
- Redwood National Park {done}
- Rocky Mountain National Park {done}
- Saguaro National Park {done}
- Sequoia National Park {done}
- Shenandoah National Park
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Virgin Islands National Park
- Voyageurs National Park
- White Sands National Park
- Wind Cave National Park
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
- Yellowstone National Park {done}
- Yosemite National Park {done}
- Zion National Park {done}
Explore Newness 