The Northern Lights are most visible near the Arctic Circle, but during times of high solar activity, they can stretch far beyond their usual range. Image 1 of 4 The northern lights illuminate the night sky over a camper's tent north of San Francisco in Middletown, California on May 11, ...
The arrival of Europeans in the mid-1500s and onward had a significant impact on the Plains Indians, for good and bad. The goods they acquired from these new settlers entered into their artistic expression, with glass beads from Venice, cowrie shells from the Pacific Ocean, and brass buttons...
She was not a happy camper traveling so far without a/c. The three of us would remain somewhat glistening the entire day. Our respite, the short periods we stood near the waterfalls. Today’s plan of attack, after Glacier Point, we would retrace our steps back to Yosemite Valley, stop ...
I have a need to be near the sea, and I am comforted by that edge of land and sea defining and enclosing the space where I live. I love walking on beaches, drawing in the sand, and collecting pebbles, shells, driftwood and bits of flotsum and jetsum that wash up on the shores. W...