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Weekly Photo Challenge: State of Mind
After determining how to get from our campsite to the trailhead, we were eager to enter the designated Wilderness of this Wisconsin forest. It had been logged more than 30 years ago and then left to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Swans at Half Light
When I was a little girl, my father read to me from E.B. White’s story “The Trumpet of the Swan”. I was 8 years old when that book was published, and I can imagine my father buying it to read to me...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitude and Wilderness
The Wilderness Act of 1964 established a means for our nation to set aside large parcels of land where the human presence is temporary. Among other valuable things, this provides for “outstanding...
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Autumn in the North Woods: Part Two
When we broke camp in the Chippewa National Forest on Tuesday morning, the condensation on our tent fly froze instantly. Time to head south to Wisconsin! Our destination was Bayfield and the Apostle...
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Lens-Artist Challenge: My Travels
I met Steve eight months after I was widowed. In the tumult of grief and transition, he offered me something that was transformational – a chance to go camping. My husband and four kids and I did not...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: WILD!
Tina posts a Wild challenge featuring the wildlife of Africa. My response features the designated Wilderness lands of America. “Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit.” —...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Let’s Get Wild!
Sage Creek Wilderness, Badlands National Park, South Dakota “A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Getting Away
“When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to face…” Not being a city girl, I have never escaped the hustling crowd by climbing the stairs to find solitude “Up on...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Here Comes the Sun
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? Generations come and generations...
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Spiritual Sites
“Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” – Exodus 3:5, NIV Sand art – a labyrinth? a mandala? – at Nye Beach, Oregon Tina leads the challenge this week with an...
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