Category: The Golden Hour
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We took a road trip to Colorado and after staying at the historic Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, we made a quick stop at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park on the way to Grand Lake Lodge and Rocky Mountain National Park. Grand Lake and Estes Park both border Rocky Mountain National Park as its…
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We took a road trip to Colorado and after staying at the historic and haunted St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico, and visiting Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, our next stop was the historic Beaumont Hotel In Ouray. History of the Beaumont Hotel The Mining Boom Era (1886): Built in 1886 at…
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🌆 The Great Escape We needed an escape. With a daughter moving out and our dog recently crossing the rainbow bridge, we needed a distraction from the changes at home. Since we did a day tour of New York City with my Uncle Roy in 2022 (he and my Aunt Jane live in Newtown, CT),…
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Aside from the grueling, high-altitude treks that push your legs to the absolute limit, there is a distinct kind of magic found simply in slowing down and wandering around Yosemite near the valley floor. When you step off the main trails and let yourself drift through the open meadows and quiet pine forests, the park…
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There is a distinct moment when you drop down from the mountain switchbacks onto the Yosemite Valley floor and the sheer scale of the granite walls hits you. Standing on the flat valley floor, looking up at the monumental faces of El Capitan and Half Dome, it is easy to see why this area is…
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If you have never fallen in love with trees or ever wondered why JRR Tolkien created Treebeard and the Ents, then you have never been to Muir Woods. “It is not wizardry, but a power far older. A power that walked the earth, ere elf sang or hammer rang.“ — Gandalf to Théoden in The Two Towers, “The Road to…
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San Francisco is the ideal city to practice patience and inefficiency. It is filled with hills and hills and more hills. There is also fog. You will notice this theme throughout my photos of San Francisco. The city itself is majestic. And that fog becomes glory at sunset. Want to practice inefficiency? Ride a cable…