Tom BremerAre you looking for positive, hopeful stories about nature and the environment? Check out the Sacred Wonderland #Newsletter. Once a month, it highlights news and other items of interest about national parks, plus art, culture, and people making a difference. Each issue features a photograph, a book worth reading, and #poetry—I send it on the third Monday of every month. You can sign up at https://www.sacredwonderland.us/newsletter/
Large, spectacular #waterfalls make great images for calendars, posters, and landscape paintings. But I am charmed by smaller cascades, like this one on the Virgin River in Zion National Park, #Utah. Though often overlooked, these modest waterfalls have their own enchanting appeal. Attending to the small things in life often brings large rewards.
#ZionNationalPark #rivers #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
The 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind features Devils Tower National Monument. Encounters of a different kind have been occurring there for millennia, as a sacred site of American Indian communities for generations. The Lakota people know it as Mato Tipila, or Bears Lodge, a holy site. They regularly make pilgrimages there, where they perform rituals and leave offerings.
#DevilsTower #movies #NativeAmericans #pilgrimage #SacredWonderland #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
#DevilsTower #movies #NativeAmericans #pilgrimage #SacredWonderland #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
I’m back! It’s been over six months away from Mastodon. I took a brief hiatus while relocating to a different state and settling into a new life. I expected to be away only a month or so, but as they say, the best laid plans... (or in my case, no plan at all). In any case, I’m excited about reconnecting and engaging again with the Fediverse.
Despite the stress and chaos of moving, I kept up with the Sacred Wonderland Newsletter. This month’s edition went out on Monday. You can learn more about it, read the March issue, and sign up for it at https://www.sacredwonderland.us/newsletter/ .
What have you been up to while I was absent?
Enjoy the Sacred Wonderland Newsletter delivered once every month to your inbox—timely news and other items of interest about national parks and other protected places, plus recommended reading, a featured photograph, and #poetry—sent on the third Monday of every month. Sign up at https://www.sacredwonderland.us/newsletter/
#Bicycling on the carriage roads, #Acadia National Park
#bicycles #AcadiaNationalPark #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
Grasses and sand lining the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park
#PhotoFriday #rivers #BigBendNationalPark #Texas #NationalParks #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
Millions of people visit #Yellowstone National Park each year. Few know anything about the park’s #history, and fewer still realize that religion has been an important force in that history. Sacred Wonderland: The History of Religion in Yellowstone details the religious history of the world’s first national park.
#YellowstoneNationalPark #NationalParks #SacredWonderland #religion #spirituality #BooksWorthReading #publication
Snow-capped Mount Carrie, #Olympic National Park in #Washington
#mountains #OlympicNationalPark #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
Punch Bowl Spring, Upper Geyser Basin, #Yellowstone National Park
#PhotoFriday #HotSprings #geysers #YellowstoneNationalPark #NationalParks #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
