Alcatraz

Posted on September 15, 2018 By Mary Presson Roberts

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow

The first stop for our summer family vacation this year was San Francisco. One of the things my family wanted to do was visit Alcatraz Island. Luckily, we heard that tickets needed to be […]

Rhododendrons on Roan

Posted on September 8, 2018 By Mary Presson Roberts

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”
― Neil Gaiman

Each year,...

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Midnight Volleyball

Posted on September 1, 2018 By Jamie Peters

The long exposure clouds here almost seem like a surreal blanket of strange and crazy, descending onto a peaceful beach, which made me think of the Blade Runner world. Add in the volleyball net for some mystery.

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Hashagen Homestead – Digging Up History On This Idaho Gem

Posted on August 25, 2018 By Evan Jones

Every rustic and weathered old farmhouse or homestead has a story. The little shack outside of Grangeville is no exception. It took me two years to figure out the history of this little homestead and it is more interesting than I had hoped for....

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Longwood Gardens in the Springtime – Kennett Square, PA- Part 1

Posted on August 18, 2018 By Lynn Wiezycki

I was recently in need of a break from my life so I booked a flight, a room and a car and headed north before it was no longer spring! I decided that the best spot for a quick trip away was Longwood Gardens

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900 Days of School: A Personal Project (Part One)

Posted on August 11, 2018 By Mary Presson Roberts

“Photographic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.” ― George Barr I just finished my thirty-first year teaching young children in the public schools of the Carolinas. The past twenty-six years have been spent teaching at the same...

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Badlands National Park – South Dakota

Posted on August 3, 2018 By A.D. Wheeler

Hey guys! It’s been a while, for both writing and a return trip to Badlands, National Park in South Dakota. I have been under a serious writers and creative block lately or maybe I should say creative rock. I apologize for that. If you...

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7 Ways We Have Changed In 100 Years and What’s Next

Posted on July 27, 2018 By Evan Jones

Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see how things have changed in the last 100 years. When our grandparents or great-grandparents were our age, they did things a lot differently than we do today. Inventions in areas such as transportation and communications...

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Magnolia is Calling: Part One

Posted on July 14, 2018 By Mary Presson Roberts

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”

-John Muir

I have always loved this quote from John Muir. There is a place that seems to call to me, especially in the springtime. That place is not the mountains. The place that...

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