Descent from Uncle Bud's Cabin

Looking south to Hagerman Pass Road and the beginning of the next ascent.

Skinner Cabin is somewhere on the  top  of the knob of the middle ridge.

Climb Up Hagerman Pass Road

Skinner Cabin

Skinner Cabin is located above 11,600 feet.  The first three photos were taken at sunset.
The last shot, to the south, was taken in the morning walking down from the cabin.

Subalpine Colorado Evergreens

Above 9,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies, the forests are composed of Engelmann Spruce and Subalpine Fir (Picea engelmannii and Abies lasiocarpa).  Generally, subalpine evergreens are tall and thin to shed the deep winter snow.  Even within those two species, there is a lot of variability of height, needles, color, shape, etc.  Notice in the third picture how the bottom branches are growing along the ground, because of matting from the weight of the snow.  In the fourth picture, the evergreens are on the slope while willow shrubs grow along the stream.  

We Like Lichens

And Liverworts and Mosses and other things found on cool, moist, north Colorado slopes.

Back Down to Town

Idaho Springs, CO

Denver Airport

Heading east out of Denver, from the plane

The plane approaches Philadelphia from the west

Landscape and Garden; In and Around Woods Hole; August 2018

 Woods Hole Golf Course

Highfield Hall, above, in Falmouth, Cape Cod.

Cardoon, below, or artichoke.

Beautiful naturalistic landscape, above, outside Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard.

Great Sippewissett Marsh near West Falmouth, off Shining Sea Bike Path.

Water and Beach: Woods Hole August 2018

'Ladies' Night', below, at the Woods Hole Yacht Club racing series.

End of the day, End of the summer.

Pensive at Stony MBL Beach.

Woods Hole, Cape Cod. 

Three shots on a hot sunny day.
Nobska Beach.
Woods Hole, Cape Cod.

End of the season:  looking southeast across Vineyard Sound.

1843 - 1940's: Architectural Shots from Edgartown and Woods Hole

 The Old Whaling Church, above, was built in Edgartown in 1843 as a Methodist Greek Revival display of wealth and success of the fishing and whaling industry of Martha's Vineyard.  It has been preserved in fine fashion and today is open today as a living landmark available for rent; it is no longer a functioning church.

 The tiny gingerbread house on the right is situated in Edgartown, not Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard.  It appears to be a functional dwelling, even  though it does not  measure more  than 10 feet by 12 feet.  1870's?

 The 'Gardiner's Cottage,' above, built by Purcell, Feick and Elmslie on Juniper Point, Woods Hole for Charles R. Crane in 1910.

The 'Airplane House' built for Josephine Crane Bradley by architects Purcell and Elmslie in 1911-1912  on the tip of Juniper Point in Woods Hole.

The 1940's Cape cottage below is where we  stayed near the Steamship Authority ferry dock in Woods Hole.

Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association

Located in Oak Bluffs, the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association was started in the 1830's, with lots of building in the 1870's as  a Methodist summer gathering place.  It is still going strong, an oasis of  calm  in the flooded  island tourist scene.
It is also known as Wesleyan Grove; here is how Wikipedia introduces it:    "Wesleyan Grove is a 34-acre (14 ha) National Historic Landmark District in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Also known as the Martha's Vineyard Campmeeting Association (MVCMA) or the Campgrounds, it was the first summer religious camp established in the United States. It is famous for its many Carpenter Gothic^{[3][better source needed]} cottages with Victorian-style, gingerbread trim.^[4]"