Best Advice I’ve Received So Far

A party of nine members of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club make an eight day trek of over 30 miles along the main crest of what would become the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Mt. Guyot, North Carolina

1932

Find directions for this hike here.

Mystic Falls by Guy Schmickle on Flickr.

This seldom visited waterfall can be found in the San Juan Mountains near Telluride, Colorado. I visited these falls in the springtime as it sees rather low water levels later in the summer.

Christmas atmosphere in Hamar, 1943/44

Rephotographing Route 66: Animated GIFs Showing 1930-1970 Scenes Compared to Today

Route 66 is a famous highway that crosses the United States, connecting Santa Monica, California on the west with Chicago, Illinois toward the east. It was one of the original highways of the US Highway System.

The route is also the subject of a project by photographer Natalie Slater, titled “The Mother Road Revisited.” Slater found old photos of the route from decades ago and rephotographed them as they appear today.

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Sometime in the near future I plan on driving the whole length of Route 66. I’ve driven portions of it here and there but never the whole length. I just need to come up with some new and creative idea that hasn’t been done before to photograph my journey.

It’s okay if all you did today was survive.

Art by Liberal Jane

Deceptive scale of Goblin Valley

This situation is not worth me ruining my peace over. I’m deciding to breathe and let this poor energy go.

Affirmation of the day. (via riffatmatinpoetry)