It's been a cold & rainy April. This morning I got up and walked down the block to take an unobstructed photo of the mountains which loom over my apartment. When I visit the Midwest I am always struck by the 2-dimensional topography....
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I mentioned August would be a hellish travel month. Beginning August 2nd, I drove to Chicago for YearlyKos, back to Iowa and grabbed the kids and dogs, headed to Ohio to visit family (including an almost-9-months-pregnant sister and her 18-month old son), headed out to Maryland/DC/Delaware for an…
tags: travel, nature, environment, cities, Munkkivuori, Helsinki, Finland
Brick tower that is just outside my host's apartment
in the Munkkivuori neighborhood in Helsinki, Finland.
Photographed as I walked to Tarvaspää Café at the Gallen-Kallela Museum
near Tarvon Salmi in Helsinki, Finland…
In 1999, during my intern year, Hurricane Mitch struck Central America. As stated below, I wanted to become involved. The program director of my residency was kind enough to view this as a worthwhile educational experience. This is my diary from the trip. Part IV is here.
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Gorgeous!
I'm a mountaineering enthusiast who lives in the Midwest, and I get really sick of the flatness.
nebraska has some sand dunes!
I get the same sort of view when I look east from my balcony. Though not as white, not as green, and usualy not as stormy. What's really fun is when you see the storm cloud coming over the mountains from the desert. (It happens on occasion during Arizona's monsoon season.)
We prefer to call it infinite three dimensional geography.
In fact, when I lived in Kansas the long view allowed you to see weather come in from miles away whcih was an advantage in tornado season. Those used to an enclosed environment (the so-called three dimensional geography) who moved to this area often became blithering psychotics when confronted with so much open space.