Wilderness Window Photography: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

New Mexico

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New Mexico joined the union on January 6, 1912
State Motto: It grows as it goes
State Bird: roadrunner
State Animal: black bear
State Flower: Yucca Flower
State Tree: Pinon Pine
State Nickname: Land of Enchantment
Highest Point: Wheeler Peak
State Capital: Santa Fe

Summer

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]]>June
For stately trees in rich array, For sunlight all the happy day,
For blossoms radiant and rare, For skies when daylight closes,
For joyous, clear, outpouring song From birds that all the green wood throng,
For all things young, and bright, and fair, We praise thee, Month of Roses!

For blue, blue skies of summer calm, For fragrant odors breathing balm,
For quiet, cooling shades where oft The weary head reposes,
For brooklets babbling thro' the fields Where Earth her choicest treasures yields,
For all things tender, sweet and soft, We love thee, Month of Roses!
--by Elaine Goodale

Sunsets

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]]>From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised.
--Psalms 113:3 (KJV)

Deserts

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]]>The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
--Isaiah 35:1 (KJV)

Grand Canyon National Park

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]]>Facts about the Grand Canyon National Park
1. The park was designated a national park in 1919
2. The Grand Canyon is populated by 5 different Indian tribes
3. The canyon is 190 miles long and on average 1 mile deep
4. There are 250 species of birds in the Grand Canyon
5. There are approximately 75 species of mammals in the canyon
6. The park has an area of 1,900 miles
7. The canyon contains 277 miles of the Colorado River

Cactus

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Saguaro National Park

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Waterfalls

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]]>He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
-- John 7:38 (KJV)

Colorado

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]]>Colorado joined the union on August 1, 1876
State Motto: "Nothing Without Providence"
State Bird: Lark Bunting
State Animal: Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep
State Flower: Rocky Mountain Columbine
State Tree: Colorado Blue Spruce
State Nickname: Centennial State or Colorful Colorado
Highest Point: Mt. Elbert
State Capital: Denver

Utah

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:15:45 GMT

]]>Utah joined the union on January 4, 1896
State Motto: "Industry"
State Bird: California Sea Gull
State Animal: Rocky Mountain Elk
State Flower: Sego Lily
State Tree: Blue Spruce
State Nickname: Beehive State
Highest Point: Kings Peak
State Capital: Salt Lake City

Arizona

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:21:27 GMT

]]>Arizona joined the union on February 4, 1912
State Motto: "God Enriches"
State Bird: Cactus Wren
State Mammal: Ringtail
State Flower: Saguaro Cactus Blossom
State Tree: Palo Verde
State Nickname: Grand Canyon State
Highest Point: Humphreys Peak
State Capital: Phoenix

Missouri

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]]>Missouri joined the union on August 10, 1821
State Motto: "The Welfare of the People Shall Be the Supreme Law"
State Bird: Bluebird
State Animal: Missouri Mule
State Flower: White Hawthorn
State Tree: Flowering Dogwood
State Nickname: The Show Me State
Highest Point: Taum Sauk Mountain
State Capital: Jefferson City

Fall

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:57:04 GMT

]]>Autumn Wind

When autumn wind goes running
It does some magic things.
It gives the shadows dancing shoes,
It gives the bright leaves wings -
When autumn wind goes running.

It curls the bonfire's tail of smoke
And shares a little whispered joke
With cornstalks who delight to prattle,
It turns a seed pod into a rattle -
When autumn wind goes running.
-- Author Unknown

Trees

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:56:53 GMT

]]>Trees

I Think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.

--Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

Wet Lands

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]]>~There are two types of swamps, forested and shrub swamps.
~In the US swamps cover approximately 100,000 square miles.
~The only continent that does not have wetlands is Antarctica.
~An acre of wetland can store 1–1.5 million gallons of floodwater.
~Swamps develop in moist climates.
~ Wetlands can help to reduce the risk and severity of flooding by storing excess water and slowing the flow.
~Although wetlands only comprise approximately 5 percent of the land surface in the United Sates, they are home to 31 percent of our plant species.
~Swamps contain a natural filtration system that cleans the water even better than our man made factories.
~Swamps are wetlands dominated by woody plants.
~Louisiana contains approximately 40 percent of the coastal wetlands found in the lower 48 states, and about 80 percent of the wetlands lost.
~Wetlands can be as biologically diverse as the Amazon Rainforest.
~The largest state in the United States, Alaska, is 45% wetlands, a total of 174.6 million acres. 63% of the entire nation's wetland ecosystems are in Alaska.

Reflections of Creation

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Arkansas

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:26:23 GMT

]]>Arkansas joined the union on June 15, 1836
State Motto: "The People Rule"
State Bird: Mockingbird
State Mammal: White-tailed Deer
State Flower: Apple Blossom
State Tree: Pine Tree
State Nickname: The Natural State
Highest Point: Magazine Mountain
State Capital: Little Rock

Tennessee

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:38:38 GMT

]]>Tennessee joined the union on June 1, 1796.
State Motto: "Agriculture and Commerce"
State Bird: Mockingbird
State Wild Animal: Raccoon
State Flower: Iris
State Tree: Tulip Poplar
State Nickname: The Volunteer State
Highest Point: Clingmans Dome
State Capital: Nashville

Abstracts

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Miscellanous

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Our Furry Friends

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~ There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham. ~
-- Anna Sewell
~ My job, my mission, the reason I have been put on this planet, is to save wildlife. ~
-- Steve Irwin

Winged Wonders

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:11:53 GMT

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
-- Chinese Proverb
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
-- Charles Lindbergh

Winter

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Snowflakes
Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand
Lovely and chaste like smooth white sand.
A veil of wonder laced in light
Falling Gently on a winters night.
Graceful beauty raining down
Giving magic to the lifeless ground.
Each snowflake like a falling star
Smiling beauty that's spun afar.
Till earth is dressed in a robe of white
Unspoken poem the hush of night.
--Linda A. Copp

Spring

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:10:53 GMT

Come; sit beside me at This woodland pool,
Here on this rock Natures mossy stool.
Together we'll dwell In this shaded bower,
And comteplate this Most exquisite wildflower.
It is natures' way of Re-newing those,
Whose winter life is Brought to close.
What a beautiful world For you and I.
Could we like wise blossom And never die.
--Roger Adolphson

Flowers

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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
~Emma Goldman
Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
~Edward Payson Rod

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

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Canyonlands National Park

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Petroglyphs National Monument

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Facts about Petroglyph National Monument:
1. Authorized June 27, 1990, the 7,236 acre monument is cooperatively managed by the National Park Service and the City of Albuquerque.
2. The western boundary of the monument features a chain of dormant fissure volcanoes.
3. Protects a variety of cultural and natural resources including volcanoes, archeological sites and an estimated 24,000 carved images

Arches National Park

wildernesswindow@yahoo.com (Wilderness Window Photography) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:06:24 GMT

Facts about Arches National Park:
1. Established by Presidential Proclamation on April 12, 1929 as a national monument and then on November 12, 1971 as a National Park.
2. Arches National Park preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, like the world-famous Delicate Arch, and Landscape Arch, as well as many other unusual rock
formations.
3. The park contains the greatest density of natural arches in the world formed through the forces of nature acting in concert to create the landscape of Arches.
4. The average annual precipitation is 10 inches.
5. There are 2,000 documented arches in the park.
6. Arches is located in a high desert, with elevations ranging from 4,085 to 5,653 feet above sea level.
7. On a daily basis, temperatures may fluctuate as much as 50 degrees

Rocky Mountain National Park

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Facts about Rocky Mountain National Park:
1. Elevation ranges from 8,000 feet to 14,259 feet above sea level.
2. Contains 359 miles of trails.
3. There is 150 lakes and 450 miles of streams.
4. In 1915, Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating Rocky Mountain National Park.
5. Rocky Mountain National Park licensed the nation’s first female nature guides in 1917.
6. Rocky Mountain National Park volunteers give more than 100,000 hours a year to the park.
7. Birding records for the area actually extend back to 1903, twelve years before Rocky Mountain NP was established.