Friday, September 24, 2010

White Mountain Scenes #5

(Ed Parsons photo)
Where in the White Mountains was this photo taken?
Clue: perhaps James jumped off it with Martini in hand

White Mountain Scenes #4

(Ed Parsons photo)
Where in the White Mountains was this photo taken?
Clue: music for a monarch's residence


Wednesday, August 4, 2010

White Mountain Scenes #3


Do you know where in the White Mountains Ed Parsons took this photo? Clue: it is located near one of the region's many ski areas and has a directional name

Monday, July 26, 2010

White Mountain Scene #2

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(Ed Parsons Photo)
Where In The White Mountains Am I?
Clue: a Presidential ridge.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

White Mountain Scenes #1




How well do you know the White Mountains? Can you tell where this photo by Ed Parsons is? Clue:on the morning of September 18, 2010 500 to 600 people of all ages climbed to this location in memory of a local girl






Friday, June 18, 2010

White Mountain peace

New York City is fun. Right up until I want woods around me. Yes there's Central Park, but I don't feel as secure there as on a trail in the White Mountains with bears in the neighborhood. The soul needs peace once in a while, and there is little better than finding a miniature waterfall in a tiny stream deep in the woods, and "watching a leaf glide all the way down out of view." It constantly surprises me when I talk with someone even in North Conway who "isn't a hiker", as though the moving of one foot after the other is the only joy to the activity. Each time a trail is climbed is a new experience. And a new bit of life.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Mystery of the White Mountains

I was lucky. Years ago, a job opened up for me in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Now I couldn’t live anyplace else. Each morning I look up to see if Mt. Washington will be joining us today – it often can’t, being in the clouds some 60% of the time. But I know it’s there as is the rest of the Presidential Range, and their being there lends a feeling of security to the whole area we call Mt. Washington Valley.

Security and yet mystery as well. Each person who visits the White Mountains comes away with their own story. They say the spirits of the ones who don’t come back inhabit a back bedroom in the Yankee Building on top of Mt. Washington. There’s a bible on a table there and sometimes it is found open, as though they had been reading passages.