Tag Archives: Mountains

DAILY PHOTO: A Gray Lake

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Photograph of Big Almaty Lake (Үлкен Алматы көлі) near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The lakes color changes over the course of the year. Here it is a sediment loaded gray color.

DAILY PHOTO: Tall Pines, Kolsay Lake

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Photograph taken from a mountain trail around the Kolsay Lakes in Kazakhstan with tall evergreen trees in the fore and lake and valley in the rear.

DAILY PHOTO: Valley, Boz-Salkyn

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Photograph of valley with yurts in Boz-Salkyn, Kyrgyzstan.
Photograph taken on the Boz-Salkyn trek, south of Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan.
Photograph taken down the mountain at Boz-Salkyn, Kyrgyzstan.

Mountain Blue [Haiku]

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Photograph of blue skies over a small roadside stop in the Andes between Cuzco and Puno.
mountain skies:
 fade to a blue so deep
  it chills the bones.

DAILY PHOTO: Palms & Mountains, Vang Vieng

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Photograph of a palm tree in the fore and karst mountains in the background. Taken outside Vang Vieng, Laos.
Photograph with Vang Vieng Village and a palm tree in the foreground, and karst mountains in the background.

Chinese Painting [Tanka]

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Photograph taken at sundown in Vang Vieng, Laos.
sunlight washes out
 the distant mountains; 
  they look like
 an old Chinese painting --
 ink faded with age.

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes From the North Laos Countryside

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Photograph of creek, farmland, and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.
Photograph of farmland and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.
Photograph of creek, farmland, and mountains near Nam Dee, Luang Namtha, Laos.

DAILY PHOTO: Green Landscapes in Southern Armenia

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Photograph of landscape with ruins taken in the Tatev region of Southern Armenia.
Photograph of green mountains in Southern Armenia near Tatev.
Photograph of fortification wall and landscape in Southern Armenia near Tatev.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Pasture

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Photograph taken in the countryside near Sapa, Vietnam.
Photograph taken outside Sapa, Vietnam on the QL4D highway on the road to Lao Cai.

Chasing Grandeur [Free Verse]

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Photograph of mountain looming over the city, taken at Sapa, Vietnam.
I saw the mountaintop, 
   but by the time I climbed 
       the mountain,
 I was in the clouds and 
   could not see back to
       where I'd been.