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  • Greetings from Shenandoah National Park

    My husband and I grew up in the Valley, so Shenandoah National Park has been our home-up-the-mountain for as long as we can remember. Drives along Skyline Drive with family in the fall are a tradition, along with day hikes with friends. A couple summers ago the rangers hosted a…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    The Smoky's have always held a special place in my heart and that of my family's. As a girl whose Cherokee heritage discovered that her family had hidden in these mountains to escape certain death from the Trail of Tears reinforced the inescapable draw they have to our hearts. My…

  • Greetings from Acadia National Park

    When I was a child my parents took me to Yellowstone National Park. While getting my degree at SUNY Plattsburgh, NY I took a national park course. I have been going back and forth from Florida and Bar Harbor, Maine. The summer months were always spent in Maine and I…

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    Greetings from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

    I think seeing the live lava lake last week at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was the most epic natural experience of my long 64 years on this planet. We went for two sunsets in a row. And, I shared my binoculars with excited kids up there. The Rangers were very…

  • Greetings from Everglades National Park

    After my husband and I turned 50 we made a pact to see as many Florida parks as we could and it all started with the Everglades National Park. It is truly incredible the inspiration you get from nature. It started to get me into photography which now I adore,…

  • Greetings from Zion National Park

    This is a painting I did in March 2017 in the park. Thomas Moran and others played a great part in forming the National park System with their magnificent paintings. Unfortunately the park superintendent at Zion Park has arbitrarily decided against artists in "his" park from coming in a group…

  • Greetings from Rocky Mountain National Park

    I need to get into the mountains to renew myself - I am very lucky to live near RMNP. My family tries to get there every year and the older our kids get the more they appreciate the gem that it is. We need nature to feed our souls and…

  • Greetings from Grand Teton National Park

    In 2008, I sent a check of $450 to a gentleman in Denver whom I had never met. He was organizing a trip across Wyoming for other Brokeback Mountain loving individuals like himself. He said the money would cover my lodging and most of the meals planned on the excursion.…

  • Greetings from Grand Canyon National Park

    We met both DUNN Brothers - Clay and Kinion to see the GRAND May 2016 YAVAPAI POINT

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    SPENT CHRISTMAS 2015 WITH FAMILY SNOWMOBILING....

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