Mountain Views

Mountain Views

 I created this blog as a framework to combine my journals and photos from travels. But I have also created thematic compilations that cut across individual trips; for example, gardens and seasons. It occurred to me that our trips have led Marjorie and me to many different mountain views, a mix of continental interiors, riverbanks, and coastlines. So I offer here samples of those mountain views.

I’ll begin close to home with views of the Hudson River, Catskills, 

and Adirondacks. 

Neighboring states of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire offer views of the Berkshires 

and the Green 

& White Mountains. 

The Smokies provide more Eastern mountains.

Heading West takes us to the Rockies and California: Glacier, Yellowstone, 

Grand Teton, and Yosemite National Parks, 

south to Colorado 

& New Mexico,

the combo of high desert & mountains in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, 

up to the Pacific NW of Oregon & Washington, including airplane views,

and finally to Alaska.

Canada has its own spectacular Rockies.

 

 

For mountain views we can also head to Europe, with a first stop in Iceland.

We can continue with Scandinavian views in Norway,

down to Switzerland, 

 

 

Germany & Austria, 

including views along the Rhine & Danube,

along the Adriatic in Croatia & Slovenia,

and finishing along the Mediterranean: Greek islands,

Italy,

and Spain.

I’ve had some mountain views in Brazil.

Further away have been mountainous areas of Asia & the Pacific: Turkey,

  

 

Vietnam,

and Australia.

We can conclude with idyllic Pacific island views of Hawaii

                         and Tahiti