The two-hour express train journey from Taipei Main Station via the Mountain Line as it emerges and hugs the north-eastern coast into Hualien City is followed by an hour long bus-ride into Tianxiang village deep within the Taroko Gorge National Park. Here the slide-show reveals the kaleidoscope of the mellowing and deepening colors of the…
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Nature’s Savage Beauty – the coldest day in Pittsburgh
This picture was taken through the windows of the staff lounge at the hospital where I worked in the burns intensive care unit in December 1993. The beauty of winter, seen through the placid landscape of white roofs and steamy chimneys, is savaged by Man’s need to keep warm and the terrible unexpected fires that sweep through homes with unattended kerosene…