#// MAROON NOT IN THE MOUNTAIN

[insomniattic]

after burn.

[dramoor]

"Death isn't the end of life; it's like turning off a lamp because morning has arrived."

~Sebastian Junger

(Photo © dramoor 2015 Maroon Bells Wilderness Area, Colorado)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Sunrise at Maroon Bells Lake, White Rivers National Forest, Colorado, USA

Photo by aiisha

[sunflowersnsage]

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Winters Coming. My favorite location for reflection is Maroon Bells Mtns reflecting into Maroon Lake. This was taken in Oct past peak gold of the aspen trees. Still got a nice reflection of the Maroon Bells & the clouds in the lake.

📸 by Perry Ralph

[imaginarianisms]

bc of the new upcoming animated show on yi ti called the golden empire & later the nine voyages on young corlys velaryon & also nymeria's 1000 ships prequel (all of which i'm super excited for btw lmao), i suspect that these may be the god-emperor dynasties of yi ti ranging from valyria to the present day:

Scarlet Emperors - perhaps the most infamous dynasty. They greatly expanded the empire and strengthened central power. Some were great statesmen, others ruthless but competent, and still others ruthless and incompetent. They moved the capital from Yin to Si Qo (which was left in ruins after their dynasty ended). Many members of the dynasty were wicked and cruel and practiced the dark arts and sorcery and cannibalism like Lo Tho, though Lo Doq ruled wisely and well for more than thirty years. He survived the numerous assassinations within the imperial family by supposedly pretending to be a lackwit struck with an affliction that made him jerk and stagger when he tried to walk limp and drools when he tried to speak while others believe that the true ruler was his formidable wife, Bathi Ma Lo. A famous historical drama recounts his unlikely rise to the throne. The Scarlet Emperors reigned about 2,000 years ago and warred against the Jogos Nhai to the north, the dynasty fell when Emperor Lo Bu, known as the Boy Too Bold By Half was killed in battle by Zhea (who btw is a canonical trans man or at the very least a woman who lived & dressed as a man, so, like, I don't wanna hear ppl in the a.soiaf rpc go all like "bUt I cAnT hAvE a TrAnS cHaRaCtEr!!!!" yes you fucking can that's a canon example right there dont give me that transphobic bs), a jhatar of the Jogos Nhai. Yellow Emperors - died out 1,000 years ago. Traded with the Valyrians, who were then also at the height of their power. Chai Duq, the fourth emperor of the dynasty, took to wife a Valyrian noblewoman and kept a dragon at his court. (in my personal interpretation, House Celtigar descends from this dynasty in the paternal line.) Sea-Green emperors - at least eight emperors under which Yi Ti is said to have achieved the height of its power. They also ruled from Yin. At the apex of its power, they conquered the large island of Leng and Great Moraq off the coast in the Jade Sea, and lands as far away as Qarth, Old Ghis and Asshai paid them tribute. They traded with Valyria. Azure Emperors - the current dynasty, who ruled from Yin in a palace larger than all of King's Landing. The seventeenth azure emperor Bu Gai's rule, however, is being defied by general Pol Qo, who has named himself first of the orange emperors, and by a sorcerer lord who is exiled to the city of Carcosa far to the east of Yi Ti, claims to be the sixty ninth of the yellow emperors, a dynasty fallen for a thousand years. Relatively weak, with the regional princedoms rising in power. Leng broke free from their control about four hundred years ago (which is exactly when the Doom of Valyria happened), so this is what the current dynasty is during the Century of Blood and the Targaryen dynasty and now the Baratheon Era to the present day.

[theroguequeenaniki]

December Day 2: Red ❤️

#KimickaPhotoADay

We went thrifting today and I picked up these burgundy/maroon (they’re darker without the filter XD) boots!

[feliciavox]

Maroon Bells photo/video dump 🏔️

[pohlepen]

me: i need to write frankie's KOR verse fr also me, one second after hitting my bong: ok! goodnight!

[persuasivestrawberryafternoons]

I Took a Canoe to See You (2/6/24)

I took a canoe to see you

A two person canoe

With only me

I rode across the Atlantic sea

A paddle

A fishing rod

And bag of mending tools

Seeking along a kelp highway

And a water roadway

Days I spent adrift for you

Before a storm came

And marooned

My tiny vacant canoe

And the salt spray

Prickled my skin

And I laid cocooned

On a deserted island

far from you

[parasidity]

The longest journey

Maroon Bells, Aspen CO

[twl-cyan]

Day 484

他們在空中約會～❤️🖤

[dramoor]

“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”

~Charles Dickens

(Photo © dramoor 2015 Maroon Bells Wilderness, Colorado)

[travelella]

Maroon Bells near Aspen, Colorado in Winter.

[eregyrn-falls]

My personal favorite (click for a larger version): a series of warning signs as you approach Fox Glacier on the South Island of NZ. You can (or at least, could back in '07) walk on an easy path up to very nearly the face of the glacier. At the time, the only thing preventing you from continuing to walk right up and lick the glacier or something was a fence that was just those yellow ropes. (I don't think they were electrified or anything like that. They were more of a notional barrier.)

The signs were very clearly trying to convey to you why you should not go past the yellow ropes. Rocks may fall on your head! The glacier is calving all the time and may drop huge hunks of ice on your head! Hunks of ice calving off into the river may create huge waves that can swamp you! No, seriously, no matter how shallow it looks, do NOT go in the water at any time.

In trying to look up whether there is a more substantial barrier now or what, I found out that Fox Glacier has retreated substantially from where it ended when I was there in '07. Hard to tell, but it looks like you can no longer hike as close to the face as you once could.

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

[stormears]

I am a slut for Notebook Therapy and will absolutely be buying their 2025 lucky bag. I kept the email alert from when the 2024 one (teal w/dragons) was about to drop for pre-order, it came on 11/2/23.

The package arrived the day before Thanksgiving. I got off work 3 hours early but told my family it was only 2 hours early, so I could spend the secret extra hour unboxing and admiring my teal fairy tale themed stationery, it was a fantastic buy! c:

This means less than a week till I get to order the 2025 lucky bag! I wonder what the theme will be for 2025...