#Highland Springs

[jagalart]

Lemko

A very special picture for the great @ YachtRockDragon matching with one I've done a while ago. This time featuring a nb take on a traditional Lemko clothing and Spring in Ukrainian/Polish/Slovakian mountainside. I grew up surrounded by their culture and language so it was really cool to make this ❤️

[pangeen]

“ Glorious Morning Mood “ // Arnar Kristjansson

[lotusinjadewell]

Hà Giang & Cao Bằng, Vietnam. Credit to annhien___ (Instagram).

[vandaliatraveler]

A magnet for adventure tourists and nature lovers, Ohiopyle State Park sprawls across twenty thousand square acres of steeply-sloped wild lands on the flanks of the Youghiogheny River Gorge in Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands. The Great Allegheny Passage bike trail runs through the heart of the park, which also anchors a thriving whitewater rafting industry. I fortunately live within a short drive of the park, so a day hike is always in the cards. Especially on a beautiful Memorial Day holiday.

From top: black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), an aggressive colonizer with delicious fruit coveted by humans and animals alike; longstyle sweetroot (Osmorhiza longistylis), also known as anise root, because its roots have a licorice-like flavor; Indian cucumber (Medeola virginiana), easily identified by its two tiers of whorled leaves and odd, pendulous flowers; and speckled wood lily (Clintonia umbellulata), also known as white Clintonia or black-bead lily, a close relative of yellow Clintonia (Clintonia borealis), which tends to occur at higher elevations in Central Appalachia.

[vox-anglosphere]

Dunrobin Castle: Behold.. a French chateau in the Scottish Highlands

[shutterandsentence]

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.

Photo: Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art, He pours the wild effusions of the heart; And if inspir’d 'tis Nature’s pow’rs inspire; Her’s all the melting thrill, and her’s the kindling fire.

- Robert Burns, the Simple Bard

[equinesandeducation]

The Scottish highland cows making an appearance at the end of our solo ride 🍀

[just-anka]

I had to keep walking for over 3 miles after I first tried to find a campsite to find this one, but I think I ended up with a decent spot for the night after all 😍

[heelanhomestead]

Winter feels like a distant memory, as our garden springs back into life. Our trees are full of blossoms and the bees are hard at work collecting nectar and pollen. Our chickens are enjoying this glorious weather and are laying so many eggs, I can hardly keep up. It’s just a beautiful sunny day in the garden … 🥰🌱☀️

[uxbridge]

Gardens of Inverness, Scotland

[lotusinjadewell]

Lào Cai. Credit to Tran Anh Tuan.

[vandaliatraveler]

Walk with me: Visit to a high-elevation red spruce forest. The red spruce (Picea rubens) forest on top of Red Spruce Knob, the ninth highest peak in West Virginia, provides a bittersweet glimpse back in time to the primeval beauty and solitude of such places prior to the arrival of the logging companies in the mid-Nineteenth to early Twentieth centuries. The loggers stripped the mountains bare and set in motion the massive wildfires that burned away everything, including the soil itself, down to solid bedrock. Almost a century later, the forest is regenerating and in some places, such as Red Spruce Knob, has regained the richness and vitality of a healthy boreal ecosystem.

From top: a view of Red Spruce Knob, in the far distance, from the Highland Scenic Highway overlook; Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), a ubiquitous understory component of the forest, along with mountain woodsorrel, yellow clintonia (a.k.a. blue-bead lily), hobblebush viburnum, Indian cucumber, green false hellebore, and various mosses and ferns; yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis) in bloom; pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule); green false hellebore (Veratrum viride) on eastern hay-scented fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula); and mountain woodsorrel (Oxalis montana).

[pellinni-photo]

nature scenery with forested hills. view in to the distant valley of carpathian mountains. lush grassy meadows. cloudy sky - nature scenery with forested hills. view in to the distant valley of carpathian mountains. lush grassy meadows. cloudy sky

[shutterandsentence]

Oh, the summertime is coming And the trees are sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather

Will you go, lassie, go? And we'll all go together To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather Will you go, lassie, go?

--"Wild Mountain Thyme" (Scottish/Irish Folk Song)

Photo: Loch Ness, Scotland

[deathinfeathers]

//Went on a roadtrip today. I am itchy and sunburnt! 0>:(