Dismal Wilderness
This program (14 mins.) focuses on New York State's colonial background, especially the Finger Lakes and Adirondacks
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edgardavidboshart
- Dec 17, 2018
- 3 min
Vietnam's Mekong Delta (I) - Hot, Wet, Green
"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation." -- Kamo no Chomei (poet, 1155-1216) The Mekong Delta’s tributaries in southern Vietnam, between Ho Chi Minh City and the Cambodian border (Kampuchea), transfer huge volumes of water drained from the Himalayas and passing almost 5,000 kilometers (2.5 thousand miles) through China, My
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edgardavidboshart
- Oct 12, 2018
- 3 min
Bight of Kennebunk: Travel Destination
“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn takes over the North American landscape, a quick look-back at one summertime highlight deserves mention. Ghosts abound in Maine, so if you are interested in observing one go to the Captain Lord Mansion in Kennebunkport, Maine, along the Atlantic sea shelf. Captain Nathaniel Lord, a shipbuilder, had the home built in 1812, and his family lived
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edgardavidboshart
- Jul 11, 2018
- 20 min
The Cuba Connection: A complete travel summary
Cuba Connection — 2018 (*Photos have been selected at random) A Metaphor Walking the streets of Havana in March 2018, I spied a man in a white tee shirt watching a spontaneous soccer match below his crumbling apartment. Beneath him a pallid woman lies prone, staring perhaps in a trance; or maybe she is ill. The soccer ball occasionally bounces off her body without moving her. This woman is Cuba, subdued and motionless, but looking skyward and hopeful. She sees the failure
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
Half of the World: Isfahan
In the wilderness about 200 miles south of Tehran is a place called “Half of the World.” Ishfahan, twice the capital of Persia, was the highlight of my journey to Iran in 2017. If Ishfahan is half the world, then Shiraz, even further south is the other half. But to get to these cities of over a million persons each, it is necessary to negotiate the Zagros mountains, a range of rocky cathedrals of stones and rocks spanning about 990 miles from the eastern edge of the Fertil
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edgardavidboshart
- Feb 9, 2018
- 5 min
Palaces of Persepolis - Theater of Conquerors
I arrived at the ruins of Persepolis, near Shiraz, with great anticipation. The skies were clear and the sun burned hot even in September. It was immediately evident that the former palaces had been erected on an enormous raised platform of earth and rock, making what could be described as a giant stage. Today it looks like the show is over, the cast and crew have left, but the props scattered over a wide area had not been removed. Fortunately for mankind, those props are
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 12, 2018
- 3 min
Eternal Flame - Tower of Death
Modern Iran is certainly a paragon of Islam but the country’s culture also has deep roots in the ancient mostly unrecorded Zoroastrian mythology. The key centers of the old religion, still regarded as holy and protector of the sacred flame, are in the city of Yazd and tucked away high on a mountain cliff further west at Pire Sabze Chak Chak, the Ka’ba of Zoroastrians. The fire temple in Yazd is relatively modest in appearance but marshals a steady stream of visitors, both lo
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Edgar David Boshart
- Jun 16, 2017
- 3 min
Victoria, BC to Port Angeles, US: Ghosts on the Waterfront and Cloud Capture on the Juan de Fuca St
Visitors to Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula must cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca
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edgardavidboshart
- Jun 8, 2017
- 3 min
Big Trees and Waves for a Weary Spirit: Strait of Georgia and Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island is a peaceful place on the Pacific Ocean, with big trees and even bigger secrets.
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edgardavidboshart
- Apr 18, 2017
- 1 min
Waters of the Spirits I
Bike to Lake Minnewanka, Alberta, Canada
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 20, 2017
- 1 min
Rockies' Splendor
"Do you wish people to believe good of you? Don't speak." Blaise Pascal, Penses, Section II This is the first of two blogs this week because there is so much to see on the journey between Jasper in northern Alberta and Banff at the south end of the Icefields Parkway. Too many places for words. So this first blog is mostly a photo gallery of some locations along Route 93 in Canada with some quotes of past literary and scientific pathfinders. The subsequent blog leads from
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edgardavidboshart
- Mar 7, 2017
- 3 min
When I Glance at a Picture; Columbia Glacier, Alberta, Canada
A Glance at the Columbia Glacier, Alberta, Canada When I glance at a picture, especially a photograph (whether on a wall or posted on a digital device), the impression usually is superficial at best - it is tantamount to a "flat earth" moment. A two- dimensional idea, and maybe the inkling of three dimensions (a little depth conveyed by factors such as color/focus), offer the framework of my judgment of an image's importance, ugliness/beauty or forgetability. That is why I of
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edgardavidboshart
- Feb 16, 2017
- 2 min
Nurture of Nature - Mount Edith Cavell
Jasper Park may be the 10th largest park in Canada, but all of the more sprawling parks are located further north in the almost inaccessible tundra and Arctic wildernesses. Jasper is stuffed within the 3000-mile-long range of the Rocky Mountains. Time passes unnoticed here, but space squeezed between giant trees, boulders and glaciers is everything. Jasper is big; the biggest of all Rocky Mountain parks, encompassing more than 4,000 square miles. This park hosts as many as
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 31, 2017
- 1 min
The Nature (not Nurture) of Nature
"My thoughts like yours are pictures within pictures, infinitely repeated in time and space." EDB Walking in any natural place, but especially in places where the scale is grand and somewhat incomprehensible, triggers not only wonder but also bafflement. Why is this place here; and why so magnificent? Exploring Jasper Park, in Alberta, draws forth quiet appreciation of the greatness of life and of its foundation, the earth we live on. But the smallness of myself and even
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edgardavidboshart
- Jan 17, 2017
- 3 min
Horny Elk and Their Mountains
My traveling partner and I awoke early one morning to loud bellows that resembled a mix of honking and grunting. Opening our cabin's door at the Fairmont Resort, just a crack, we peered at an enormous bull elk glaring back from less than 5 feet at the porch step, posturing and bugling as a female deer elk pranced across the yard. The male elk was as startled as we were but then ignored us, unimpressed by our interference. He had made his 13 points (antler-speak) – “leave m
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