Month: July 2015

Howe Caverns

Howe Caverns, New York

Howe Caverns is located in Howes Cave, NY, near the town of Cobleskill in New York State’s Central-Leatherstocking region, Tour groups board an elevator for a 16-story, 156-foot descent into the Earth and step out into a limestone cave that is every bit the marvel it was in 1842 when farmer Lester Howe discovered it. After hunting around in some bushes, Howe found the entrance to a cave, and on May 22, 1842, he and his neighbor, Henry Wetsel, entered the caverns for the first time.

More than 14 million people have explored Howe Caverns since it formally opened to the public in 1929.

Jawaharlal Nehru: “Yet The Past is Ever With Us”

Photographer Unknown, (The Past is Ever With Us)

“Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.”

― Jawaharlal Nehru

Ominous Storms Foretold

Artist Unknown, (Ominous Storms Foretold), Computer Graphics, Film Gifs

“By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses