My Sister’s Wedding
Posted in Photography 2 with tags blog, blogging, nature, photography, sisters, wedding on October 13, 2014 by allisonlabineUnder a Cerulean Sky
Posted in Inspiration with tags beautiful, beauty, blog, blogging, life, mountain, mountains, nature, nature photography, photography, photos, river, rivers, sacred, sun, sunburst, sunrise, tree on October 12, 2014 by allisonlabineBraided gold
Flows through liquid hands
Summoning the world to
Rise.
Rumbling,
Nourishing,
Whispering…
Rivers carve
Mountains
Under a
Cerulean sky.
Crisp air,
Deep,
Deeper
Breaths.
Absorb. Inhale…
This
Sacred
Space.
Sweeping
Sentinels
Through the
Ages
Stretch, giving
Birth
To Nature’s
Luminous faces.
-Allison LaBine
Image: © Mac Stone
Howl at the Night
Posted in Animal Kingdom with tags ancestor, animals, aurora borealis, blog, blogging, conservation, earth, howl, moon, native american proverbs, nature, nature photography, northern lights, wolf, wolves on October 8, 2014 by allisonlabine“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
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AURORA BOREALIS/ NORTHERN LIGHT FACTS
An aurora is a natural light display. Colorful blue, red, yellow, green, and orange lights shift gently and change shape like softly blowing curtains. Auroras are only visible at night, and usually only appear in lower polar regions.
In the ionosphere, the ions of the solar wind collide with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen from the Earth’s atmosphere. The energy released during these collisions causes a colorful glowing halo around the poles—an aurora. Most auroras happen around 60-620 miles above the Earth’s surface.
MOON FACTS
The moon orbits the Earth at an average speed of 2,300 miles an hour.
The moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth is the main cause of the rise and fall of ocean tides.
The airless lunar surface bakes in the sun at up to 243 degrees Fahrenheit for two weeks at a time. Then, for an equal period, the same spot is in the dark. The dark side cools to about -272 degrees Fahrenheit.
The shape of the moon appears to change in a repeating cycle when viewed from the Earth because the amount of illuminated moon we see varies, depending on the moon’s position in relation to the Earth and the sun. We see the full moon when the sun is directly behind us, illuminating a full hemisphere of the moon when it is directly in front of us.
WOLF FACTS
There are five subspecies of gray wolves in North America. Their coat colors can range from pure white to brown, gray, cinnamon or black.
Wolves live and hunt in packs within territories, ranging from 50 to 1,000 square miles.
In the lower 48 states, gray wolves were hunted to near extinction, though some populations survived and others have since been reintroduced. Few gray wolves survive in Europe, though many live in Alaska, Canada, and Asia.
Social creatures, gray wolves have a complex communication system that involves body language, barking, growling, “dancing,” howling and scent making.
Wolf pups are born blind and deaf, and must be cared for until they mature at around ten months of age.
New research has revealed that the common ancestor of dogs and wolves was a large, wolf-like animal that lived between 9,000 and 34,000 years ago. Based on DNA evidence, it lived in Europe.
Imagination
Posted in Inspiration with tags beauty, blog, blogging, imagination, inspiration, joyce tenneson, nature photography, portrait photography, vincent munier on October 6, 2014 by allisonlabinePoetry of the Earth
Posted in Poetry with tags beauty, blog, blogging, flower, gibran, japanese wisteria, nature, nature photography, pink, plant, poetry, purple on September 29, 2014 by allisonlabineOcean on Fire
Posted in Oceanic Exploration with tags blog, blogging, education, fire, light sunset, mother ocean, nature, nature photography, ocean, photography, sea, splash, Tahiti, Teahupoo, water on September 24, 2014 by allisonlabineThe Tiger
Posted in Animal Kingdom with tags animals, big cat, blog, blogging, facts, feline, photography, the tyger, tiger, tigers, water on September 23, 2014 by allisonlabine“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” – Jorge Luis Borges
“Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.” – Madonna
Image: Michael Nichols
Image: Ashley Vincent
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Tiger Facts
* More tigers now live in captivity in America than globally in the wild.
http://www.wwf.org.uk/about_wwf/press_centre/?unewsid=6755
* Every tiger in the world is unique – no two tigers have the same pattern of stripes.
* Unlike most members of the cat family, tigers like water. They are good swimmers and often cool off in pools or streams.
* These fierce felines have walked the earth for a long time. Fossil remains of tigers found in parts of China are believed to be 2 million years old.
* Today, there are five subspecies of tiger: Bengal, South China, Indochinese, Sumatran and Siberian.
Sisters
Posted in Photography 2 with tags blog, blogging, bridal shower, friends, party, pink, sisters on August 5, 2014 by allisonlabineSea Fever
Posted in Poetry with tags adventure, blog, blogging, energy, john masefield, ocean, ocean blog, ocean poem, poem, poetry, sailboat, sailing, sea, sea fever, seagull, ship, sunset, wild, wild call, wilderness, wind on March 25, 2014 by allisonlabinePhoto: ©Allison LaBine Click photo to open in full view.
Photo: © Spring break 2014
Sea Fever
By: John Masefield
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking,
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life,
To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover,
And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.
*A trick is the time spent at the wheel of a ship. Spume is the froth or foam found on waves.