This year’s backpacking trip to the California High Sierra got hijacked by forest fires. When I arrived in late October the sky was thick with smoke from a fire on the Western slopes. As a result, the entire Inyo national forest was closed, so this trip morphed into five days of driving up and down the Sierras. I spent one day exploring the White Mountains east of the Sierras where the sky was a little less hazy. Here is home to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. These rare trees grow between 9,800 and 11,000 feet in very harsh conditions. In one grove a tree named Methuselah, at 4,852 years old, is considered the world’s oldest known living organism. This video reveals some of the brute beauty of these ancient trees, and introduces the austere high country of the White Mountains.
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is a protected area high in the White Mountains in Inyo County in eastern California. The Great Basin bristlecone pine trees grow between 9,800 and 11,000 feet above sea level, in xeric alpine conditions, protected within the Inyo National Forest.
Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji is the head temple for the Seizan branch of Japan’s Jōdo-shū Buddhist sect, located in Kyoto, Sakyō-ku. It was founded by Shinshō, a pupil of Kūkai, and is famous for its fall foliage and for its prominence in the past as a center of learning.
Aerial footage of Santa Monica. Featuring: Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica Ferris Wheel, the boardwalk, and downtown Santa Monica.
Santa Monica is a coastal city west of downtown Los Angeles. Santa Monica Beach is fringed by Palisades Park, with views over the Pacific Ocean. Santa Monica Pier is home to the Pacific Park amusement park, historic Looff Hippodrome Carousel and Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. Next to the pier is Muscle Beach, an outdoor gym established in the 1930s. In the city center, Bergamot Station houses several art galleries.
Walking down Mare Street, vibrant even in these days of restrictions, it’s hard to reconcile today’s Hackney with pictures from the past. Shop-lined roads were once babbling streams, pubs were market gardens and this bastion of hip, edgy, urban creativity was a remote village where people retreated for a taste of idyllic countryside. But then, few places have changed more over time than this corner of East London.
According to local lore, the small settlement that sprung up along the Roman roads to Lincoln and Colchester owes its name to a Danish chief called Hacon, whose eye — islet—this was. No trace remains of this early history, but some medieval records indicate that the Knights Templars owned about 110 acres in the Hackney Marshes and built some mills on the River Lea — hence today’s Temple Mills. The village’s first parish church, St Augustine, was named after the Templars’ patron saint.
One of the world’s most famous skyscrapers has just been through a major 10-year modernisation project. See New York City’s 1930s icon has been updated for the modern age.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from “Empire State”, the nickname of the state of New York.
Robert Galishoff originally hired architects Brett Woods and Joe Dangaran to bring his single story mid-century modern home back to life. But what began as a simple renovation turned into a major architectural passion, and through a successful partnership, they created a reverent sanctuary in the sky.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Video timeline: 1. intro (Niagara falls) 0:00 2. intro (Vancouver island waterfalls) 0:02 3. intro (CN Tower) 0:08 4. intro (Niagara Falls with river) 0:11 5. intro (Vancouver park) 0:14 6. intro (Peyto Lake) 0:16 7. intro (Toronto City) 0:19 8. intro (Frozen Niagara falls) 0:23 9. intro (Athabasca River) 0:26 10. Beautiful ocean and house in Newfoundland 0:29 11. Niagara falls with Rainbow, Aerial View 0:35 12. Iceberg in Canadian ocean 0:41 13. The whole Niagara Falls view by drone 0:53 14. The whole Niagara Falls view by drone (Part 2) 1:01 15. Small fountain time-lapse in the Canadian forest 1:11 16. Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge in Vancouver Forest 1:23 17. Vancouver Park time-lapse in sunny day 1:35 18. The whole Niagara Falls view by drone (Part 3) 1:47 19. The Niagara River and International Rainbow Bridge, Aerial view 1:51 20. Vancouver island waterfall in forest 1:58 21. Beautiful Peyto Lake Time-lapse in Canada 2:11 22. Jasper National Park Aerial view, Canada 2:29 21. Green forest with river in Jasper National Park 2:38 22. Beautiful Moraine Lake in Banff national park 2:48 23. Montreal City at night in Canada, Aerial View 2:57 24. Calgary City at night in Canada, Drone View 3:21 25. Calgary City at night in Canada, (Part 2) 3:45 26. Montreal City at night With River, Aerial View 4:09 27. CN Tower at Night in Toronto, Canada 4:33 28. Athabasca River with green trees 5:03 29. Jasper national park, A guy Walking 5:09 30. Close-up View of Niagara falls 5:16 31. Toronto city sing Time-lapse 5:33 32. Toronto city sing Time-lapse (Part 2) 5:58 33. Mount Louis, Lake at Winter season 6:08 34. Niagara Falls in Sunny Day 6:17 35. Banff gondola ride up to green hills 6:29 36. A Sunny Day Time-Lapse Toronto, Canada 6:49 37. Eaton center Toronto at Night 7:08 38. Vancouver lakes with beautiful blue sky 7:12 39. Frozen Niagara Falls at Winter season 7:23 40. Green trees with blue sky, icefields parkway 7:42 41. Toronto, Canada Time-lapse in Sunset time 7:50 42. Montreal lake with Beautiful red tree and park 8:01 43. Toronto city at night time, Time-Lapse 8:30 44. Ottawa Capital of Canada, Time-lapse 8:45 45. CN Tower with beautiful blue sky time-lapse 9:03 46. Vancouver downtown at night with clouds 9:08 47. Canada in Spring time with ocean 9:29 48. Big ice bugs in Canadian ocean 9:34 49. Calgary City in Canada, Aerial View 9:49 50. Calgary City at sunset time in Canada, Aerial View 10:19 51. Calgary City at sunset time in Canada, Aerial View (Part 2) 10:49 52. Drone fly over the Montreal cities river 11:13 53. Aerial view in Montreal river at sunny day 11:42 54. Aerial view in Montreal river at sunny day (Part 2) 12:12 55. Quebec city’s house, Canada, Aerial View 12:42 56. All over the Toronto city with CN Tower, drone View 13:09 57. All over the Toronto city with CN Tower, drone View (Part 2) 13:32 58. Niagara falls close-up view by drone 14:02 59. Frozen white mountain at winter season 14:31 60. Home in the middle of Minnewanka Lake with beautiful Mountain 15:31 61. Toronto city Canada at night time-lapse 15:50 62. Blue and Red light in CN Tower, Toronto 16:07 63. Car driving on the flyover into the city of Toronto 16:27 64. Car driving on the flyover into the city of Toronto (Part 2) 16:47 65. Dynamic drone view of waterfall 17:05 66. Montreal Quebec city Canada at night 17:22 67. Downtown Toronto high building with blue sky 17:34 68. West Toronto, Canada at night time-lapse 17:45 69. Algonquin park with beautiful lake at sunset time 17:57 70. Yonge-Dundas Square in Canada, time lapse 18:09 71. All over Toronto from Le park in sunny day 18:22 72. Montreal park at spring in Canada 18:35 73. Lake Louise at winter season, Hamlet in Canada 18:45 74. Montreal lake with red leaves in springtime 18:48 75. Hyper-lapse footage of Toronto of Canada at night 19:09 76. Toronto downtown time-lapse at night 19:16 77. Queens Quay in toronto at afternoon 19:27 78. End Title 19:34
The Spring Creek Ranch, owned by the same family for nearly 80 years, is now being offered for sale. Comprised of 10,793± acres of deeded land with predominantly native tallgrasses in the heart of the widely known Kansas Flint Hills, this ranch is a combination cow/calf and stocker cattle operation that was designed to operate at a very efficient level. The ranch has excellent cattle handling facilities and in addition to beef production, the ranch also offers diverse recreational opportunities, some of which can appreciably affect the bottom line. Beautiful Spring Creek runs through the ranch for over seven miles, providing numerous areas of fertile cropland, hay meadows, and stands of hardwood trees in and around the rock-bottom creek with pools of fresh, clear water. There are over 47 ponds and lakes throughout the ranch, including the 70-acre Big Lake and the 14-acre Niles Lake, plus Cabin Lake where the native stone lodge sits on the water’s edge.
After two deadly crashes that killed 346 people and a worldwide grounding that lasted almost two years, the FAA is giving the Boeing 737 Max jets the green light to fly again. However, many are worried that the changes to the plane are not enough. Can the U.S. trust the revisions made to the jet and the software updates to the MCAS system?
One of the most evocative and breathtakingly beautiful coastal landscapes in Britain is the historic county of Cornwall. It’s also a place steeped in legend, including that of Britain’s legendary King Arthur.
Cornwall is a county on England’s rugged southwestern tip. It forms a peninsula encompassing wild moorland and hundreds of sandy beaches, culminating at the promontory Land’s End. The south coast, dubbed the Cornish Riviera, is home to picturesque harbour villages such as Fowey and Falmouth. The north coast is lined with towering cliffs and seaside resorts like Newquay, known for surfing.
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