Category: Classical

From quiet and tranquil to wild and daring, this video looks at the four-season landscapes of British Columbia — Nitobe Memorial Gardens at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, a Japanese-style public garden; and, Whistler resort, with its art museums, activities, and accommodations, the home of the Winter Olympics of 2010.

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As part of my adventures, I like grand national parks, horizon-filling national monuments, and beautiful open spaces of all kinds. These places highlight nature in all of its wide-open magnificence. Yet, I also love the smaller scale, more detailed, intimate gardens I visit. In that sense, the Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, Canada, surprised me […]

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In this last of four posts about the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, we see a video of another of its treasures. There are colorful, natural cliffs in the otherwise desert flatlands of America’s Southwest known as Vermilion Cliffs. They were designated a National Monument in 2000, one of our most recent and undeveloped frontiers. […]

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