Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the largest protected areas in the eastern United States where black bears can live in wild, natural surroundings. Bears inhabit all elevations of the park – with an estimated 1,500 bears living in the park. Bear cubs are usually born in the winter and emerge from their dens in late March or early April. Bears can run 30 miles per hour, can swim very well and are good tree climbers like this baby bear pictured here. Bears can live 12-15 years or more, but animals that have access to human foods and garbage have a life expectancy of only half. Do your part by using the park’s bear-proof dumpsters and disposing of all garbage properly. Photo by Sidney Cromer (www.sharetheexperience.org). #FindYourPark
Blue Ridge Parkway - Appalachian Mountains, NC
This is what can happen when operating at high altitudes. I don’t know anything about this crash officially, but it appears to me that when coming to the bottom of the maneuver, due to being at high altitudes in the mountains of Afghanistan where the air is much thinner, the aircraft could not generate enough power or lift to pull out before contact with the bottom edge of the airspace was made. High altitude + high speeds - power = catastrophic failure. From what I’ve read, this did not result in any fatalities. That is, until the Crew Chief found out what this pilot did to his aircraft. The injuries inflicted on the pilot by the Crew Chief would not be in any official report.
A victim of geometry, fate, and physics, this sad elk died cursing nature.
Today we’re celebrating our national bird, the bald eagle, for American Eagle Day. On June 20, 1782, the bald eagle was placed at the center of the Great Seal of the United States and remains an inspiring symbol of our country. After a dramatic recovery, bald eagles are found in every state but Hawaii, soaring high and inspiring the nation. Photo from the Gulkana Wild and Scenic River in Alaska by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management - Alaska.
The 40th Brigade Engineer Battalion uses a Mine Clearing Line Charge during a training exercise overseas. (Photo credit: SPC Victoria Herrera/Army) Read more: https://trib.al/gULsLA0
This is an actual photo of a wild dingo eating a shark while two snakes make love on the beach. Only in Australia.
An MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter assigned to the “Vanguards” of Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron (HM) 14 conducts an aerial refuel off the coast of N.C.
I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I’m surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground — seconds away — thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.
Charles A. Lindbergh
A Handy Liberal Dictionary:
Americans - Deplorable
Illegal Immigrants - Dreamers
$1000 Bonuses - Crumbs
2% growth under Obama - Progress
3%-plus growth under Trump - Stagnation
Taxes - Investments
Free Market Investments - Greed
