This page includes views along New Hampshire's Kancamagus Highway which is in the heart of the White Mountains, and a rest stop view along Interstate 93.
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May 31-June 4, 2011

Scene at a turnout on Bear Notch Road which is a "summer only" road branching off Kancamagus Highway (The dark sky fortells the incoming rain and hail.)
[Several photos stitched to display a panoramic view of the distant mountains in a blue, overcast rainy haze. Foreground is a thick green-treed fence.]

Things are so much bigger with a telephoto lens.
[Close up of a bee on a dandelion -- so close you can see the detail of the wings.]

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly
[Image of mainly one wing of a fairly large, yellow with black markings butterfly.]

Savannah Sparrow
(a noisy bird which is how I discovered its location)
[Small brown and white bird with a sharp beak gripping a small branch near the edge of a maple tree.]

The scattering of white in the grass are bunches of small flowers called Bluets.
[A sloping hillside beside a paved path has bunches of white amid the grass.]

Bluets
[Several dozen of the 4-petal white flowers which have a bluish tinge and yellow centers.]

Pink lady slipper seen on the Forest Discovery Trail.
[A flower with a teardrop pink petal at the top of a very thin stem.]

A close view of moss seen growing on a rock on the Forest Discovery Trail.
[These look more like little plants growing rather than moss because they have long thin stems rising to the sky from their green bases on the rock.]

This tree on the Forest Discovery Trail experienced a traumatic event.
[Something must have snapped off most of the top half of a tree. There is a clear break at one section, but the rest of the tree splintered leaving strands of wood sticking up like a cowlick on a boy's head.]

Rocky Gorge Falls
[The stream comes toward the camera down the left side and then in the middle back of the image it drops several feet toward the right in multiple places creating lots of white water. It then proceeds straight toward the camera with large hunks of rock on either side of the water flow.]

The upper section of Sabbaday Falls: The water makes a 90 degree turn and follows the railing to the left and drops several more times as shown in the subsequent photo.
[A two tiered waterfall as seen through a post rail fence. The fence continues along the right of the image up to the ground next to the upper level of the falls.]

The lower section of Sabbaday Falls after the 90 degree turn
[A huge wall to the left has a wooden railing along the edge and a pathway beside it. The water comes in from the right and makes a 90 degree turn to flow away from the camera and down two or three more drops. There are lots of trees and the shade makes it difficult to tell from this distance the number of drops. The rock wall is quite wet.]

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View of the Curran/McAvoy Causeway (Seen from a rest stop on Interstate 93.)
[Green trees in foreground, dark blue water in middle, layers of trees and several levels of mountains in background with haze showing the distance. Blue and white clouds in the sky.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver