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The path tempted. The smoothed dirt surface wound between the grasses, mature trunks seen peeking through low hanging leaves and shorter more benign seeming greenery. Open enough to entice, secretive enough to promise adventure.

Most of these are from Ilona Andrews' site.

Waterfall and moss, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

A few spots in this national park in the Blue Ridge Mountains hold traces of the farmland that once dotted the region. But today, most of Shenandoah National Park’s nearly 200,000 acres have been reforested and preserved. Along the way, many of the people who worked the abandoned farms were relocated by the United States government, but a select few were allowed to remain on the land, living out their years while the National Park Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps gradually restored Shenandoah to its original state.

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Don't know the scale on this. From the texture of the moss, it looks like this is a close up view. Which makes the 'leaks' of water exquisitely beautiful in their fineness but it is suspect that this scale is larger because of that.

Built between 1712 and 1732, the Long Room at Trinity College's Old Library holds the collection's 200,000 oldest books.














There's a secret door!



A tunnel through the bookcases of the Long Room. The Old Library