There was an extraordinary diversity of mosses, lichens, and flowers in Chilean Patagon...
Flowers, mosses, and lichens
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Bosque Encantado, Chilean Patagonia, Enchanted Forest, natural gardening, Patagonia, Quetal National Park
Queulat National Park
This is a wonderful national park along the Carretera Austral in Chilean Patagonia. I've already posted an image of the hanging glacier (spectacular!)Along another trail, the Bosque Encantando (Enchanted Forest), the moss diversity (and that of other bryophytes) was nothing short of amazing.along the...
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Carretera Austral and Queulat National Park
I've gotten totally out of sequence (travel-wise) with my postings, but here are some wonderful images that evoke the experience of Chilean (Northern) Patagonia along the Carretera Austral.Hanging Glacier in Quelat National ParkThe hanging glacier is a stand-out hike (in Quelat National Park). ...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Argentina, Argentinian Lake District, Chilean Patagonia, natural gardening, traveling in Argentina, traveling in Chile
Wonderful rivers
We saw so many wild and inspiring rivers and streams in Argentina and Chile (Northern Patagonia).I thought we lived in the land of waterfalls, mountain streams and wonderful rivers, but these were remarkab...
Monday, 12 January 2015
Chilean Patagonia and the Carretera Austral
Jumping around in our travels again, here are some images from a hike in Chilean Patagonia (off the Carretera Austral, a historically gravel road now being regraded and paved through much of its length.)The Chilean side of Patagonia is much wetter than the Argentinian side, so the vegetation is a LOT...
Sunday, 11 January 2015
Ruta 40 (Argentina)
Jumping ahead in our travels, here's an image on the Argentinian side, from our journey back north on Ruta 40, a legendary north-south route, stretching from far north to south in Argentina.Ruta 40It's largely paved now, but we bumped along some pretty remote graveled roads from the Chilean border crossing...
Such fun
I returned today to a lovely mug (thanks to Society 6). They artfully added my "evergreens and snags" watercolor to a coffee cup.How cool is that? I'd posted about this before, but there's something a bit magic about actually receiving a cup (!) with something created personally on ...