Tag: outdoors

Miller Hull Architecture – Davis Residence in Bellingham, Washington

This 1400 sq. ft main house and guest house/garage is located on a heavily wooded cliff site with views out over the San Juan Islands of Washington State. […] The concept marries a long gently sloping roof form containing the kitchen, entry and studio with a vertical tower containing the living room and master bedroom above.

nickgerber:

This morning at 3am I hopped in the rental and drove to the top of Haleakala – The summit of the now inactive volcano that Maui is made of. At 10,000 ft in the air it’s higher than many of the clouds that cover Maui. What. A. View.

Amazon of the North.

Stretching from Newfoundland to the Yukon, the boreal forest is our Amazon. It acts as the lungs of the world, our largest terrestrial carbon storehouse. Thousands of species, some of them endangered, make their home there. The first great human threat was the fur trade, which led to the beaver’s decline. Human settlement, agriculture, and forestry followed. Today the greatest menace is mining activity, including oil and gas exploration and extraction.