Post-Gazette NOW - Travel

Biking: Take a less strenuous ride with a 5-mile family journey

Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh in eight days along the Great Allegheny Passage as part of the PNC Legacy Trail Ride organized by Venture Outdoors. (Yesterday)

Nancy Edmondson

Dudley Edmondson's wife, Nancy, snapped this photo of the outdoors photographer during a recent shoot on the north shore of Lake Superior, an hour away from their home in Duluth, Minn.

Photographer wants minorities to connect with natural treasures

Nature photographer Dudley Edmondson is comfortable on icy mountains, along white water rivers, in birdy swamps and deep in wilderness woods, and thinks other African-Americans should be, too. (10/07/2008)

Dudley Edmondson

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Fall leaves envelop the Harmony Mennonite Meetinghouse and cemetery on Wise Rd. in Jackson Twp., Butler County. Built in 1825, the meetinghouse is the oldest west of the Allegheny mountains while the cemetery dates from 1815.

Outdoors photography can be a snap

Everything in nature happens in cycles. But the way light falls on a scene changes with each moment. (10/05/2008)

	Harmony Mennonite Meetinghouse and cemetery
	Autumn leaves at Frick Nature
	Whitestown Road in Connoquenessing

Wildlife: Field guide -- Can't confuse elk and deer

Once upon a time, eastern elk inhabited the entire state of Pennsylvania. (10/05/2008)

Get into nature: Seed-eating milkweed bugs

Seed-eating milkweed bugs Swollen milkweed pods line country roads in early fall. When fully mature, the pods split and the seeds disperse courtesy of the silky parachute attached to each one. (10/05/2008)

Sunday, October 5, 2008