Hey, Texas! Get out to Guadalupe Mountains National Park before you miss the fall colors. McKittrick Canyon is one of the best places in the state to enjoy autumn’s brilliance as the leaves shift from green to spectacular shades of yellow and orange. Under a gorgeous blue sky, breathing in the fresh air, you’ll never want your walk in the woods to end. Photo by M. Haynie, National Park Service.
The Republican majority leader was booed and heckled, and his choice for committee chairman lost.
Wisconsin’s progressive senator Tammy Baldwin fears a shutdown will persist with terrible results.
The Tea Party have their eyes on Medicare and Medicaid.
Any efforts to reduce the deficit through mandatory spending would likely be controversial, particularly in an election year, because of the effect on popular entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Price has not said how deficit reduction would be achieved, except that the savings would come from mandatory programs.
via The Hill.
The House Tea Party threatens to cut #Social Security & Medicare.
The House Tea Party threatens to cut Social Security & Medicare.
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Summer green becomes autumn orange in the blink of an eye at Denali National Park in Alaska. Termination dust – what Alaskans call the high altitude snow that signals the end of summer – coats mountains and sprinkles onto valleys. The red leaves of blueberry bushes carpet the landscape and offer bears a last dessert before hibernation. It’s a feast for the eyes. Photo from a previous fall by Tim Rains, National Park Service.
It’s fall at Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. The morning air is cool and crisp. Deer weave through the forest and squirrels scamper around searching for winter stores. Sunrise light hits the yellow leaves, making them an even brighter shade of gold. It’s a wonderful moment of peace. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Fall brings dramatic color to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado. Dense colonies of aspens grow in moist soil, sharing a root system and changing their leaves in unison. Like a river of gold, these gorgeous trees fill Morris Gulch, high in the mountains above the sand dunes. Photo by Patrick Myers, National Park Service.
