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...National Weather Service predicted blizzard-like conditions, one to two feet of snow, high winds and difficult visibility in the Cambridge area for late last night and today...
...snow emergency citywide parking ban is also in effect...
...Sally Wriggins' description, in her book "Xuanzang, a Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road," of what's been lost: "The first sight of the valley of the Great Buddha must have made weary travelers gasp - immense cliffs of a soft pastel color, and behind them indigo peaks dusted with snow, rising to a height of 20,000 feet. They saw the reddish cliffs in the cold, clear air; as they came closer, they could make out two gigantic statues of the Buddha standing in niches carved in the mountains. Closer still, they saw that the two colossal figures were colored...
...down the road to Lushan is daunting. The Chilai Ridge hike takes three days and three nights, and as with the Yushan trip, hikers have to carry all their supplies, including water, tents and food. Similar two- to four-day walks to the summits of Tapachienshan, Nengkaoshan and Hsuehshan (Snow Mountain) are also recommended...
...equal, independent medium. He developed a "straight" photography--direct, candid and true to nature--that captured American city experience as it had never been caught on film before, from the steaming draft horses in The Terminal, 1893, to the exquisitely etched, near Japanese view of the Flatiron Building in snow, 1902. The hundreds of photos he made of Georgia O'Keeffe, his lover and (after 1924) his wife, are an intense and extended erotic essay. Never before had a camera scrutinized a woman so closely or praised a fine-boned body with such rapturous aesthetic effect...