In America’s “national pastime,” the game of baseball, any batter, from sandlot to the major leagues, who hits a fair ball that doesn’t clear the fences, but races around the base paths and crosses home plate without being tagged out by an opposing player, is credited with hitting an inside-the-park home run.
Now, this is not a post about the bat-and-ball sport modernized by Alexander Cartwright, but it is a post about a home run of a different sort: the spectacular views from INSIDE the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini (National Park of the Sibillini Mountains) that are worthy of a Ruthian trot around the base paths at Yankee Stadium.
Inside the park, which straddles the border between the Umbria and Marche regions in Italy’s central Apennine mountain range, visitors flock to gaze upon some of the most spectacular, postcard-ready panoramas.
It’s no wonder that the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini is called the “rooftop of the Apennines.”
©The Palladian Traveler
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I love these shots, and what an amazing looking place.
The last flower filled photo with big fluffy clouds is my favourite, for its colour, light and composition 🙂
Thanks again, Mackenzie. That shot is one of my all-time favorites and was taken during la Fioritura (the Flowering) up in the Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini of central Italy.
Beautiful 🙂
Thanks, Sweetness. Glad you stopped by for a peek.
You are welcome; glad I stopped by.
Beautiful photos!
Thanks for the comment.
Clever use of the prompt, Tom. My favorite’s the last one, too.
janet
Grazie mille!
I like the shot of the hatted person surveying the world below. A nice, contemplative image.
The lonesome cowpoke. Good choice. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Very inspiring shots, Tom. Today we are driving through the Mt. Ranier area as our last jaunt in the Great Northwest. I hope to get some nice photos.
I’ll be on the lookout for them in one of your upcoming posts. Safe journey home.
beautiful photos!!!
Thanks, Terry.
great collection
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Thanks, Amar.
Breathtaking shoots what’s the earth has in store for us.
Thanks!
Absolutely wonderful photography, sir. I particularly loved the last landscape captured. Really nice.
Thanks very much, Mustang.
Love the photos!
Thanks very much, Aleck!
Oh, my, these shots are indeed postcard ready, Tom. Super.
janet
Thanks, Janet!
i still like the post and the photos, Tom, three-quarters of a year later.
janet
Thanks. Not everyone viewed this post when it first published. Nothing wrong with a second “run”.