Serenity in the Teton Size:Medium Riomaggiore is the southernmost of

Riomaggiore is the southernmost of the five Cinque Terre villages — terracotta houses stacked up a steep ravine to the Ligurian coast

towels and books and people doing the one thing the beach is really for

The palms here grow straight where the trades let them and lean when they don't

The soft silhouettes and radiant tones evoke calm

Serenity in the Teton Size:Medium Riomaggiore is the southernmost ofThe Teton Range comes up out of the Wyoming valley floor without any foothills there's no transition between sagebrush flat and 13,000 foot rock face. The range is one of the youngest in North America at about 9 million years, still actively rising along its eastern fault. Tom shoots the Grand and the surrounding peaks at daybreak as a winter storm clears, the wind still loading snow off the upper ridges.