When I took my camera and started out on the trail at our hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona, the last thing on my mind was taking advantage of the afternoon golden hour. All I wanted was to stretch my legs and decompress from two long days of driving! It was early June and the southwest monsoon season had yet to start; […]
Here are a few more of my images from the Route 66 Auto Museum in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. If you don’t mind looking at a snake skin (I know some would rather not!) I’ve put a couple more pictures behind links, here and here. This was among the decor hanging on the wall, and although I feel for the […]
I have only a handful of pictures shot with my phone inside the gift shop, which is fairly small but absolutely packed with surprising rock and mineral samples in just about every color of the rainbow. I didn’t want to linger too long without buying something — but making up my mind was a serious challenge! I also appreciated the […]
I’ll admit I don’t know all that much about the High Plains of Texas, but after making six trips through Amarillo and along U.S. Route 287 to the Fort Worth area, I’ve become somewhat familiar with the tiny towns along the way. It’s actually sort of amazing that such a seemingly flat, boring landscape can encompass so much incredible history; […]
Here are a few more images from my walk along the nature trail at the Little America Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona, last June. I was quite happy to have the path mostly to myself (the Big Guy had chosen to ignore the trail and set off on his own, cross country), and the clouds and cooler late afternoon temperatures were […]
I had managed to cover the looping half-mile Main Trail at the Petrified Forest near Calistoga, California. It was nearly time to leave, but when you find yourself in such beautiful surroundings, it can be difficult to drag yourself away! But as I approached the main building and the entrance gate once more, this amazing place still had one or […]
Today, the last series of images from my trek up Mt Konocti last May. I do still have a few photos I’m not including because they’re very similar and/or because I would have to extend the series. And I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to move on to other topics! I’ll most likely share those images at a […]
We discovered Hendy Woods State Park in Mendocino County’s Anderson Valley for the very first time in late October of last year. I was sorry we had arrived so late in the afternoon because I was more than happy to keep exploring the trails. However, the Big Guy was tired from fishing all day, and the sun was headed for […]
There are times when I’m so happy to be hiking through along a forest trail that I feel I’m stopping about every few steps to shoot a photo; and then there’s the time last May when I did actually manage to document nearly every step I took around the back of the Robert Louis Stevenson Tree. As I was doing […]