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Another Year
It’s been a year since I started this blog on the way back from a trip to Vermont to see the fall foliage colors. I should put up a few shots of this year’s trip:
Visiting the Bees
April is often the busiest month of the year for honey bees. They have been building up population since the weather started to get warmer in the early spring, in order to have lots of foragers ready when the flowers … Continue reading
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
This was an interesting day trip in southern California last October. Mount San Jacinto State Park is a wooded wilderness on a mountain top 10,000 feet above the desert. It’s 20 degrees cooler in the summer and like Big Bear … Continue reading
Bryce Canyon
Bryce Canyon deserves a post of its own. I reserved a full day, and that was barely enough to scratch the surface of this amazing landscape. The main geological feature is the “Hoodoo”, the name they give the sandstone spires. … Continue reading
Cool Geology in Utah
Too much traveling and not enough writing… In early December, I did a whirl-wind tour of four national parks in Utah. Of course, one could spend a lot more time exploring each of these, and I may come back to … Continue reading
Capitol Reef National Park I
I only had time to cover the Scenic Drive and Capitol Gorge Wash in the upper part of the park on Monday. It was getting dark on my way out. I plan to go back to see the famous “Waterpocket … Continue reading
Antelope Canyon
I don’t remember how I first heard about this place, but it has been on my photo safari list ever since. Made from sandstone and carved by millions of years of desert flash floods, the upper and lower Antelope Canyons … Continue reading
Lake Powell
More photos from my recent Arizona trip. Most of Lake Powell is actually in Utah, but I was staying in Page, where I planned to take a photo tour of Antelope Canyon. At first I was really annoyed that the … Continue reading
Horseshoe Bend
There are some truly amazing photos of this place on the web. The one on the Colorado River in Arizona, not the battle site in Alabama. The spot you need to stand to get the whole bend is quite spooky, … Continue reading