Category: travel
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Back to the Blog
Anyone who has maintained a blog or photography site knows it takes time and organization. It also becomes a habit that makes one hanker for ways to better describe the beauty of the photographs. The writer gets in a groove of thinking about their next post as life goes along. Then when life intervenes and…
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Road Tripping through Arizona
In trying to get back in sequence with the Arizona/Utah trip last fall: I offer this road trip that took place between the Virgin River Campground and the Grand Canyon North Rim campground. The nifty thing about most of these photos, is that they were caught as I was following a pretty fast truck…
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Victoria, British Columbia, Part 2
The day after Butchart Gardens (which was cloudy and rainy) we visited the Royal British Columbia Museum. This view of the Parliament Buildings was taken through the third story window of the museum. We worked our way through three floors of history of how the northwest was settled and saw wonderful examples of the First Nations who first lived…
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Victoria, British Columbia
Over a century ago, Jennie Butchart began building what is now one of the world’s premier floral show gardens.
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Journey
My ‘Journey’ from there to here. Today’s poetry exercise is a Limerick using alliteration – and no I’m not doing any of the rhymes about Nantucket! Journey From Chesapeake shores To N’awlin’s spicy tours Across massive Mississippi Desert shimmer oh so pretty To Pacific and great outdoors Link to WordPress
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Joshua Tree National Park, California – Day One
Joshua Tree National Park encompasses about 800,000 acres (slightly larger than Yosemite National Park at 742,000 acres) with two distinct desert regions. The Mojave Desert is in the northern part of the park, complete with Joshua Trees and the Colorado Desert in the southern part of the park, has lots of cacti and, like parts of the Great…
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Eastern Sierra Fall Colors, Take Two
When I thought about putting away the fall colors and going on to SNOW, my brain started rebelling. WAIT – there are still cottonwoods hanging on to their leaves even if the aspens have dropped theirs. And, you left some nice aspen photos that deserve a showing. I traveled with some photographer friends VERY early…
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Hiking the Northern Cascades, Washington, Sauk Mountain
Imagine if you were part of a clock and you were standing at 12 o’clock, the mountain was so steep from the trailhead it was about 10:30 on the clock.
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Hiking the Oregon Coast
The title is a mistatement. I did hike in a couple places, very short hikes not more than 2 hours each, but was not hiking along the Oregon Coast as the title insinuates. 😉 After leaving Crater Lake, I followed the Umpqua River on its winding journey from the Cascades to the sea. The Umpqua River is beautiful, it flows…
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