WINTER IN THE ROCKIES
Over the next few days, I hope to unpack the good reasons for the very long hiatus from blogging. But for the time being, I’ll pretend that I have been here all along and I’ll just jump into the story of our winter trip to Colorado. Marcy wanted to get some winter images, so we […]
The Wild Mustangs of Prior Mountain
Prior Mountain, located in extreme southern Montana is home to a herd of wild mustangs. This is a vast wilderness, but the arid climate can sustain only about 160 horses. The Bureau of Land Management has a round-up and adoption program to keep the herd in check, where for $25 you can have your own […]
Montana and Wyoming
Thanks to some Delta Skymiles, we find ourselves in Montana, with a base of operations in Bozeman. This turned out to be the easiest of hops from Knoxville with a 6:45 departure, then one hour and 50 minutes to Minneapolis with just 50 steps to the next gate. We barely had enough time for coffee […]
BIG BIRDS OF BOTSWANA
Bird fans! Before our Africa trip disappears into the rearview mirror, I wanted to include some posts of our feathered friends. Yes, we went to Africa to see the elephants, hippos, giraffes and other exotic mammals but the wide variety of bird life proved to be fascinating as well. The images below are from Chobe […]
NOT SWAZILAND
In April 2018, the King of Swaziland decided to change the name of his country to Eswatini. The new name, eSwatini, means “land of the Swazis”… Wait, isn’t that what Swaziland means? The change was unexpected, but King Mswati has been referring to Swaziland for years as eSwatini. Despite the change in names, pretty much […]
CHOBE RIVER SUNSETS
It may be a distant future retirement task to process through the 10,500 pictures I took on our Africa trip, but while I am still fresh, I wanted to post as many subjects as I can before I am back to my day job. Today I bring you Chobe River sunsets. I posted one earlier, […]
