Day Trip to Capitol Reef
It was the last day of our southwestern US photoshoot, and the visit to Capitol Reef National Park checked off the last of Utah’s “Big Five” national parks. I confess that until I went to AAA to get maps and information, I didn’t even know Utah had a Big Five and this park wasn’t high […]
A 190-mile Vermilion Cliffs Loop
This would be quite a road trip, but our sources said that visiting the Vermilion Cliffs would be worth it. Before we begin a description of our journey, though, I beg your indulgence to poke around the word “vermilion”. The linguistic detour started with a “Hey Marcy, is ‘Vermilion’, one ‘L’ or two?” It turns […]
Alone Together at a Famous Landscape
Just musing here, but this blog post is meant to be a gentle affirmation favoring proper touristing. So far on this trip, it’s been nice people all the way down. Maybe it is that the high season of bad behavior has not fully arrived, and also, Marcy and I tend to avoid the most crowded […]
the codger pole
Traveling north of 60 … In Colfax, Washington, the county seat of Whitman County, we find an American treasure in the Codger Pole. The Codger Pole, a 65-foot-tall chainsaw sculpture, commemorates a 1988 high school football rematch — played fifty years after the first game, by the same participants. Colfax lost to St. John in […]
The Nursery Rocks of Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley
Rocks of granite deposited by glaciers in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park by glaciers, are called glacial erratics, and serve as nursery rocks to Douglas fir trees.
RAVENEL BLUE HOUR
Evening blue hour at the Arthur J. Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina
