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This collection of photos was taken throughout a good portion of Canada's British Columbia, a trip to the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada, Minnesota's North Shore Drive and a more recent trip through Texas to Big Bend National Park.

From mountain ranges to sandy seashores, to desert floors, it's impossible to name favorite sites. I'm truly blessed to be able to see it all.

The sun had not quite risen over the mountains upon an early morning departure from Powell River on British Columbia's northern Sunshine Coast to Vancouver Island.

Grand Marais, Minnesota

Quisitis Point, a Ucluelet headland on Vancouver Island's west coast

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Shannon Falls, Squamish, British Columbia

Black Beach, Minnesota's North Shore Drive

Stamp River and the Salmon run there (Coho) and the trail that leads to the ladders

The Stamp River and the salmon run there , Port Alberni, British Columbia

The Skookumchuck Narrows on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast near Earls Cove

Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park, Chilliwack, British Columbia

Along the River Road, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

Mountain goat, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada

"Spanish skirts," Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas

Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park

The Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Black Beach, Minnesota's North Shore Drive

Boquillas Canyon and the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Rio Frio, Garner State Park, Texas

Deep in the woods with the house cat, Freeburg, Minnesota

Bighorn sheep, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

Cub black bear, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

Young bighorn sheep, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia

Sargeant Bay Provincial Park, Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia, along the Sunshine Coast

The Rio Grande, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas

Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas

Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

Minnesota's largest stone fireplace. Naniboujou Lodge, North Shore Drive

Near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada

Tuff Canyon area, Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Arbutus (Madrone) tree, Sechelt, British Columbia

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

Wild turkey, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Butchart Gardens, Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada

Sunset over Knife Lake, Mora, Minnesota

On the back roads near Chilliwack, British Columbia

Lupine, Minnesota's North Shore Drive

Florencia Beach, Tofino, southwest Vancouver Island

Along the River Road, Texas Highway 170, Big Bend Ranch State Park

Seagrass on the Rio Grande, Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend State Park, Texas

Bald cypress trees line the banks of the Rio Frio, Garner State Park, Texas

Along the Tofino Inlet, southwest Vancouver Island, Canada

Tettegouche State Park, Minnesota's North Shore Drive

Giant cedar grove, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Desert plant, Vallley of Fire State Park, Nevada

Lilypad bud, One Mile Lake, Pemberton, British Columbia

Kootenay Lake, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia

Tofino Inlet, southwest Vancouver Island

Homeplace, a working farm at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, on the western Kentucky - Tennessee border

A fiddler jams with others at the Homeplace, a working farm, at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area on the western Tennessee-Kentucky border.

Lighthouse Rock, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Telegraph Cove, north Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Looking out at Johnstone Strait, Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island

Gila woodpecker, Knife Lake, Mora, Minnesota

Livestock at Homeplace, a working farm at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area on the western Kentucky-Tennessee border

A Highland bull at a working farm at Ruckle Provincial Park, SaltSpring Island, British Columbia

A great blue at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve, Chillliwack, British Columbia

Bighorn sheep, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia

Garner State Park, Texas

American bald eagle at the Hays Bridge, Prince Rupert, Canada

Beach along the Quisitis Point, Ucluelet, southwest Vancouver Island

Along the Tofino Outlet, southwest Vancouver Island

American bald eagle, Hays Bridge, Prince Rupert, Canada

Nairn Falls, near Pemberton, British Columbia along the Sea-to-Sky Highway

The Parliament Building in Victoria, British Columbia's capital

South Beach, Ucluelet, southwest Vancouver Island

Quail, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

The Casa Grande peak towers over other mountains in the Chisos Mountain range, Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Cemetery, Terlingua Ghost Town, Texas

On the Smuggler Cove Provincial Marine Park trail between Pender Harbor and Halfmoon Bay on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast

Earls Cove car ferry, Saltery Bay, British Columbia

Francis Point, along the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia

The Kitty Coleman Provincial Park, off the Highway 19a near Campbell River, Vancouver Island, Canada

The heart of the Sunshine Coast, Pender Harbor, British Columbia

Lighthouse at Dryad Point, British Columbia, taken from the Port Hardy to Prince Rupert ferry trip.

On Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Highway 2, the Manistique Lighthouse

The harbor at Grand Marais, Minnesota

Fairport, Upper Peninsula Michigan, on the M-183 off State Highway 2

At Alert Bay, a first nation village on Cormorant Island, off Vancouver Island's northeast shore

Kitty Coleman Provincial Park, off Vancouver Island's Highway 19a near Campbell River

On the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Looking toward the Broken Islands from the Pacific Wild Trail, Ucluelet, southwestern Vancouver Island

Hugging British Columbia's western coastline between Port Hardy and Prince Rupert

South of the Alberni Inlet on the Bamfield Inlet, Vancouver Island

Lund on the Sunshine Coast; the beginning of the Highway 101, British Columbia which travels south ending in Chile, South America

Hillside vineyards, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Currie Mountain, Pemberton, on the British Columbia Sea-t0-Sky Highway

Michigan's Upper Peninsula, off Highway 2 on the M-183

Happy, Texas

The bay at Grand Marais, Minnesota

Among the grape vineyards, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Barbary sheep spotted on the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Horses on a small ranch in Happy, Texas

Above and left: in British Columbia's Kootenay region, between the small communities of Procter and Harrop

Sotol Vista on the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

Bullsnake, Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas

Chuckwallas, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

The Sierra del Carmen Mountains in the Boquillas region of Big Bend National Park, Texas

Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada

The Fire Wave, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

At the Sotol Vista overlook, Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Big Bend National Park, Texas

At the Fossil Discovery Exhibit, Big Bend National Park, Texas

A rock cairn, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas

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The Window View, Big Bend National Park, Texas

On Upper Michigan's Highway 2, the Brevort River empties into Lake Michigan.

A wall of the Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Lund, British Columbia is the north terminus for the international Highway 101. (The southern terminus is in Chile, South America.)

Prince Rupert, British Columbia

View from Sotol Vista, Big Bend National Park, Texas

The Santa Elena Canyon wall, Big Bend National Park, Texas

The Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas

The Stamp River, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, Canada

Along the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, Big Bend National Park, Texas

Brandywine Falls, on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, British Columbia

The Lower Burro Mesa Pouroff Trail, Big Bend National Park, Texas

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The Johnstone Strait, Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island, Canada