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When it comes to taking pictures, my motto is this:

Always look behind you.

The scene there may be as magnificent as the one ahead.

Welcome to my picture collection.

Most of my adult life has been spent with camera in tow, always with one eye on the road and the other looking out for the perfect shot.

It never takes long to find.

The graceful weeping willow, the orange sunset, the crashing waves. The joy of capturing such serenity, such quiet beauty always gets my heart pumping and my soul singing.

A novice, yes. But I doubt few pros feel more adrenaline flow than I each time the shutter is released.

Whether traveling with family and friends, or wandering alone down the highways and byways, the beauty is only surpassed by the thrill of finding it.

A collection of photo favorites

waterfall

alpaca

Pictured here is Nairn Waterfall, outside of Pemberton, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway north of Whistler.

Great blue heron on Roosevelt Lake

A great blue heron at Roosevelt Lake, Arizona

This alpaca along with a few other farm animals were seen at a remote gas station in Sublette, Idaho.

interior of restaurant

I spent a few days in Albuquerque on my way to my winter home in Arizona. While there, I visited the Petroglyph National Monument and ate dinner at an absolutely wonderful Mexican food restaurant in Old Town. It's called the Church Street Café. I've added a couple of pictures of its stunning dining area on my Old Town page.

Please visit some of my other travel locations. Feel free to email me if you have questions or comments.

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BY REGIONS, LANDMARKS AND NATL PARKS, FORESTS AND MONUMENTS: the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, CA | Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake | Arches NP | the Badlands | Bandelier Natl Monument, New Mex. | Big Bend Natl Park | Big Sur | Bighorn Canyon | the Biltmore Estate, NC | the Black Hills | Blue Ridge Parkway | Bodega Bay, CA | Bridges of Madison County, IA | Bryce Canyon | Canyon de Chelly, AZ | Canyonlands NP, UT | Cape Cod | Cherohala Skyway, TN | Chiricahua Natl Monument, AZ | Death Valley | Devils Tower, WY | Flaming Gorge, UT | Flight 93 Natl Memorial | Garden of the Gods, CO | Glacier NP, MT | Ghost Ranch, New Mex. | the Grand Canyon | the Grand Tetons | the Great Sand Dunes NP, CO | Gulf Shores, AL | the Hearst Castle, CA | Highway 287 | Hoover Dam, NV | Hovenweep Natl Mon, UT | In search of Barns and Bridges | Indiana Dunes Natl Lakeshore | John Day Fossil Beds, OR | Kure Beach, NC | Lake Powell, AZ | Lake Tahoe | Land Between the Lakes Natl Rec Area | Little Bighorn Battlefield, WY | Mackinac Island | Martha's Vineyard | McKenzie Pass, OR | Medicine Bow Natl Forest, WY | Mesa Verde NP, CO | Monterey Bay | Monument Valley, UT | Mount Rainier | Mount Rushmore | Mount St. Helens | Napa Valley | Natural Bridges Natl Mon, UT | Niagara Falls | N. Cascades Scenic Byway, WA | OK City (bombing) Natl Memorial | the Olympic Peninsula | Organ Pipe Cactus Natl Mon, AZ | the Outer Banks, NC | the Pentagon 9-11 Memorial | the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert, AZ | Pictured Rocks Natl Lakeshore, MI | Point Reyes Natl Seashore, CA | Rio Grande del Norte Natl Mon., New Mex. | Rocky Mtn NP | the Royal Gorge, CO | Saguaro NP, AZ | San Antonio River Walk | Shenandoah Valley | the Silver Thread Highway, CO | Sleeping Bear Dunes Natl Lakeshore, MI | Smith Rock, OR |the Smoky Mountains | the Sonoma Coast | Soshone Falls, ID | Sunset Crater Natl Mon, AZ | Tent Rocks Natl Mon., New Mex. | Texas Hill Country | Tonto Natl Mon, AZ | Tonto Natural Bridge | Tybee Island, SC | Valles Caldera National Preserve, NMex. | Valley of Fire, NV | Vancouver Island |the Vermillion Cliffs, AZ | White Mountains Natl Forest, NH | White Sands Natl Mon, NM| Yellowstone NP | Yosemite NP | Zion NP

OUTSIDE THE U.S.: Austria | Budapest, Hungary | Canada | Costa Rica | East Africa | Europe, here and there | France | Germany | Great Britain | Greece | Hungary | Ireland | Italy | Mexico | Morocco | the Netherlands | Northern Ireland / Portugal | Russia | Scotland | Spain | Switzerland | Tunisia | Turkey | Wales

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prairie and mtns

Waterton Lakes National Park, the Canadian version of Glacier Natl Park, turned out to be everything I had expected. See more of this area where foothills don't exist. It's prairie to mountain, right on.

mustangs

In addition to the herds of mustangs on the Gila River Indian Reservation, there are other herds in the East Valley, on the Lower Salt River, Bush Highway to Coon Bluff Recreation Area. Check out the wild and beautiful horses there.

When one thinks of a swamp, the word beautiful doesn't usually come to mind. However, a boat tour through the swamps of the Louisiana cypress trees just might change one's mind. See for yourself.

white sand dunes

Yet another excursion has been made to Mississippi, mostly the Highway 90 strip that spans the Mississippi gulf coastline. But I ventured inland, not too far, to visit the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge.

alligator

I found a treasure island on my return to Galveston recently from North Carolina. Dauphin Island, Alabama is a serene, beautiful white-sanded barrier island that shouldn't be missed...uh...probably during off-season.

sandhill crane

live oak tree

After taking one more trip to Mississippi, I've posted additional pictures of Biloxi

burned saguaros

I'm back in Arizona to my winter getaway, and one of the first places I drove to on this unusually warm December day was Bartlett Lake. This time, however, I was saddened. Several fires over the summer months have devestated a lot of the land and many, many of the old, old saguaros around the dam and Riverside campground are burned. Pictures show the sad state, but you'll have to scroll down the page toward the bottom. (My website-building program doesn't allow me to add recent pictures at the top of a page.) Click here.