In my travels, I have stopped at many, many places, including some pretty random ones. In these places, I may have taken only a couple of photographs, certainly not enough in which to dedicate a whole tab. So, welcome to my Random Places!
Examples of some of the petroglyphs thereThe beautiful coat of an ocelot at the very natural Arizona Sonora Desert Museum near TucsonShe rolled over!The flowering (but dangerous!) barrel cactus at the Arizona Sonora Desert MuseumStaff even feeds the western cardinal at the Arizona Sonora Desert MuseumLower Falls, near North Conway, New HampshireLower Falls, New HampshireLower Falls again Just above Lower Falls
Cape Disappointment near Astoria, OregonThe Columbia River at sunset, near Cascade Locks, Oregon
The lake at Guernsey State Park in WyomingMy campsite at Guernsey State ParkAssateague Lighthouse, Virginia, located within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Wild horses, Chincoteague National Wildlife RefugeTaliesin West, architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona
The Dismal River in NebraskaRead about the Dismal River in my short story “Western Folk”
The Great Falls in Montana (with the hydroelectric Ryan Dam behind it)What the falls might look like without the dam
Trex Agate Shop outside Bynum, Montana (great paleo stuff!)Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Park, Alberta, Canada
Decision Point near Loma, Montana, where the Marias and Missouri rivers convergeLewis and Clark took ten days here deciding which river would lead them west
Hazy Mt. Hood (from western fires) above the Columbia RiverHaystack Rock on Cannon Beach, Oregon
The pretty Little Missouri State Park, North DakotaHistoric Sheridan Inn, Sheridan, Wyoming, developed by “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Mushroom Rock State Park in KansasMy nieces posing (?) in front of a mushroom
Rock City Park in Kansas, and a few of their 200 huge Dakota sandstone concretionsGateway Arch in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, welcomes all to the West
The Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River in ArizonaThe Horseshoe, home to The Ohio State University Buckeyes
Summer sunset (at 11:30 p.m.!) on Castle Bar Lake in northern Ontario, Canada
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Craters of the Moon NM, Idaho
Friendly grizzly bear, Yellowstone
Red Eagle Mountain, Glacier NP
Crater Lake NP
Sleepy elk, Rocky Mountain NP
Hummingbird at our feeder
Great Sand Dunes NP
Foggy Portland Head Lighthouse
Shiprock Mountain, New Mexico
Newspaper Rock, Canyonlands NP
My Jeep, Yellowwood Forest, IN
Finch looking at the moon
Multnomah Falls, Oregon
Portland Head Lighthouse
Key Largo sunset
Kīlauea Crater, Hawaii Volcanoes NP
Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt NP
Antelope Island State Park, Utah
Sunset, North Sea, Scotland
Square Tower House, Mesa Verde
Serpent Mound, Ohio
Carolina wren in the backyard
Bee clinging to thistle, Cahokia
Sleepy polar bear, Columbus Zoo
Bryce Canyon, Utah
Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain NP
Canyon de Chelly NM
Fallingwater, PA
Campsite, Black Canyon NP
Buffalo Road, Wichita Mts. WR
Douglas Lake, TN
Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake
Me, the Swilcan Bridge, Old Course
Manatee, Columbus Zoo
Sunset over the nation’s capitol
Coyote, Yellowstone NP
The moon from my backyard
The Tetons
Bro-in-law Dave, Black Canyon
Elvis Costello and the Imposters
Cody, WY powwow
Devils Tower NM
Indian paintbrush, Mt. St. Helens
Washington Monument
Lovely Tom Shafer, Dolly Sods
Molting bighorn sheep, Badlands
The Thinker, Shafer version
Hungry prairie dog, Devils Tower
On vacation, work calls, WiFi needed, frustrated niece, “it’s my vacation!”, unauthorized photo