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!
Pioneer Register and Tanks Hike, Capitol Reef National ParkExamples 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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Antelope Island State Park, Utah
Devils Tower NM
Zion NP
Our teepee at Devils Tower NM
Square Tower House, Mesa Verde
Red Eagle Mountain, Glacier NP
Fallingwater, PA
Jupiter and Saturn
Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake
The moon from my backyard
The Thinker, Shafer version
Arches NP
Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain NP
Friendly grizzly bear, Yellowstone
Young moose, Rocky Mountain NP
Organ Pipe Cactus NM, Arizona
Key Largo sunset
Our teepee, Devils Tower
Pea Ridge NMP, Arkansas
Flight 93 National Memorial
Indian paintbrush, Mt. St. Helens
Sunset, Gettysburg NMP
Meese, Grand Teton NP
Sleepy polar bear, Columbus Zoo
My flipflops, Rocky Mountain NP
Hurricane Ridge, Olympic NP
Campsite, Colorado NM
Sergeant Floyd Monument, Iowa
Molting bighorn sheep, Badlands
Mt. St. Helens NM
Sunset over the nation’s capitol
Great Sand Dunes NP
Wild burro, Wind Cave NP
Gateway Arch, St. Louis
Campsite, Black Canyon NP
Foggy Portland Head Lighthouse
On vacation, work calls, WiFi needed, frustrated niece, “it’s my vacation!”, unauthorized photo