Images of Random Places

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 Park
Examples of some of the petroglyphs there
The beautiful coat of an ocelot at the very natural Arizona Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson
She rolled over!
The flowering (but dangerous!) barrel cactus at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
Staff even feeds the western cardinal at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
Lower Falls, near North Conway, New Hampshire
Lower Falls, New Hampshire
Lower Falls again
Just above Lower Falls
Cape Disappointment near Astoria, Oregon
The Columbia River at sunset, near Cascade Locks, Oregon
The lake at Guernsey State Park in Wyoming
My campsite at Guernsey State Park
Assateague Lighthouse, Virginia, located within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Wild horses, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
Taliesin West, architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home in Scottsdale, Arizona
The Dismal River in Nebraska
Read 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 converge
Lewis and Clark took ten days here deciding which river would lead them west
Hazy Mt. Hood (from western fires) above the Columbia River
Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach, Oregon
The pretty Little Missouri State Park, North Dakota
Historic Sheridan Inn, Sheridan, Wyoming, developed by “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Mushroom Rock State Park in Kansas
My nieces posing (?) in front of a mushroom
Rock City Park in Kansas, and a few of their 200 huge Dakota sandstone concretions
Gateway Arch in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, welcomes all to the West
The Navajo Bridge over the Colorado River in Arizona
The Horseshoe, home to The Ohio State University Buckeyes
Summer sunset (at 11:30 p.m.!) on Castle Bar Lake in northern Ontario, Canada