Dawn at Bryce

Lake Michigan, Kenosha WI

December Blooms

Fort Madison, Iowa

The REAL Fort Madison

 

This historic installation was home to Captain Horatio Stark's Company of the First Regiment, United States Infantry, from 1808 to 1813.

(photo was taken from the doorway of the Lost Duck Brewery )

Along Snake Alley

Snake Alley

     Burlington, Iowa

Grand Teton NP

Time to go back-Is it Summer yet?

Signs of Fall III

Looking Up

Signs of Fall II

Cedar River

Signs of Fall I

Springville City Park

A better number.....

.....than has been seen in quite a while. Nothing to compare with the 57 cents/gallon of my early driving days

Once grand, now...

.....Not so much.

 

From the Strawberry Point archives-Sept 2014

Four Way Stop

 

Strawberry Point, Iowa

White Church

 

Strawberry Point, Iowa

A simple truth

Fox County Park, Michigan UP

       Young lass & and a big lake

Sleeping Bear Dunes...revisited

Along desolate Utah I-70.....again

Some campsites.....

.....are better than others-part II.

 

Fox County Park, Michigan Upper Penisula, Lake Michigan

Rocky Mountain NP

 

        Sunrise at Glacier Basin Campground

Theodore Roosevelt NP

Little Missouri River

Grand Teton NP

Gates of Ladore....cont....

More from campsite #15.....

Kelly, WY

My kind of store!

Gates of Ladore, Dinosaur NM

Some campsites are better than others....like this one. #15 on the Green River

Cycling on July 4th

Stateline Rd

Harshman Bridge

Fox County Park, Michigan Upper Peninsula

Glen Haven

Early 1900's Equipment

Flowers of Northern Michigan

Sleeping Bear Dunes

Lake Michigan near Platte River Campground

Fruita, UT(in Capitol Reef NP)

 

 Of all the places in Utah for Mormons to create a community, Fruita might be one of the most difficult. Fronted by tens of thousands of square miles of desert, along a wild river prone to serious flooding, and in an area so remote that paved roads did not arrive until the 1960s, it is perhaps of little wonder Fruita, for most of its life, was home to no more than eight to 10 families.

 Though no Dodge City or Tombstone, Fruita operated sort of on the fringe of Mormon social culture -- the town, for example, never had a church, and moonshining was not uncommon. And if Fruita was on the edge of Mormonism, it was also on the edge of lawfulness: polygamists, fleeing federal agents, often found shelter in the nearby maze of canyons, aided by sympathetic locals. Too, Butch Cassidy maintained a hideout nearby.

 The historic district contains cabins, barns, the one-room schoolhouse and, of course, the orchards. Originally the domain of the settlers and usually containing several varieties of fruit, Fruita's 22 orchards are gradually being replanted with the goal of having just one type of fruit come from each orchard -- a move that will greatly simplify maintenance.

Somewhere along desolate Utah I-70

Racquet Center Bloom

Bonus from Bryce Canyon NP

Bonus from Capitol Reef NP

Bonus from Arches NP

Monday at Bryce Canyon

As I complete my quick tour of SOME of Utah's beautiful parks, I regret and admit that I needed a month to even scratch the surface of these parks. And I didn't even get to Canyonlands NP, Escalante NM, or Zion NP. Let alone some of the great State Parks......future trips to look forward to I guess!

About Bryce Canyon....simple snapshots do no justice to Bryce. Panorama heaven, and ver impressive at 7am in the morning. Will leave you with just one pic of Bryce. For now. Off to Tennis in Claremont. Go Noah!

Sunday at Capitol Reef NP

Saturday at Arches NP

As Summer approaches.....

.....from a storefront in Keokuk, Iowa.

Interlude IV

From last weekends Tennis trip....did you know that the University of Chicago was an original member of the behemoth Big Ten(14) Conference?