A few photos from last June, miraculously reclaimed from my great ABDA (Accidental Blog Deletion Adventure). Elk bulls fighting at Rocky Mountain National Park: And a darling marmot: Finally, an even cuter marmot:
Category Archives: Wandering
House on the Rock
Most visitors to The House on the Rock fixate on its star attraction, the World’s Largest Carousel, which features prominently in Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods. It’s a pretty awe-inspiring carousel, I have to say. But the really special thing about The House on the Rock is Alex Jordan’s imaginative collection of industrial salvage, which […]
Flood waters
I went up to Fargo at Easter, and the flood waters were still high. But the crisis had just passed, leaving the entire city strangely static, as if it were a surreal, abandoned version of Venice. In North Dakota.
Road to Hana…
..and the north shore of Maui. We got to Hana on a twisty road that followed the north shore. There were bamboo groves in Haleakala National Park. Very Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Waimoku Falls–we hiked up to the falls through the bamboo forest. Dark sands at Hana: the view from our lanai. We saw mountains […]
Hawaiian Coastlines
I spent a lot of time on Maui taking pictures of the ocean. Big, crashing waves. And long shadows that stretched out to the sea.
Haleakala Crater
We visited Haleakala Crater and were utterly gobsmacked. [I’ve been looking for a chance to use that word.] The fog created dramatic contrasts. We saw silverswords… …and exotic birds. [Well, maybe not so very exotic. It was pecking around the parking lot, looking for handouts.] On the way down from the mountain: a perfect rainbow.
California Coastline
A whole bunch of photos from our drive down the coast. Here’s Point Reyes Lighthouse, which was surrounded by seals. I could hear the seals barking from the lighthouse! There were a lot of steps going down to the lighthouse, plus many signs warning visitors that they’d eventually have to hike back up. I’m sure […]
Wine Country
We had very little time to visit the wine country, but we did make a stop at the venerable Gundlach Bundschu, which is a very old winery, filled with memory. And Zinfandel. We arrived in time to see the grapes being harvested. We also stopped at Etude Winery, which was far less picturesque. However, they […]