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| Trip to Washington D.C. You Probably can't
get this close to the White House anymore, |
Lincoln Memorial. |
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| Side trip to Mount Republican in Newburg,
MD, where my godparents live. |
Part of the farmland and woods that are part
of the old pre-revolutionary war era
plantation of Mount Republican. |
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| Bridget and Jeannine |
Family out back |
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| Stratford Hall in Virginia. One of the old
great plantations of the old south. Built in
1730 by Thomas Lee, it is the birthplace of
Robert E. Lee. It is now restored as a
working plantation of the era.. |
"Hands" of tobbacco grown at Mount
Republican. This is how tobacco is
traditionally prepared for sale in the area. |
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Mount Rushmore in South Dakotah. It was
started in 1927 and completed in 1941,
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy
Roosevelt were carved into a granite
outcropping in the Black hills of South
Dakotah. Each head is 60 foot tall. |
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| Some of the black hills of South Dakotah.
Another monument to erosion. |
The corn palace in Mitchell, SD. Its a high
school auditorium that's decorated each year
since 1892 on the outside with murals made
up of corn, wheat, sorghum and grasses. |
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To the left, Devils Tower in Wyoming
featured in the movie Close Encounters of the
Third Kind. It is a volcanic extrusion more
than 1,200 ft high. Also know as Mateo
Tipila to the northern plains Indians. Above is the
grand entrance dance to a Powwow in
Wisconsin. Below are some of the participants in
this powwow. |
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To the right is a typical barn and field from
Wisconsin. Red barn with hay stored above
and the cows below and silo for feed as well.
Pumpkins above also from Wisconsin. Below
to the left is one of the many lakes in Northern
Wisconsin at sunset. Directly below me fishing
on a lake in Northern Wisconsin for Muskie
or Northerns. |
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| Grand Canyon National Park. Another
monument to erosion. |
I've been there five times now and it still
amazes me every time. |
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| Raft trip on the Green River in Utah. |
Some of the scenic canyons along the Green River. |
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Above is a scene along Hwy 1 along the coast
of California near Big Sur. |
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| Mammoth Springs in Yellowstone park. |
In the winter these hot springs and their
mineral deposits and pools really steam. |
The hot springs melting their way through the
snow. Most of Yellowstone park is closed in
the winter but snow coaches can be taken to
areas like old faithfull. There are no crowds
in the off season.
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| Sulfur pool at Yellowstone. |
Wheeler Geological area in Colorado |
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| This area is hard to get to but worth the visit. |
Its another monument to erosion. |
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| Hanging lake near Glenwood Springs
Colorado. |
A yurt in the Colorado Mountains. You can
rent these and cross country ski to them in the
winter. |
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| Shaw lake near where I live in the San Juan
Mountains in Colorado. |
Sand Dunes park in the San Luis Valley,
Colorado. They are the biggest sand dunes in
the U.S. |
Monument valley in Arizona on the Navajo
Reservation. Mexican hat balancing rock
below. |
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Taos, New Mexico. These pueblos of old
adobe towns are found in New Mexico. |
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