A Photo a Week: The Beauty of…

Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week challenge this week is Beauty. This is a difficult one to choose only a few photos, for the Earth is full of beauty, natural and manmade! So I am going to choose some of my favorite “beauties” from my photo collection. Beauty of a sunset: Rio de Janeiro, from […]

CFFC: Bryce Canyon National Park

This week’s topic for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is Places People Visit. Each year, America’s national parks host millions of visitors, Americans and foreigners alike. The national park system has a variety of different types of parks with diverse landscapes as well as historical and cultural attractions. I appreciate all natural beauty, but I admit […]

Getting Our Kicks with Route 66 Kitsch (Day 7, Part 2)

June 14, 2018 Catoosa, OK has at least 3 attractions worth stopping for: Interested in river history? Arkansas River Historical Society Museum, 5350 Cimarron Rd., Catoosa, OK Ready for a hike and a picnic? Redbud Valley Nature Preserve, 16150 Redbud Dr., Catoosa, OK Want to see something kitschy (hokey) that has even appeared on a […]

Getting Our Kicks in New Mexico – from Gallup to Santa Fe (Route 66 Day 5, Pt. 2)

June 11, 2018 Leaving Gallup, I-40 and old Route 66 run parallel to each other. On the eastern edge of Gallup, we were somewhat surprised to see this mosque.We stayed on Route 66 and stopped at the Continental Divide (I-40 exit 47). Rivers west of the Continental Divide flow into the Pacific Ocean, while rivers […]

Sunday Stills: A Plant’s Life in the Desert

For the first time, I am participating in the challenge Sunday Stills by Terry Webster Schrandt. The theme for this week is A Plant’s Life. Having recently been in the Southwest and because I love the desert, I am featuring the life of desert plants. Of course, different plants are found in the desert than […]

Getting Our Kicks in the Painted Desert of Arizona (Route 66 Day 4, Pt. 2)

June 10, 2018 The Painted Desert is part of Petrified Forest National Park in eastern Arizona, bisected by I-40 and Historic Route 66 (which run parallel to each other in this area). My husband and I first visited this national park in 2006 when we were in Arizona for another of my high school reunions […]

The Colorado River’s Rehearsal

June 2, 2018 Denver to Grand Junction, CO After visiting Red Rocks Park, we were on our way. The highway through the mountains and canyons can be treacherous at times. But the first thing that happened was a massive traffic jam due to merging lanes and an accident ahead. […]

CWWPC: Not All Wanderers Are Lost

Cee’s weekly Which Way Photo Challenge is all about capturing the roads, walks, trails, rails, steps, signs, etc. we move from one place to another on. You can walk on them, climb them, drive them, ride on them, as long as the specific way is visible. Any angle of a bridge is acceptable as are any […]

Circles on Route 66

A little preview of our road trip on Route 66! Travel With Intent has a weekly challenge on Sundays, and this week the theme is circle. What better place to find circles than on Route 66, “America’s Road,” which celebrates our car culture?? Here are some random “rounds” from our trip. […]

FOTD: Tundra Flower

In the mountains, above the tree line (that is, higher than where trees are able to grow) is the tundra. The tundra is characterized by scrub grass and other plants that grow low to the ground. Scattered among the scrub are small dots of purple – tundra flowers. This photo was taken on the Tundra […]