The longest swath of the Fourth of July trip that we’ll feature in one set of photos: about 800 miles covered in this burst. Continuing on US-212 across eastern Montana, to get to South Dakota, and then driving through the Black Hills at the time of day when they are the blackest. We then continue into Nebraska, and drive US-20 east all the way to Iowa. Endless fields of yellow [...]
The second day of the Gila River trip – now with special guests! Dale, Beverley, and Shelly live in a completely different section of New Mexico, but when I discovered that they were camping on the western side of the state (only a 630 mile drive from San Diego!) I knew I had to drive out there for the weekend. I find them at Lake Roberts, and we head up [...]
some photos from favorite old haunts … northeastern New Mexico, including a trip to Sierra Grande, the tallest mountain in Union County. Two days of photos – one of just hanging out, the second of actually going somewhere. Flowers still in bloom in late October at 6800 feet. Someone does one hell of a job with the gardening! Why has Dale ascended to such magnificent heights atop this flimsy half-a-utility-pole? [...]
fireworks on the fourth of July in Raton, New Mexico – and other odds and ends. Sunset over highway 64/87. A few test shots before the last of dusk. Perfectly clear skies at 6800 feet. 5 1/2 minute exposure. […]
more from my trip to New Mexico, home of thunderstorms and brilliant orange sunsets. It happens to be raining in sunny Union County. Fence post, and observer, at sunset. Orange skies are orange. I had not seen this sort of sunset since just after a thunderstorm in South Dakota in 2006! […]
a visit this 4th of July weekend to sunny Union County, New Mexico. Just a brief dash of a trip: 2500 miles in two days driving, and then two days spent there being lazy and taking pictures of bees. Sunny Union County is inhabited by huge bees. Little house on the prairie. […]
And here is the second day of the Route 66 trip. Same starting point – sunny Union County – this time even earlier in the dawn. Button copy in New Mexico is very hard to find. This example, on old US-66, might be the only one left in the state. What do we have here? Classic state-named US shields … put up sometime between September and November of 2009! In [...]
Pictures of a trip from November, 2009. Kevin Trinkle and I poked around some of Colorado before taking a trip through New Mexico, down to Route 66, and eastward to Texas. Here is the first day, and it involves no Route 66 whatsoever. Just Colorado and New Mexico. Here’s sunset on the first day, on Johnson Mesa – New Mexico state highway 72 just east of Raton. […]
Let us look at some Iceland photos from the fourth day, and even the unofficial fifth, as that was basically one morning of photos, and the rest of the time spent blazing our way back to the airport. A reflecting lake on a foggy morning. Blue skies, white clouds. High clouds with the fisheye lens. Sunset. The majestic body of water in the foreground is nothing but a small stream [...]
more photos from Iceland – here is the third day, including the legendary Puffin Road! Eighteen percent? That’s nothing – try 43% later in the day! Infinite regression of sheep. Strange tower at sunset. Behold the northern lights. From on top of a mountain pass, with a terrifying opaque fog creeping up behind us – we outraced it, and we got this perfect view! Green rainbow. […]