First day of our March 2016 Road Trip.  This park has four bird blinds for photographers.  This blog will show the trail to the blind, the blind and a few photos from the blind.  Here are a few photos...  Read More

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 we took a day trip to the Nails Creek Unit of Lake Somerville State Park.  Our purpose was to check out the campground for a future trip, find a geocache and do some wildf...  Read More

On Saturday, April 12, 2014, we took a guided hike in this preserve in Austin.  Here is the link to our visit: Bright Leaf......  Read More

We left Austin on September 24, 2013 for a 4463 mile road trip, returning to Austin on October 21, 2013.  The numbered locations are explained below.  Several of these have links to see photos of the ...  Read More

This was the day we were to spend at Yosemite NP.  Due to the Rim Fire we ended up spending the day in Kingsburg, California. Kingsburg was established as a railroad town in the 1870's.  It was mostl...  Read More

In the fall of 2011, we visited the vineyards of the Willamette Valley in Oregon for a photography workshop.  The area is famous for their pinot noir wines.  We took various images of the grapes and v...  Read More

We were in Canby, Oregon a few days before their Annual Dahlia Festival.  We had seen a report on local TV and decided to visit Swan Island Dahlias.  Below are a few photos taken during our visit. Ne...  Read More

One of our many favorite Oregon destinations is Cannon Beach.  The photo above is from a previous trip.  We researched dinner options and discovered that Mo's had excellent beach views.  The view is s...  Read More

As owners of a new Nikon D7100 camera and a new REI Camp Dome 4 tent, we decided to take a two day camping trip, despite the temperature approaching 100˚. We camped near San Antonio along the Salado ...  Read More

On August 16, 2012 we left on what would be a 21 day, 5648 mile road trip.  The main purpose of the trip was to meet our daughter, grandson and granddaughter in Denver where we would pick up our grand...  Read More

In late March we took a trip to Big Bend with our friends Gus and Stephenie.  We camped out for the for three nights at the Rio Grande Village campground.  We then stayed at the Far Flung Casistas in ...  Read More

On our way to Big Bend, we made a brief fuel stop in Marathon.  The town, named after the plains of Greece by ex-sea captain Albion E. Shepard, is the only sign of civilization south of I-10 on the wa...  Read More