The Trail Ride began at the Durango & Silverton Railroad stop at Elk Park and ended near Silverton.

Each morning we have nice stands of Pleated Inkcap Mushrooms (Parasola plicatilis) due to warm and damp days nights in some flower beds.

The Little Colorado River only flows during spring and after heavy summer rains; for the rest of the time the River and its gorge are dry.

Last month, Beverly and I attended a community supper/musical performance. One of the people at our table told us about a nearby footbridge which was covered with a wisteria vine and flowers. She showed us several pictures she had taken. The next evening we returned to that area to find and photograph the wisteria. Beverly took the featured image and I took the other two. The footbridge is over Spring Creek, beside where Beaver Creek…

Keys View is an overlook in Joshua Tree National Park located on the crest of the Little San Bernardino Mountains which provides panoramic views of the Coachella Valley below.

Note: This post is one of a series about our visit to New River Gorge and Bridge in late October 2018.  Unfortunately, there was not a lot of color in the trees then. For details of the New River National River and links to other posts, please see New River Gorge and Bridge (Overview). Turkey Spur Overlook is a series of platforms and walkways on Turkey Spur Rock, which stands above the wooded slopes of…

Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s to control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power to the nearby states and Mexico.

The rocks and hills that form the landscape of Joshua Tree has long fascinated visitors to this desert. How did the rocks take on such fantastic shapes? What forces sculpted them?

The Joshua Tree (a member of the lily family) is native to the arid southwestern United States, where it is confined mostly to the Mojave Desert.

This post is one of a series about our trip to Arizona and California spanning this past New Year's holiday. For an overview of our trip and links to other posts, please see 2018/2019 Western Trip. After leaving the Red Rock Visitor Center and Ranger Station, we continued north on Rt. 179 toward Sedona. Just north of the Village of Oak Creek, the next location with a good view was at the Bell Rock/Courthouse Butte…

Our first opportunity to photograph Sedona's red rock formations came at the Red Rock Visitor Center and Ranger Station south of the Village of Oak Creek.These rock formations are about 2.9 miles away.

Beverly and I spent a week in Arizona and California where we visited Joshua Tree National Park, Salton Sea (CA) area, Palm Springs, CA area, Sedona, AZ, and Phoenix, AZ.

The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge that carries US Rt. 19 over the New River Gorge, near Fayetteville, West Virginia. Completed in 1977, it is currently the third highest bridge in the USA. With an arch 1,700 feet long, it originally was the world's longest single-span arch bridge; it is now the world's fourth longest single-span arch bridge.

This is a panorama of the Main Overlook at Grandview in the New River Gorge National River.

Note: This post is one of a series about our visit to New River Gorge and Bridge in late October 2018.  Unfortunately, there was not a lot of color in the trees then. For details of the New River National River and links to other posts, please see New River Gorge and Bridge (Overview). The next morning after the Full Moon over New River Gorge photos, I went back to the Main Overlook at Grandview to (hopefully)…