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Wed, 25 Jun 2008
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Early this spring I bought a new macro lens. I
have been playing with it ever since. It is not
surprising that my update this month is mostly
spring flowers shot with the new lens. Needless
to say I enjoy the sharpness of the lens and its
capability to get close. More to come...
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Posted 14:36
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Wed, 09 Apr 2008
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 Site Update |
I have been travelling a lot in the last few
weeks. My wife informed me that I have been
remiss in updating the site. She was right. I
did sit down, finally, and get some work done. I
added our visit to Crazyhorse, a massive tribute
to the American Indian. I also included The Mt
Rushmore monument. In both cases the weather was
unbearably hot, over 100 degrees, but the light
was great for photos. Hope you enjoy. I also
added a new album titled "Hawaii." It contains
images from our cruise of Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and
Kauai. The trip was a family reunion of the
senior set, and we had a ball. Hope you like the
images.
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Posted 11:56
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Wed, 22 Aug 2007
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| Anchorage to New York and back by Motorhome |
Kaytie and I have returned safe and sound from
our two month adventure, a motorhome trip from
Anchorage to New York and back. I have updated
the web site to include three pages that document
the trip: Alaska to New York - ALCAN, Alaska to
New York - Canada, and Alaska to New York -
USA.As of this writing I have included images
from Alaska to Niagara falls, but am still
working on sorting images from New York, Iowa,
and South Dakota.
The first album, Alaska to New York - Alcan, is a
collection of images that took us from Anchorage
to Dawson Creek in the Yukon Territory of Canada
along the Alaska Highway. It starts with an
image of the Matanuska Glacier near Anchorage and
finishes with the "0" Milepost marker at the
beginning of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek,
YT. Along the way we were amazed with the
proliferation of wildlife we saw along the
Highway. All the images you see were taken
within 50 yards of the roadbed. We stayed in
some great campgrounds, had pretty good weather,
and experienced a minimum of construction along
the way. We took about two weeks to make this
part of the journey, and enjoyed every minute of
it...well almost every minute of it. There was
the matter of a flat tire in the middle of
nowhere, a ride with a passing tourist to the
nearest town, and a $300.00 tire changing bill,
but ah the price of adventure.
The second Album, Alaska to New York - Canada
covers that part of the trip we spent in Canada.
(My grasp of the obvious is improving) The Ol
Pembina River Campground was a real find. Not
only was the campground a great one, but the
history buff owners had stocked it with tons of
antiques on display throughout the campground.
We also enjoyed Fort Macleod. The reconstructed
Fort provided great insight into the role of the
Canadian Mounted Police in opening up the
territory to settlement. Not far away was the
Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump. This international
heritage site provided the history of the Plains
Indians from and archeological and spiritual
perspective at a site that had been use by four
Indian cultures going back some 5700 years. That
is older than the Pyramids. When we got to
Calgary, we changed our itinerary just a bit. We
had originally planned to drive across Canada to
Niagara Falls. The price of gas in Canada
averaged $4.50 per US gallon. Oh how we yearned
for $3.00 a gallon gas in the USA. We decided to
take US Highway 2 across the northern tier
states, and then come up through Michigan back
into Canada and Niagara Falls. We arrived at
Fort Macleod on June 14th and left Niagara Falls
on June 28th.
The third album, Alaska to New York - USA is
still a work in progress. I have added the
images from Montana, North Dakota, Wisconsin and
Michigan, but am still working on New York, Iowa,
and South Dakota. Hopefully I will finish them
in the next couple of days. By taking the
smaller US 2 and avoiding the Interstates, we saw
places that were alot more interesting than the
rest stop on the Interstate Median. Havre
(pronounced Hay-ver) Montana came complete with
an underground city. Both Kaytie and I
thoroughly enjoyed the tour. The plains states
provided some beautiful scenery of wide open
fields and big skies. I would miss the mountains
after a while, but I did enjoy seeing the
landscape. Our favorite stop along the way was
the Driftwood Shores Campground on the very
northern shore of Lake Michigan. The owner, Bill
Mallory was a gracious and friendly host, and the
campground itself provided for walks along the
beach, bird habitat and a peaceful environment.
We liked it so much we stayed an extra day.
Niagara Falls speaks for itself. What surprised
me a little is that the reality surpassed the
hype. The falls were even more spectacular than
I had imagined. Hope you enjoy. I will continue
to work diligently to get the rest of the images
uploaded. Till then, God bless.
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Posted 15:52
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Sat, 23 Jun 2007
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| Time to update. |
I am writing this at a small campground on the
shores of Lake Michigan near the top of the
lake. We are near Thompson, a small town that
used to ship logs across the lake to the paper
mills along with Christmas trees and other wood
products. All that is past. We passed the 4000
mile point a few miles back and have not killed
each other yet, ha ha. In fact it has been great
to just talk to each other, take long walks and
simply enjoy each other's company. I updated the
site with ten more images of a stop we made in
western Canada after we officially completed the
ALCAN at mile 0 in Dawson Creek. We found it by
chance along the Pembina River and it was aptly
named The Pembina River Campground. It was a
really nice campground, but what made it
especially interesting was the owners
collections. They had one of the most extensive
antique tractor collections I have ever seen in
one spot. It included tractors dating as far back
as 1919 and well into the 1970s. If that were
not enough, they had installed a 1950s functional
Soda Shop as part of the Campground. We spent a
fun evening drinking coffee and yaking well into
the night. Finally they had rebuilt some
historical houses on the grounds and filled them
with antiques and artifacts of the period. I can
not begin to describe it all. But I did include
some images at the end of the ALCAN section. I
now have more photos to process than time, but I
will keep on it. Till next time, enjoy.
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Posted 20:30
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Thu, 14 Jun 2007
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| ALCAN Journey |
Kaytie and I have officially departed Canada
as we have cleared customs and are back in the
USA. I am writing this from a little town in
Montana called Havre along Highway 2. We avoided
the interstate thinking that we might see more
interesting things along a smaller road system.
I updated the ALCAN photo album with ten more
images, most of which were shot between the Liard
Hot Springs and Fort Nelson. I still have a
number to post from the ALCAN and Western
Canada. I will get to them when I have internet
access again. Ten is enough for one night. The
black bear mother and cub were shot right along
the highway. As you can see they are covered
with flies. The bugs bothered me alot more than
the bears. I have also include a butterfly and
some waterfowl. Hope you enjoy.
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Posted 23:27
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