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America the Beautiful 2022 Edition: Share Your Pics
I did a post like this a year or two back. On this hallowed day, let us share our photos of the beauty that is America.
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Published in General
Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming
Salt Lake City
El Morro Fortress in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Arches National Park, Utah
Beartooth Highway, Montana
Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
Cape Mears, Oregon
Coastal North Carolina
Hannibal, Missouri
Boston/Lexington/Concord pictures taken in 1993. WTC taken in 1985.
Swan Boats, Boston Public Garden
Minuteman Statue at Concord Battlefield
WTC, NYC 1985
Captain John Parker, Lexington Battle Green
Old North Church, Boston MA
Flyover of our Fourth of July parade.
Sunset over Roanoke Sound, Nags Head NC.
America is also its people, and the generations that gladly welcome new life, such as our youngest daughter and her son (one year birthday):
St. Augustine, Florida
Teton Valley, Idaho
Highland Park, Illinois
Mount Rainer National Park
Independence Rock
Niagra Falls (American Side)
French Quarter, New Orleans
2019 super bloom near Lake Elsinore California.
Great idea for a 4th of July post!
Sandy Hook, NJ
Sunrise over NYC ( view from Jersey City)
Gettysburg, PA (view Pickett’s Division had of Cemetery Ridge)
Brooklyn Bridge
I remember that picture. You posted it some years ago. I still love it.
Here’s My bridge:
Last month I drove several sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway. I recognized this picture immediately.
Cherries in my backyard – small but tasty. Today.
A winter sunset over the Santa Catalina mountains in Arizona
San Xavier Del Bac, 10 miles south of Tucson. Still an active mission to this day.
Last month I drove several sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway. I recognized this picture immediately.
What are you pointing to with your daughter in the photo?
Well, son, actually. Marker in top of Mt. Phillips in Philmont.
I took a picture of a Japanese maple leaf in the snow:
But My first attempt I had the flash on:
It looks more like a drawing or painting than a photograph.
I love both of ’em.
Me too!
I visited there about five years ago. Beautiful and interesting place.
Two of my neighbors in Arizona had their own meetup in the backyard
We need @rushbabe49 in on this thread.
You Rang? Here’s a small taste…
Liberty Bell Mountain, North Cascades National Park.
…of this, at my own blog today.
https://rushbabe49.com/2022/07/04/god-bless-america-the-beautiful-on-independence-day/
My Grandmother in 1965. In a Studebaker.
That is fantastic.