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America, the Beautiful: Share Your Pics!
A bit late for me to be doing a post like this, consider the 4th’s already almost done, but whatever. The notion popped into my head that it’d be fun to do a post where we all just share pics of the U.S.’s many beautiful landscapes. I’ll kick off with a few photos of mine of some scenic spots in Nevada. If you have any pics you’ve taken of beautiful locales in the U.S., please share. And Happy Independence Day!
Lake Tahoe, which my wife and I visited for the first time just last month.
Clark County Wetlands Park, near where I live.
Valley of Fire State Park
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The view from my deck in the mountains of east Tennessee. 3,300 feet – never used the air conditioning. 60 acres, surrounded by National Forest. Man, I hated to sell that place…
This is from my backyard here in the Mojave Desert. Some of the most amazing sunsets I’ve ever seen are here in Nevada. (Knotwise…I forgot you lived here! I took my fourth graders to Wetlands Park every year on a field trip.)
This is the valley in western Wyoming where I grew up. It was settled by my great-grandparents and their peers. The stream in this photo is where one great-grandfather trapped beaver. The other side of the family milked cows and made cheese. It is spectacularly beautiful in all seasons, but I just can’t do the winters anymore. I haven’t lived there since I left high school.
My ranch in Buffalo, TX, God’s Country as we call it. May God bless y’all. Happy Independence Day.
About 2 miles from my house yesterday morning at Historic Canoa Ranch Lake in Green Valley, AZ. Those are rain clouds!
Some random shots of the Ojai Valley on the northern edge of Southern California. If you’re interested, some videos I’ve shot of this place (and some locations close by) are here.
Love the Valley of Fire.
Here is the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis.
An urban landscape, anyway.
Great idea for a post, Knotwise.
Fitting for July 4. Liberty Bell Mountain in North Cascades National Park in Washington State.
And the tulip fields of Skagit County, just north of us. April of every year (except 2020) is the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. The Skagit Valley provides the world’s second largest number of tulip bulbs, after Holland.
Dungeness Spit National Wildlife Refuge on the North Olympic Peninsula. The Spit is five miles long, with a lighthouse at the tip, and can be hiked. It is a very strenuous hike.
The Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge from Skyline Drive.
We lived in Port Hueneme for about 7 years, and loved riding the motorcycle up through Ojai around and back to the ocean. And…we also love seeing Ojai standing in for so many other places in television shows!!
Lake George, Indiana/Michigan, about 5 minutes ago.
Ohio River, deck of my house, this morning.
Our son (left) and a friend out on the range near Arco, Idaho.
I thought that Arco, Idaho, was the most desolate place I had ever seen.
He’s about 15 miles out of town.
I am going to cheat here by posting pictures taken by others. Here are two shots of one of my favorite places in Guam, Ritidian Point.
I lived on Guam from ’52 to ’56. That looks kinda like my child’s mind remembers it.
Here are three photos of Arizona I had on my iPhone from the past year. Happy Fourth!
Sunset in east Mesa.
Salt River Canyon.
Mt. Graham, near Safford.
Since 2020 started, I’ve gotten to visit four corners of the country, plus Louisiana and a good chunk of the Midwest. A few highlights:
Los Angeles
Oregon
Montana, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons
New York
Hometown in Florida
And with all that, I don’t have many good pictures from the city I actually live in…. This country is just too charming.
Sandy Hook NJ
NYC
Mount Rainer
Chatham, Cape Cod
My grandson a few years ago in Wellfleet, Cape Cod
Hatcher Pass, Alaska, our favorite local hang out.
My oldest daughter on a wild blueberry mission.
From my deck in Wasilla.
Matanuska River, grandma’s backyard.
View for breakfast most days from January through March.
Lake Superior, near Marquette Michigan. I can’t get enough of our Great Lakes
Perdido Key, FL / Gulf Shores, AL (same beach)
Henderson Swamp, LA
Spring, TX
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, ME (most eastern point in the U.S.)
Is this a great country or what?!