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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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All stunning! Wow! Every one of these could be a greeting card – yes what a great and magnificent country! I don’t have a favorite – too hard to pick, although that squirrel in the bucket and the Grand Tetons rank high! Some of those sunsets are amazing!
A couple from my neighborhood. Sailing on Lake Washington, Autumn:
The view from my childhood home:
Don’t know if this counts as a landscape, but I see a few shots of the NYC and other skylines, so here goes:
I took this years ago from Castle Point in Hoboken, NJ.
This mornings view, same spot. One of the reason I love living on the river despite its mercurial nature. Always changing, always beautiful, sometimes lethal.
Gizmo Guy hiking outside of Camden, ME
Back in 2003, our family took a trip out west. We took a horseback ride in the mountains near Marble, Colorado (our girls were 9, 10, & 11):
Amen! Such a grand and varied landscape. The lovely Mrs E and I are planning “One Lap Around America” to commence at my retirement about 3 years from now. So much to see. Can hard wait!!!
Sunrise on the Alabama Coast Feburary 2021
Sunrise at the OkieSailor ranch
With a Ricochet meetup in every town, I assume.
I’m sure there’ll be a few … at least until the word gets out …
“He’s here …pretend you’re not home! … don’t answer the phone!”
One winter morning at our place in Welfare, TX
Big Bend National Park
Near Lajitas, TX. Left side of the water is Mexico.
Last two. Mrs Tex’s old office on the ramp at San Antonio and the view from inside the office. The inside view pic may be from a different airplane (MD11), but I’m pretty sure it’s over the US.
Yes, it is, and how these photos from our friends and colleagues all over America have proven what a beautiful and magnificent country our America really is, especially on this Birthday of the Greatest Nation ever devised by the mind of man. And, in that vein, I thought I would add a photo of one of the main reasons our country is still great–and safe from her enemies, foreign and domestic– a photo of the Blue Angels returning home recently after a long weekend of shows over our beloved Fishing Pier on Pensacola Beach. I am an admitted Blue Angels fanatic and when you hear them fly straight down that pier on their opening maneuver in their annual Red, White and Blues show on Pensacola Beach, you know what the Sound of Freedom really sounds like! I will be there in just three days! We hope everyone had a wonderful Fourth of July and God Bless America!
They used to appear in Seattle every year for Seafair in August. This will be the second year in a row that the socialists of Seattle have cancelled Seafair. The sheeple must not be allowed to gather because the big, bad virus is still here waiting to strike them down.
Except for BLM and Antifa etc., etc., etc., in which event mass gatherings are not only permissible but near-mandatory for the good of the “social” “health” of the Nation…. so sayeth the hundreds (thousands?) of “Public Health Experts” who signed that letter last year stating, in essence, just that. The world turned upside down! Happy Fourth! Jim.
Red Rock Canyon, NV, thirteen years ago on our honeymoon. (“Eyes on the landscape, pal!”)
The hydrangea festival is this week on Cape Cod. :-) Cape Cod is a bouquet of yellow and orange day lilies, white daisies, and bright blue hydrangeas everywhere you look. I don’t live on the water, but I have some pretty gardens.
You sure do! I love hydrangeas.
Sunset over Lake Erie, Ashtabula, Ohio, September 2020.
They must love the soil because they are so blue and everywhere! The Cape is so beautiful – I miss it. I remember seeing a house in Chatham that had a long brick walkway to the front door lined with blue hydrangeas. Your garden is stunning! Also love all those climbing roses on the cottages!
My wife said something similar on our horseback ride in the Rockies (see pic in comment). We had two tour guides, a lady riding in front and a guy bringing up the rear. My wife said something like, “I bet your eyes are glued to her saddle.” I replied, “Can’t help it. I’m a man.”
The lady rider wore some mighty tight jeans, and had a mighty fine figure . . .
The beautiful north shore of Lake Superior . . .
The “sea stack” on the left collapsed in a storm about 16 months ago. About 12 years ago it was a full arch.
Lighthouse at Wisconsin Point.
Same Lake Superior sea stack in the pouring rain (as I took shelter under a pine tree).
How it looked about 12 years ago.
Today it is completely gone.
Isn’t this the rock that got the whole, “What’s your favorite rock” question? That is a good rock.
I have to find a new favorite rock.
Bar Harbor, Maine, Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain
What is more American than football and a state fair on a fall evening.