Mark, Fr. Charlie, and I made a 4 day driving trip to the Southern California desert. We went to the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, the Salton Sea (including the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife …
Mary Ann and I visited Mary Ann’s family in Wichita. This post has a few family pictures. I also included pictures from the hail storm when we got home, and a Cooper’s Hawk on our street light pole.…
The next stop on our trip to southern Utah was Bryce Canyon National Park (my previous post was for Zion NP). Bryce Canyon was amazing. We were overwhelmed by the number and beauty of the thousands of rock formations. Everywhere …
Mary Ann and I have been talking about going to Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks for many years, and we finally went. They are gorgeous – why did we wait so long? This post is for Zion, and I’ll …
Mark, Father Charlie, and I went up north to the ‘Arizona Strip’ on October 7-9. It was a photography trip, in search of fall colors, and vistas from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.…
Fr. Charlie and I went to Woods Canyon Lake on the Mogollon Rim. We wanted to try our luck photographing the Ospreys and Bald Eagles. We left on Monday, Aug 26th, at around 7:00 AM, and got there around 9:00 …
Fr. Charlie and I went to Mt. Ord on August 6, 2019. We got to Forest Road (FR) 1688 at about 8 am (after a 1 hour drive). The weather was overcast, with some sprinkles. There were reports on ebird.org …
Fr. Charlie, Dave, and I went to the Pinal Mountains on Tuesday, July 16. It’s nice to get away from the Phoenix heat and up to the cool mountains. We left at about 7 am, and it’s a two hour …
Mary Ann and I went to Oregon for Bob’s 80th birthday party (his actual birthday is June 24th). This post has mostly family pictures that I took in Terry and Bob’s back yard, and a travelogue.…
Mary Ann’s sister Amy came for a visit, and we took her to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum (BTA). We got there about 8:15, and stayed until lunch time. We had lunch in Superior at Los Hermanos, which is our usual …
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