A few pictures from my travels
[COLOR=purple]Thought I'd share a few of these with you.[/COLOR]
Red Rock Canyon, about 20 minutes outside Las Vegas.
edit: side note: it was 115 degrees F yesterday with 40% humidity and CLOUD COVER. Can't wait to get outta here.
Red Rock #3
Nice pics! Know what you mean about the heat. Spent 12 days in the bottom of the Grand Canyon in August. No relief!;)
[COLOR=purple]A few fron Zion National Park, Southern Utah.[/COLOR]
Bob, the red fuzzy caterpillar:
I always wanted a "silver lining" pic:
Outstanding, outstanding, and outstanding.
Overlooking the Virgin River
Water falling into the Lower Emerald Pools:
We went hiking up the Virgin River and saw these two munching on vegetation.
Great photos! A certain cellarite was traumatized by a squirell, however, so lets be careful with the gray fuzzy content.
Geez...all these beautiful places, and me stuck here with no money and prospects of travel in any forseeable future.
Have I ever mentioned that if I don't get to the mountains every three or four years, I do a little crazy?
It has been four years since I've been to the mountains.
Luckily the gray pointy-toothed nasty beasty was shown to scale, dwarfed by some serious outdoor footgear, thus easing my trauma. whew. That left me to enjoy the fabulous landscape. just beautiful!
Super Onyx, were these digital?:D
A certain cellarite was traumatized by a squirell, however, so lets be careful with the gray fuzzy content.
Was it this one?
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Super Onyx, were these digital?:D
[COLOR=purple]Yup. All photos taken with my Kodak DX3600 at highest resolution (which I don't know, so don't ask me.) I'll post some from Bryce Canyon NP when I get home tonight, hopefully before the server shuts down.[/COLOR]
Onyx -
I was thinking of buying one of those. What's the highest resolution?
:p
[COLOR=purple]OK, smartass
here's a link to a review of the camera. If this doesn't answer your question, too damn bad. [/color]
[COLOR=purple]I wasn't sure if I should make a new thread for each set so you didn't have to load all the pics all the time, so let me know if you guys want me to do that.
These are of Bryce Canyon National Park, about an hour NE of Zion, Southern Utah.[/COLOR]
[color=purple]Bryce Canyon NP
The sandstone structures are called "Hoodoo" (singular and plural) and are formed when water and wind remove the softer sandstone that is under the top, harder layer.
Bryce Canyon Geology
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This is Mossy Cave in March, 2001
My second EX and my kids at Mossy cave to show scale. This is an ENORMOUS cave. In summertime, after all the ice melts, the moss blooms and the entie cave is all green inside. Those with allergies to mold are strongly urged not to enter.
I dunno...that river doesn't look so virgin to me...it looks kinda slutty.
Outstanding, and that one of the arch is simply outstanding.
Beautiful, Onyx. Or is that, beautiful Onyx.;)
Bruce is on a roll lately...first Rho, now Onyx.
Wolf's probably next.
Guilty. I admit it, I have a weakness for beautiful minds. ;)
[COLOR=indigo]In late May, Early June of this year I went to visit my daughter in Gulfport, MS and then flew to Ohio and drove with my (now ex-) boyfriend back to Vegas. Here are some of the pics from the road trip, starting with Colorado and working backward.
I-70 West, between Grand Junction and Denver was closed due to a jack-knifed rig, so we were forced to take a detour around the 2 mile segment of highway that was blocked. Unfortunetly, the detour was 50 miles on windy, rocky mountain 2 lane roads, so the detour took 2 and a half hours. Pretty country, though. [/COLOR]
I believe this is near Vail.
Untouched snow...my favorite kind.
Kansas took a LOOOOOONG time to get through. And the entire trip from Ohio to Utah was one big storm.
Strangely enough, Indiana didn't have a welcome sign, so I grabbed the first mileage sign I saw.
This was leaving Ohio. I thought the bridge was cool.
We did go through St. Louis, MO, but we didn't get to stop. I think I took about 80 pics of the Arch from the freeway. This one is one of my favorites.
My daughter, Piglet, the "beach babe".
Some seagulls on Biloxi Beach, MS
Another strange thing about Indiana. When you get gas, they add sales tax on to the pump reading.:eek:
The water off Biloxi is brown. She looked at it and said, "Mama, is it supposed to be this color??"
Damn, you snuck in more while I was writing that post.
Love that seagull picture.:thumb:
I'm from St. Louis. I have a gallery of pics from there
here.
Crossing the bridge from St Louis to East St Louis I was overwhelmed by the smell of Switzer's licorice. I salivated all the way home, to the memory of that wonderful aroma.
A few days later, I passed a vending machine and there she was! Smiling seductively through the glass in that come hither, clear and yellow wrapper, I swear she was mouthing the words, eat me.
How could I resist slipping my coins into the pimps slot, gently lifting her from the chute and slowly peeling that wrapper off her shoulders.
She tasted like....soap. ;)
Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Crossing the bridge from St Louis to East St Louis I was overwhelmed by the smell of...
outright decay. It gives Camden a good run for its money.
What? No pics of Kansas City? I mean, there's nothing worth photographing on I-70 through KC, but damn...
You live in a second-rate city. Sorry Ep. :)
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I had been through KC several years ago, a friend grew up there and his parents still live there. We went to visit. It was the first time I'd ever seen fireflies, and also the first time, when asking directions, I heard, (this is no lie) "Oh, that's just 2 hoots and a holler over yonder."
So yeah, we didn't stop in KC again....[/COLOR]
The good place need you feel using heart.
[COLOR=indigo]I went to Arizona today to put some stuff in storage at my dad's house, and took a few pics.
The only thing around for MILES...one guy in a dome house in the middle of the Arizona desert. [/COLOR]
[COLOR=indigo]One of the things about the desert is that you can look at a set of mountains and think, "Oh, that's not very far away." The mountains in the distance there are BEHIND Lake Mead, and actually form part of the Grand Canyon. Over 200 miles away.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=indigo]I was driving and Kelle was taking the pictures, so this one is kinda blurry. This is coming back into Vegas from the Hoover Dam side. The view is simply stunning. WAY better than this photograph conveys.[/COLOR]
Looks cool from the air too. Camping at lake, the sun went down behind the hills but the sky never got completely dark. Vegas lit the sky all night. ;)
[COLOR=indigo]Yep, that's called the Vegas light dome. To actually see the night sky, you need to be 75 miles + from Vegas to be out of the dome. Made the lab for my astronomy class in college a challenge...[/COLOR]
[COLOR=indigo]My mom sent me this picture last night. It's her new tattoo. I post it here because my mom is one of the coolest people on the planet. She's 61, rides a Harley, is a pagan, and looks DAMN good for her age. I hope that I look half as good as her when I hit 60.[/COLOR]
We went to New Bern, NC last week and now that it's Friday, (my day off) I finally have a chance to get the pics online.
These are pics of
Tryon Palace.
The Gardens:
The back of the house (taken with my back to the water).
When you're in the back of the house, upstairs, looking out the windows, you can't see the cannon, but it faces out toward the river. Now, when I say river, I actually mean the outlet of the river to the ocean, which is less than a mile away.
Man, it sure looks like spring down there.:)
Nice pictures, OC. That's along the coast somewhere?
Yes. This is a zoomed out map:
((sighs)) Attach the file, OC....
[COLOR=indigo]little closer in...[/COLOR]
Thank you, Dearheart.:joylove:
[COLOR=indigo]Anytime, SugarBear.[/COLOR] :blush:
hey, cool thread cougar....glad you brought it back up to the top.
I've been to Zion, but we missed bryce. That whole area around the "4 corners" is the neatest area i've ever been to. Your pictures are great. they give me flashbacks. The one of the big stormy sky in ??eastern colorado/west kansas?? is particularly striking. how near the clouds are to the ground.
When we rode across that way, i remember seeing a radio tower in the distance for 2.5 hours until we finally reached it ( going 70mph).....a storm blew up from the west, followed by the biggest double rainbow i've ever seen.
on that same stretch of road, as we rode in the car, we heard a loud !!BANG!! , and corn chips came flyin out of the back of the car all over us. It seems that as we dorve west into CO, our altitude was steadily increasing, and the atmospheric pressure was dropping. So much, that the air pressure inside the new bag of tostitos that sat on the back shelf of our car finally overcame the external air pressure, and it exploded. messy.