Glacier National Park Trip: Part 5 When you finish your trip over the Going-to-the-Sun Road, you can head north from St. Mary for about 9 miles and find another road that will take you back into the park. This is…
I like to take walks in Owen Conservation Park. It changes by the season but always has some interesting things to offer. With the sun getting lower in the sky and overnight lows flirting with freezing, another walk was overdue.…
Glacier National Park Trip: Part 4 The continental divide -- we all learned about it in grade school. Precipitation falling to the east strives to reach the Atlantic Ocean; to the west, it wends its way to the Pacific. Yellowstone…
Glacier National Park Trip: Part 3 Despite it's reputation for tardiness, Amtrak's Empire Builder rolled into West Glacier station almost exactly on time. After an enjoyable 27 hours on the train, we grabbed our bags and walked out as dusk…
Most people could probably identify a monarch butterfly. And, I suspect that most people are aware of the dwindling population of monarchs and of the current efforts to reverse that trend. But, did you know that monarchs are the only…
Glacier National Park Trip: Part 1 It's difficult for me to imagine a time when most work was done by hand or by horse. Then came the advent of steam. Then came the railroads. The quest to build a railroad…
If you're not a sailor, the usual route to Rock Island starts with a drive north on Wisconsin Highway 42 to the tip of the Door County peninsula. There you can take a car ferry from Northport to Washington Island. …
Sorry for posting again about gardens, but I guess spring is just that time of year when we tend to visit them. This week I joined some fellow photographers on a short field trip to the Rotary Botanical Gardens in…
As usual, I tend to slow down a bit in the winter. Maybe I need a trip to some warmer climes! So, after a couple weeks of celebrating the holidays and a couple weeks of loafing, I decided to continue…