Travel

Last Monday, on the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon, we were lucky to see Spotted Towhees. They really blend in to their surroundings!

two spotted towhees in a messy treeadult spotted towhee with dark red-orange sides

Last Sunday at Hoover Dam. Yes, Lake Meade is visibly very low (look at that bathtub ring!) and perhaps the dam is all the more impressive because if it.

Lake Meade upstream of hoover dam with white bathtub ringlooking down the downstream wall of the damlookkng from the south of the damlooking at the intakes and upstream wall of the dam

A Peaceable Washington D.C. in 2015

I’ve been looking through photos of my work trip to Washington D.C. in 2015. Insurrection against the Constitution at the Capitol was not a thought and I felt safe, secure. Near the Washington Monument, looking towards the White House: The Washington Monument: The Yates Building, U.S. Forest Service HQ: Looking toward the U.S. Capitol, under extensive renovations: Ultramafic rocks at the Smithsonian: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport:

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Sunset during our isolation vacation at the North Coast of California.

Moonlight over the Pacific. Above the moon, Jupiter and then Saturn.

Sundown at Trinidad, California. We’re hunkered down here for a few nights, completely self-sufficient and not likely to go anywhere. Not a bad choice with this view. I have a feeling this is the last time we’ll risk going somewhere until vaccinations.