Category: North America
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Petrified Forest National Park
On our way home from the Grand Canyon, we stopped at the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. People complain the road from West Texas to Arizona is a whole lot of nothing, but we saw beauty in the barrenness. The gradient hills of wood and rock fringed by desert flora and scrub brush create…
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Hunt for the American Bison
Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in Pawhuska, Oklahoma- Jan. 2015 American bison, often mistakenly called buffaloes, are symbolic of the Great Plains and weigh in as the heaviest land animals in North America. My cousin, an avid photographer and lover of all things indigenous, took me on a quest to find these gentle giants on Oklahoma’s…
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Grand Canyon: The Divine Abyss
Grand Canyon has one of the most extensive records of geologic history, representing over 2 billion years of sedimentation, mountain building and erosion. One writer described it as the Divine Abyss. March 2014: South Rim; Spring break camping trip
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First Snow in Virginia