This fall we decided to travel south to Arizona by car, for the first time in 5 years. We planned a 5-day trip to cover the ~2,900 km to our final destination in Scottsdale, AZ. We made 2-two night stops, the first at Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the second at St. George, Utah. I wrote…
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Snow Canyon State Park
Traveling to Arizona, we stopped for a day in St. George, Utah, a city of 77,000 people, located in the southwestern part of the state, on the Utah-Arizona border. St. George’s climate is warmer than the rest of Utah, and typical of the Mojave Desert in which it lies, with a subtropical desert climate, featuring long, hot…
Grand Teton National Park
We recently visited the Grand Teton National Park, located near Jackson, Wyoming in the the northwest corner of the state, adjacent to Yellowstone NP. At approximately 310,000 acres (130,000 ha), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Grand Teton National Park is named…
Morning Rainbow
I glanced out the window this morning and noticed a very striking rainbow. We were having a morning sun shower and the whole look of the sky was very appealing. It didn’t last long but long enough for me to capture a few pictures. Not much to say about them, here they are:
Autumn in Canmore
I have mentioned my hometown of Canmore in many past blogs but I’ve done very few about the town itself. I’ve been enjoying the fall colours this year and have taken a few pictures which I’d like to share with you in this blog. I begin with a panoramic view, taken from a vantage point…