This summer walk-about has been different from previous ones since we are spending most of our time in Teton Valley, Idaho. An unexpected visitor brought us news that a group of balloonists have been invited to fly over Devil’s Tower National Monument. A couple of phone calls later and we were included on the list….
Category: National Park
Lower Calf Creek Falls
Walk about 2018 Our first night was a stop at the Virgin River Gorge campground before setting a more permanent camp for 3 nights at Lower Calf Creek Falls in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The campground is the trailhead for the 3 mile hike into Lower Calf Creek Falls, a 126 foot cascade which later…
Walkabout 2017
My apologies to all my readers who have voiced complaints about not getting to live vicariously through my posts because I haven’t been posting. This will get you caught up. Abstract (fancy name for Reader’s Digest version): So far the trip has been drive 13 hours to balloon camp in Truckee, balloon, eat, talk about…
After pushing the shutter button
do you think “post-processing” is a dirty word? When a scene moves us to want to push the shutter and capture that moment are we trying to capture simply what our eyes are seeing or what the moment causes us to feel? The camera sensor can’t express what we are feeling nor can it truly…
Postcards from the Tetons
I posted these on my other social media channels but I wanted to also post them here before the trip became a distant memory. SaveSave
Between rallies 1 and 2
After the Eyes to the Sky rally in Salina we hoped to get some rest at Red Canyon just outside Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah.
Between rallies 3 and 4
Now for some time travel back to early July. Instead of heading to the next balloon rally it was off to Colorado for a wedding. Everything went as wedding usually do, with lots of running around doing final arrangements and rehearsals, watching a too tall camper realize they didn’t fit in the covered parking lot entrance…
National Park Dogs
As some of you may know my husband and I travel with 2 Great Danes. There are challenges to traveling with dogs but I would rather deal with the challenges and have them with us than to board them somewhere. We used to stay clear of National Parks because we thought they didn’t welcome dogs….
Re-visiting photographs
During my first pass through my photographs from this past summer I didn’t even mark this photo to come back to. The initial RAW image didn’t catch my eye with the muted colors and flat tones. As I looked back through the photographs the other day composition did catch my eye and I knew that…
Glacier National Park
Even in July it is common to still find snow at the top of Logan Pass on the Going to the Sun Road. Glacier National Park did not get it’s name because it contains glaciers but because it was formed by glaciers. Examination of maps and photographs concluded that there were at least 150 glaciers…