In any weather, the Superstition Mountains are a striking landmark rising out of the desert floor, near Apache Junction, AZ. A weather front moved into the area today, giving an eerie, but beautiful background to this majestic landscape. Click on the image to enlarge.
This is the view we see when looking toward the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, AZ. Click on the panorama to see full sized. Photo credit, Verna – cropped to make this panoramic image.
I just got my 2010 Arizona Highways Calendar the other day. There are a dozen very beautiful photographs taken in our neighboring state and I love the calendar. Arizona has many very scenic places.
Looking through some photos taken in Utah on a previous vacation, I found a nice photo of a Utah Highway, and like in Arizona, a beautiful view. Click to see it full sized.
Here’s a flashback from our winter vacation last year to remind you how beautiful the Grand Canyon is after a snowfall. Click on the image for a closer view.
It has been almost a year since our winter ’08 vacation. We still look through the vacation photos from time to time. Usually, we find one that we want to share here.
This red tail hawk flew across the road right in front of the camper as we were driving toward the Grand Canyon. It took me by surprise, but I had the camera up already and managed to snap this shot as the hawk climbed to gain altitude.
If you click on the thumbnail above you can see the greater context of the shot. Yes that is snow on the ground. I don’t know what hawks hunt in the snow, but they obviously thrive in that environment.
We recently visited the historic site of the Manzanar Interment Camp. We were heading home from Reno through the Owens Valley in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada and stopped to view the history and exhibits in the museum there. We took a self-guided tour of the grounds and stopped to pay our respects at the Memorial for those who died there.
Image: The Manzanar Memorial – click to enlarge.
From WikiPedia:
Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California’s Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, it is approximately 230 miles (370 km) northeast of Los Angeles. Manzanar (which means “apple orchard” in Spanish) was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the former camp sites, and was designated the Manzanar National Historic Site.
