United States National Parks

I can't believe the long awaited trip is over and I have been home for close to three months already. What a trip! We visited 6 National Parks, drove through 16 states and put 7,200 miles on the car. You would think that I would be ready to stay home for awhile, but all it has done is make me want to go back to all those National Parks and spends weeks in each one of them.

I want to hike into the GrandCanyon, not just walk the rim.

One day at the Canyon is not enough time to enjoy the beauty and the grandeur of it's light painted walls. I want to explore more of it's magnificent 277 miles.

I want to explore, on foot Kings Canyon. I want to hike in it's valleys and see what more it has to offer. You can't even begin to see it in the couple hours we spent there.

The girls silhouetted at Grizzly Falls in Kings Canyon.

I want to walk again among the giants Sequoia National Park. I want to feel their cool shade on

my face.

And Yosemite. Oh beautiful Yosemite you have the greatest pull to return. Our hike to the top of your Upper Yosemite Falls tested our mettle and and our muscle, but rewarded us a sight relatively few get to see. I could spend a year exploring your granite towers and and exploding waterfalls. I yearn to hear again their crash and roar. You can not visit Yosemite and and think there is no God.

Sunrise Sunset

Traveling, once again, across the country this past week I tried shooting a few more sunrises and sunsets. The best ones that I captured were in Park City, Utah. Just east of Salt Lake City.

The colors were spectacular as the sun rose over the city.

The sunflower was shot looking west with the vivid sunrise reflecting off of the clouds in the background.

Coming through Nebraska I took this shot from the road as the sun was setting.

The water tower in Nelson, Nebraska.