Clearing storm over Ocean

Watson Lake, Yukon, Signpost Forest

A collection of signs started in 1942, courtesy of people from around the world.

So your depressed a little huh?.. and tired of chasing a dollar. Well then don't buy that new vehicle and keep your old house for now. Now isn't the time to do those things. You don't have to be like everyone else. Now is the time to save for a small used motor home to drive the Alaska Highway..._ yep! If you want to be reborn, and see the beauty again, so long as your hemorrhoids aren't acting up, I'm your prophet.

Lava Tree State Park, Big Island, Hi

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Chaco Culture National Historic Park

This is by far the largest and most well preserved Anasazi Indian Ruin in the U.S. Petroglyphs line the canyon walls. No one really knows why such an extensive site was abandoned.

There is a campground here for campers, but be aware of the twenty mile road which will be impassable should it by some slim chance rain.

There is also an observatory with official guided viewing in the dark night sky of the New Mexico desert. The Anasazi were astronomers, seeing here is often good.

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. Black Elk Lakota

Terlingua Texas Cemetery, Grave of Wise Man

Inscription for the living... You gotta blow it up and  read it.

Waterton Lakes National Park , Alberta

If I would run in the opposite direction, beauty would follow me, change its place in the Universe. Before the big bang, while fate was all rolled up in a twinkling in the eye of the Great Creator, it was decided.

Wall Of Tears Kaui, Hi

In the Iao Vally, waterfalls emerge from the clouds, and the five thousand foot volcanic cliffs, graced in a sheer vertical rain forest. It is a place of cleansing and rebirth. Mega turbulence, light aircraft, and awesome beauty go well together here, where one can see how wonderfully fragile life is.

Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, "Sky City"

Acoma Pueblo, (Place of Readiness) 70 acres atop a 370 foot high Mesa, where first native peoples found refuge from the Apache and Navajo. A mesa is wider than it is tall. It has been continuously inhabited from 1150 AD to this day. It's a few miles southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico off I-40.

Louisiana Vegetable Garden

There hasn't been a garden here in 45 years. I reclaimed this my grandfather's land grown over since his passing, and this is the 2010 planting. From rear - sweet corn, okra, peas, watermelon, and cantelope. I hope he can see it. His name was David Fuselier and he taught me how to love the land.

Fallen Giant Redwood

Chance is a seed that grows into a tree,
that gets struck by lightening.

Coastal Redwood Forest, Northern California

Hall of Maps, Vatican City

Vatican Rome, Italy

Haleakala Creator Maui, Hi

Life is a wondrous gift. The world is beautiful. And then one finds that something extra that is magic.

When I was a little boy, I believed  this extraordinary quality existed, and that I would see it.

Michelangelo painted it on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the form of God reaching out to Adam.

Haleakala is that inspiration in the raw.

Yukon Territory

The beauty of the land extraordinarily out-merits sufficiency,
such a wonderful example of a physical Heaven. There is no evil in it.