Special Days/Commemorations

National Train Day (May)

Another Statue of Liberty?

National Seafood Month (Oct)

Yosemite Park Turns 120

National Cherry Blossom Festival Centennial (Washington DC, 2012)



General

An Interesting US Export

Lady Liberty around the World

Ode to Amtrak?


Special Exhibitions

*Chapungu: Zimbabwe Stone Sculpture

  1. 1.In Ohio

  2. 2.In St Louis (2007)

(Go also to CHAPUNGU general page)


*Niki’s Sculptures


*Charles Darwin

* Inspired Art for Obama


Eagle Watching

Near St Louis

Starved Rock State Park

The Barefoot (a restaurant)



Florida

  1. *Blue Spring State Park

  2. *Orlando Thanksgiving 06

* Take Off for Space...

* ...and Land on the Moon

  1. *Comme c’est beau ici!

  2. *Albin Polasek Sculpture Garden

  3. *Orlando Christmas  08

  4. *Invitation to the Spa

  5. *Space for Wildlife near Space Shuttle

  6. *Orlando Beyond Mickey Mouse

  7. *Explore Africa in Orlando

  8. *Great Egrets are Great

  9. *Blue Spring State Park again

  10. *Beautiful Birds

  11. *Savor Space at Kennedy Space Center

  12. *A Taste of France in Florida

  13. *Incredible Edible Art

  14. *Birds on Merritt Island

  15. *Guitar Exhibition

  16. *More pics of Guitar Exhibition

  17. *Elusive, Illusory Butterflies


Louisiana

‘Tis the Season for Crawdads


New Mexico

Gila Forest and Cliff Dwellings


Nevada

* Hoover Dam

  1. *Impressions of Las Vegas

  2. *Hoover Dam, Fun Facts

  3. *Hoover Dam Dog


Oklahoma

Boma in Oklahoma

Stories from Stillwater




Washington DC

*In Front of the White House

*National Museum of the American Indian

*Newseum

*News from the Newseum (JustSayGo.com)

*National Cherry Blossom Festival Centennial (2012)


Washington State

*Rachel the Pig (Seattle)

*Waterfall Garden Park (Seattle)


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National & State Parks

1. Starved Rock State Park, IL

  1. 2.Yosemite National Park (another version was published in Helium, Jan 2009)

  2. 3.Yellowstone National Park.

(a shorter version was also published in Trips and Journeys (2008)--no longer exists)

4. Grand Canyon

  1. 5.Lincoln Log Cabin SP, IL

  2. 6.Fox Ridge SP, IL

7.Blue Spring State park, FL

8.Cahokia Mounds State Park

California


  Going Global in Berkeley


Almost Free in San Francisco



Yosemite

Point Lobos State Reserve

Monterey Peninsula and the 17-Mile Drive

Salinas Valley

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Asian Art Museum, SF

Unexpected Finds at a winery---the Evolution of the Artichoke

Sampling northern CA

*Happy 21st Anniversary, Sea Lions

*San Francisco’s Painted Ladies

*Famous Fisherman’s Wharf

*Boudin, San Francisco’s famous sourdough

*Big, bigger, biggest---an impressive bunch of trees

A Pictorial Essay on Mission Street Murals, San Francisco


Illinois

*For small Illinois snippets go to this page


Chicago: Everyone’s Town

Lincoln’s Museum

Mr. Lincoln’s Neighborhood

Lincoln Log Cabin SP

Fox Ridge SP

Chicago from the River

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

Inspired Art for Obama

Celebrating Abraham Lincoln (2009)

God Bless America

Burnham’s Plan of Chicago

Urbana’s Sweetcorn Festival

Cahokia Mounds State Park

Just Kidding!

O’Hare’s Urban Garden



Missouri/St Louis

STL Mardi Gras

Power in Numbers (Race for Cure)

Morpho Mania in St Louis Butterfly House

Niki in the Botanical Gardens

George Washington Carver

Scott Joplin & Ragtime Music in St Louis

La Bonne Bouchee

More Marvelous Morphos

Art in the Park

Endangered Wolf Center

Annheuser-Busch Brewery


Maine

Thurston’s Lobster Pound

An Island Mountain Hike


Mississippi Blues

Blues Road Trip

Blues City Cafe

The Blues Highway---a Musical Road Trip


Utah

1. Salt Lake City:After the Ball is Over (a shorter version was also published in Tripsand 1a. Journeys.com, June 2006, See Here)

2. Kennecott Copper Mine, published in

Tripsand Journeys.com, Summer 2006

3. Salt Lake City Stories, May 2002



 

National Train Day in USA