Armchair travel - Photos from the USA
Apr 1st, 2020, 12:45 PM
#42
Some pictures from Charlottesville and other parts of Virginia, including parts of Skyline Drive and Allegheny National Park
UVA campus, Charlottesville
Monticello
Poplar Forest, Jefferson's second home (near Lynchburg)
Homestead resort, Warm Springs VA
Jefferson Pools (ha bathed there) at the Homestead
Skyline Drive (Allegheny NP) in the spring
Road scenes in the area
BTW this is what it looks like in the fall...
UVA campus, Charlottesville
Monticello
Poplar Forest, Jefferson's second home (near Lynchburg)
Homestead resort, Warm Springs VA
Jefferson Pools (ha bathed there) at the Homestead
Skyline Drive (Allegheny NP) in the spring
Road scenes in the area
BTW this is what it looks like in the fall...
Apr 9th, 2020, 08:09 AM
#51
Home town pictures - Seattle
How about I post a few pictures from Seattle, taken over a period of years? Maybe you can post some pictures of your own home town too, for future reference once we can travel again.
The standard "Frasier" view from Queen Anne Hill
View from the West Seattle Water Taxi dock back to downtown
Our own little Lady Liberty
Mountains and water surrounding
A working waterfront
And people at play (Folklife Festival, Seattle Center)
And museums and exhibits
Big businesses and little ones
And you're never far from nature
The standard "Frasier" view from Queen Anne Hill
View from the West Seattle Water Taxi dock back to downtown
Our own little Lady Liberty
Mountains and water surrounding
A working waterfront
And people at play (Folklife Festival, Seattle Center)
And museums and exhibits
Big businesses and little ones
And you're never far from nature
Apr 11th, 2020, 07:27 AM
#53
Cherthor, thanks for excellent Glacier NP and ABQ festival photos, both are on the "someday" list.
> "Maybe you can post some pictures of your own home town too, for future reference once we can travel again."
That's great thought Gardyloo. They thing is I take a lot more photos when traveling than when at home. Then I regret not taking more at home after something changes, which happens a lot these days.
But here's a few I have on my phone now. A truly spectacular sunset back in early February and then a couple from the bike trail near our house in the last day or two. Finally downtown this week in the time of COVID.
Fort Collins Sunset, February
Fort Collins Sunset
Fort Collins Sunset
Yesterday, a pair of Red-tailed Hawks doing what we presumed was a mating display along the bike trail near our house. On the walk we also saw Belted Kingfishers, a pair of not-so-common Common Mergansers, American White Pelicans (they're back), and a Wood Duck pair!
A circa 1900 bridge over the Poudre River, a remnant of the old sugar beet industry.
Downtown in the time of COVID. Normally it would be tough to find a parking spot here.
> "Maybe you can post some pictures of your own home town too, for future reference once we can travel again."
That's great thought Gardyloo. They thing is I take a lot more photos when traveling than when at home. Then I regret not taking more at home after something changes, which happens a lot these days.
But here's a few I have on my phone now. A truly spectacular sunset back in early February and then a couple from the bike trail near our house in the last day or two. Finally downtown this week in the time of COVID.
Fort Collins Sunset, February
Fort Collins Sunset
Fort Collins Sunset
Yesterday, a pair of Red-tailed Hawks doing what we presumed was a mating display along the bike trail near our house. On the walk we also saw Belted Kingfishers, a pair of not-so-common Common Mergansers, American White Pelicans (they're back), and a Wood Duck pair!
A circa 1900 bridge over the Poudre River, a remnant of the old sugar beet industry.
Downtown in the time of COVID. Normally it would be tough to find a parking spot here.
Apr 14th, 2020, 07:59 AM
#55
Did you know Fort Collins was Disneyland?
https://history.fcgov.com/legends/disney
Here's a couple more, another of the Linden Hotel building taken in summer, and a restaurant patio that perhaps you'll recognize.
Another factoid: there are/were tunnels that led from the Linden (when it was a hotel) to College Avenue so prostitutes could arrive unseen to spend time with wealthy hotel patrons.
Apr 22nd, 2020, 07:02 AM
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New England & California
in order - Connecticut River from Orford NH, Ogunquit Maine, Nobska Light Cape Cod, Jenne Farm Reading Vt, Golden Gate, Sonoma vinyard, Cornish NH & Ascutney Vt
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Apr 27th, 2020, 11:30 AM
#57
How 'bout some volcanoes? These are from the Cascades...
Mount Baker
Mount Rainier
Mount St. Helens (pre-eruption, foreground) and Mount Adams
Mount St. Helens now
Mount Hood from Portland
Mount Baker
Mount Rainier
Mount St. Helens (pre-eruption, foreground) and Mount Adams
Mount St. Helens now
Mount Hood from Portland
Apr 28th, 2020, 02:11 AM
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Johnson Valley, CA - if you're tall enough you might get some cell phone reception. Photo was taken by friends of DS to prove to his wife that he did try to call home while on guys' adventure trip.
New England swimming hole. Big kids can swim to the other side and jump off the big rock.
May 9th, 2020, 10:14 AM
#60
A few from some scanning of older photos that I've been doing to consume the hours...
New York, around 2000
I played a little with this last one to try out some artsy-fartsy filters, and liked this one, sort of "impressionist" -
And here are a couple of shots of the Palouse area in eastern Washington, glorious in the spring -
New York, around 2000
I played a little with this last one to try out some artsy-fartsy filters, and liked this one, sort of "impressionist" -
And here are a couple of shots of the Palouse area in eastern Washington, glorious in the spring -
