After finishing the Delicate Arch hike, we went to the visitor center, near the park entrance.
Dedicated on September 17, 2005, the Arches National park visitor center includes, outside the front entrance, Matthew Gray Palmer’s Desert Animal Series sculptures – a bighorn ram, ewe and lamb, two ravens and two lizards. These still life animals are popular with visitors (pdf).
The sculptures provide a close-up look at these magnificent animals. To make the sculptures, the artist first made life-size wax models of the animals. A mold was made from the wax, into which molten bronze was poured. Additional details are worked into the bronze by hand to make the pieces as realistic as possible.
Palmer, a resident of Washington state, is a mixed media sculptor who also draws and paints. In 1995 he created Parallaxis, “an endeavor dedicated to making a difference in the world by educating people about natural science and conservation through public works of art and multimedia events.”
Raven:
Raven:
Bighorn sheep ewe:
Bighorn sheep ram:
Bighorn sheep lamb:
Bighorn sheep ram:
Whiptail lizard:
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Arches National Park.
Market House Museum, Paducah, Kentucky, April 24, 2010
I don’t know what the colored bottles were for. I was too intent on taking pictures. This photo intentionally has a shallow depth of field, leaving some parts of the picture out of focus.
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Even though we had been to Grand Teton National Park many times before, on this trip we explored some areas we had not been to before in the southeastern part of the park and just outside, in the Gros Ventre and Antelope Flats areas. They which yielded quite few opportunities for photographs from viewpoints different from what I had taken in the past including old log structures and the Mormon Row settlement.
Other photos include a large plane landing at Jackson against Grand Teton as a backdrop, Jackson lake, Signal Mountain, Chapel of the Transfiguration, moose resting along the Snake River near the Moose entrance to the park; Menor’s Ferry, Bill Menor’s cabin and store, and aspen fall colors.
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Separated from Yellowstone National Park by only 10 miles, Grand Teton National Park is another of our favorites that we have visited many times. Though we have camped in the park on some previous visits, this time we stayed at a campground on the Snake River south of Jackson, Wyoming.
The park is named for Grand Teton, the tallest peak, 13,775 feet (4,199 m), in the Teton Range, which rises abruptly above the valley of Jackson Hole.
Jackson Hole is believed to be named after a mountain man, David (Davey) Edward Jackson, a mountain man who trapped the area for beaver in the early 1800s. The name “hole” is a term used by early trappers who entered from the north and east, descending along relatively steep slopes, giving the feeling of descending into a hole.
The town of Jackson, Wyoming, the only incorporated town in the valley, is often mistakenly referred to as Jackson Hole.
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August 16, 2011
USS Razorback, SS 394, North Little Rock, Arkansas
A Balao-class submarine of the Sandlance variant, USS Razorback was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.
Her keel was laid on 09 September 1943. Razorback was constructed in Drydock #1 at the shipyard, and she was launched, along with two sister ships USS Redfish (SS-395) and USS Ronquil (SS-396), on 27 January 1944. USS Scabbardfish (SS-397) was also launched at the shipyard that day. This was the largest single-day launch of submarines in US history.
After five WWII combat patrols and extensive service during the Cold War, on 30 November 1970, USS Razorback was decommissioned and transferred to the Turkish Navy, where she served until decommissioned on 08 August 2001. She reached her new berth in North Little Rock, 29 August 2004 at the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum.
USS Razorback (SS-394)
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