Our last partial day in Wisconsin was also the first “official” day of Winter.
Before we left, we went, with our daughter, son-in-law and grandkids, to the Adolph C. and Eugenie Mayer Bolz Conservatory, which is in the Orbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison.
It was a really interesting place and I’ll be posting more of the photos [...]
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Canoing On Lake Bailey (not us!)
We got to Petit Jean State Park, which is south of Morrilton, Arkansas, yesterday afternoon. It’s not a very long drive from where we live, so it didn’t take long to get here. We’ll be here one more night and head back home after lunch.
One [...]
Day before yesterday, we went to Woolly Hollow State Park, which is north of Conway, Arkansas, for a hike.
We had never been there before and my intent was to use the visit as the focus for a new approach to presenting travel related images and information on-line. I didn’t have a firm [...]
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We’ve been back home for 4 weeks now and I still haven’t gotten around to dealing with all of the photos that I took and finishing my incomplete travel journal. I’ve taken a step back, looked at what I’ve got, and developed a plan — of sorts.
The first thing that I’ve [...]
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time assembling and publishing historical articles related to Yellowstone National Park. It’s interesting to read first hand accounts of a place I’ve been to quite a few times and will likely visit several times again in the future.
I had heard — or read — anecdotal stories about [...]
The hike to the bottom of the Tower Creek canyon and the base of Tower Falls in Yellowstone National Park has always been one of our favorite hikes. It’s been a fascinating place for people to visit for many, many years. It was named by the Washburn Yellowstone Expedition in August 1870 and [...]
I had always assumed the Old Faithful got it’s name because it was faithful in it’s eruptions over a long period of time. Not so. If you’re interested, I’ve published a small narrative by one of the men involved in naming the geyser. It’s over at my Haw Creek Out ‘n About [...]
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