Various pictures

In 1994 I was living and working in Japan, and flew back for a month that summer. I rented a V-8 Cougar and went and picked up my friend Jhni and her daughter and took them to Death Valley, in southeastern California.

We camped at Stovepipe Wells:

Sunrise in Death Valley.

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The evening before we had gone to Immigrant Canyon to see the Charchol Kilns:

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I dunno if the rental car people would have been so happy with me; that road was not paved, but I caught a great sunset that night:

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I caught a couple of rainbows from my apartment balcony:

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Mt. St. Helens erupted from 2004 until 2008 – nothing very spectacular, but the cloud above the peak looked so iconic:

Taken from a window on the north side of my 8 floor building.

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Reservoir Number 2 on Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon.

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Sunset in SE Portland:

(cell phone pic)

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Sunrise from my balcony:

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1985

Arizona sunsets:

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1994

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We’ve been some places:

On the Mexican border, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona

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Another evening:

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An Oregon sunset:

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Sunrise from my balcony:

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From the Natural Wonders folder in my Photobucket account.

 

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