May 30 2016 Craters of the Moon Trip with John, Bill, and Charissa Spring is the best time to visit Craters of the Moon National Monument https://www.nps.gov/crmo/index.htm. The black lava dirt blooms with low growing flowers in all of the shades of the rainbow. The days are warm and sunny though frequently windy. Later in the … More Time Travel: May 2016 Craters of the Moon
October 21, 2017 The second part of our day sent us to Rexburg for lunch. We chose Frontier Pies, which could use a dining room makeover but the food is awesome. http://www.frontierpies.com/ 460 W 4th S, Rexburg, ID 83440 Then we went to Florence’s Candies where we discovered they were having a sale ½ off … More Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center
October 21, 2017 We (Jenny, Shanna, Cheryl, Regina, and Katrina) started the day at 8:00 a.m. by loading up the car and heading for Yellowstone. I had thought it would be good to do a few things such as stopping at Bear World and the Wolf Discovery center to find out what they were like … More Yellowstone Bear World
Another adventure with Melinda. Out to Rockland, up Big Canyon, down Knox Canyon, through Arbon Valley, over to Pocatello via Old Bannock County Hwy. Then a small trip down past Arimo. This time the bird photos did not happen because all of the birds were tiny and fast. Abandoned 1 Abandoned 2 A view A … More Time Travel: June 16, 2016
Birding with Melinda in Idaho: Wolverine Canyon, Scout Mountain, and Hawkins Reservoir and many farmlands in between. This was so much fun. We practiced birding by ear a lot and I tried to take pictures of the many, many, mountain bluebirds, non successfully. The failure of this camera to take pictures of bluebirds was one … More Time Travel: June 18 & 19 2016
9/2/2017 My original plan for Saturday morning was to go to the Sheepdog herding competition at the Eastern Idaho State Fair. But when I got up later than I expected and was reluctant to face the crowds I changed my plans and birded around Gray’s Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Some of my favorite photos on … More Birding Gray’s Lake
8/20/2017 I ended up taking two different (and both shorter) photography trips today. The first one early in the morning with John, Bill, and Shanna, and the second with Regina, Katrina, and Bill. Adorable least chipmunk Shanna spotted this little guy scampering on the rocks. River and bridge Nature stacked this basalt Horses Fence post … More Photography outing 2 & 3
8/19/2017 There we are with our camp all set up for the Eclipse. In a stunning location near the south fork of the Snake River and the Caribou-Targhee national forest. So with sunset still 3 hours away Raven, Bill, and I load up in my car to go exploring and take a few pictures. It … More Photography outing
My friends from California (Bruce, Raven, Ellen) found a campsite for us to watch the Eclipse almost a year ago. It really was an wonderful choice. Aspen Grove Inn https://www.aspengroveinn.com/ near Heise hot springs just outside of Ririe ID. Some of us got there on Saturday, with others showing up throughout the day on Sunday. … More Camping for the Eclipse
8/7/2017 today we stuck close to Coeur d’Alene and began our day at the North Idaho College campus which has a wonderful walking/running trail alongside the lake. Here was a tree full of nuthatches and a lake full of ring billed gulls. Okay, so not a lot of bird species but I haven’t seen pygmy … More Birding Lake Coeur d’Alene
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