Topic: Striking Seasonal Sights
On January 21, 2025, Louisiana experienced an historic snow storm. We haven’t seen this much snow in our state since 1895. It snowed for eight hours; essentially the entire state was shut down. What[…] Continue reading →
Toward the end of 2024 I had the opportunity to spend about seven weeks at Big Bear Lake. The town of Big Bear Lake is in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. There is[…] Continue reading →
One of my favorite vacations was in August, 2022, with a wonderful two-day trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It was a new place to visit and we enjoyed the beautiful ocean and cool, crisp[…] Continue reading →
In June 2023 we made arrangements to stay in Yosemite Valley for the second weekend in November 2023. Little did we know then that we would end up being there near the peak of[…] Continue reading →
In spring wildflowers bloom in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park making a colorful contrast to the rugged mountains and bleak desert. The park is the largest state park in California and is located about[…] Continue reading →
The tour of my visit to Japan when the cherry trees were in bloom continues in this post. The next location visited is the seaside city of Kamakura which is just a little over[…] Continue reading →
When I was working for Hewlett-Packard Company I had a number of business trips to Japan. One of them was in April 2000 and happened to hit the cherry trees in bloom. While work[…] Continue reading →
With a snow storm passing through the San Bernardino Mountains on December 28, 2020 we as well as a lot of other people decided to check it out at Big Bear City, California over[…] Continue reading →
The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch located in Carlsbad, California are famous for their 50 acres of fields planted with ranunculus flowers which bloom for a few weeks every spring. I showcased these flowers[…] Continue reading →
The water level of the Mississippi River always rises in the springtime due to melting snow in the North. However, the past two years the levels have become dangerously high. To prevent overflowing banks,[…] Continue reading →