Thousand Canyons"Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow" said Teddy Roosevelt on his visit to the place we now call Bryce Canyon National Park. This high altitude geologic wonder is the result of limestone yielding to the power of water based erosion. Varied vistas and penetrating trails provide fascinating insights at every turn.

The San Francisco de Asis Mission Church dates back to the eighteenth century is a jewel of Ranchos de Taos

A real Sonoran desert oasis complete with palm trees and a spring

The Arc de Triopmphe is a handsome monument vested with patriotic intents honoring certain perosns who died for France in battle

Naturalist photographer Greg Lawson’s California image collection conjures up just such a possibility with page after page of Golden State imagery featuring flora and fauna along with landscapes and seascapes with little visible impact by the footprint of man

Sedona's classic view of Cathedral Rock dressed in summer greens and mirrored in Oak Creek

Even blackness of night sees visitors who've come to mingle with the trees as darkness envelopes them

Bats take to the skies as dusk settles over the temples at Khajuraho of Madhya Pradesh

A young grizzly bear in the Alaska wilderness seems to live up to the name but not the reputation of the nursery rhyme bear

Nature's magnificence in the the great state is no different

Here the tail fans the air as the giant mammal crests off the Maui coast

Subterranean realities bathed in a current of light stimulates an imagination for many visitors to the Carlsbad Caverns of New Mexico

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