We are continuing our display of photographs taken before we began our blog. This week is dedicated to wildlife that we have encountered along our way:  

Mountain Goats on a cliffside
Zion National Park, Utah

Scrub Jay and a female Cardinal 

Pedernales Falls State Park, Texas

Broad-Tailed Hummingbird

Pine Grove Campground, Arizona

Lizard in the desert sand 

Utah

Rufous Hummingbird 

Mavreeso Campground, West Delores River, Colorado

Dragonfly

Muscovy Duck

Blanco State Park, Texas

Butterfly

Caprock Canyon State Park, Texas

Very colorful Grasshopper

Caprock Canyon State Park, Texas

Snowy Egret

South Padre Island, Texas

Tricolored Heron

South Padre Island, Texas

Black Bellied Whistling Ducks

Estero Llano Grande State Park, Texas

Green Towhee

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

Great Egret

Goose Island State Park, Texas

Ring Billed Seagull and Royal Terns

Mustang Island State Park, Padre Island, Texas

Brown Pelican coming in for a landing

Corpus Christi Bay, Texas

Butterfly

Matagorda County Birding Nature Center, Bay City, Texas

Great Horned Owl in a palm tree 

Matagorda Bay Nature Park, Texas

Butterflies beside the Meramec River

Onondaga Cave State Park, Missouri

Coyote

Big Bend National Park, Texas 

We are continuing our display of photographs taken before we began our blog. This week is dedicated to Flora that we have encountered along our way: 

A Camellia in Nacogdoches, deep East Texas 

Bare tree at a rest area on IH-70 in central Utah

Cactus Blooms - also central Utah

Wild Rose in the Canadian Rockies, Johnston Canyon trail outside of Banff, Alberta, Canada

Wildflowers growing in the greenbelt near our house in Austin, TX 

Pink Primrose, central Texas 

Cactus and wild flowers, Big Bend National Park, TX

Texas Thistle, west Texas

Red Colorado Poppy, Ouray, CO

Mushrooms, Moss, and Ferns growing on the riverbank, 

Fox Ridge State Park, Illinois

Starr Magnolia bloom, East Texas

Over the next few weeks we're going to put up some photos from camping trips we took before we began this blog. 

Mike and I began this blog in June of 2015 because we wanted a better way to share our trips with family and friends. Before the blog, we had been sending out emails with a few pictures every week or so, while we were on a trip. But we were planning what would be our longest trip ever up through the Canadian Rockies and back. We figured a blog would be easier than a bunch of emails. And it would also serve us as a camping diary. 

Since then, we have made 127 posts to our blog, containing over 2,000 photos. And it seems to have been well received. We have had almost 20,000 visits to the blog and we get lots of very kind feedback. (Thank you.) 

Of course, we've all been under new pressures from the pandemic for the last month, so we have been staying pretty close to home again. (Some day trips with social distances, but no camping.) And the thought crossed our minds that it might be fun to post a few old pictures from before we began the blog. 

Today: Pictures of the two of us in different places.

Mike and Amy in Dorr, Michigan

Big Bend National Park, Texas:  

Dennis with Yucca

Mike below The Window

Mike below the Burrow Mesa Pour-off

Mike in The Window

Dennis in Pine Canyon

Mike in Pine Canyon

Mike at Santa Elena Canyon

Mike at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado

Mike at Bryce National Park, Utah

Mike and Smokey in the Davy Crockett National Forest, Texas

Grand Canyon NP, Arizona: 

Dennis and Mike at the North Rim Lodge

Mike on the Widforss Trail

Mike at the Grand Canyon

Mike on the Arizona Trail

Dennis on the Arizona Trail

Dennis and Mike in Ouray, Colorado

Mike in Sedona, Arizona

Mike and Smokey at the Coconino National Forest, Arizona

Mike at our campsite in Mount Philo State Park, Vermont