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    Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    When I was a teenager I mounted on my bedroom wall four photos of places I wanted to see. I visited 3 of those over time and now, in my 82d year, saw Yosemite for the 1st time, during two weeks in May. How magnificent it is, and to think…

  • Greetings from Yellowstone National Park

    I love the outdoors, watching animals, looking at the flowers in bloom and trying to remember their names. I love listening to the sounds of nature, and breathing the fresh clean scents nature provides. Yellowstone is my favorite because of the added animals there that are not as easy to…

  • Greetings from Yosemite National Park

    We started as a family, my husband,myself and three children visiting Yosemite when the children were small and are now middle aged. We still visit Yosemite and other national parks. To us it is the most beautiful place on Earth. Magnificent trees, river, mountains and meadows. Masses of flowers in…

  • Greetings from Colorado National Monument

    Colorado National Monument, as a graduation present from my father. We went to Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park. Besides all the traveling and using up all my camera memory, Colorado and Yellowstone stole my soul. I can't I wait to go back. ;)

  • Greetings from Sequoia National Park

    After a 221-mile hike from Yosemite Valley, father and daughter Norman and Cameron Llewellyn make it to the peak of Mount Whitney.

  • Greetings from Great Falls Park

    Watching my son's lifelong love of nature taking flight.

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    Greetings from Kings Canyon National Park

    My son, Nathan, takes a break from the trail in Kings Canyon. Of course, he's wearing the Junior Ranger uniform that his grandma made for him.

  • Greetings from Piscataway Park

    My family visits the Accokeek Foundation at Piscataway Park several times a month to hike the trails along the Potomac River, to learn about sustainable agriculture, and to explore history. Last week, we watched dozens of dragonflies alight on marsh plants as we strolled along the boardwalk. The week before,…

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    With daughter Eleanor waiting for sunset from Cliff Tops on Mt. Leconte. This was her first time there. My parents started taking me up Leconte in the early 1960s.

  • Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park

    Hiking with my family to the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Clingmans Dome. Long trek to the top!

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