They say — no two sunsets are alike; not even if you watch them at the same place around the same time on another day. And I got to document…
Category: Visual Treats
Dusk rolling into Grand Canyon Village
When we were at Grand Canyon National Park in early January, we got to see some spectacular sunset sky at Grand Canyon Village in the park. We had just gotten…
Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge: So Verdant, So Rich
People come to Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge for the birds. It is like a paradise on earth for birds and birdwatchers, alike. It is also an area that is green…
Bird’s eye views of San Francisco
I don’t know a single person who has visited San Francisco and not fallen in love with ‘The City by the Bay.’ And I’m sure there will be plenty of visitors…
Sculpted by nature: A Red-Rock Garden for the Gods
While I was charting out my trip to Colorado — a few years ago— I completely missed ‘The Garden of the Gods.’ To this day, I don’t know how that…
Splashes of fall-color at Hakone Gardens
Visit a Japanese Garden once and you’ve visited them all. But there’s no getting tired of them. The look of a Japanese Garden and the feeling that takes over you…
Dreamy Damsels, graffiti-style
Between the spotting of the Daydream mural from our hotel room in Reno and seeing it from street level, we were exploring Circus Circus (Hotel and Casino). While we were…
Sights from ‘el sur grande’ or Big Sur
A long-time ago, there was a place known as el pais grande del sur on California’s Central Coast. This was the ‘big south country’ that lay south of the Monterey Bay area,…
Big and Beautiful Shasta Lake
Shasta Lake This is Shasta Lake. Shasta lies in northern California and also dons the sash of the largest reservoir in the state. It lies in the Shasta – Trinity…
Jule Hus: It’s always Christmas here
Christmas isn’t until another six months but there’s a place in Solvang in California where it is Christmas all year round. Be it February or August, there’ll be Christmas trees…