Driftwood on the shore of a lake somewhere in British Columbia. 
This photo was taken from the lawn of the Prince of Wales Hotel in the Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. There is what looks to be a bit of haze in the photo but it is actually smoke from wildfires that were burning in Montana’s Glacier National Park to the south. Still, this view is one of the most spectacular I have seen. 
Tufas at Mono Lake, which was one of the weirdest places I have ever visited. Around the edge of the lake are the dimwitted brine flies and within the lake are millions of brine shrimp. Mono Lake is “about 2 1/2 times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean.” The tufas are “calcium-carbonate spires and knobs formed by interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water.” Wild. 
A view of Brokeoff peak from the top of Lassen peak–we climbed them both. Great hikes. Lassen is a beautiful park with few visitors. We loved it.
This photo is, perhaps, my favorite because of what it represents. It was taken by me from the bottom of the Grand Canyon as the moon was setting and the sun was rising. It was taken after we had spent the night and were hiking out. Our hike out started in the dark and ended in the heat of midday. As we were leaving the canyon, we saw a ringtail cat in our flashlight and the headlights of other hikers making their way across one of the suspension bridges that spans the Colorado River.
It was perfection.
I’m feeling very hemmed in by my surroundings today so am posting some random photos I have on my harddrive. We did not do the crazy hike/climb up El Capitan at Yosemite(instead we did a very lame and tame, Lembert Dome–mostly because the place was so jam packed with people–even in September when we were there), Still I think the photo is beautiful.
El Capitan. Allen took this photo and I am in awe of it. It captures the beauty of the rock.
Here’s a wonderful photo Allen took of Bodie–which is a ghost town in the Sierra, right on the border of Nevada–it truly captures the desolation and the beauty. 
This is one of my favorite photos. I’m petting the cat which lived in Bodie. 
new england church on a hill.
I took this photo from the car window when we were traveling to my mother-in-law’s at Easter. It’s in a town fairly close to my home. I have no idea how the colors got all funky but they did as I was posting it and I like it.
This story makes me nauseous–Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger:
Dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, the burger comes with 10.5 pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce, three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise, relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers and a bun.
How do you cook the thing? And how long does it cook for? Just the mayonnaise alone is enough to make me want to hurl.
myfanwy collins 