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I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm a world traveler. Here you'll find photos from my recent journeys. I'll add more as I acquire them. Unfortunately, most of my overseas photos are not available digitally. |
Points of interest We proudly served
Copyright,
Susan C. Charnley,
January 2006. Top border art courtesy of Bradley W. Schenck, http://www.webomator.com/bws.
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| Wyoming Adventure -- click on a thumbnail to see a bigger image | |||
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Janeen and I met in Denver CO and drove from there to Jackson Hole, WY. Prarie lands like those pictured here dominated our drive through southern Wyoming. |
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We saw Deer and two-prong antelope almost more often than we saw cattle. | ||
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Once we arrived in Jackson and hit the trails in Grand Teton National park, awe inspiring scenes like these three became common place. | ||
| But Wyoming's beauty is found in the small as much as in the wide and grand. Tiniest of all the wonders I saw was the dewdrops sparkling on these tiny leaves (far left). The purple flowers shown at mid-leftt aren't quiet as tiny as the dew-soaked leaves, and the flowers were much easier to see because they grew just about everywhere, as did bushes full of the charming white blooms near left. | |||
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| One of the most amazing sights was Hidden Falls, which lay at the end of a several mile hike over moderately rough terrain. Hidden Falls is fed by snow melt and run-off. Along the way we saw evidence of the tremendous power and purity of this waterfall. | |||
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This white water stream emerges from Hidden Falls and travels several miles at a furious pace until it empties into Jenny Lake. | ||
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This shallow eddy proves the clarity of the stream's untouched waters. | ||
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And finally Hidden Falls itself in all its awesome glory. | ||
| Besides being a land of incredible raw beauty, Wyoming is a land of great tenacity. Look at the trees (below l) growing straight out of the rocks in the midst of a raging stream. See the point where the branches change from dead to living. The cause is the great depth of snow that builds up in the winter, preventing the lower branches from getting the sunlight and air needed to thrive. Yet thrive is just what these trees do, even under extreme hardship. Shortly before sunset on our last day we were gifted with a rainbow (below r), a fitting farewell from a miraculous place. | |||
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