The Pinnacles, just down slope from Crater Lake rim, are amazing other worldly rock formations formed from volcanic ash, hardened by vertically rising hot gases. Drawing these bizarre spires was really enjoyable.
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I have always been fascinated by the variety of shapes and colors of fungi. The lavenders, pinks and greens in this formation were stunning.
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There was amazing contrast between the dark grey, brown, and black cut off tree stump and the almost fluorescent greens, purples and pinks of the intermingled fungi.
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The rows of fungi on the bark were surprisingly linear, and the contrast between the light blue and chartreuse was striking.
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I observed these Sandhill Cranes near our house on my daily racewalks. After only 4 months the baby was almost as tall as the adult, but no facial red color yet.
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The “Bean” (Cloud Gate) sculpture in downtown Chicago, by Anish Kapoor, is one of the most beautiful and engaging contemporary sculptures in the world.
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Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1939 masterpiece of residential architecture in Bear Run Pennsylvania, is arguably the most important contemporary house in history.
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The 1941 Alden B. Dow home and studio, in Midland, Michigan is one of the most important contemporary American buildings of the 20th century.
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Bodie Ghost Town in the California Bodie Hills, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, is the most extensive ghost town I have ever visited. It is spooky but very interesting.
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The Old Iron Ore Dock in Marquette is one of my favorite structures in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was built as a gigantic, purely functional iron ore gravity feed dock on the waterfront in 1931. Decommissioned in 1971, it is now a hauntingly beautiful, symmetrical, cathedral-like edifice to the iron mining industry in that region.
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