A diary of large water birds observed the last week of January 2026 in Rockport TX. Scenes from the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Fulton, and Rockport TX.

A little background on the Columbia Ice Field in Canada and a short slideshow of spectacular mountain scenery.

This is a brief overview of some of the activities during the first week of June 2025 on a family vacation. We stayed at an AirBNB near Golden, enjoyed the activities in Golden and traced the Canadian Pacific RR from Golden to Revelstoke and the magnificent scenery in between. We discovered the...

We spent our birthday with family in Banff Alberta and included a sunset tour of Lake Louise.

This is billed as the largest model railroad museum in the United States. Located in Greely CO.it is certainly an imaginative layout and provides great entertainment for everyone.

The Reynolds Museum is an outstanding collection acquired by Wetaskiwin businessman, Stanley George Reynolds. This international award-winning museum is all about celebrating machines.

This is an overview of the collection at the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston AB. This museum is well curated with fabulous displays of the means of transportation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The museum also has a well equipped restoration shop utilizing fine craf...

The Remington Carriage Museum is a large collection of horse drawn transportation equipment from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Waterton Lakes NP is adjacent to Glacier NP in Montana. Together they are known as a Peace Park. Upper Waterton Lake is partly in Canada and partly in the United States. The excursion boat docks in the US during part of the summer. On the Canadian side the mountains rise up from the Alberta p...