Grand Lake

Grand Lake is Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake. It is located in the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Colorado. On its north shore is located the historic town of Grand Lake. The lake fills a glaciated valley. Natural tributaries to the lake are the North Inlet and East Inlet, both of which flow out of Rocky Mountain National Park, which surrounds the lake on three side.: Grand Lake is located 1 mile from the Park's western entrance. Grand Lake was named Spirit Lake by the Ute Tribe because they believed the lake's cold waters to be the dwelling place of departed souls.

Granby Lake

Lake Granby is the second largest body of water in Colorado. It was created by the erection of Granby Dam, completed in 1950, as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project and forms a continuous body of water with Shadow Mountain Reservoir and Grand Lake. On its own, Lake Granby contains approximately 40 miles of shoreline. The lake is popular with anglers and is continually stocked with Trout and Kohanee Salmon.

Molly Brown House

The Molly Brown House Museum is a house located at 1340 Pennsylvania Street in Denver, Colorado, that was the home of American philanthropist, socialite, and activist Margaret Brown. Brown was known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" because she survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Red Butte Gardens

Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is a botanical garden and arboretum operated by the University of Utah, in the foothills of the Wasatch Range in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is open year-round to the public. Red Butte Garden contains 18 acres of botanical gardens and several miles of hiking trails through native vegetation. Red Butte Creek runs within the northern part of the park.

Grand Canyon of Hawaii

More Beaches of Kauai

Beaches of Kauai

Pearl Harbor

The USS Arizona Memorial is part of the recently dedicated WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The National Monument also includes sites on Ford Island: the USS Oklahoma Memorial, USS Utah Memorial, and several historic Battleship Row mooring quays and CPO bungalows. The National Monument is located about 2 miles west of the Honolulu Airport in Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu.

USS Bowfin

USS Bowfin (SS-287) is a fleet attack submarine that fought in the Pacific during WWII, and helped to make famous the term, “Silent Service.”  Bowfin was launched on 7 December 1942, exactly one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  She was nicknamed the Pearl Harbor Avenger, so it is fitting that she is permanently homeported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

North Rim of the Grand Canyon

Magnificent! Neither word nor picture can do it justice.

Fairview Museum of History and Art

The museum holds ninety sculptures by Fairbanks, both religious and historical.  What a treasure trove of magnificent art!

This amazing old building was originally a school.  The 6th grade teacher was also the principal, and he made a new chalk drawing each month.  The next two pictures were the last ones he did in 1958.  I loved the whole feeling of the building in general.

There are several rooms of historical significance.  If you are interested in the way people lived in earlier times, you'll find this fascinating.

This couple, who are also depicted together in a larger sculpture, are Peter and Celestia Peterson, who were married for eighty-one years and ten months.  They were married when they were both eighteen years old.  He died at the age of one hundred, she at one hundred one.

There is even a prehistoric skeleton.

I really loved the series of Abraham Lincoln sculptures.

George Washington is there too!