Yucca Plant in Sand

Yucca Plant in White Sands National Monument

Yucca Plant in Sand

The best time to visit White Sands National Park, of course, is either during sunrise or sunset so that the plants cast long shadows stretching out over the dunes.  Of those two times though I’d much rather go during sunrise, when this shot was taken. While we were there at that time we saw only one other car.… Keep reading...

Red Canyon Hoodoos

Sunrise at Red Canyon, Utah

Red Canyon Hoodoos

On the way into Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, coming from the west, you’re initially greeted with an unexpected surprise. Most people aren’t familiar, or aren’t even expecting Red Canyon, a section of the Dixie National Forest that provides a small, but beautiful slice of what’s to come. Skirting the western edge of the Colorado Plateau, it offers a brief glimpse of the surprises and sights that await farther east.… Keep reading...