A picture has the ability to communicate beyond words. And a song can often capture a sentiment or emotion that mere words fail to convey. In that spirit, as a tribute to our nation’s semiquincentennial I offer the following photographs I’ve taken over the years. My inspiration is the Woody Guthrie’s ballad: This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land. So, hum along as you peruse.
Happy Birthday America, may you have even better days ahead!
America the Beautiful – “God shed His grace on thee”.Theodore Roosevelt’s Writing DeskTR’s Maltese Cross Cabin – Medora, NDTheodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States (“I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.” – TRMLK and John F. Kennedy – 35th President of the United StatesWomen of the United States Supreme Court (And those who admire them)Martin Luther King Jr. National Mall – Washington D.C.National Portrait Gallery – First Lady Eleanor RooseveltNational Portrait Gallery – Barak Obama, 44th President of the United StatesNational Portrait Gallery – First Lady Michelle ObamaNot all Finished WellA Meet up with Honest Abe in GettysburgLincoln Memorial – Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United StatesOur Lone Hoosier PresidentAmerican Statesmen and Women Michigan DunesLake MichiganMackinac BridgePure MichiganNational Cathedral – Washington D.C. (Begun under Theodore Roosevelt, Completed under George H.W. Bush)Mount VernonThreshing Barn at Mt VernonThe People’s House – The White HouseAn Imperfect NationThe Washington Monument In Honor of our 1st PresidentThe Jefferson Memorial – In Honor of our 3rd PresidentHistoric PlacesEnroute to the Mendenhall Glacier40 Years of MarriageDenali (Mt. McKinley)July 4th Parade in Skagway (6 blocks down and 6 blocks back)Come Sail Away . . . . Glacier Bay – AlaskaAlaska – The Last FrontierSuperstition MountainPapago Park – PhoenixSomewhere in UtahSedona, AZThe Grand CanyonBalance Rock – Arches NPArches National Park – Moab, UtahChapel of the Holy Cross – Sedona, AZThe American SouthwestBlueberriesSorghum CropDaffodils – the Hope of SpringZeniasAn Abundance of Butternut Fall HarvestRed Gold Tomato Harvest – Bartholomew County, INA Land of Beauty and BountyDevil’s Tower – WyomingThe Needle’s Highway – Custer State ParkA Pioneer DugoutGrand Teton National Park From the Chapel of the TransfigurationColorado RockiesThe Continental Divide – ColoradoRed Rock – ColoradoRedwood National Park – CaliforniaGrand Lake, ColoradoBadlands National Park – South DakotaGreat Sand Dunes National Park – ColoradoPreparing to Hike Bear Lake Rocky Mt National ParkBear Lake – Rocky Mountain National ParkThe Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco, CABison – Wind Cave National Park, South DakotaThe American WestStream Cliff Farms – Commiskey, Indiana Site where Morgan’s Raiders VisitedFalls of the Ohio The Beginning of the Lewis & Clark JourneySioux Falls – South DakotaThe Twin Towers – June of 2001 New York CityThe Freedom Trail – Boston, MassachusettsMinute Man Missile National Historic Site Wall, South DakotaUniversity of Sioux FallsStops Along the RoadMusic City Bowl – Nashville, TNBoiler Up!“Ever Faithful – Ever True”To be American is to Cheer for your Favorite TeamsSpace Needle – Seattle, WAMt Rainier National ParkCascade Mountain Range – Washington stateCash & Hogan’s at Mt RainierFog on the Oregon CoastSunset on the Oregon CoastThe Pacific NorthwestVietnam War Memorial – Washington D.C.Korean War Memorial – Washington D.C.Freedom is never FreeFirst Baptist Church of ColumbusMill Race Covered Bridge – Columbus, INColumbus, INThe People Trail – Columbus, INBartholomew County, IndianaCloser to HomeSanta Rosa Beach, FloridaSanta Rosa BeachThe Outer Banks, North CarolinaCataloochee – Great Smokey Mountains National ParkWith my Big Sis in her Happy Place TenneeseePalmer Chapel – CataloocheePrayer Tower at Green Lake Conference Center, Green Lake, WISome Other Favorites
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