Flowers, Trees & Fields

　 These pictures are from our travels around the USA. They are just a very small sample of our flower picture files. I may also put in some fields and trees.

I’ll tell you where they were taken and maybe add a little story above each picture or set of pictures. I’m not going to sort them out so it’ll just be random postings. Mainly because I’m having to get a lot of them from stored computer disks.

You will be able to enlarge each picture by clicking on it. Sometimes I might add a link to a state or national park. If I do the link will be active so just click on it if you want to visit their site.

In almost all cases I'm not going to describe what's depicted in the pictures because I'm not now or ever been a student of Botany. I just like the beauty of things.  

This is the 8^th posting in this blog.

I’m going to start this post off with some pictures taken during a visit to Niagara Falls at the Top of the Falls Restaurant (American side) and the grounds thereabout.
 

 

This set of pictures was taken while parked at the Apple Island RV Resort, South Hero, VT. There was a 9 hole golf course at the Resort and the first two were taken at the golf shack. The others were taken elsewhere on the property. .

 

While waiting for a horse and buggy ride at Charleston, SC I spotted these hanging flowers. I asked the counter person if she knew their name and she said; “they are called Fox Gloves“.

 

 

 

This one was taken from tour van while on a springtime downtown tour of Nashville, TN.

 

These were taken at the Joshua Tree National Park in CA.

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This set of pictures was taken at North Conway, NH. The hanging flowers were found at LL Bean and the other at the railway station.

 

When traveling east on I-40 from TN to NC these were taken at the first NC rest area.

 

This is a tiny bouquet of wild flowers I picked in a field at the Laughlin AFB RV Park at Del Rio, TX. They are in a salt shaker. I found them while hitting golf balls in a large field out behind our trailer.

We found these wonderful arrangements at Canalside Park in downtown Buffalo, NY. We got there early, had lunch there and left before dark.

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This Christmas tree was made from stacking poinsettia plants. It was in front of a hotel at La Jolla, CA - town center. The wide angle was taken at a lookout platform at the waterfront. There is always some crazy people in that cold Pacific water.

 

We found this Date Palm Tree farm while driving south on CA-78 along side of the Colorado River not far south of Palo Verde, CA.

 

 

 



 

 

 





 

 

Benton Antique Mall, Benton, KS

　
On this portion of our travels Linda’s sister and her husband joined us for a couple of weeks as we were going to stop for a week or so in Branson, MO.

We had come south on I-135 out of Salina so we could connect up with US-54. Coming out of Wichita on KS-254 we spotted the Benton Antique Mall. Couldn’t miss it because of all the old cars parked all around it and in the parking lot. We spent 3 or 4 hours looking around and having lunch there. When we left we had to find a place to spend the night because it would soon get dark. We found one just a short drive east in El Dorado.

If you like antique shopping and looking at old cars you will enjoy some of these pictures. Out back they had two restoration bays and one at the far end of the inside mall area where their show cars were located.

This is the 7^th post in this series. All pictures can be enlarged by clicking on them. The link is active.

https://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/Benton-KS/Benton+Antique+Mall+-and-+Restaurant/9326.