Watching the bison. Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park
This is the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
The scenic route through the fabled Inside Passage to Alaska leads to Glacier Bay National Park. Here you'll find a spectacular, unspoiled labyrinth of deep fjords and dramatic glaciers plunging into the ocean, ringed by snow-capped peaks reaching to 15,000 feet -- the highest coastal mountains in the world.
The nearest highway is hundreds of miles away; a cruise ship is the easiest way to see this unspolit wonderland.
Hot Springs National Park ; the smallest and oldest in the system. Center stage is bathhouse row; luxurious, opulent spas from the fabled past.
The Vietnam Memorial is a tribute to the American Soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam War. This sunken black granite monument was not well recieved when it was originally proposed as many people felt that it would be a dark hole in the capitol mall and would not honor the dead.
Sharp, pointed formations inside Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.
A sunrise in the west can be spectacular. This was taken along Hwy 9 on the way out to Zion National Park.
An autumn mule deer buck in Zion National Park.
On the way to Mt. Rainier I passed this lake with hundreds of clear-cut trees.