A deer peeks through sagebrush in the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. Other wildlife spotted on this trip included a bear cro...

Franklin D. Roosevelt is pictured dreaming of the Grand Coulee Dam project in a truly excellent laser show, projected nightly on the ...

Wildflowers cover the hills southwest of Ellensburg on the Westberg Trail .  The elevation gain is surprising for what looks like gentle...

Bitterroot flowers on the hills of the southern edge of the valley containing Ellensburg.  It's a surprising flower to see in a par...

Exit 32 of Interstate 90 has its own rock climbing guide !  The climbing is close to Seattle, and is quite crowded on summer weekends. ...

The Milwaukee Road follows the South Fork Snoqualmie River through to a tunnel under Snoqualmie Pass.  It's now a rail trail across...

The "first day of boating season" in Seattle is welcomed by an armada of pleasure craft that camp overnight.  They guard posit...

A container ship is dwarfed by a low cloud front in the Straight of Georgia, between Richmond and Galiano Island , backlit by late after...

Hong Kong has large, well provisioned airport.  It's neither oversized, as is the new airport in Bangkok, nor dysfunctional, like Lo...

I had thought that applying henna to the hands was something only done by women in association with a wedding. Apparently in modern I...

Visiting numerous Hindu temples, I was invited to "do puja ", or participate in an offering to the various images of gods pres...

A windstorm had downed some trees across the road we were on in rural Andhra Pradesh, and everyone got out of their auto rickshaws, buse...

Komrelly Mallanna Temple is built into a hillside, not far from Siddipet and about a 2h drive from Hyderabad. It's meant to be inc...

This auto rickshaw is a small taxi body grafted onto an inexpensive motorcycle engine.  It was interesting observing the diversity and ...

The Paigah Tombs of Hyderabad house the remains of a family that had connections to some of the Nizams , as well as extraordinary wealt...