Disneyland - 1985

 Disneyland

Anaheim, California

April 27, 1985

Shiprock

Shiprock (Tse' Bit'a'i' - Winged Rock)

Elevation 7,177' - Height 1,583'

Shiprock, Navajo Nation, New Mexico

September 2015

Teec Nos Pos

the outskirts of Teec Nos Pos

Teec Nos Pos, Arizona

September 2015

Year 10, Day 1

Bleeding Hearts in my Backyard

Red Tail Hawk at the State Game Lands

Barred Owl at he State Game Lands

Thistle Blossom at the State Game Lands

The White House, DC

University of Virginia - Pegasus medical helocopter
Shenandoah National Park

Swallowtail, Shenandoah National Park

Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park

Oriole Park At Camden Yards, Baltimore

Sunflower Fields Forever, Marion, Pa

Paint Mines, Calhan, Colorado

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs

Mule deer, Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs

Manitou Springs Fire Department, Colorado

IAFF Fallen Firefighters Memorial, Colorado Springs

Bishop's Castle, Rye, Colorado

Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

Pronghorn Antelope, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

4 Corners, Navajo Nation

Ship Rock, Shiprock, New Mexico

Dallas Divide, Ridgway, Colorado

Placerville, Colorado Post Office

Ouray, Colorado

Black Canyon National Park, Colorado

Conowingo Dam, Darlington, Maryland

Assateague Island, Virginia

Assateague Lighthouse, Virginia

Chincoteague Island, Virginia sunset

Appalachian Trail mid-point, Michaux State Forest, Pa

OK, here we go. It's been nine years now and we're just getting number 10 started. Last year was a blast. Good times, sad times and everything in between. Lots of flowers, lots of birds, lots of firehouses, a day in the Capital, a weekend in Shenandoah, 10 days in my spiritual home, Colorado, a morning with the eagles and New Years in Chincoteague. Oh, and some hiking with the boys. This year promises more. A new destination is in my future, it may prove to become a new frontier to discover. The backyard promises more flowers, the boys promise more hiking and I'm sure there are more of our fine feathered friends waiting somewhere for me. Thank you all for those few seconds I take every day. Year 10... starts now... hold on tight... (by the numbers, 9 years, 156,933 blogviews (23,454 this past year) 2.962 posts (338 in year 9) And World of Pigeons is now my Number 1 post!)

Roadside New Mexico

Hitched a ride with the wind and since he was my friend

I just let him decide where we'd go

When a flower grows wild, it can always survive

Wild flowers don't care where they grow.

Wildflowers, Dolly Parton, 1988

Neverending 64

Under a sky of azure

Where the balmy breezes blow,

Kissed by the golden sunshine is Nuevo Mejico.

Lands of the Montezuma,

With fiery hearts aglow,

Lands of the deeds historic,

Is Nuevo Mejico.

"Oh, Fair New Mexico" is the state song of New Mexico. Officially adopted in 1917, it is written by Elizabeth Garrett, daughter of Pat Garrett. Yeah, that Pat Garrett.

This is US 64 in the very northwest part of the state going towards Shiprock, NM.

Teec Nos Pos 86514

Teec Nos Pos is located in Apache County, in the very northeast corner of Arizona. Population 730. Situated 29 miles west of Shiprock, New Mexico and 44 miles southwest of Cortez, Colorado. It is only 6 miles south-southwest of the 4 Corners. In Navajo "T'iis Nazbas" means "Cottonwoods in a Circle".

San Juan County Fire Department, District 12

San Juan County Fire Department, District 12, US 491, Shiprock, New Mexico. San Juan County. Shiprock Fire Department joined San Juan County Fire Department in 1992 and covers 982 square miles of New Mexico's northwest corner, on Navajo Indian Reservation. All from one station with 30 volunteers and four pieces of apparatus.