Heading West

Today we started the day in Manitou Springs, CO.  It’s off to Pikes Peak for a ride on the highest cog railway in the world.  When we reached the top, we were so high, the temperature was 50 degrees colder from base to peak.  Even more crazy was the steep cliffs with no barriers at […]

The plan today is to make it back to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado to see Ridge Trail Drive, the section we missed earlier in the week due to snow.  Along the way we saw a herd of elk, two birds, a Stellar Jay and Clark’s Nutcracker, and two moose eating grass in a

Walked the town of Jackson today.  I was there once before in the winter of 1994. What a great western town!  It was nice to see it again outside of the snow season.  We had a picnic lunch on the town green in view of the elk horn arches.  After lunch we drove back to

This morning we moved out of our Grant Village room.  In the entry road to the hotel, we came face to face with a large, male elk walking in the street.  It was our first up close sighting in Yellowstone.  The plan was to drive up the western side of the upper loop towards Mammouth,

Today was our first full day in Yellowstone.  We started the day making a wrong turn.  Not that big of a deal though since we had to see that side of the park sooner or later.  We traveled up the western side of the park through the geyser fields.  It was 30 degrees outside so

Woke up at the crack of dawn with all the professional and amateur photographers to see what this magic light was all about. I was taking pictures by 6:30 a.m. with the hopes of better animal sightings, like they can get any better? I have to admit that the pictures do look better. The sun

Grand Teton’s didn’t disappoint today.  149 pictures were taken and after looking at them, it will be extremely difficult to whittle that number down.  I’m starting to think I’m becoming a professional photographer.  It’s too easy when you’re surrounded by all a national park has to offer.  We started the day with a huge bull

Day 3 was a travel day.  The one thing we learned today is state road signs are much smaller in Wyoming then most other places.  We found that out after we ended up in Casper (eastern Wyoming) when we were supposed to be heading west.  That mistake added about 3 hours to our already long

After spending the night in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO we were in Rocky Mountain National Park before 8am for a harrowing 9 mile ride up Old Fall River Road.  A fantastic dirt road filled with steep cliffs, elk, waterfalls and switchbacks, lots of switchbacks. Once at the top, we were greeted with

As a landscape designer, I’m always looking for inspiration.  I often draw on inspiration gathered from past trips around the U.S., Europe and even Australia where I’ve been to some of the great gardens, parks, streetscapes and estates this world has to offer.  One of our next landscape projects is for an existing client who