Tag Archives: camping

My Yosemite adventure… part 7… how I ended up spending the night there, where I stayed, and how I used my extra time taking even more photos for you!!!

Posted on August 31, 2018 by pouringmyartout

When I was up in the Bay Area visiting my mom for her 95th birthday, I wasn’t actually planning on a trip to Yosemite. And when I did decide to go, it was just a spontaneous idea for a day … Continue reading →

Posted in My travels, Pictures of me, Stories of my life, sunsets | Tagged art, california, camping, humor, nature, Northern California, outdoors, photography, travel, Yosemite | Leave a comment

Okay, these really are the last pictures from our trip to Arizona…

Posted on January 25, 2016 by pouringmyartout

My younger daughter… not the one who is getting married… took these pictures with her phone when we went and climbed that crazy little mountain in the desert… you know… the one that I had already climbed… in the dark… but … Continue reading →

Posted in My travels, Pictures of me, Stories of my life | Tagged Arizona, camping, family, humor, kids, nature, photography, travel | 6 Comments

Making your fire funky…

Posted on January 20, 2016 by pouringmyartout

Having a fire to sit around is an integral part of the camping experience. Fires are awesome. If you think about, we humans have been staring at fire for almost as long as we have been staring at the stars… … Continue reading →

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The desert… part 3…

Posted on January 20, 2016 by pouringmyartout

I need to get through the photos of the desert part of our trip before I can move on to my record-breaking dog petting day, and the marriage proposal… and some other interesting things… so here are a bunch of … Continue reading →

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The desert… part 2…

Posted on January 19, 2016 by pouringmyartout

Here they are… in no particular order… thirty pictures, taken almost in the same spot… (right by the front bumper of the motor home)… within a three day period… in the desert… near Quartzsite, Arizona, and all of the same … Continue reading →

Posted in My travels, Pictures of me, Stories of my life | Tagged Arizona, art, camping, desert, humor, nature, outdoors, photography, travel | 10 Comments

Synchronized aqua-squats… why is this not an olympic sport???

Posted on December 2, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Sorry about that… I am still trying to finish up with the pictures from our epic Thanksgiving week camping adventure, and funny titles do draw in the tourists… On top of seeing all the cool birds that I already shared … Continue reading →

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Birds and words… the final chapter…

Posted on December 1, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Even if you aren’t one of the people who find birds interesting, surely that picture, taken by my daughter Mollie, of a bald eagle taking flight, will make something stir inside you. That being said, I seem to recall that … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs and other animals, My travels, Stories of my life | Tagged bald eagle, birds, camping, eagles, humor, nature, outdoors, photography | 14 Comments

Birds and words… part 6…

Posted on December 1, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Now, in our continuing story of our holiday camping adventure, we come to the majestic love dance of the western grebe. Grebes are adorable little water birds with bright red eyes. When they aren’t looking for food, they are looking … Continue reading →

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Birds and words… part 5…

Posted on November 30, 2015 by pouringmyartout

So, I know that most of you probably don’t give much of a crap about birds one way or the other… My mom got me interested in bird watching. I saw a cool bird near her house when we were … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs and other animals, My travels, Stories of my life | Tagged animals, art, birds, camping, humor, nature, pelicans, photography | 18 Comments

Birds and words… part 3…

Posted on November 29, 2015 by pouringmyartout

So… yeah… back to my weird bird adventures… We went camping over the holiday week, to be near my wife’s aunt up in Solvang. You should Google Solvang. It is an adorable little Scandinavian town. They passed a law that … Continue reading →