Banff Canada a small town in the Canadian Rockies

This elk was just out and about munching on someone's lawn, and I thought squirrels were bad.  This on one of the main streets in Banff

View of the main street in Banff this is a ski town in the winter and still very beautiful and much warmer in May.

The town has many shops, places to eat and beautiful scenery to enjoy while out for a walk.

 Canadian Scenic RT 1A  wildlife just strolling along the railroad track.  That is a very large bear we took the picture from the car we did not think we need to get any closer.

We had to stop the car and let the mountain goats go by.





This in downtown Banff the elk is just munching on someones lawn.

Box Canyon Chain Up Area when it snows this as far as you can go without chains - no chains turn back and hope to find a place to stay

Canadian Rocky Mountains

Entering Canada

Canadian Rockies Avalanche Area this was some road

They have so many avalanches they build tunnels so that the cars can go through and the snow and whatever comes with the avalanche  goes over the top it is really something to see

May snow on the Canadian Rockies just beautiful to see

Going through there tunnel thank God no avalanche I'm sure the noise is very loud and not sure just how would get out if an avalanche did go over.  It is very dark going through the tunnel.

There are few tunnels like this on the Canadian Hwy we seen lots of  hug branches, large trees, rocks,etc on top of the tunnel and below that had come down the mountain.  The road is closed Fall to April sometimes longer.  You can also see thre railroad and they also have the same tunnels to protect against avalanches.

Puget Sound

Boat ride on Puget Sound

The Ferries carry cars, people, bikes, etc.

The boat stopped at three islands they use boats like we would use a bus 

Puget Sound 

Many boats of all sizes in the harbor

Washington's Coffee Houses
The State of Washington's people sure love their coffee

Just about every parking lot has some sort of coffee house

Walk or drive up whatever works for you to get coffee you can even get rain drops as you can see

Lots of the coffee places look like tug boats

Burlington Washington
just North of  Seattle

 They grow fields and fields of tulips just beautiful we were a week late for the full bloom but I did get to see some of the tulips

So many colors and so beautiful

Seattle Washington traffic is a nightmare and it is always like this but the end result was worth the wait.

The Beautiful Yosemite Park

Touring Yosemite

You want a picture of me???

Mother Nature at her BEST

Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias

Roots of a Giant Sequoia they do not have deep roots usually no more than 6  deep but can fan out more than 150 ft to provide stability

Pine cones from the Sequoia

Reflection Lake

 Santuario Chimayo magnificent adobes church made famous by a Georgia O'Keeffe painting.  The Truchas is breahtaking location where Robert Redford filmed "The Milagro Beanfield War"

This is inside one of the small Chapels the windows are beautiful

When the light is right you can see the crosses from the windows on the floor

The sound from these falls can be heard all over the park - POWER

The trees are as amazing as the waterfall & Mountains








Glacier Point in Yosemite
Jeff, Catleen, Dad & Mom
thousands of feet up or down if you lean to far back

Yosemite National Park

A side view of Half Dome snow in the background

Hey what you looking at

Mirror Lake 

Dad on the bike - NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST

Falls at Yosemite they had just had snow a few days before so the falls were terrific

Cathleen walked up to the bottom of the lower falls Vernal Falls