2019: A Year of Color, Reflections and Adventure: Stunning Situations, Views and Experiences—Deserts, too.
We've limited the photographs posted in this section to almost exclusively of autumn coloring, alpine lake reflections and a few desert scenes. The main exceptions are five from the Himalayas. It was a typical period of adventure and discovery although the years tend to improve each time or so it seems. 2019 included two trips within the Western United States, two overseas trips, one in Nepal for near on two months and the other, in Eastern Europe for three months with stopovers in China and South Africa respectively, an additional week in the latter. The trip within Europe included Poland, Slovakia and a large portion of the period living in Bulgaria. We passed through Germany, Hungary and Serbia to reach our hiking destinations. Within the United States, we concentrated our time in Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah our favorite, and Idaho. We seemed to cover less territory because of more in depth stays at fewer places. Works for us. Finally, the weighting of the pictures is t...
