Photos from travels in the US, Y2K (mostly Pacific Northwest)

Walkway in Portland's Japanese Gardens

Also from the Japanese Gardens

Portland's Rose Gardens

The Rose Gardens again

Multnomah falls, blowing like wisps of long hair in the wind

Bottom of the falls

Rainbow at another of the waterfalls that dot the Columbia Gorge

The Columbia Gorge (and wind-swept trees) from Beacon Rock

In the shadow of Beacon Rock

'Nuff said.

Seattle's Space Needle and nearby sculpture (some stray tree branches Photoshopped out)

Hiking in the Olympics with Lisa & Eric

Gravity doesn't go straight down in the Olympics.

Flowers in Vancouver BC

Vancouver's postmodern-coliseum library, the coolest library building I've ever seen

Slums of Vancouver, still somehow tidy and pretty

Sculpture in U.B.C.'s Anthropology Museum

Detail of totem pole at the museum

An aptly-colored shot at the Rainbow Gathering in Montana

One of the hot springs at Mammoth in Yellowstone--note the trees
growing back amongst the trunks of those that burned in the '88 fire.

Petrified tree stumps, also at Mammoth in Yellowstone

The required Yellowstone shot-Old Faithful

Part of the Wisconsin Dells--I know it's odd to say this, but it's a lot like Petra, only smaller and green.

An impressionistic shot of the enormous carousel in House on the Rock

Another scene from the House on the Rock. Explaining it will only confuse you more. You just have to go there.