-USA and Canada

Whoa!

A whoally [sic] appropriate sign at Stagecoach Trails Guest Ranch. Linked to Signs, Signs.

Very British

This very British-looking dragon looks as though it should be in London but there’s a little clue to its real location at the top of the picture. It is, in […]

California

Spiky Leaves of the Joshua Tree

As its latin name, Yucca brevifolia, shows, the Joshua Tree is really a Yucca plant, but its tree-like stature gives it its common names of Joshua tree, yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree […]

-Arizona

Sitting on the Arizona / Nevada border, the Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume. Located near Boulder City, about 40 km southeast of Las Vegas, it was originally known […]

-New York

Big Pink

This striking, abstract sculpture was on display in Manhattan’s City Park in summer 2010 as part of the “Statuesque” exhibition. Aaron Curry (b1972, San Antonio, TX) was showing three pieces […]

Alphabet Challenges

R is for… Reduced Speed at the Sahara

Speed the Ride was my favourite of the Las Vegas roller coasters. I was sad, therefore, to learn of its closure, along with the Sahara Hotel itself, in 2011. Then […]

-Arizona