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This is a short video from my June 2024 visit to the The Butterfly Pavilion at the LA County Natural History Museum. It was pretty fun. The butterflies fly all around you and sometimes land on you, as you can see in the video. You can find more information about the exhibit at the link below: nhm.org/experience-nhm/exhibitions-natural-history-museum/butterfly-pavilion

A turtle slowly climbs out of the water and onto a rock in a pond, at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, May 2024.

An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train arriving at the Santa Barbara station. May 27, 2024. www.pacificsurfliner.com/about/ "The Amtrak® Pacific Surfliner® travels along a 351-mile route through San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties, with portions of the route hugging the Southern California coastline. It is the second busiest intercity passenger rail c...

Banjo the emu was harassing and chasing the wallabies around at the Santa Barbara Zoo in the Australian Walkabout exhibit. I think he was just playing and not really trying to hurt the wallabies. The Australian Walkabout exhibit is pretty cool because you can walk around inside the enclosure with the animals. (www.sbzoo.org/animal/new-australian-walkabout/) May 2024

This is a slideshow of photos from my March 2024 visit to the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I've included the name, and the artists for some of the art pieces that I have featured. They are also listed below: Apache Mountain Spirit Dancer by Craig Dan Goseyun Sacred Knowledge by Doug Hyde Singing Heart by Allan Houser Valentino Tzigiwhaeno Rivera by George Rivera Emer...

This is a short video of the view through the window of my room at the Hilton Anchorage at midnight, June 20, 2022, the summer solstice. As you can see, it is still quite light out.

A slideshow of photos from my September 2023 visit to the Butchart Gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada. It's a beautiful place. I highly recommend a visit if you are in the area. (Note: I'm not a professional photographer. These are just cell phone pics. I hope you like them.)

During my March 2024 visit to New Mexico, I took a hike on the Ancestral Sites Trail at the Pecos National Historical Park. The trail leads to the ancestral sites of Pecos Pueblo and the Spanish Mission Church. Pecos Pueblo contributed to a trade network, of over 2,000 inhabitants for over 400 years. The Spanish worked to convert those people by establishing a massive church, which was burnt do...

This is a short clip of a family of raccoons playing in the rain in my backyard in the early morning hours, captured on my Ring camera.

A short clip of a sea plane landing at Victoria Harbour. Video taken in September 2023 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

This is a short video of the Reynisfjara black sand beach in Iceland from my visit there in March 2022. It's beautiful, but it is very dangerous to go near the water because of what they call "sneaker waves". www.visiticeland.com/article/reynisfjara-black-sand-beach-is-dangerous

This is a brief video of the Lahaina Banyan Tree on Front Street in Maui taken July 18, 2023 during my vacation to Maui. Sadly, the historic 150 year old tree was burned in the Maui fires on August 8, 2023. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan_tree_in_Lahaina My article about the tree at Post.news: post.news/@/lorried/2TAP0mYjt79p8fA4ixtJTm5hfYA

I went out for the afternoon and when I got home and checked my ring camera, I found several videos of crows in my backyard. I often see crows in my yard, but they don't usually come up on the patio. Several of them looked into the sliding glass door and seemed to peck at it a couple of times. Maybe they thought the reflection was another crow. The camera comes on to record motion and then stop...

I caught a couple crows harassing a squirrel on my backyard camera.

Approaching Portage Glacier in Alaska by tour boat

Germaine Bazzle performing at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, April 28, 2023.

An Opossum On My Backyard Patio.

Train pulling into the Anchorage Train Depot as viewed from the Hilton Anchorage

Two Large Raccoons Walking Through My Backyard

Coyote On My Backyard Patio

Elk near the Grand Canyon Visitor Center

Verde Canyon Railroad - Arizona - Going through the tunnel

California Condor flying over the Grand Canyon

A Beautiful Deer In The Backyard

Brown bears at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. June 2022

Noisy barking sea lions at Marina del Rey, Burton Chace Park, California.

Dolphins following and jumping in the wake of our boat