Natural Beauty

View from steps of state legislature building in Salt Lake City, Utah.

August 22, 2023.

August 22, 2023

Sign for Historic PIONEER PARK CEMETERY in downtown Dallas, TX in July 2023.

View of downtown Dallas, TX from OMNI HOTEL in summer 2023.

Winged Pegasus in front of OMNI HOTEL in downtown Dallas, Texas in summer of 2023. Looks a lot like logo for old Mobil Petroleum Company.

Wonderful Life and the Burgess Shale

Burgess Shale Interpretive Hike - Yoho National Park

Burgess Shale

Sign in downtown Independence, MO for Santa Fe and California National Historic Trails.

Statue of Harry S. Truman in WWI military uniform. Downtown Independence, Missouri.

Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Independence, Missouri. Building construction began in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Truman were married here in 1919.

Notched weir of storm water detention structure on Little Blue River in or near Kansas City, MO.

Storm water detention structure on Little Blue River, Jackson County, Missouri. The leaves had just started turning on this sunny day in early October 2022.

Flournoy-Wallace House. During the 1830s the north half of this farm house was built for a member of the Flournoy family. Reuben Wallace added the south half and the porch in the 1850s. Reuben Wallace was the great uncle of Bess Wallace Truman.

Artwork above entrance to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Independence, Missouri.

Independence, MO. St. Mary's Catholic Church. Historic St. Mary's church was begun in 1860 and completed during the Civil War. It was dedicated in 1864. This area was established as a French and Indian mission in 1823 and a parish in 1845 by Father Bernard Donnelly.