A Trip Through A Small Nebraska Town

My Dad and I visited my grandmother in Nebraska one year, and we all went on a road trip through the country. We stopped in a small town for lunch, and I decided to take a few photos.

An unusual octagonal building.

The highway running through town.

A storefront.

Close in on part of that storefront. I wonder if I could overuse that polarizer any more?

Flowers in City Park.

An outdoor stage in City Park.

A Trip to the Denver Zoo

I have been to the Denver Zoo several times, but this was this only time I took any photos. Like Tampa, Denver has a modern zoo with natural looking exhibits. Find out more by following the link in the Landmarks I've Visited section.

A type of deer from Africa.

Humans on exhibit. Note that many have their young with them. Some of them even push the young about in little carts.

Red Kangaroos.

Shamba.

An odd building by the Shamba.

Bighorn Sheep, the State Animal of Colorado.

A bird with a very flexible neck.

I thought this flower was interesting.

A Lion.

I thought the colors were nice here.

A Polar Bear lounges in front of an audience.

Shelter Gardens, Columbia

I used to live in an apartment complex in Columbia that bordered on Shelter Gardens. I was lucky because my apartment was right next to the gardens. You could say that the gardens were my back yard. Here are some photos from a visit there in the late summer of 1996.

An old school house was moved to the grounds of Shelter Gardens. The photo is black and white because I had a few frames left on the roll I shot earlier at Union Covered Bridge.

Black and white shot of a flower.

A brilliant red rose.

Texas does not have claim to all yellow roses.

One of the many paths meandering through the gardens.

These look like marigolds to me, but I'm not a trained horticulturist.

These look like the same type of flower as in the photo above, but they're definitely not marigolds. Maybe they're mums.

Perhaps a type of hibiscus.

More from Union Covered Bridge

The Union Covered Bridge is one of those timeless historical places, making it a perfect subject for black and white photography. Here are some photos I took in late summer of 1996.

Stone walls lead up to the east entrance to the bridge.

Another view of the east entrance.

Missouri Spur-C bypasses the bridge now and crosses the creek, just to our left, over a spillway.

The spillway over which the road crosses. The crossing is just to the south of the bridge.