Photos to Frame, Pt 1

As we continue to juggle this complex transition, I’m enjoying the small task of sorting through photos of the past five years, picking out favorites and imagining them as part of our (dream) house in a variety of ways. Maybe a coffee table book, or a large wall of framed prints, or a small collage of themed photos in a bedroom. This is all just dreaming, but it’s a positive way for me to think about our past five years, right when I could use that positivity.

I’m going to start posting a few here every now and then, just for fun but not as any kind of edited retrospective. It’s more like, “Hey, I just found these cool photos!”

You should be able to see some of them full-screen if you click on them. (Others aren’t high-res originals because I’m still looking for them.)

Near Haines, Alaska, I believe. That’s Tracy in the far right corner.
Oregon Coast
Near the Beartooth Mountains, Montana
Moose tracks left in a lake bed, in northwest British Columbia
Southern California
Alaska ones are difficult for me to ID: this one is near Mayo, I believe.
Millions of bats leaving their cave in Texas. The line of them goes on out of this photo.
Onboard a tour boat of the Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Northern Montana
Some of my favorite photos from the past five years of living on the road.
Along the border of Montana and Wyoming
Along the Denali HIghway, Alaska
Ice fields Parkway, Alberta
Hecla Island, Manitoba
Nevada
Lake Superior
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
Death Valley (I have better pics of hiking here, I just need to find them)
Somewhere in Montana
Tombstone Provincial Park, Yukon
Nevada
Florida
I remember this hike because we took our shoes off to walk over the top of a dam. I don’t remember where!
Oklahoma
Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Yellowstone National Park

I’ve got so many more photos. You’ve been warned.

12 thoughts to “Photos to Frame, Pt 1”

  1. I love the idea of filling a wall with photos like these…a daily reminder of your nomadic past, preserved in the place where you decided to lay down roots. It’s almost poetic.

    1. I’m hoping to do the idea justice! I did add a bunch of photos since you commented, not that ya gotta go back and look (you’ve seen them all anyway). Just felt like the initial post was kinda lame in terms of quantity.

    1. Thanks! I did add a bunch more since you commented, not to say ya gotta go back and look, but so anyone else reading knows the last one you mention is no longer the last one. I like to complicate things. 🙂

  2. Wow, you three have seen sooo much — what an adventure (and a well chronicled one). Best of luck in finding a place to settle in Madison!

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