Apache Trail – January 13, 2016 Please check out ophardtphotos.com for more photos. We headed out today on the Apache Trail into the Superstition Mountains to the east of Phoenix. On our four wheel drive trip we did not stop at Goldfield, but it is the entrance to the Apache Trail. At the beginning of the trail,…
November 7, 2015 For many more photos please visit my main website: Ophardtphotos.com The Phoenix Herpetological Society is an organization established to provide a sanctuary for reptiles. It is currently home to over 1,700 animals. The Society works with Arizona Game and Fish, animal control departments, and law enforcement to rescue various animals that were…
September 27, 2015 Tonight was a very rare astronomical event where the Super Moon and a Lunar Eclipse coincided to also produce a Super Blood Moon. The super moon occurs when the moon is at its perigee or closest point to earth in its orbit. At that time the moon appears to be 14% larger and…
July 22, 2015 – near Mount Ord, AZ The 4 wheel drive trip today is to check out the mercury mines off the Mount Ord exit on the Beeline highway to Payson. In 2012 there was an extensive fire in the area and burned both of the old mining structures – another piece of Arizona…
May 16, 2015 New Market, VA – Civil War Reenactment The battle of New Market, Virginia, Shenandoah Valley, was fought May 15, 1864 near the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). A good detailed description is found in Wikipedia. As part of the battle, the VMI cadets were brought into battle and lost their shoes in the field in…
May 2015 – Monticello home of Thomas Jefferson and Mount Vernon, home of George Washington We made a spring trip to Virginia and Washington DC. This is the founding fathers portion of the trip to Monticello and Mount Vernon. Thomas Jefferson made his plantation home on a mountaintop with a view over the remaining 5000 acres…
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