Assorted pics from the past

I've been going through my collection of pictures trying to set up some kind of coherant filing system for all of my digital images. This old laptops is just about out of room, yet again.

Here's a shot from the beach in Aptos, California and the pampas grass covering the beach's bluffs. I sharpened and manipulated the scene without adjusting the sky.

Loggers sometimes get bored and resort to carving stuff with their chainsaws. This cute little bear was on a backroad way up in the wilds of Montana.

Right before the 4th of July in Hamilton, Montana, this car showed up in a parking lot near my motel. I just had to walk back and get the camera to shoot this one of a kind car.

This is what is left of the famous Kinzua Bridge in NW Pennsylvania after a tornado-like micro-burst touched down. If you could see to the right, you would see that the entire forest was mowed down by the extreme weather.