Images Dated 22nd August 2012 (page 9)

near Goldfield - Nevada
Near Goldfield - Nevada - Joshua tree. We walked over to some through rattle snake area but saw and heard none. Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - Lake Tanaya - California - We left the tourist crowds via the Tioga Road, and then the old, narrow, winding mine (dirt) road which we took for 21 miles. Built up altitude. Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Tuolumne Meadows Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - El Capitain Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Yosemite Valley - lots of tourists, so we did the circuit quickly. Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Mariposa Grove - hungry tame deer Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Mariposa Grove - giant and little redwoods Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Mariposa Grove - giant redwoods Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Mariposa Grove - giant redwoods Date: 1952

Yosemite Park - California - Mariposa Grove - the tremendous Grizzly Giant redwood - 34 ft diameter Date: 1952

above Santa Cruz - California - Live oaks and Redwoods Date: 1952

Dolores Mission - California - Stopped at the Dolores Mission which is practically intact and the oldest building in San Francisco. Date: 1952

San Francisco - California - Walked along the pier looking at the boats at Fishermans Wharf. Date: 1952

San Francisco - California - Chose our lunch lobsters to carry into Fishermans Grotto No. 9. Date: 1952

new Plymouth car - California - newest model - Plymouth stationwagon Date: 1952

Mount Shasta from the air - California

Mount Shasta from the air - California - DC6 flying at 16, 000 ft. Clouds cleared for view of Mt Shasta, Mt Lassen and the reservoir. Date: 1952

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Portage is at the foot of several steep glacier-coated and snow-crested peaks. Date: 1952

Whittier Glacier - Alaska - Drove up valley as far as first bridge, but stopped as the support logs were rotting. We walked part way til station wagon came along and took us on up

Cookes Inlet, Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Drove along Cookes Inlet shoreline, remains of railway going up to mining sites. Date: 1952

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Hentons Lodge - Warned about the river: a man can last about a minute in its glacial rapids. Date: 1952

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - By Hentons Lodge on the edge of the Russian River. Huge red salmon were leaping as they came upstream to spawn

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Several communities of 5 or 6 deserted houses. Date: 1952

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Cookes Inlet - along the east side up Turn-again Bay. Date: 1952

Kenai Peninsula - Alaska - Along the smooth rock Seward Highway; countryside is covered with spindly spruce and cedar. Date: 1952

Alaskan Glaciers - Alaska - We came in to land at Elmendorf Field, the big Army air base, having come over amazing glaciers like wide rivers. Date: 1952

Kamakura - bird trainer - Japan - Bird trainer, whose finches put offerings at a little shrine and brought back your fortune. Date: 1952

Kamakura Daibutsu - Japan - Daibutsu It is a bronze statue of seated Buddha, 600 years old, and in a nice outdoor setting. Smaller than I was expecting, smaller than several in Rangoon

Okuyugawara - Japan - We walk a little way up the very steep road climbing up this canyon-like valley with houses tucked alongside. Date: 1952

Okuyugawara -
1952 Date: Green Gate Inn - Japan

Okuyugawara - Japan -..passed the general store of this town. Date: 1952

Lake Chuzenji - Japan - Lake Side Hotel Date: 1952

Lake Hakone - Japan - Took a rowboat around the rocky wooded shoreline. Unfortunately unable to see Mt. Fuji, only the mountains around the lake were free from clouds. Date: 1952

Nikko - Japan - Hotel Kanaya - Mounting butterflies after Kirifuri walk. Date: 1952

Nikko countryside - Japan - Towards Kirifuri Falls, passing terraced rice fields, bean fields, lumbering forests. Date: 1952

Nikko Kirifuri Falls - Japan - A walk up to a hill 3 miles away, from which you can see not-too-breakthtaking Kirifuri Falls. Date: 1952

Nikko gardener - Japan - Temple gardener Date: 1952

Nikko sacred bridge - Japan - Sacred bridge on way to Kirifuri Falls Date: 1952

Nikko priestesses - Japan - Priestesses Date: 1952

Nikko priestesses - Japan - Priestesses Date: 1952

Nikko priestess - Japan - priestess in red and white robes. Date: 1952

Nikko Toshogu - Japan

Nikko Stone lantern - Japan - by Yomeimon Gate all the local lords and barons contributed stone and iron lanterns for its embellishment. One noble could not afford the price of a lantern

Nikko Cryptomerias - Japan - Cryptomeria trees Date: 1952

Tokyo Shimjuku - Japan - Shimjuku - Formosan house was gift to the Emperor Date: 1952

Tokyo Kabuki theatre - Japan - Kabuki Meiji Za Theatre Date: 1952

Tokyo Shimjuku - Japan - Shimjuku former Imperial Gardens Contrast of the artful water gardens stepping stones, stone lanterns, tortuous paths, lotus. Date: 1952

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