Tag:United States
Badwater. The name says all you need to know about the place, Badwater. According to the GPS on this image, the elevation here is -275.6 feet. That’s 275 feet below sea level! The lowest point in North America is about 10 miles behind my right shoulder, a whole 6.4 feet lower still. Being the lowest point, any water that does fall in this part of the desert runs into Death Valley. The only way out is evaporation and that’s what […]
Harbour Town is a marina/shopping/restaurant area of the Sea Pines zone on Calibogue Sound at the southern end of Hilton Head island, South Carolina. According to their website, the lighthouse was the first privately financed lighthouse built in the USA since the early 1800’s.
The five flags below the current US flag in this image represent the five flags that flew over the fort during the Civil War.
2010 was the first year I actually noticed these ‘only in Louisiana’ variations on Old Glory – the flag of the United States. This one was flying from the porch of a house on Napoleon Avenue in New Orleans. I’m fairly sure these flags have passed through my line of vision in prior years also but 2010, following the Saint’s Superbowl win, these flags were in relative abundance along the parade routes to the point they could not be ignored. […]
