Farmington Bay Sunset – Great Salt Lake – Utah
The sun sets on the wetlands and ponds surrounding Farmington Bay, an area on the eastern shores of the Great Salt Lake, near the town of Farmington, in Utah
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Corn Crib – Locust Grove Estate – Louisville – Kentucky
A corn crib at the historic Locust Grove estate outside of Louisville, Kentucky.
Locust Grove was an 18th century farm founded by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. Lucy Clark was the sister of George Rogers Clark a military officer and explorer who played an important part in the early history of Kentucky and Louisville. She is also the sister of William Clark, the famous explorer from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to America’s Pacific Northwest. The farm is notable as the place George Rogers Clark spent his final years, and for being adjacent to the property where Zachery Taylor, America’s 12th president grew up
Uinta Mountains Sunset – Hayden Peak – Butterfly Lake – Utah
Uinta Mountains Sunset – Hayden Peak – Butterfly Lake – Utah
The Uinta Mountains, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, are the highest east-west mountain range in the United States, and the highest mountain range in the state of Utah. The highest peak, Kings Peak is 13,528 ft. Much of the rain from the east and southeast portions of the range flow into the Green River, and ultimately down the Colorado River to Mexico. Whereas water from the west and northwest portions of the range flow into the Provo, Weber and Bear Rivers. All three rivers flow into lakes, including Bear Lake, Utah Lake, and the Great Salt Lake, which is itself the end point for all three rivers, in Utah’s West Desert.
Hayden Peak and Butterfly Lake sit close to Mirror Lake, a popular recreation spot, along the Mirror Lake Highway, which passes northeast through the western Uinta’s and over Bald Mountain Pass from Kamas to the Wyoming border.
The high Uintas were extensively glaciated during the last ice age, and most of the large stream valleys on both the north and south sides of the range held long valley glaciers.