The Adventures Of Windy The Rainbow Pony

Traveling lawn gnomes got nothin' on THIS.

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Devil’s Golf Course. Surreal.

In Death Valley National Park, CA.

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A visit to the lowest point in the lower 48 states, at -282 feet below sea level.

Badwater salt flats, Death Valley National Park.

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Approaching the majestic Red Cathedral of Golden Canyon. 

In Death Valley National Park, California.

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Rainbow Pony wanted to see the “super bloom” in Death Valley. She found a lovely patch of purple notch-leaf phacelia (Phacelia crenulata) while hiking through Golden Canyon but didn’t touch them. She knew that the flowers give you rashes. 

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Rainbow Pony finally takes a trip to Death Valley. It was magical.

At Artists Palette, Death Valley National Park. 

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Mornings at Thousand Island Lake. Banner Peak in the distance.

Ansel Adams Wilderness, CA

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Rainbow Pony visits the historic cliff dwellings of the ancestral Pueblo people. 

At Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. 

(For more information: https://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/peoples_mesa_verde/today_pueblo.asp)

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At dusk I still think of rainbows.

In Colorado.

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Gazing below Mesa Arch. Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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Making new friends in Denver, Colorado.

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Crab salad for dinner. Seattle, WA

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Hanging out around Pike Place. Seattle, WA

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Following the deer trail.

At Ansel Adams Wilderness

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Taking a post-hike selfie with a postcard backdrop.

Glacier National Park, MT

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Just below Banner Peak - enjoying the alpine wind blowing through her hair.

At Ansel Adams Wilderness, CA

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Happiness is a mountain and a meadow full of flowers.

At Blue Lakes -- Mount Sneffles, CO

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Making friends on the grassy mountain

Ansel Adams Wilderness, California