Northern Utah

A few pictures I took earlier this month in northern Utah

 Bear Lake, looking to the east.

 Chokecherry blossoms.

 Cinquefoil flowers near Tony Grove.

 Echo Cliffs in Weber Canyon.

 Tony Grove lake in early July.

 

 Light band of Tintic Quartzite at Willard Canyon sits above gray Precambrian gneiss, schist, granite and pegmatite.

 Paleozoic outcrops at Temple Fork in Logan Canyon.

 Unconformity in Cretaceous rocks in Weber Canyon between younger conglomerate layers on top (flat) over older gently dipping conglomerates.

 Ricks Spring in Logan Canyon.

Flowers under the aspens near Tony Grove.

From Flam to Vatnahalsen, Norway -- June 2018

Our port stop in Flam gave us the opportunity to get acquainted with this lovely town and to ride the railway up the valley to Valnahalsen. Here are a few of the pictures from the day we spent here.

 Early morning on the fjord as we came into Flam. The water was so smooth and calm in the early morning.

A couple of view of the town of Flam from our Holland America cruise liner.

View of Flam from the ship.

View up the Flam river valley with the waterfall Brekkefossen in the distance.

Flam river with view down valley toward modern port. The village shown has the old Flam church in the center.

Traveling knee to knee on the Flam railway toward Vatnahalsen.

Views of the wildflowers around Vatnahalsen.

Vatnahalsen Railway Station.

Vatnahalsen Hotell where we stopped for waffles before returning to Flam.

 The deck and pool outside the Vatnahalsen Hotell.

Another view from the Vatnahalsen Railway Station.

Footbridge along path I explored near Vatnahalsen.

Outcrops of banded gneiss along path.

The train stopped for a few minutes at Kjosfossen, a spectacular waterfall with a free fall of 305 feet. My camera got spotted with mist in the bottom photo.

Wildflowers, waterfalls and switchbacks along the route back to Flam.

Brekkefossen near Flam on our way back to the harbor.

Views along Sognefjorden as we headed back out and on to Amsterdam. The top photo has a small horn at the head of a U-shaped glacial valley.