RHH's photos with the keyword: monument

This memorial, the Cross of Lorraine, is near the Juno Beach Center, one of the British landing sites on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It marks the place where the Free French troops and General De Gaulle came ashore on D-Day.

These are full-size metal sculptures of horses poised on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River at the place where Interstate Highway 90 crosses the Columbia. The following picture shows the whole group from the car park at the turnoff near the bluff.

Mount St. Helens is off to the left in this picture and the area shown is the area devastated by the collapse of the east side of the mountain and the mud and lava flows. The west end of Spirit Lake is barely visible in this shot, as it is still filled with the floating tree trunks that were blown into the lake by the eruption.

Devil'sTower is a landmark in the northeastern Wyoming that has been a national monument since 1906. It is in the Black Hills area of South Dakota and Wyoming and is an old volcanic intrusion. We visited it last summer on our way across country, but found it very busy due the presence of thousand of bikers in the area for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/10/eastern-wyo...