BillsPics' photos

Forgotten piano now on display at Vulture City ghost town in Arizona.

Part of the lab at the Vulture City assay office. The mines around Vulture City contributed to the biggest gold rush in the Arizona territory....

Along the trail to the top of Arizona's Pinnacle Peak.a popular amateur climbing mountain north of Phoenix...

A part of Arizona's National Memorial Cemetery near Phoenix. It is the state's largest Cemetery for veterans of all wars...

One of the premier amateur climbs in the Phoenix area...

One of the rusty survivors from the better times at Vulture City. Gold was discovered in 1863,the town boomed in the 1880's with over 5000 people living in the isolated area. The gold from the area helped fuel the growth of Phoenix...

Vulture City boomed in the late 1870's. with the discovery of gold. By the 1890's,it was on the decline but was worked until World War Two. The isolated town, which once had a population of nearly 5000,was then abandoned. In recent years, much of the remaining structures have been stabilized and lovingly restored and the old mine is being worked again.... Vulture City is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

A idyllic scene at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Scottsdale, AZ.

A great barn on an abandoned northern Illinois farm....

Another early winter sunset from one of our fields...

Another sunrise in Northern Illinois...

Early morning in a field in Northern Illinois....

Winter in the Shawnee Forest in Southern Illinois in black and white.The snow was added in post processing however....

This old Iowa one room schoolhouse hasn't seen a student in over 60 years. As the cold and snow sets in,the foreboding atmosphere adds to its desolation....

Old Wisconsin dairy barn in severe decay. Wisconsin is still one of the United States leading dairy states, but the number of small dairy farms has contracted greatly in the last 25 years....

A great Christmas night display along the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Dells...

Sunrise in the beautiful Wisconsin countryside...

The coolness of fall always brings the most vivid colors in our evening skies...