Knott’s Boysenberry Festival

(Updated April 4, 2019) You know it is springtime when the annual Boysenberry Festival begins at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. This festival runs from March 29 through April 28 in 2019 and is bigger than ever this year. Food – Entertainment – Activities – Shopping…there is something for everyone. It’s a “berry” […]

Exploring Sedona – Crescent Moon Picnic Area

Celebrating 9 Years of My Blog in the Great Outdoors May 10, 2024 – Today marks 9 years since I started LadyBugBlog.com that is now known as “Krista’s LadyBug Adventures”. It’s been too long since I’ve shared a new post, yet I wanted to share a hidden gem near Sedona, Arizona that we explored today. […]

Behind the Scenes – Krista’s LadyBug Adventures

Celebrating 8 Years of Exploring, Imagining, and Creating When I decided to start a blog, I wanted to publish the inaugural post on May 10, 2015, since it was a cool pattern – 5/10/15. Since then, I’ve enjoyed researching, photographing, and writing every post and sharing them with you. This blog is a creative outlet […]

San Francisco Peaks – Various Perspectives

Cover image for blog post titled San Francisco Peaks - Various Perspectives. Northern Arizona Photo Essay for Krista's LadyBug Adventures (www.ladybugblog.com)

Northern Arizona Photo Essay Towering over Flagstaff and visible from many vantage points in northern Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks are the remains of a lone, extinct stratovolcano with a collapsed caldera surrounded by six summits. The volcano was active 1.4 million and 400,000 years ago and the original volcanic peak may have once reached […]

Grand Canyon Railway & Hotel

Image of train engine from Grand Canyon Railway

Exploring Arizona Attractions Before there was a national park, there was a train that went to the Grand Canyon. For over a century, majestic locomotives and train cars have carried passengers from Williams, Arizona to the south rim of the Grand Canyon sixty miles away. Today, the Grand Canyon Railway and Hotel keeps this tradition […]