Photos and comments from Arizona and around the world
Sometimes when walking around in the desert forests of Arizona, you get a glimpse of beauty through small flowers poking up through the pine needles under the trees. In the overall view of the vast mountains and hills, these tiny flowers are an almost...
We live a sanitized existence in our modern world. Advertisements with graphics of all kinds carefully avoid showing anything that might offend. All the people are perfect and all the flowers are too. In real life, this is not the case as can be seen...
Every few years, the Little Colorado River floods. When it does, the Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River become a spectacular sight. There are, of course, problems taking pictures. The main one is that the water really is so muddy that it has the...
Some cactus have fanciful names (they must of had good PR agents) and this is one of them. It is called the Star cactus because of its shape. This is the first time I can ever remember seeing one of the flowers. It is extraordinary, like all cactus flowers,...
This is the first in my Serious Spines Series of photographs. Over the next few posts, I will be highlighting cactus with very serious spines. In fact, the spines turn out to be almost the entire cactus. You may have to click on some of these photos to...
I don't take may interior shots. Mostly because I don't usually carry a camera around inside of a building. But this was an exception. This was taken in Boston, Massachusetts. You could probably guess that is would unlikely that such a place as this would...
Tumbleweed or Russian Thistle, is a foreign import. When you see pictures of the Old West, with tumbleweeds blowing, they are definitely fake. Although the date is uncertain, the plant was imported from Russia in about 1870 and spread across the country....
This blog post came into my reader today, 26 November 2012. It is dated 16 November 2012 and is entitled, "Family Tree Service on FamilySearch.org is Coming to All Users." Here is the opening exactly quoted: Within the next few months, FamilySearch will...
I recently wrote a post about Apple Dictate, a voice recognition program that comes with the newer Apple systems. I have been jumping in and out of the voice recognition market for years. For me, it becomes the ultimate solution for getting ideas down...
OK, I realize that this isn't the most dramatic or beautiful photo in my collection. But this is Walking Arizona and part of what we have in Arizona is weird lawns. Some people grow what most people around the country have for lawns in the winter, but...
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Carefree Botanical Gardens, Carefree, Arizona USA in Arizona The Carefree Botanical Garden is a showcase of desert plants located in the town of Carefree, just north of Scottsdale, Arizona. The garden has some extremely rare forms of crested cactus and...
We often form stylized images of the world around us and when we find something that does not conform to our internal image, we conveniently forget it exists. If I asked fifty people to draw a cactus, I would likely get a huge majority of saguaros. It...
Look carefully and you will see what happens to the saguaro fruit. I becomes breakfast for a myriad of birds and insects. Once ripe, the fruit split open and expose the ripe red, juicy core. The fruit has thousands of small, hard, black seeds that the...
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During most of my life, whenever I looked at a cliff, I was always figuring out a way to climb it. I was looking for routes that would provide protection and access to the top. Sometime, as I grew older, I finally stopped looking a cliffs as a challenge...
Main Square, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado in USA The United States Air Force Academy is located on 18,500 acres, just north of Colorado Springs, Colorado in a lovely mountain setting at an altitude of 7,258 feet above sea...
Yep, this is another abstract. You really should click on the photo to see the detail however. I could have spent days painting something like this and by walking around I can find the same thing in nature at a much reduced price. Yes this photo is really...
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When I was studying drawing at the university, they used to project a slide of an object with a projector way out of focus. We were supposed to draw what we saw, which was mostly just light and dark spaces. Then the instructor would progressively sharpen...
As I look around my highly manufactured world, I long for texture. Plastic is nice for some things, but there is a lack of real texture to any of the objects that we use daily. Everything has been designed to prevent injury to the extent that there is...
Most people think beauty needs to be overwhelming to have any significance. Our consumer driven society deals in beautiful people and beautiful surroundings in every production. Everyone appearing in an advertisement is either young or beautiful or both....
Ruins of ancient people hold a fascination of the unknown. Even though archeologists have spent lifetimes trying to unravel the mysteries, they have little more than piles of data and speculation. Who lived here? Why did they choose this spot to build...
Anomalies abound in the desert. It is over 100 degrees. The high temperatures of the summer have been going on for more than four months and suddenly we have delicate purple flowers blooming as if it were Spring. You can never tell what you are going...
Back in 1973, extraordinary rainfall finally filled Roosevelt Lake and the spillway found its use. From time to time this has happened since then, but now the dam has been rebuilt and raised considerably, so this scene may not happen at all frequently....
