Big colorful potted plant

These huge potted plants are at Desert Ridge Marketplace, a nice outdoor shopping area in Northern Phoenix

my three favorite daily photos for today are:

Sarasota, Florida

Stockholm, Sweden

Miami, Florida

Pretty dump

Such a pretty sign for a town dump

My three favorite daily photos for today:

St. Kilda, Australia

Norwich, UK

Ystad, Sweden

Mountain bridge

This overpass bridge is shaped to duplicate the mountain range that sits in view

My top three favorite daily photos for today are:

Boston, Massachusetts

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

New Orleans, Louisiana

Empty playground

The playgrounds around Chandler are empty these days - it feels like a hot hair dryer is blowing on you
when you step outside! Poor babies would get third degree burns going down those slides!

My three favorite daily photos for today:

Minneapolis, Minnesota

San Diego, California

Oslo, Norway

Sunflowers

I got the most gorgeous flowers at a local Trader Joe's this weekend, and my boys really liked them, too!

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Detroit, Michigan

Wichita, Kansas

Menton, France

After the fire

This profile is of a hill that received fire damage not too long ago outside of Payson; you can see a couple of trees that escaped damage, but other than that it's just sticks for now;

My top three daily photos for today are:

Cologne, Germany

St. Louis, Missouri

Shanghai, China

Orange tree

Little orange tree with the trunk painted white to protect it
from the sun, typical Arizona

My three favorite daily photos for today are:
Bellefonte, PA
Stavanger, Norway
Brookville, Ohio

Joshua Tree

Huge Joshua Tree outside a home in North Phoenix

My three favorite daily photos for today:
Chateaubriant, France
New York City
La Antigua, Guatemale

The frog house

This collection of frogs sits across the street from my kids'
Grandma's house - they look nice and cool inthe shade

My top three favorite daily photos for today:
Norwich, UK
Mainz, Germany
Greenville, South Carolina

A rainy roadtrip

This was taken on the road home from Payson, and it was so
pretty to see the clouds below the desert mountains -
rain here is always welcomed, although they did have some flooding
in Payson

My top three daily photos for today are:
Port Angeles, WA
Sarasota, FL
Tuzla, Bosnia, and Herzegovina

Livin' on the golf course

Grandma's house backs up to a golf course;
on the left side of the fence is the course, on the
right is the people's backyards

My three favorite daily photos for today:
Maple Ridge, Canada
Mumbai, India
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

under the shady tree

It sure is hot, but the kids and I found some shade under this
tree in their Grandma's front yard

Here's my three favorite daily photos for today:
Singapore
Tenerife, Spain
Austin, Texas

My 100th post!

The Macayo's restaurant in Ahwatukee is pretty, with this mural on the outside,
a pretty little patio, and lots of room inside. My favorite dish is the
green corn tamale with baja sauce - Yum!

My three favorite daily photos of the day are:
Port Vila, Vanuatu
Cologne, Germany
Menton, France

More desert scenery

The drive from Phoenix to Payson is actually really pretty, but hard to capture
through the car window - this is some of the prettier desert you pass just outside
of Phoenix

Here are my top three fave daily photos for today:
Toronto, Canada
North Bay, Canada
Hong Kong, China

Fake rocks

It's easy to miss these fake rocks as you drive to Payson from Phoenix, they blend in quite well - but once you know, they become pretty obvious; they're there to keep the real rocks from sliding onto the highway

My top three fave daily photos for today:

Little Rock, AR

Nashville, TN

Athens, Greece

Red Mountain

This is a view as you head out of Phoenix on the way to Payson

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Newcastle, Australia

Tenerife, Spain

Cairo/Giza, Egypt

WTF?

This is the most interesting sign just outside of Payson - what do a cow and an Adult Cabaret have to do with each other?

My top three favorite daily photos for today are:

Boston, Mass

Olympia, WA

Wichita, KS

Tiptoe through the... wildflowers

We took a road trip up north yesterday to get out of the heat, and got caught in a little rain - our dog was having a great time! This shot is near Black Canyon Lake, up near the Rim past Payson.

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Flagstaff, AZ

Calcutta, India

Minneapolis, Minn

Sunset - another view

Same sunset from the picture in yesterday's photo, but looking through our front yard trees instead

My three favorite daily photos today are:

Parker, CO

Trujillo, Peru

Joensuu, Finland

What a sunset!

This was taken standing outside of our house, looking across the stree at the sunset the other night

The Daily Photo website seems to be down today, so I guess I won't pick my top three pics; have a great weekend!

Code benches

I'm sure these benches contain a secret code of some sort, wish I knew what it was!

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Kyle, TX

Melbourne, Australia

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Daily Photo Theme Day - Typical Breakfast

It's the 1st of the month, which means another theme day in the Daily Photo Community - August's theme is typical breakfast, so here it is - toast with peanut butter and jelly, and coffee. The toast isn't an everyday thing, but the coffee absolutely is!

To see breakfasts around the world, visit these other pages that are participating in the theme day:
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