Showing posts with label desert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desert. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Just some posts


Just a shot from taken during a road trip, I think right around Saguaro Lake - I like the purple mountain in the background with the green grass;

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Arradon, France

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Rijeka, Croatia

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Barbed wire fence


Picture taken at the reststop between Phoenix and Casa Grande

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Cape Town, South Africa

Forks, Washington

Paris, France

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Desert View


Taken from one of the overlooks at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Wailea, Hawaii

Yakima, Washington

Oeiras, Portugal

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Vista view


The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum sits above a valley, and you get beautiful views of the desert below;

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Selma, North Carolina

Ararat, Australia

Verona, Italy

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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Which way should we go?


Yesterday, we went to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum down by Tucson - it was a beautiful day, and it's a really beautiful outdoors museum, with great animal exhibits; I'll post some of my shots over the next week

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Chicago, Illinois

Riga, Latvia

Ashton Under Lyne, UK

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Thursday, December 4, 2008

Moody sky


Here's another shot from our hike through the desert the day after Thanksgiving; I liked the outlines of the saguaros

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Belgrade, Serbia

East Gwillimbury, Canada

Portland, Oregon

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

After the rain

It rained over Thanksgiving (which sounds awful to most people, but to us desert-dwellers, it was great!), so the day after Thanksgiving we decided to get out and enjoy the day - I love the smell of the desert after it rains! Here's a shot I took during our hike, with the Superstition mountains in the background

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Superstitions


Just a shot from a visit during better weather to the Superstition Mountains, on the east side of the Valley -

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Port Angeles, Washington

Menton, France

Ystad, Sweden

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Crazy cactus

Found this guy when we were tromping around the desert, looking for geocaches I think, or maybe just a stop so the dog could do his thing; there was a cactus wren being pretty noisy with his nest in one of those little holes. but I couldn't find him to get a close up shot.

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Avignon, France

Saarbrucken, Germany

Ystad, Sweden

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Friday, May 2, 2008

A boy and his dog and a country road


This was taken a couple of months ago as we were exploring the desert, out by the Superstition Mountains which you see in the background

My three favorite daily photos for today are:


Washington, DC

Anderson, South Carolina

Concordia Sagittaria, Italy
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Camo dog


We were out hiking in the desert near the town of Superior, when our dog climbed up some rocks and stood there like a proud lion; can you see him? He blends in perfectly

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Crystal Lake, Illinois

Bucaramanga, Columbia

Riga, Latvia

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

One more grave

Here's the last from my pics from the old graveyard we found in the desert; this is an interesting cross to mark the grave, but it didn't tell who it was for; the anonymous cowboy, I guess

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Sofia, Bulgaria

Richmond upon Thames, UK

West Paris, Maine

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Monday, March 17, 2008

Unmarked grave

Another grave from our visit to the deserted cemetary, this one with just a simple cross.

My favorite daily photos for today are:

Cracow, Poland

Ocean Township, New Jersey

Nelson, New Zealand

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Sunday, March 16, 2008

Manuelita Guzman grave


Another grave at the abandoned graveyard we found; most of the graves were simple crosses and rocks to mark where the original grave was, but somebody put some time into preserving this one; I don't know the story behind it, but it is for one Manuelita Guzman, born 1844, died in June, 1916

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Stouffville, Canada

Paris, France

Seattle, Washington

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Mattie Earp grave


Out in the desert by Superior, there is an old abandoned (but still tended to, somewhat) graveyard; this is the final resting spot of Mattie Earp (Celia Ann Blaylock), the second wife (commonlaw, they never actually married) of infamous Wyatt Earp, who is best know for his participation in the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Belgrade, Serbia

Wailea, Hawaii

Tacloban City, Philippines

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Rock fence

Here's another part of the corral from yesterday's photo - a rock fence sets the boundaries for most of the corral, must have been a ton of work, but makes a pretty picture

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Ashton under Lyne, UK

Portland, Maine

St. Louis, Missouri

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Corral

This old corral is off the beaten path, out near Superior - I'm not sure if it's used anymore or not, but there was a lot of tasty grass so I'm thinking not for awhile

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Paris, France

Niamey, Niger

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Out in the desert


We were tromping around the desert again today, this time out by Globe, looking for geocaches - took this shot through some cactus with the Superstition Mountains in the distance

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Delta, Colorado

Torino, Italy

Auckland, New Zealand

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Thursday, March 6, 2008

One-eyed saguaro


This is one of the weirdest saguaros - see his eye watching us? This is on the road to Canyon Lake

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Shanghai, China

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

Brookville, Ohio

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Waiting for our turn


More on our drive this weekend, this is waiting for our turn to cross the one-lane bridge across Canyon Lake

My three favorite daily photos for today are:

Ku-ring-gai, Australia

Prague, Czech Republic

New York City, New York

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