April 4 and 7, 2019 Part 3: Joshua Tree National Park is in southeastern California and has a diverse landscape. The story is that the Mormons named the tree after a biblical prophet, Joshua with up raised arms. Joshua Trees are part of the Yucca family and grow in elevations from 2000 to 6000 feet.…
March 2015 We had some well timed rains in December and January which have brought out the wild flowers this spring. I especially liked to find masses of Mexican Poppies that cover the hillsides. The best place that this happens is east of Globe at Peridot Mesa on the Apache Indian Reservation (you need a…
October 2014 As you saw from many previous posts we traveled to Greece and Turkey. Now that I have been back almost two months already I have processed the photos of Santorini into a Blurb Book which has captions. I can make a PDF of the book available if anyone is interested. It is 75…
Day 7 – Athens to Corinth Athens, Corinth, Lavrion Friday, October 31, 2014 Today is the first day of our regular tour. We had an early start leaving from our hotel, Davine Palace Acropolis, and headed to Corinth. Paul, the apostle, met Priscilla and Aquilla here and spent about a year and a half building…
July 5 and 6, 2014 We left Phoenix very early in order to arrive in Santa Fe, NM in time to go to the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. The exhibition was Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams: The Hawai’i Pictures. We spent the morning walking on Canyon Road to photograph some of the art galleries. Then we…
June 25, 2014 In an effort to escape the heat of Phoenix we travelled to higher elevations in the Bradshaw mountains in search of the Desoto Mine. It is northwest of Cleator off of the Crown King road. The Desoto mine was opened in 1890-1972 and produced Cu, W, Ag, Au, Pb, Zn, and Fe.…
Ophardt Photos 