October 24, 2018 On our four wheel drive trip, we were in search of fall color and water in the creeks due to heavy rains in the past month. Who said the desert is always dry? We traveled up I-17 and got off at the Sedona exit, only we went east instead of to Sedona.…
May 24, 2018 We visited the old stockyards in Fort Worth which are no longer used, but are a tourist attraction with lots of restaurants in the old cattle pens. Twice a day there is a small long horn cattle drive down the street for the benefit of the tourists. Between 1866 and 1890, 4…
May 20, 2018 On our way to Dallas, TX, we stopped at White Sands National Monument and stayed over night in nearby Alamogordo, NM. The white sands are truly a dazzling white in the bright sunshine. The dunes cover 275 miles in the Chihuahuan Desert and the monument preserves about half of them. The dunes…
April 25, 2018 This is a 4 wheel drive trip report in the Castle and Buckhorn Creek drainages. However do not look for any water photos in the creeks, as we have had only a 0.5 inches of rain since last September. The first stop is Castle Hot Springs Resort which is being restored to…
April 20, 2018 On an overnight trip to Yuma, AZ, we visited the Cloud Museum right over the border in Bard, CA. The museum is owned and operated by Johnny Cloud since 1989 and is open only in the winter or by appointment in the summer. Mr. Cloud has cornered the Southwest market on Model…
Please also click on Competitions to see 10 photos per month that were entered in Phoenix Camera Club competitions. March 11-13, 2018 For the third year in a row, a hummingbird mama, probably the same one, built a nest in a hanging cactus near the front door. She laid two eggs (about the half or…
February 22, 2018 Also please check out Competitions on the Blog Site Recently, I set up a small area in the garage where I can set up still life’s and flowers. It is fairly simple to do as all that you need is a black cloth, a mirror, devices to hold the flowers, and a…
