Picture Canyon is a 478-acre preserve off Route 66 just north of downtown Flagstaff that I’d long heard of, but never visited until recently. The online brochure states Picture Canyon serves as critical riparian habitat, a popular recreation area, and home to significant cultural resources. In 2008, the preserve was added to the National RegisterContinue reading “Picture Canyon Cultural Preserve”
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Beauty in the Desert
Earlier this week, I met up with Janet from This, That, and the Other Thing on her stomping ground near Phoenix. Janet is a photographer with an eye for the unique, often employing wit with her daily posts. After chatting a bit at a coffeehouse, we visited the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch. Janet hasContinue reading “Beauty in the Desert”
Escaping Normal
Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled . . . And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
Put the Talk on Pause and Heal with Wildlife
Listening to incessant politics and bad news from reporters, government officials, and even commercials, causes feelings of impatience and anger to surface in my normally peaceful mindset. So it’s high time, as my grandmother used to say, to put the talk on pause.
Put the Talk on Pause: A Photo Essay
I don’t know about you, but I’m in a definite time warp. I can’t keep up with the date or the day of the week. On the one hand, this year is flying, much like last year. On the other hand, the stifling control of pandemic and its unyielding, pervasive gloom talk of the pastContinue reading “Put the Talk on Pause: A Photo Essay”
Micro of the Macro 