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I am going through archives and found this unprocessed image of monsoon storms at Toroweap overlook.

Cacti have some of the most beautiful flowers you will ever see in the field. I hope you have some beauties to share. Here is some good advice from a cactus. Cholla Cactus. Hedgehog Cactus Yellow Prickly Pear Barrel Cactus amongst Phacelia and Brittlebush.

Flowers undeniably play an important part in our lives. Think of weddings, funerals, relationships, and the uplifting sight that a field of beautiful flowers provides for us. Every state has a "state flower." It is with this thought in mind that I have decided to highlight the state flower of...

My rework for today is of the classic scene at Red Rock Canyon State Park. I darkened the sky a bit, changed the crop to make a better composition. and reduced the gamma exposure to 93.

Emily Dickinson loved botany and so many of her poems were about flowers. One of her most famous poems was about the Fringed Gentian, a hauntingly beautiful blue/purplish blue flower that blooms late in the fall in prairies. God made a little Gentian — It tried — to be a Rose — And failed —...

Each Sunday I am going to start a thread on flowers. I'll start off each thread with a poem or statement about flowers from famous people, who like me, have also been fascinated with flowers. The quote for this week is from Georgia O'Keefe: "Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We...

Sorry for being a little late on this one. I have been running around getting ready for our trip to CA for Christmas. This one is to post a "Roadkill' image." A "roadkill" is an image that you can shoot from the side of the road. No walking, no backpack no nothing. Mine are from New England...

It is with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that my good friend Tom Narwid passed away early last Friday morning. Tom was the consummate New England and American Southwest landscape photographer. His name was well known in New England because of his outstanding images which appeared in...

This task is to show any hallmark of composition in your image. This image in Valley of Fire State Park shows repetition of the rock color shapes and the shape and color of the clouds.

Today's task is to share one of your favorite images from a national park and tell us why you like it. Mine is from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. It was my best seller when I was in Tom Narwid's Landscape Gallery in Jerome. What I like most about this image is the beautiful sunrise...

I am wishing everyone here a wonderful Thanksgiving. This is an aerial view at sunset over Cathedral Rocks in Sedona, AZ

I have been playing around with some old images because we had a relatively bad fall this season. No really good color. Here is one from a couple of years ago that has the classic pink of the Big Tooth Maples in Oak Creek Canyon.

Anything from somewhere other than the contiguous US. So Hawaii and and Alaska are in play. Signs showing distances from Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia, CN Wood Islands Lighthouses on Prince Edward Island. Chugach Range, AK The Village where Puff the Magic Dragon lives.

This week's task is wetlands. That includes wetlands in National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges,, local wetlands, or any other kind of wetland. Sorry I am late for this activity. I had to go up to Flagstaff this morning and just got back This is Dead Horse Ranch State Park, AZ. This is...

Today's task is to post images of colorful rocks. Mine are from Valley of Fire State Park in NV.

Lichens are ubiquitous in the environment. Their colors often provide significant impact in an image, whether it be a close-up or a landscape. Show us your favorite lichen image. Lichen on a boulder covered with Big Tooth Maple leaves in Coconino National Forest near Cave Springs, AZ...

Eric is traveling and asked me to get this thread going this morning in his absence. I decided to feature very colorful birds. Painted Bunting at Okeeheele Nature Preserve in Florida. Wood Duck at Lolo Mai Springs, AZ Western Bluebirds at a stock pond near Sedona, AZ

I have been absent for the past couple of weeks because of traveling and I whiffed on yesterday because I had too much to catch up on after getting home. So this week's task is fences. Let's see some really neat fences. This fence is in KS and is made out of limestone. This is the Steve...

Virginia Creeper is a very aggressive vine that typically winds itself around trees. In the fall it turns a brilliant red color. Here, the vine has completely covered an old silo from top to bottom.

There always seems to be confusion between these two trees. Red Maples typically have red leaves while Sugar Maples have a much greater range of colors. The tell tale clues are in the leaves themselves. Red Maple leaves always have red stems and the edges of the leaves are serrated. Sugar...