Black Friday
A little Wordle Fun and then off to Hidden in the Hills!
Posts from the ‘Arizona’ Category
Nov 26
Nov 25
Marcus Landslide Turkey
Happy Thanksgiving from the Marcus Landslide Turkey! He and many other wonderful rock faces are scattered around in the area of the Marcus Landslide. As I mentioned in my post yesterday, this area may open officially at this time next year. It’s fairly easy hiking and is especially lush with vegetation there so it’s bound to be popular with Photographers, Birders and Lepidopterists.
Nov 24
Sleeping Giants
The Marcus Landslide area of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve has wonderful rock faces. It’s also one of the most lush areas of the Preserve making it especially appealing to Photographers, Birders and Lepidopterists. Rumor has it that this area could be officially open this time next year. Yea!
Nov 23
Saguaro Frame
This past Sunday, I assisted MSC Steward Dave Lorenz on his “Life of a Saguaro” hike. As we were leaving one of his lecture stops, I spotted a possible framing opportunity in these two giant Saguaro. Having a camera with an articulating screen (Canon SX1) allowed me to hold the camera at arms length and and yet still be able to line up the Saguaro in the distance. I then just waited for the hikers to go by and fired off several frames. Cool!
MSC Steward Dave Lorenz leading hikers on the Saguaro Loop.
Nov 22
Pareidolia
Pareidolia describes the psychological phenomenon of seeing faces in things like rocks and clouds or the Madonna in a slice of toast 🙂
What do you see? (I see an old man talking to his puppy)
Nov 21
Rain, Rain, Come Today!
This fantastic sky welcomed us at the beginning our hike this morning. We did get rain but we were thankful it held off until we were finished. I was ecstatic when it started because our wildflowers depend on rain in Oct, Nov and December so combined with the good soaking we got last month, maybe we’ll have a good show in the Spring!
Nov 20
Fleabane
Fleabane (a member of the Aster family) got its name from a reputation of killing or driving away fleas. That’s good to know but the plant is few and far between so since I haven’t seen a flea in almost 17 years, there must be something else here in Arizona they don’t like! (Blended with a couple of textures.)
Nov 17
Blue Skies
Sunflowers from this past summer with a textured blue sky.
