Sagauro National Park. Drive carefully. Weekly Photo Challenge
Category: Travel
Weekly Photo Challenge: Out of This World
With my Northeastern US sensibilities, passionflowers always seem otherworldly to me, like something out of a Dr Seuss book. I never get tired of their out of this world, exotic beauty. These are from the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, AZ. Weekly Photo Challenge
Weekly Photo Challenge: Tour Guide
I live in a tourist destination, Albuquerque, NM, home of the International Balloon Fiesta, among other things. I thought I'd show you a few of the less well known things I love about Albuquerque for the Tour Guide photo challenge. The photo above is a view from my front yard of a double rainbow over …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Beloved
These are the feet of my beloved travel companions, my husband and daughter (mine snuck in there too). The photo was taken on a beach on the Gulf Coast of Florida near Tampa, whose name I can never remember. We've travelled all over the US together, and hope to finish seeing all 50 …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Variations on a Theme
The hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah. There was a storm rolling in on the day we visited, so you can see the thick clouds and deep shadows in the distance in some of the photos. Hoodoos are pillars of rock created by erosion. There are hoodoos all over the world, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence
Shiprock, or Tsé Bitʼaʼí, "rock with wings" in Navajo, stands alone in the northwestern New Mexico desert. It is within the Navajo Nation, and is sacred to their people, playing a part in many Navajo legends. Shiprock is a volcanic formation, made of rocks that solidified underground in the throat of a volcano about 27 million …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Weathered
These are photos of an old shipwreck that's been weathered by the sea off the coast of Aruba. I photographed it when we went for a ride in a tourist submarine in December, 2011. Weekly Photo Challenge
A Christmas Carol in Denver 2017: Review
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens * Adapted by Richard Hellesen * Music by David de Berry * Directed by Melissa Rain Anderson * DCPA Theatre Company at the Stage Theatre, 12/20/17 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843. It quickly became such a success that the novella hasn't been out of print since. …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend
These are dinosaur tracks on a steep hillside in the uplifted rock layers at Dinosaur Ridge, outside of Denver, CO. Runner up: Slightly different view of the same tracks. This photo isn't as clean as the first, but I like the addition of man-made elements, which give the sense of the tracks ascending through …
Day Trip to White Sands National Monument
Over this past Thanksgiving weekend, Mr Metawitches and I took a day trip from Albuquerque down to the White Sands National Monument. The monument is adjacent to Alamogordo, NM and White Sands Missile Range, which will be familiar to history buffs as the location of the Trinity Site, where the first atomic blast in history …
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