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From last year - a scene from the Painted Desert - it can be as beautiful as other famous southwest areas but is often overlooked!
The desert is part of the "Chinie Formation" and was formed during the Triassac Period. There is a 28 mile drive through it.
Back before COVID we took a vacation to Mane and stayed across the street from the dock in Southwest Harbor. I was fortunate to get this shot just before the sun went down. I processed it in Photoshop using a painting action and two textures.
A view looking north on N. Main St. from E. Washington St. on the southeast corner of Bloomington's Courthouse Square. To the left is the old McLean County Courthouse, now a museum. This site was home to three previous courthouses built in 1831, 1836 and 1868. The Great Fire of 1900 destroyed the 1868 courthouse, along with 45 other buildings in the core of downtown Bloomington to little more than smoking rubble.
The courthouse shown here was designed by William Reeves and John M. Baile of the Peoria firm Reeves and Baile. The Classical Revival style structure was completed in 1903.
The fifth and current McLean County Courthouse, a modern design located 2 blocks south of this location, was completed in 1977. The courts were the first to move to the new building but until 1991, general county offices were still housed in the old courthouse. The McLean County Historical Society relocated its museum here in 1988, and today all 4 floors of the building are occupied by the McLean County Museum of History for exhibits, collections storage, and offices.
The McLean County Courthouse and Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and encompasses the old McLean County Courthouse and the courthouse-facing sides of Washington St. to the south, Center St. to the west, and Jefferson St. to the north. The historic buildings to the east of the old courthouse on the N. Main St. side of the square were destroyed by fire in the 1985. Today a contemporary office building occupies the site.
This view also shows a large section of the north side of the Courthouse Square on W. Jefferson St., along with the west side of N. Main St. all the way to the tower of the Art-Deco styled Holy Trinity Church at N. Main and W. Chestnut streets. Nearly every building in this view is listed by itself or as part of a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
I continually monitored updates for wildflower blooms in the fields above Flagstaff, this summer, but it appeared to be a very small blooming season this year, especially in the higher elevations. Even so, I was determined to find some color to photograph during a late summer sunset, so I visited an area close to Sunset Crater, to look for something of interest. While, not the foreground I envisioned, sunset provided some pretty color and light, which made the trip worthwhile.
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I always love the water shots that show the foreground as clearly as the back ... in my neck of the woods I don't have a lot of opportunities for those types of shots ... so here's a Southwest version!.
Here is a slide show of some of my photos showing them a bit more true in clarity and color if and when you have some moments. Just click on the link and within a couple of seconds the top bar will vanish and the show will start.
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Downy Woodpecker (female).
A sparrow-sized woodpecker at 6 inches in length. Black and white with the males only having a small red patch on the nape of the head. Similar to Hairy Woodpeckers but tamer and smaller and with a short stubby bill.
Its habitat includes woodlands, parks and gardens.
Except for the U.S. southwest they range throughout Canada and the United States.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Two SWP Sd40-2s shove sand loads under rt.43 into the sand facility while NS power sits on the 2nd track
Southwest Airlines N8620H Boeing 737-8H4 'Tennessee One Livery' is pictured taxiing out to the runway at Boston as WN1715 to Denver
A thriving fishing town located along Somes Sound on Mount Desert Island. The mountains of Acadia National Park are visible in the distance.
One for the record books! Seven inches of snow at home. According to the weather reports, it more than doubled the previous local record.
Digital painterly color pencil effect on a digital photo taken of some hanging ceramics at a gift shop.
Monsoonal season is a magical time of year in the Desert Southwest. Already beautiful scenery comes alive as thunderstorms roll over the canyons and mountains. I had the pleasure and rare opportunity to document a haboob generated by nearby thunderstorms get swallowed up by The Grand Canyon during the golden hour. These two combining forces made for an absolutely otherworldly experience and photo opportunities