Taos, New Mexico

Tohono Chul Park – Tucson, AZ

tohonochulpark.org

Winter Trees in Ottawa

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HBM!

This is my Chicago friends, Mikey and Nancy at the automotive museum. The truck is from the TV sitcom Sanford and Son. I'm sure some of you remember that one..:)

The night photos didn't come out as good as I would have liked. I forgot my glasses and tried to make some changes and some how changed it from Raw to Jpeg. So, I'll have to plan on doing that again.

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A restore Section of The Old Mission San Juan Capistrano, famous for the yearly return of The Swallows. The Plant behind the Bee Sign is Lords Candle a popular flower spike with The Bees

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Downtown – Santa Fe, NM

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Dedicated to Robbi for her Birthday!

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Echinacia from my garden.

105 mm micro

Castelsardo

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Tucson Botanical Gardens – Tucson, AZ

tucsonbotanical.org

Up against the wall...

Old Town – Albuquerque, NM

El Puesto. Catamarca. Argentina

Bien que construite en 1904, ce n'est qu'en 1910 que la chapelle fût agrandie pour donner le résultat ci-haut. Le Frère André y avait sa modeste chambre à l'étage

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Night sky and sunset clouds setting the evening mood.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Catamarca

Central Spain

Created in MidJourney and edited in Radiant Photo.

Big Bend National Park

Texture ~ Walnut Ink by Kim Klassen

Texture ~ Ruffled Up 9 by Skeletal Mess (Shadowhouse Creations)

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We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Bernalillo, New Mexico for a few nights in late April. The first evening we ate on one of their patios, next to this delightful fireplace. It was chilly and the fire was appreciated!

A touch of warm light brightens the pleasing rounded, abstract forms in the Adobe badlands near Delta, Colorado.

Finding ourselves with a free morning in Montrose--unfortunately just before fall color erupted in the San Juans--Josh and Sky and I decided to check out the badlands so visible outside of town around Montrose and Delta. Some quick looking on google earth led us up a dirt road in the pre-dawn dark until we found something of a parking area. We took a trail down from the bluff and headed west over the the undulating landscape, wondering what the view would be once dawn approached and we could see beyond the range of our headlamps. Soon the brightening twilight revealed badland terrain more vast than we expected, and we scampered up to the highest nearby ridge to best take in the morning light and shadow that elevates the badlands so.

It was an impromptu outing, and our photographic efforts in that unfamiliar place were pretty random. But the winds were calm and, unusually for that hour, we were suddenly inspired to turn on some music while we welcomed the new day among those badland formations of not-quite-dirt and not-quite-stone. It turned out to be a great morning.

Thanks for viewing.

Sunset on the Oregon Coast, near Yachats.

A new office building, down by Carlise and I-25.

I love this place....it's so SEXY!!!