Be like the turtle

Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell. ~ Bill Copeland 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant I’m like an old turtle these days. I don’t run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I’ll be where…

Birthday walk in the park

Last Wednesday was my birthday. I decided to take the day off and spend the morning at our Desert Museum. Although I didn’t find many animal photo opps, it was a beautiful morning, a comfortable temperature, and I got some great nature photos. Happy Day 😊 In all things of nature there is something of…

Phainopepla in color gray

A recent walk on a cloudy morning. A little cropping and some editing. If you look closely, you can see a touch of red in his eye, in the bottom photo. The top one done in black and white. 🖤🖤🖤 For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that…

Travel Destination: Canyonlands National Park-The Needles

The next step in our Utah National Parks adventure last May was to visit The Needles, a section of Canyonlands. Canyonlands is divided into three parts by the Green and Colorado rivers. The most visited part, Islands in the Sky, we visited the following day. The Maze, a much more remote area, we did not…

A summer of butterflies 🦋

The weather outside is cool. The sun is beautiful, but the desert is dry and void of summer colors. Photos are a great way to go back in time and relive the beauty. It is a reminder that spring is soon to come. It brings hope of flower blossoms and summer butterflies. If you want…