Category Archives: Photographs

Carefree, AZ

A charming town.

Carefree and its Spanish Village is some 18 miles north of home and is a charming desert town of 33,000 inhabitants. The only crime here is white collar:



Winston at the Spanish Village.


Ola!


Lovely architecture.


Hopi Indian spiral.


Cloister.


Christmas Eve in Arizona.


The Lincoln Pavilion and the desert garden take up the center of town.


Desert garden waterfall.


All snapped on the iPhone6.

Christo’s garden

Cold nights.

The Yellow Bells and Lantana have to be protected with thermal blankets as overnight temperatures in the high desert of Scottsdale drop below freezing, the result reminiscent of Christo’s wrapped monuments.

His colossal wraps of large structures have a strangely eerie quality and you can read more here.

Panny GX7, Rokinon MFT fisheye lens.

Support our National Parks

But do so conditionally.

I wrote about the need to support our National Parks here.

A recent new request for a donation from the NPS elicited this response from me:

If you believe, as do I, that this is how our National Parks should look, write them along these same lines:



How Yosemite should look.

Suggesting that reading and comprehension skills at the Park System are not the greatest, I got this stock reply:

Well, at least they got one thing right – the Parks are for Americans ….