“And once Frederick seemed half asleep
‘Are you dreaming, Frederick?’
They asked reproachfully.
But Frederick said, ‘Oh no,
I am gathering words.
For the winter days are
Long and many
And we’ll run out of things to say.’ “-
From Frederick
Winter Sunrise 2019
Winter Sunrise 2019
Winter Sunrise 2019
Peccaries- Winter 2019
Dawn- Late WInter Vere Valley Arizona 2019
Winter 2019 Northern Arizona
Winter 2019- JoHanna Massey
Winter 2019 Mingus Mountains Northern Arizona USA
Winter 2019 Mingus Mountains Northern Arizona USA
Mingus Mountains Northern Arizona USA Winter 2019
Sedona – Northern Arizona USA Winter 2019
Full Snow Supermoon through Kitchen window prism- Winter 2019- JoHanna Massey
Full Snow Supermoon Through Kitchen Window Prisms- Winter 2019- JoHanna Massey
Gray Sky Days- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona USA- JoHanna Massey
Gray Sky Days- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona USA- JoHanna Massey
Gray Sky Days- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona USA- JoHanna Massey
Mingus Mountains Arizona USA – Winter 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mingus Mountains Arizona USA – Winter 2019- JoHanna Massey
Spring is Coming- March 2019
Spring is Coming- March 2019
Spring is Coming- March 2019
Windowsill seedlings, sure sign of Spring!
Such a novelty to have snow linger past sunrise, through lunch, and onto dusk. Stayed on through the next day and after, while we stayed inside. New snow would then arrive, while we stayed inside. And now it is March, the snow mostly melted, A memory to share with you. While we happily get back outside.
Peace and Blessings to each and every one of you for this month of March 2019. Thank you for showing up and supporting JoHannaMassey.com
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all.
Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild
So you let them go,
Or when you open the cage to feed them
They somehow fly out past you
And the part of you that knows it was wrong
To imprison them in the first place rejoices,
But still, the place where you live
Is that much more drab
And empty for their departure.” Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption:
A Story from Different Seasons-Steven KIng
House Finch ((Carpodacus mexicanus): Verde Valley Arizona Winter 2019 JoHanna Massey
House Finch(Carpodacus mexicanus): Verde Valley Arizona Winter 2019 JoHanna Massey
House Finch(Carpodacus mexicanus): Verde Valley Arizona Winter 2019 JoHanna Massey
Penduline Tits- Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) – Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
Penduline Tits- Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) – Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
Penduline Tits- Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) – Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
Penduline Tits- Verdin (Auriparus flaviceps) – Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)- WInter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)- WInter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
Red Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)- WInter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona JoHanna Massey
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona – JoHanna Massey
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona – JoHanna Massey
American Robin (Turdus migratorius)- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona – JoHanna Massey
Red-tailed Hawk (buteo Jamaicensis)- Verde Valley Arizona USA – Johanna Massey
Red-tailed Hawk (buteo Jamaicensis)- Verde Valley Arizona USA – JoHanna Massey
Red-tailed Hawk (buteo Jamaicensis)- Verde Valley Arizona USA – JoHanna Massey
Red-tailed Hawk (buteo Jamaicensis)- Verde Valley Arizona USA – JoHanna
Red-tailed Hawk (buteo Jamaicensis)- Verde Valley Arizona USA – JoHanna
Kill Deer (charadrius vociferus)- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona USA- JoHanna Massey
Kill Deer (charadrius vociferus)- Winter 2019- Verde Valley Arizona USA- JoHanna Massey
Canada Geese (Branta Canadensis)- Winter 2019- JoHanna Massey
Canada Geese (Branta Canadensis)- Winter 2019- JoHanna
Canada Geese (Branta Canadensis)- Winter 2019- JoHanna
Mallards (Anas Platyrhynchos)- Verde Valley Arizona – JoHanna Massey – WInter 2019
Baldplate or American Widgeon- Verde Valley Arizona – JoHanna Massey -Winter 2019
Pleased to share with you some of the birds I have captured with the camera lens in these past few weeks. May peace, love, freedom, be Yours this month of February. Thank you for stopping by for a visit. Your support of my website is valued and appreciated.
After you have exhausted what there is
In business, politics, conviviality, and so on
Have found that none of these finally satisfy,
Or permanently wear
What remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman- Song of Myself
Sedona Arizona -2019- JoHanna Massey
Sedona Arizona -2019- JoHanna Massey
Early Morning- JoHanna Massey
Photo: JoHanna Massey
Photo: Sedona Arizona 2019
Photo: JoHanna Massey 2019
“She guards the Canyon, blesses the visitors and reassures those familiar, knows all that has happened and will knows what will come.”- Sedona Arizona January 2019
Deadman’s Pass in Boynton Canyon, Sedona Arizona is quiet in the morning. A walk-a-bout more than a hike, a connecting path between Boynton Canyon and Long Canyon. Good to be out in the clean clear air while frost is on the thick stands of manzanita and the deer and birds show themselves.
Photo: JoHanna Massey January 2019
Hot Loop Trail- Village of Oak Creek Sedona Arizona Photo: JoHanna Massey
Photo: JoHanna Massey January 2019
Hot Loop Trail- Village of Oak Creek Sedona Arizona Photo: JoHanna Massey
Hot Loop Trail, located off Jacks Canyon Road in the Village of Oak Creek,Sedona Arizona is a favorite. Sharing A Hike On Hot Loop While Old provides an appreciation, such gratitude on still having the strength, agility, and wits about me to make the thousand foot climb upward to views that are stand up straight shoulder squaring. No other hikers but us the entire trek, which is excellent, considering the heavy density of use on so many of Sedona’s trails. The peace, quiet, and bird song, as well as that physical workout deeply energize. An ace choice of hiking trails for the New Year of 2019.
Carroll Canyon, Old Post, and the Ridge Trails are very much ‘in town’, neighborhood trails. Quick access to outdoors whether on a lunch break from employment at a close by coffee shop, a break for a take away slice or tamale picnic in a day of errands, or out for establishing that exercise every morning routine. There is activity here. Noise from the sky from the tourist helicopter tours taking off and landing from nearby Sedona Airport, mountain bike enthusiasts enjoy these trails for their proximity to bike rentals, but then there will be a stretch of quiet time, red rock beauties, solitude, and flowers blooming in winter, or a red tailed hawk swooping deep through Carroll Canyon to surprise and delight and elude the camera lens.
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
Mescal Trail Sedona Arizona January 2019- JoHanna Massey
The holidays over, the family and friends returned home or traveled on, decorations packed away and fond memories held onto. To Mescal Trail one of the most beautiful areas in Sedona, and one we enjoy in the winter. There was an observation made over the holidays that my website often made it seem as though we were the only ones out hiking in Sedona and that their recent traffic jammed up tight experiences between the Village of Oak Creek and Sedona said otherwise. It was an accurate observation.
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The slideshow above is a sample of what ‘peopling’ a Sedona Arizona photo essay looks look like. A visual ‘loved to death’ scenario unfolding all around Mescal Trail and much of the area this week as thousands of tourists finish off 2018 in Sedona Arizona. Clearly we are not the only ones who have chosen to welcome the New Year with being out in nature.
My personal New Years Resolution is to spend as many days as possible outside in nature. These three beautiful hiking trails and a walk about recently have reinforced to me that I have made a most excellent choice, a totally enjoyable commitment for 2019.
Thank you for visiting. All my best to each and every one of you for this New Year of 2019.
One of the joys of JoHannaMassey.com is the variety of people from around our planet; whose lives, interests, and perspectives are so varied, so interesting, often challenging, and so vividly expressed and shared on WordPress. Enthusiasm to honor our holidays is shared worldwide. Those times to pause from the work-a-day pursuits, differences, challenges, and responsibilities. The holiday season has the potential, and so very often brings out the best, most generous, appreciative, creative, and good parts of being human. Snow on the San Francisco Peaks in the photo pictured above arrived here in Arizona right on time to boost that holiday spirit.
2018 has been quite an unsettled year for our shared planet earth. However humble or lavish, reverent or light-hearted the honoring of December holidays will be this year, their enriching value in our lives never changes.
A sample of celebrations for this month:
Kwanzaa- December 26-January 1- celebrating the history, heritage, and culture of the African American and African Diaspora (the dispersion of people from their homeland).
Chanukah December 2-December 10- The Festival of the Lights. In Judaism, the re-dedicating of the Holy Temple following Israel’s defeat of the Greek Army. With only enough oil to light lamps for one day, the lamps stay lit for eight symbolizing the Goodness of God.
Pancha Ganapati– December 21-December25 Hindus worship Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed Lord of culture/new beginnings. A time to mend miss steps and bring Lord Ganesha’s blessing of joy and harmony to family, friends, associates, culture and religion.
Soyal – December 21 Hopi and Zuni Tribal members honor the winter solstice, Soyal honors the beginning of the return of the light and a New Year around the seasonal Wheel of our Lives.
Shabe-Yalda- December 21- Iranian Interfaith celebration of the rebirth of the sun on winter solstice.
Thank you to each and everyone of you this holiday season. Heartfelt gratitude and joy for all of your kindness in support of JoHannaMassey.com. during 2018. All my best to you and yours.
It’s heartbreaking
That so many hundreds of millions
Of people around the world
Are desperate for the right to vote,
But here in America
People stay home on election day.
Moby
Sound of Flight- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
Sound of Flight- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
This joy of photographing Flagstaff Arizona Murals and sharing them with you appears to be unfolding as an occasional series. Traveled up Oak Creek Canyon where the creek-side trees are just catching the eye to signal the Foliage change has begun, but still leaning towards green. Everything is fresh and clean from recent rains, and the fire risk has lowered. There are apples for sale at Slide Rock and Indian Gardens, and the best cider ever.
The Sound of Flight, this month’s photo essay is located on the east wall of the Orpheum Theater above Aspen Street, in Flagstaff Arizona. It is expansive, a great big bursting with color and detail, two stories flowing into one beauty of a painting. Claimed to be the largest mural in the state of Arizona. A two full years to plan, finance, and create by Sky Black and the Mural Mice, R.E. Wall and Margaret Dewar. So much talented creativity joined and expressed through 150 gallons of high end acrylic paint, millions of brush strokes, on a four thousand five hundred foot space. Yes, that is individual brush strokes.
“Sound of Flight”- Sky Black, R.E. Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural Mice- Flagstaff Arizona- Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight”- Sky Black, R.E. Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural Mice- Flagstaff Arizona- Autumn 2018
The opening portion of the mural completed in 2014, shows a large grand piano , it’s top thrown open and many species of birds surging out from the inside, then on into full flight across the wall. The choice of beginning with a grand piano on the Orpheum Theaters exterior acknowledges it as a place of performance and the arts.
Sound of Flight- Sky Black and Mural Mice- Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight”- Sky Black, R.E. Wall, Margaret Dever- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight”- Sky Black, R.E. Wall, Margaret Dever- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight”- Sky Black, R.E. Wall, Margaret Dever- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight”- Sky Black, R.E. Wall, Margaret Dever- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
The birds flow out of the piano as would musical notes, and as I stood at a distance gazing, I could see their movement and flight. Up close every perfectly proportion detail adding to the flock. A symphony of birds.
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
In 2015 a second portion was added, again with the continued generous support of the Flagstaff Community in support of public art for everyone. There is Michelangelo’s “David” accompanied by the Lady In Red Muse as well as many small details that are personally significant to someone in the Flagstaff community whether as a sponsored ‘in memory of’ bird or actually painted by a community member.
Sound of Flight- Flagstaff Arizona Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Sky Black, R>E> Wall, Margaret Dewer, Mural MIce- Flagstaff Arizona USA – Autumn 2018
“The Thinker” leads the eye on a journey into the Canyon Lands on the southern edge. The gray wolf featured is Echo, found in the Grand Canyon, part of the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project.
“Sound of Flight” Flagstaff Arizona, USA- Sky Black, R. E. Wall, Margaret Dewer-Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Flagstaff Arizona, USA- Sky Black, R. E. Wall, Margaret Dewer-Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Flagstaff Arizona, USA- Sky Black, R. E. Wall, Margaret Dewer-Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Flagstaff Arizona, USA- Sky Black, R. E. Wall, Margaret Dewer-Autumn 2018
“Sound of Flight” Flagstaff Arizona, USA- Sky Black, R. E. Wall, Margaret Dewer-Autumn 2018
There is humor, irony and mischief within the landscapes, and I will leave it to you to find them or create new ones for yourself. There are some images that for me are just plain whimsical and wonderful.
“Sound of Flight” Flagstaff Arizona, USA- Sky Black, R. E. Wall, Margaret Dewer-Autumn 2018
If you are traveling towards or through Flagstaff Arizona, or if you are living close enough by and have never taken the opportunity to view “Sounds of Flight” it is definitely worth a walk about to see this stunning piece of artwork. Two other murals in Flagstaff I have written about:The Mother Road: Route 66, Nothing Is Inevitable Here,
Thank you to the Artists, The Flagstaff Arts Council the Flagstaff Business Community, as well as everyone who helped make this beautiful mural available to the public, to be enjoyed by everyone.
A safe, peaceful, prosperous, and creative month of November to each and everyone of you. Your showing up and support of my website JoHannaMassey.com is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
“It was impossible to tame, like leeches.”
― Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be At This Hour?
Montezuma Well Arizona USA- Autumn 2018- Photo: JoHanna Massey.
Montezuma Well National Monument is full of leeches. Leeches are aquatic or terrestrial annelid worms with suckers at both ends. Many species are bloodsucking parasites or predators. Thousands of them writhe deep in the carbon dioxide heavy water of Montezuma Well.
Scorpions, Snails, Amphipods and Diatoms thrive here too; safe in sunlit water, just below the surface. The Diatoms are one celled plants feeding on that Light. The Amphipods, the evolutionary link between producers and predators, feed on the Diatoms. The food and safety of the light fails both at dusk. The Leeches rise to the surface of the water together, embrace the blackness of night, and gorge on the Amphipods. At dawn the leeches return to the dark depths. This predator and prey circle of life and death repeats in rhythm with planet Earth’s spinning, tilting, and rotation.
Montezuma Well USA- Fall 2018
Montezuma Well USA- Fall 2018
Photo: JoHanna Massey
Fish do not, can not live in the waters of Montezuma Well. I would not drink or swim in the water of Montezuma Well.
There are vents down sixty five feet on the bottom of the well spewing 5.7 million liters (1.6 million gallons) of water into Montezuma Well each day, the perimeter of the openings a mislead of swirling sand. The dissolved levels of carbon dioxide in the water are eighty times too much. Then there is the high level of arsenic. The temperature a steady 23 degrees centigrade (74 Degrees Fahrenheit) year round, with the water a deep dark green color.
Though people have inhabited and explored this area for over one thousand years, it was not until 2011 that the source of the water was identified:
Montezuma Well- Autumn 2018- Verde Valley AZ Photo_ JoHanna Massey-
Montezuma Well- Autumn 2018- Verde Valley AZ Photo_ JoHanna Massey-
Montezuma Well- Autumn 2018- Verde Valley AZ Photo_ JoHanna Massey-
North of this harsh high desert that surrounds Montezuma Well is the Mogollom Rim, the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau. More than ten thousand years ago it rained and snowed up on the Rim. The now earth bound water seeped into every porous place of least resistance. Through passing time, miles of distance, and several hundred yards of rock the rainwater and snow-melt journeyed, picking up microscopic minerals along the way, leaving others behind. It hit a wall of volcanic basalt at this location, creating a natural dam that forced the water back up towards the surface. The roof of a large underground cave now filled with water eroded. When the cave roof collapsed, the sinkhole called Montezuma Well was formed.
Montezuma Well Autumn Arizona USA- 2018- Photo: JoHanna Massey
Montezuma Well Autumn Arizona USA- 2018- Photo: JoHanna Massey
Montezuma Well Autumn Arizona USA- 2018- Photo: JoHanna Massey
Water leaves Montezuma Well through entering a long crack in the bowl of the Well rock forming a narrow cave where the water flows through over 150 feet of filtering limestone before re-emerging from the outlet into an irrigation ditch on the other side. Sections of this ditch date back over 1,000 year. The water and ditches continue to be used today in nearby Rimrock. To me that is simply amazing.
Montezuma Well- Arizona USA- Autumn 2018- JoHanna Massey
Despite the leeches, scorpions, arsenic laden toxic water, original and creepy bugs and plants, and poison ivy, Montezuma Well is most often described as an Oasis . It is a lushly green, deeply shaded, and devoid of human sound and hurry. The surrounding area all harsh high desert.
For many years Montezuma Well has held my attention. As part of the history of the area, the geology and ongoing science studies. Then there is feeling of sanctuary and quiet of the place. I’ve been told the cosmic veil is thin here; reality could slide into another version and time and take me along. So far visiting the Well has remained a familiar place for a time out with the Cicadas in full song, with the sound and light play of crystal clear water flowing out the Swillet, and sunlight dancing off the Beaver Creek flowing right there singing the backup harmonies.
Montezuma Well- Autumn 2018-
Montezuma Well- Rimrock Arizona Autumn 2018- JoHanna Massey
Montezuma Well- Rimrock Arizona Autumn 2018- JoHanna Massey
It is believed that people have inhabited this area for over one thousand years. The remains of pit-houses, tools and artifacts in the area indicates the Salt River Hohokum lived in the area around 1050 CE. The Sinagua culture began building the small dwellings in the cliffs around the Well in the 1100’s. Around 1425 the people left the area, their former homes left empty to fill the muse and imagination of visitors, or perhaps to hold tightly to the details of all that came before.
The descendants of those who lived here who are from the Zuni, Hopi, Yavapai, and Western Apache Tribes still return, all considering Montezuma Well a sacred place to be approached with respect and reverence. It is said, that once something emerges from the vents at the bottom of the Well, it may never ever return.
Montezuma Well- Rimrock Arizona USA
Montezuma Well- Rimrock Arizona USA
Montezuma Well- Rimrock Arizona USA
Montezuma Well is a National Monument located in Arizona USA -From Phoenix – Follow I-17 North to exit 293 (4 miles north of the exit for Montezuma Castle). Continue through the towns of McGuireville and Rimrock, following the signs for four miles to the entrance to the Well. The trails are well marked, the interpretive signs along the way excellent, and the sense of quiet divine. There is no fee to enter Montezuma Well.
If you are reading this in the United States and are eligible to register or are registered to vote: The 2018 United States elections will be held mostly on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections will take place in the middle of Republican President Donald Trump’s first term. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be chosen. The citizens of this country do have the power to return our Government to one that more readily reflects the values, aspirations, and concerns of all the people. Voting is the way to have your voice heard.
May each and everyone of you reading this be safe, engaged, curious, generous, and prosperous this big month of holidays which is October.
Do not despair of our present difficulties,
Believe always in the promise and greatness of America,
Because nothing is inevitable here
Americans never quit.
We never surrender.
We never hide from history.
We make history.
Farewell, fellow Americans.
God Bless You, and God Bless America.
– Senator John McCain, Cornville Arizona
Sunrise in Cornville Arizona. Monsoon lingers in the Verde Valley, clearing the smoke from this seasons wildfires, replacing it with the smell of the creosote bush, cypress, mesquite, and juniper trees. Though the official first day of autumn here is weeks away, the punch of summer heat is gone, the mornings cool and inviting once again. The hummingbirds that will leave soon, create a worried melodrama at the feeders. Serious consumption for upcoming migration south of the border calorie burn.
An early morning drive up Oak Creek Canyon to Flagstaff for a browse around, Thai food, and then coffee at the booksellers. After, a good long look and photo taking time with two very different public murals.
The City of Flagstaff grows more attractive whenever we visit, the diversity and optimism of being a college town is lightly visceral one moment, smart and thought provoking the next. The Public Arts Commission supports and encourages public art. I adore the wall murals, am fortunate to have the time and opportunity to photograph, and am appreciative to Flagstaff for offering them to everyone equally. Pleased to now share those photos with you:
Victorian Citizens are shown in the “Piano Room” mural at the Leroux Street Parking lot at the former Speakeasy Bar. It was painted by Sage, Jill and Dan Drilevich and Ricco Distefan in 2010.
The woman depicted on the left resembles Gustav Klimt’s 1907 portrait called “Adele Bloch-Bauer I.” That artwork sold in 2006 for $135 million. Familiar to many from the film Woman In Gold, starring Helen Mirren.
The second mural we visited depicts a much different theme and time period:
Mural Joe painted the True Blue mural in downtown Flagstaff that honors some of the aspects of Northern Arizona University and the NAU Lumberjack.
Entire mural is quite striking and each scene tells it’s own story while flowing smoothly into the next.
Located a youtube video of the artist creating the mural. Provides an inside look in the creating art on such a large scale and unconventional ‘canvas.’
It is family, friends, the arts, music, books, and nature that I seek out to balance the continued divisive and unsettled times globally. Days long media breaks, a catch up with the Sunday Times. Liberally self prescribing doses of activism on getting the vote out in my own country (America) for the upcoming Midterm Elections on November 6, 2018. Prescribed in response to anxiety and concern over what my country and yours, our shared global community will look like in ten or twenty or thirty years from now. What opportunities, choices, potable water, breathable air, education, and liberties will be available to the Grandchildren coming up into their adulthood. Mine, yours, everyone’s Grandchildren.
Summer in Arizona 2018- JoHanna Massey
Yellow Breasted Chat- Summer 2018-
Been taking the camera along, it’s familiar presence a gentle reminder to slow it down and pay attention. To notice and appreciate the delicious light filled length, variety, expansiveness of a given summer day in the high desert. The photos above are some favorites of the summer, the slideshow below showing the difficulty I have choosing favorites.
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Thank you for your support and interest in my photo essays. Wishing each and everyone of you a safe, prosperous, and engaged month of September.
