Arizona has winter also. Perhaps not as severe as the more northerly winters but the change in the seasons does affect the plant life. The good news is that Arizona also has a spring, which is just beginning. I notice that our garden is beginning to show signs of its springtime finery emerging. My purpose…
Author: shotsbyp
Favourites from Past Week
I’ve been busy this past week, taking quite a few photographs. I’ve chosen to post a few favourites from the many pictures I took, beginning with this first one, taken in the Tonto National Forest, near Bartlett Lake. It shows the rugged terrain in this desert area about 30 miles from our place in Scottsdale….
Carefree Car Show
Vintage cars are ubiquitous in the Phoenix area. The dry, warm, sunny climate is ideally suited for the preservation of old cars. I’ve noticed that you don’t have to wash cars very often, they always look good. Another great advantage of the climate! I notice that the owners of these cars could also be described as…
Winter Sunset in the Desert
We get some very nice sunsets in Arizona at this time of the year. I went out to capture some colour last evening, beginning with a shot taken down our driveway. I wanted a large cactus silhouetted against the evening sky. I didn’t have to go very far, just across the fence to Smokehouse Trail,…
Black Lincoln
I’m presently doing some automobile photography. I’ve begun with some pictures of our vehicle, an ancient (12 yrs old) Lincoln Aviator. Despite it’s age, it still looks pretty good. It’s been in Arizona for 8 years now and since we don’t spend a lot of our time here, it’s accumulating miles/kilometres very slowly. So, for…