Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. It is located on the Arizona-Utah state line, near the Four Corners area (intersection of the Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico state boundaries). The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation and is accessible from U.S….
Category: Arizona
Garden Awakening
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…
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…