After a miserable first week of weather following our return to Canmore, it has changed for the better with a dazzling weekend and a great start to the week, today. On both Sunday and today, I got out for some good walks around the town, taking advantage of the many walking paths. I was accompanied…
Mount Assiniboine
Earlier this year, I made two posts featuring pictures from my helicopter flight to Mount Assiniboine. As happens often, I overlooked one particularly good picture on my initial review of the many shots I took on that trip. I never know how some of the better ones get missed on first inspection, but they do!…
Bush Highway Scenes
The Bush Highway is a scenic road through the desert, east of Phoenix. It runs from Highway 87 near Fountain Hills to Mesa, a distance of about 18 miles (29 km). Along the way there is a broad range of desert scenery including mountains, a lake and a river. Of course, desert foliage is abundant…
Water in the Desert
This is a late morning picture of Saguaro Lake, in the McDowell Mountains east of Phoenix. This area is part of the Sonoran Desert and you can see the signature Saguaro cacti along the ridge in the foreground. The lake is is the fourth reservoir on the Salt River, formed by the Stewart Mountain Dam. The dammed end of the…
Prickly Subjects
I’ve been out in the desert looking for interesting pictures. I’m always attracted to the many varieties of cactus, particularly at this time of year when they are flowering. Most recently I was out with Nadja Petersen in an area east of Scottsdale in the McDowell Mountains. The morning light did not favour photographing the…