Agave #7
Boulder City, Nevada
2025

Obstacles and Possibilities
Kofa Mountains, Arizona
2025

The view is pretty hazy and it looks like there are be a lot of obstacles in the way of getting to where you can see what’s on the other side of the far mountain range, but the possibilities of what might be found along the way as well as at the end of the trail seem endless.

Box Canyon
Crater Mountains, Arizona
2025

Two and a Half Peaks
Crater Mountains, Arizona
2025

Sawtooth Shadows
Tucson, Arizona
2024

A sawtooth yucca casting shadows on itself. Taking the shadows along with the actual teeth as a unified shape, it looks like some kind of a weirdly designed bandsaw blade.

Agave #6
Tucson, Arizona
2024

Regeneration
Lake Roosevelt, Arizona
2024

Sometimes when a saguaro cactus loses an arm, it just regrows one in the same spot. Too bad that doesn’t work the same for human body parts–you know, like hearts.

You might notice that the dates of my recent photos seem to have been in the past. That’s because I’ve not been out taking new photos since early 2025 so have been going back through older sets of photos for possible POTDs that I have not considered before. It’s good to go back and take a second look at photos anyway and it solves the issue of no new photos.  At some point I will get the urge to go out and photograph some more. I’m certainly capable of doing so during my continued recovery, but right now I’m content to work through this older stuff at home on the computer.

Getting Fluffy
Lee’s Ferry, Arizona
2025

This isn’t the most exciting photo of a California Condor by a long shot. But it’s the only California Condor I’ve ever seen  in the wild and the only one I’ve ever photographed. I do like the fluffy plumage, puffed up to help it keep warm while dosing under a bridge on a cold January morning. We did wait around a while to see if it would decide to fly out over the canyon, but its nap time outlasted us and lacking our own fluffy plumage (i.e. no down coats at the time) we retreated to the van’s warm interior.

Tangled Web
Lee’s Ferry, Arizona
2025

Why do some spiderwebs appear in patterned geometric shapes while others, like this one, are much more haphazard in design. It may depend on the type of spider according to some AI information I looked at. I thought the two kinds of shapes were named cobwebs (haphazard design) vs. spiderwebs (regular shapes), but apparently the two names are mostly used interchangeably to mean the same thing.

Lee’s Ferry Rocks #10
Lee’s Ferry, Arizona
2025