January 2023

Tumble Down
Cathedral Gorge, Nevada
2022

Snowcapped
Cathedral Gorge, Nevada
2022

Walking the Alcoves
Cathedral Gorge, Nevada
2022

I’ve photographed at Cathedral Gorge several times before, and always presented the images in black and white. (If you’re a long time and regular viewer of POTD you’ve seen them. Also, they were featured in Lenswork Magazine, including on the cover, a couple of years ago.) So this time around I thought I’d present at least some images of Cathedral Gorge in color, although I suspect I’ll slip back into black and while mode pretty quickly.

I took this shot when I was following some coyote tracks along this series of alcoves in a ridge. If you look close enough, you can see the faint prints starting in the lower right corner of the image.

Would You Like Whipped Cream on That?
Cathedral Gorge, Nevada
2022

We left Montana mid-December to escape the snow and extreme cold that was headed that way. We at least made it away from the really cold temps by the time we reached Cathedral Gorge, but the snow was a hit or miss thing–it was there on the shady north sides of the formations but absent on the south. Here the Fashion Queen checks out one of the crack canyons in what was about the snowiest area we came across while hiking there.

Cheap Shot
Somewhere in Nevada
2022

I wasn’t going to photograph this crass message on this tank but because I had photographed it some years ago, before the correction in red, I felt some need to update it. (Plus, there was also a bit of unexpected encouragement from the Fashion Queen to photograph it.) Anyway, here it is–for the record.

We are finally in Tucson, AZ where we’ll be through February. Our rental did not start until yesterday but we left Bozeman fifteen or so days ago in order to miss the record setting cold and the snow that was bearing down on Montana at the time. We successfully missed the coldest weather, although our first night in the camper it got down to 3 degrees. After that it got successively warmer as we leisurely drove through Nevada, a bit of California, and Arizona on the way here. I’m finally settled in to where I can start posting photos from our various stops on the trip down here.

Thriving on Chaos
St. Petersburg, Florida
2019

I would be hopelessly tangled and lost if dropped into the middle of a mangrove swamp. In fact we once would have been lost kayaking in a mangrove swamp if I had not had the foresight to tie bright orange flags at all the junctions of the maze of canals we were trying to find our way out of. These ibis however seemed quite able to navigate and benefit from what the swamp has to offer without such help.

Mangrove Chaos
St. Petersburg, Florida
2019

Frond Down
St. Petersburg, Florida
2019

Electric Frond
St. Petersburg, Florida
2019

This partially backlit palmetto frond looks like its some sort of highly energized electric field.

Never Miss
St. Petersburg, Florida
2019

I never miss a chance to photograph agave plants when they appear in front of me. This one is from Florida, but I expect I will get similar opportunities during our Arizona stay.