Adventuring: A Travelblogue with Photos

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Jacenta made me feel 10 again...

That was the summer I saw the Black Hills and Badlands, (which she has posted on recently, with pictures) for the first time. I remember that the road cuts in the Black Hills were dark rock with veins and chunks of rose quartz everywhere! The rose, I have heard, is from gold in the quartz, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Screwy!

Mountain mahogany, I think... Sign in to see full entry.

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Barrel Cactus blooming

At New Mexico's Rock Hound State Park, there were dozens of these beauties all bearing both fruit and buds, and almost-blooming flowers. Could not find a single one, however, gazing at the sky with all its wide-open gorgeousness. Sign in to see full entry.

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THE RUBBER-BAND PLAN

note to self: next time you order a new bank card, just because the old one was plumb wore out, make sure you let all your subscription sites know about the new number, so all those automatic payments will, in fact, be made automatically, and you won't get those cute little 'account cancelled for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Raised By Wolves

If you have been reading here, you are probably aware that I have been going through some transformative times in the past few months. The pressure of the shell has been increasing, you might say, and this chick has been considering alternatives to being squeezed to death, or at least to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

More of the deep places of the Earth...

The lighting is all done with a combination of incandescent, halogen, tungsten and flourescent bulbs. These show the most natural view of the rocks in person, but a camera tries to compensate for the different kinds of 'white' light and so presents images as if the lights are different colors. Sign in to see full entry.

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Finally, a hot spot...

Finally, three days later... Starbuck's in Las Cruces. The scenery has changed considerably since Colorado Springs, what with Carlsbad's amazing Caverns, and the noble buttes of Guadelupe (where I very nearly almost just barely didn't run out of gas about 40 miles from a station), and, this morning,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 24, 2007

The pictures are loading now...

Yesterday clouds were heavy and wet up in the Rockies northwest of Denver, as they have been all summer, so I am told, and the fields are full of blooms. At 9000 feet, thereabouts, standing up suddenly is a dizzying experience! I took a few pictures of the great variety of meadow flowers. I also... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Offy, a flower for you...

A wild bee-balm, I think-- Does anyone know for sure what this little pretty is called? Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunrise at Royal Gorge--fine way to start the day! We had over-nighted in a free and vacant campground about a mile before the bridge over Royal Gorge. To find such a place in such a place was a great and delightful surprise. Royal Gorge is one of those spectacles of nature that has been... Sign in to see full entry.

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Celebrating travel! If you think the world is too big, or the language barriers too high, come along with me, as I bumble my way here and there... The world really is an accessible place-- not as expensive to explore as one might imagine, nor are the language barriers as high, nor the mood of people beyond our borders unwelcoming... ***If you want good prints of any of my photos, email me and I will let you know how to get them. Please respect my copyright on these, they are my retirement account!

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