beach sunset

Sint Maarten, NA 

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Grand Canyon sunset

lovely early September sunset at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon

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moody November sky

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Autumn colors

early September off-roading in Dixie National Forest in beautiful Southwestern Utah.  What glorious Autumn colors!

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Grand Canyon sky

Point Imperial

 elevation 8803'--highest point in Grand Canyon National Park (September 2016)

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sunset

near Pagosa Springs, Colorado

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Textures

To celebrate our wedding anniversary and to escape the cold and snow, my hubby and I traveled by plane

(de-icing the plane as seen through the airplane window)

(The scrubby gray and lime green plants covering the "mountain" contrast with the deep blue sky dotted with floating white puffy clouds.) 

to the lovely, warm, semi-arid tropical Caribbean island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin. 

We "discovered" a most gorgeous beach, Happy Bay.  Rocks emerge in various configurations at one end of this lovely crescent of sand.  

Time to return home.  Our flight out has been significantly delayed.  We miss our connector.  The airline puts us up for the night and we get about 2½ hours of sleep.  The upside of this is we get to watch a beautiful sunrise from the window of the plane.  ( I will confess to you that it's rare for me to ever see the sun rise.)  Here we are on top of the clouds!

LINK:
past POST on textures

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photos by me  © 2014  all rights reserved  (all iPhone except photo #2)

Wintery

North America has had so much snow this Winter!  Cincinnati so far (and Winter isn't over yet!) has had its fifth snowiest Winter on record.  The record is 53.9, which fell in the Winter of 1977-78.  So far we've had 44 inches.  11.2 inches is the average for an entire Winter!

This is my backyard on a snowy day.  See the creek?  It looks like a hook or a J on its side.  It subsequently got covered entirely.

another backyard shot on a sunny day.  It's been colder and sunnier than usual as well.  Our Winters are normally warmer and very gray.  I realized that I can handle cold if it's sunny.  It's the dreary, dark days that are difficult.
There's a squirrel's nest in the middle of the photo near the right.

close up of squirrel's nest.

caveat:  Our weather--and that includes snow--is measured at the airport which is in Kentucky!  That's south of us.

LINKS:
CNN article on 6 US cities close to their record snows (Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Toledo, Detroit, Cincinnati, New York) 
MY POSTS:
snowy days (1)
snowy days (2)

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snowy days (2)

What a cold snowy winter we've had! 

It's been sunnier than usual though, for which I am grateful.

my backyard.  I love the woods and the creek.

Somekitty has spent many an hour curled up on this cozy super soft blanket.

LINK:  snowy days   (1)

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water

a few photos from my trip to the Canadian Rockies in September of this year...

Athabasca River in Jasper National Park

Cavell Lake near Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper

Cavell Glacier and Cavell Pond with floating icebergs

along the Icefields parkway in Banff National Park, Canada--Bow Lake

along the shore of Lake Moraine, a glacially-fed lake in Banff 

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Roadside Views

When traveling, I like to take photos from the moving car-- "drive by shootings."  This way I can remember the flavor of a place not just the special views.
I offer you a few from my recent trip to the Canadian Rockies in early September this year.  
Oh, and by the way, just in case you were wondering, I'm NOT driving at the time!

along the Icefields Parkway

Oh the colors!   Isn't the sky magnificent?  See the Athabasca Glacier on the far right side in the middle.

 mountains and sky--how glorious!

 That's me, taking a photo.

LINKS: 
Icefields Parkway
Parks Canada
Athabasca Glacier --my POST on my hike up to this glacier in 2012 with lots of photos

(just for fun--last year at almost the exact same date, we were on the letter V.  HERE's my post from then.  Sadly, the trees are not nearly as beautiful this year.)

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far away on a Caribbean isle... (number 2)

Anse des Sables, St. Lucia

lazy sky and sea

lulls my spirit to rest now

oh so soft, serene! 

LINK:

far away on a Caribbean isle...  another post on Anse des Sables

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photo and haiku by me © 2013

island sunset

the sun sinks golden

swallowed hungrily by waves

swept away by tides

This photo was taken on a favorite island--St Maartin in the Netherland Antilles.  Mullet Bay is a beautiful white sand beach with turquoise waters.  One can snorkel along the rocks in this photo.

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Desert Haiku

rocks tumble downward

plunging over sage green shrubs

silent moon gazes 

photo:   somewhere in Salt River Canyon, Arizona

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Late Afternoon Sky: SkyWatch Friday

from my front yard

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