RIM OF THE WORLD

A photo that always turns my head is one of nature's layers in the atmosphere; clouds, hills, trees - I love that affect. HowEVER I do not enhance my photos (shoot, I don't even have PhotosShop!), so I thought the opportunity to ever capture such an effect would not be mine.

We just returned from a great vacation at Lake Arrowhead in So Cal. On our drive back down the Rim of the World Hiway, this vista appeared!

Thanks to a great B-in-L for pulling off the road for me and my camera! I shot and shot, changing settings constantly; even switched out lenses. Thus, the same vista, but different color striations.

I am so exciting to have these pics! They are sooc - straight out of the camera - without enhancements. At Last!

Last of the tulips; End of the day

Barn ramble, old Highway 47, Oregon

Dick and I made a very last-minute trip to Medford, Oregon, to support a family member. It was a quick trip, until the 2nd half of our drive home. We detoured to a fabulous little country road - Oregon's Highway 47 N. It didn't quite qualify for our favorite kind of travel - the back road. (The criteria for a BR are: no center line, no road signs, and often no pavement.) But, the pics show that it was a winning road for providing great old barns!

I also like to frame details of the old farm textures:

OK, were this one a painting or a contrived design, it would be called garrish! However, these were nature's colors at their peak, and the effect was "Oh! turn around! Did you see that?:

I call this, "Primary colors":

Joy in the Morning!

This single tulip was as happy to feel the day's early sun on its face as I was! We all turn our hearts and faces to that first warming sun in the spring, don't we?

Backroads Pass

I have no idea the name of the pass, if it even has one, but we went through Huntington, Utah to cross it. Mid-April snow had fallen on the toes of aspen:
To our great surprise, we rounded a (slippery) corner, and myriads of color spots were winging against the bright snow! I was mad that I forgot my monopod, because it was so blindingly white.

I dunno' what they are called, but I call them "para-boarders".

What fun they must have!

And this is our goodbye to the Wasatch Front:

Rambling the Backroads, Early Spring

Our plan, while in Utah, was to - no surprise here! - take the smallest back roads possible to return to the SLC area from Manti by heading east, southeast, then north over a couple of passes. Whenever we spot an antiquated farm building, the car just naturally comes to a stop!

Sometimes the car has to go down a lesser road with ruts 'n such in order to get a better perspective:

Or even leave the road completely to get around the backside, as in this one I call "Weathered Woods":

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Assignments: "Every-which-way", here, the flags at a crosswalk:

"Underneath" as interpreted by other photographers in the challenge has been pics of things up above, the camera looking up from "underneath". I turned it topsy-turvy by showing a common thing "underneath" our feet here in the Pacific NW - the ever-present ugh-slug:

"Neglected" is another category:

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This, from a hike down into Bryce Canyon, for "HOLE":

Last week it was extra foggy, and I remembered this tall row of poplars not far from home, hoping to find them just as I did, punching through the fog:

On a back-roads "ramble", this entire old farm was abandoned - what a find! "Rusted":