Tom,
Throughout the summer you have given us your photographic gifts, most of which I have neglected to acknowledge — content to simply sop them up like a thirsty sponge.
So, please accept my thanks for the roadrunners (fun); sunrises, sunsets, rainbows (stunning); Lake Powell in black-and-white (unique for these times); the Sonora Desert Museum (interesting); and Mission Xavier del Bac (impressive, especially since it seems to actually have been made BY the natives FOR the natives — and still does serve in that way — rather than the California missions which were made BY the natives as slaves for their “intruders” to “convert, educate, and civilize” and ended up in land-grants to the wealthy — as I understand the process).
Always look forward to your posts… even though I may not respond immediately…
In loving spirit, Eleanor
Beautiful
Gosh! They look just like SC cardinals! 😉 The new fledglings visiting my feeders are having quite amusing territorial wars.
My goodness, these guys are vibrant! Lovely photos, Tom!
I love them! We have them at our feeders in AZ. But out here in Pennsylvania I have the northern Cardinal. Love them all!!!
Beautiful! They are redder than ours in the northeast.
Thanks, they are more vivid than here in MN too.
Tom,
Throughout the summer you have given us your photographic gifts, most of which I have neglected to acknowledge — content to simply sop them up like a thirsty sponge.
So, please accept my thanks for the roadrunners (fun); sunrises, sunsets, rainbows (stunning); Lake Powell in black-and-white (unique for these times); the Sonora Desert Museum (interesting); and Mission Xavier del Bac (impressive, especially since it seems to actually have been made BY the natives FOR the natives — and still does serve in that way — rather than the California missions which were made BY the natives as slaves for their “intruders” to “convert, educate, and civilize” and ended up in land-grants to the wealthy — as I understand the process).
Always look forward to your posts… even though I may not respond immediately…
In loving spirit, Eleanor
How kind of you Eleanor. Thank you!