Tag: desert
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February 28, 2007 12:42 PM EST --
In my previous article, Rare Allurement, I posted part of an old poem that was found on an old cabin door. The author of this timeless poem is unknown but I imagine it was someone who loved his time . . .
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November 20, 2009 02:24 PM EST --
FALL-In The Desert Southwest
There’s a different feel to the change in seasons in my desert area and the fall comes in slowly sometimes, doesn’t stay very long, but is much anticipated . . .
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April 24, 2008 01:41 PM EDT --
Mine would have to be Blackberry and Apple Pudding.
When I was young we used to have apply trees in our back garden. We would pick the apples, then take then up to my Grandmothers house . . .
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November 12, 2006 10:30 AM EST --
We left Yazd early in the morning for our date with the Dasht-i-Kavir. We made good time; stopping only once for a picnic in the middle of some salt flats 300 kilometers outside Yazd. Bread, feta cheese, . . .
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November 17, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
I do not have photoshop or anything like it so my varaitions are limited but I liked these.
origional photo
First alteration: used "sketch drawing" messed with darkening and lightening . . .
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February 05, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
Do you enjoy perking your ice cream and cakes up to a higher standard? Well I have just the thing for you. This homemade topping is great for ice cream, to put on cake and even yugurt. I just love it. . . .
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August 15, 2009 06:19 AM EDT --
My room faces the desert sand
There are windows but no curtains.
When the desert wind blows
I feel its warmth
And I can hear the music.
But when I reach up,
I feel your tears,
Sweet . . .
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February 26, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
"There is a lure to the desert that seems to hold you tight in golden bonds. Soft balmy days -- the desert moon -- cool, starry nights of peace and repose that cannot be surpassed." . . .
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June 23, 2007 07:29 PM EDT --
What is your favorite dessert? - and I know you'll have more than one.
What is your favorite desert? - you may only have one.
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September 10, 2008 06:13 PM EDT --
GOD BLESS AND PROTECT OUR TROOPS
Mighty Warriors
tall and strong.
Go fort to help
those who've
been wronged.
Choking on
desert sand,
Saving souls
hurt by man.
Fighting . . .
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October 31, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
There was an author named Philip A Bailey who wrote a book entitled "Desert Mirage" back in 1941. It is a collection of stories about that portion of the Sonora Desert that is known as the . . .
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October 05, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
Horses Running Free in the Wind at Dawn
That just about says it all. Here, at an Indian horse camp in the mountains 70 miles from San Diego, it is cold and windy. Some big event has been planned, . . .
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October 19, 2007 05:47 AM EDT --
Late one night in 2006, I was typing a comment to someone on Gather, I looked at the screen and saw the following:
Great Salt Lake, NASA photo, public domain. . . .
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April 23, 2008 06:17 PM EDT --
These looked so tasty!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_35424,00.html
It's not my recipe! But I thought that it looked absolutely delicious! :) I thought I would . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:45 PM EDT --
These beautiful flowers are from the Orchid Cactus, genus Epiphyllum. There are over 200 varieties of this plant. The white one shown here is the species Oxypetalum, with blooms a white/near white . . .
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July 13, 2009 07:15 AM EDT --
(**Note: This is the third post in my Desert Tortoise series - I have three rescued Desert Tortoises. They are indigenous to this part of the country, an endangered species, and require special care - . . .
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November 22, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
Before I get into it, let me point out a few things. First, this is another of my trip reports, this one from a couple years back, that I'm posting for a wider audience than originally intended. Then, . . .
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September 28, 2006 11:56 PM EDT --
The Church of Scientology constructed an elaborate underground bunker to store the works of L. Ron Hubbard just twenty miles from my home. They cut it in secret, deep into steep sides of a scrub-tiled . . .
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September 02, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
Hey all,
I thought I might share a little excitement I had day before yesterday. I was gathering up all the junk mail we had received to throw into our recycle bin and part of a photograph just . . .
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May 21, 2006 08:46 PM EDT --
The desert is wearing her perfume tonight. She must have something planned.
The sun streams through gray swirling clouds, drawing its golden curtain across the mesa. Perhaps the show is about to begin. . . .
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