summer stuff

Warm days mean ripe figs, peaches, tomatoes, etc. from the garden.

Making fig preserves, peach cobblers and summer meals from garden veggies.

My right arm and shoulder are still painful and stiff so I avoid typing and photography......not spending much time at the computer either.

Hubbell Trading Post, Arizona

 

 

 

 

 

Walking through the doors is like stepping into a timemachine and being transported to the past. Hubbell is the oldest operating trading post on the Navajo Nation. It has been in business since 1878,  and is now a national historic site.

Merchandise hangs from the rafters and is stacked around the rooms. The smell of leather, woolen blankets, kerosene and old wood fills the nostrils, and the ancient wooden floors creak with every step taken.

The light and sounds are subdued, voices are muted--one feels a reverence for the age and unchanged spirit of the place.

Zion National Park

the Virgin River

exquisite sentinels

a river flows through

future arch

tunnels through mountains

 

a large palette of colors

canyons, rivers, tunnels, arches, breathtaking beauty