I wanted to post more photos.
My computer had other ideas. I managed to whine and wheedle out a few more images, some decent and some so-so. I haven’t heard back again from Dell – other than their site saying the first mis-delivered replacement was delivered.
Once more, for the people at the back. It. Was. Not. Delivered. HERE.
I didn’t get a chance to call today, thanks to a crazy busy work day. A phone call is on tomorrow’s calendar if I don’t hear overnight.
No food pics this time – just descriptions. Leftover steak was magicked into Irish stew for dinner tonight, and I made quiche for breakfast so I won’t need to cook breakfast tomorrow (or possibly the next day). Tomorrow’s dinner may be a heavily-doctored frozen pizza. It’s my “Wednesday” and I need to do a grocery run after work, so I’ll be bone tired by the time dinner’s due.
The photos below are a mixed bag in terms of quality, but they’re all I could coax out of Photoshop. (If Lightroom was more cooperative I’d use that, but this computer crashes whenever I open anything more taxing than a browser window – and sometimes even with that.)
Not all fall colors were in the trees. This minimalist mannequin slouched in front of a shop in Flagstaff. I liked the play of shadow and light as it danced over the various materials.
This deer capture was obviously a fail, but with wildlife you haven’t got much time to adjust your settings. G didn’t have any more luck trying to get a snap off of javelina crossing the road:
We were too far away and the picture quality is unfortunate. You hardly ever see javelina in daytime, and virtually never crossing the road like this. It told us how infrequent traffic was along this highway.
I do like the waterway picture up top, mostly. The landscape was tilted and I had to adjust both the camera and the final picture to try and compensate. That, the javelina snap, and the shot of the deer were taken along the road from Williams to Perkinsville, Arizona.
We’d originally planned to drive into Perkinsville. When the pavement turned to dirt road, we turned around.
Dirt roads don’t usually bother us. In fact, we drove down a few on that excursion, visiting some of the lakes in the area.
However… 8+ miles on a dirt road is a different creature than a 1- or 2-mile hike down to a lake. 8+ miles on a road that already looked sketchy from the end of the pavement made us pause.
The signs saying, “Enter at own risk, road not maintained,” and “Road may impassible at river crossing” turned the pause into a hard NO. It had definitely been raining recently. If it could be impassible, you bet your sweet bippy it was.
To give you an idea, these big weeds and lots of grass sprouted through the pavement of this rural highway, some of it growing a fair distance in from the shoulder. We were well off the beaten path.
As I mentioned before, there were some flaming red maples in some of the towns. This example was snapped in Williams, which is pure tourist kitsch. G commented about it being so tourist-centric. I told him we were tourists and that was kind of the point.
Williams, Arizona after dark is Neon Central.
That I captured the on-off of this sign was dumb luck, so I blended them into an animation.
I was feeling subpar (understatement) while taking the neon shots. I’m amazed they turned out as well as they did.
Loved the photos. I hope your work week isn’t as stressful as it usually is.
Thank you, Terri. It’s been a bear of a day but work itself wasn’t too bad.