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Saturday's Photo Hunting - Yellow

October in New Mexico

Reflections of Nature

The Saturday PhotoHunt: Awesome

Is there anything more awesome than nature?

Wine on the Hoof (so to speak)

The Saturday PhotoHunt: Fresh

Make mine a pinot.

Got fish?

Snake in the Grass

 Taken in the front yard 2/19/2012

(for my friend Janice who has been very patient!)

PhotoHunt: Standing

out of time distant

sailing on ancient waters

Shiprock passes by

In the northwest corner of New Mexico on the Navajo Reservation, Shiprock stands 1800 feet tall on an otherwise totally flat landscape.  Its Navajo name is Tsé Bit' A'í, which means Rock with Wings.

Navajo storytellers share a legend about Shiprock.

A long time ago the Diné were hard pressed by their enemies. One night their medicine men prayed for their deliverance, having their prayers heard by the Gods. They caused the ground to rise, lifting the Diné, and moved the ground like a great wave into the east away from their enemies. It settled where Shiprock Peak now stands. These Navajos then lived on the top of this new mountain, only coming down to plant their fields and to get water.

For some time all went well. Then one day during a storm, and while the men were working in the fields, the trail up the rock was split off by lightning and only a sheer cliff was left. The women, children, and old men on the top slowly starved to death, leaving their bodies to settle there.

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Posted for PhotoHunt

And so it starts...

Wordless Wednesday: Dreaming of Freedom

Or maybe dinner...

PhotoHunt: Dark

Is there anything darker than a dark alley?

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This is my entry at PhotoHunt, where the theme this week is appropriately "dark."

Wordless Wednesday: El Dia de Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead)

Wordless Wednesday: We Just Don't See Eye-to-Eye

Wordless Wednesday: Here Kitty Kitty!

PhotoHunt: Layers of Time

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This is my offering for PhotoHunt, where the theme this week is "Stripes."

Forged Fury

For My Friend Brian Miller

This is for my good friend Brian Miller of waystationone.  He's had experience at this sort of thing. ;-)

PhotoHunt: Letters

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This is my entry in PhotoHunt, where this week's theme is "Letters."

PhotoHunt: Natural

Is there anything more natural than Mother Nature at her best? 

Natural Beauty

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These are my offerings for PhotoHunt, where the theme this week is "Natural."

Wordless Wednesday: Soup

PhotoHunt: School

These photos were taken in New Zealand, where schools of old were probably not too different than they were here in the US (well, except maybe for the rules for teachers).  I remember the "cloak room."

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For more interesting takes of the theme of "school," visit PhotoHunt.

Wordless Wednesday: Hold the Mayo