Teesquare's Southwest trip UPDATED 5-06-18

[Tailgating is my game]

I don't know what you guys are seeing....but I can assure you - there was NO sweet tea consumed or re-cycled in the partaking of this meal.....

look tee we won't tell on you...man up>>>>>Decaf   ?    At least you had water as a chaser...low carb I hope

[TwoPockets]

Sweet tea is the work of the devil

I am a South Alabama boy, born and raised , if you don't like sweet tea, I will pray for you.

[Tailgating is my game]

Sweet tea is the work of the devil

I am a South Alabama boy, born and raised , if you don't like sweet tea, I will pray for you.

So ken what is it besides tea & sugar? What kind of tea is it (besides sweet lol)

[smokeasaurus]

I have recently discovered Sweet tea since moving to Texas and I tell ya there is nothing better to quench your thirst when you aint drinking beer.

[TwoPockets]

Sweet tea is the work of the devil

I am a South Alabama boy, born and raised , if you don't like sweet tea, I will pray for you.

So ken what is it besides tea & sugar? What kind of tea is it (besides sweet lol)

It is made with love and served in a Mason jar by your Momma or wife.

[Tailgating is my game]

Sweet tea is the work of the devil

I am a South Alabama boy, born and raised , if you don't like sweet tea, I will pray for you.

So ken what is it besides tea & sugar? What kind of tea is it (besides sweet lol)

It is made with love and served in a Mason jar by your Momma or wife.

Thats moonshine

[teesquare]

So I am finally getting some pictures reduced in size so they will work on our pages...
Please remember that ALL of these are straight from the camera. I have not done any correction on them - not even straightened the ones that are crooked.....

UntilI find my memory card for the first part of the trip...these pics pick up with eh Grand Canyon - then Monument Valley. Share your popcorn and turn off your cell phones.....

First... When trying to take pictures....If you are going to beat the air pollutants, thermals rising, and - as was our case...any effect of wildfires in the region causing haze - you gotta get up early enough to kick-start the rooster and wakeup the milk man!

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Then...you have to be patient, and hike for a few hours looking for where the light is good, and not facing the sun. Difficult sometimes. Take what nature offers.....Because complaining will not change things....

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After that golden few minutes...the light changes how things look. This is more true where the landscapes offer more shadow points, and altitude changes

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See what I mean?.....

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I was very fortunate to have reserved the room I got....Not a bad view to look at when you throw the curtains back, huh?

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The light keeps changing....

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So...the restaurant tries to grow all of the herbs for their cooking needs on the grounds. Bur, as you see here - tho they try to protect them from critters - it is not always successful....Wonder who would be so brazen as to destroy the cages to browse on the tender green parts?

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HERE are the culprits.....And when you throw your curtains open in the morning.....it can be a bit of a shock for both parties....
Here is the frustration for me...Every year, a struggle to get within 250 yards of an Elk - to get a shot. And I could practically thump these with a baseball bat...... They knew they were safe.....

[teesquare]

Another breath taker. I only wish that any camera could come close to the immersive experience that we have as humans. Our eyes deliver soooo much more information to our brain than we can rationally reproduce with a camera.