Category Archives: Fun Photo Friday

October 7, 2016 · 5:35 am

Fun Photo Friday — Enchanted Circle Foliage Favorites

Enchanted Circle Fall Foliage Panorama

Today’s Fun Photo Friday I present to you some favorite Enchanted Circle Byway fall foliage shots. On Monday I’ll show you images of a cattle drive, among other things, which we stumbled upon on this wonderful road trip.

Even the curve warning sign was in fall color

Gold Framed in Green

A Line of Gold

Enchanted Circle Fall Foliage Favorites

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September 30, 2016 · 5:35 am

Fun Photo Friday — Beginning the Enchanted Circle

Enchanted Circle Byway — Road to Red River

Today I present some of my favorite shots the drive to Red River, and include one photo taken the following day. Next week we’ll begin our fall foliage tour in earnest. Click on any image below to enlarge and bring up today’s slide show:

Rio Grande Gorge

Riverside Lodge & Cabins

Enchanted Circle Byway — Road to Red River

Riverside Lodge & Cabins

Entering fall foliage country

Red River

Enchanted Circle Byway — Road to Red River

Riverside Lodge & Cabins

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September 23, 2016 · 5:35 am

Fun Photo Friday — Todos Santos Favorites

Pink Flamingo in Red

All around here in the desert you’ll see a cactus that appears very much to be the saguaro associated with the Sonoran Desert up around Tucson, Arizona. Tucson is rather dear to me, as it’s where I met and married the love of my life, whom you’ve met in many of my travel articles. But I digress. We were talking cactii here. These cactii at the southern tip of the Baja are not saguaro. They’re the world’s largest, however — the towering cardón cactus (pachycereus pringlei,or elephant cactus). These monsters can grow to 70 feet/21 meters and weigh 25 tons/22.7 metric tons! Here are some smaller examples:

Cardón Cactus — Often confused with Saguaro

Below is today’s photo gallery. Click on any image to enlarge and bring up today’s slide show. This concluded our journey aboard the Golden Princess as she made her way from Chile to Los Angeles back in March, 2015. I hope you’ve enjoyed the journey.