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• Scarlet's Journey: through the desert
  by StacyLee

  I’d like to introduce my first book “Scarlet’s Journey: through the desert.” This is an intensely personal account of my life over the…

  I’d like to introduce my first book “Scarlet’s Journey: through the desert.” This is an intensely personal account of my life over the past 3 years. I’m nervous about putting myself “out there” but hey that’s what artists do right? My goal in creating this book: to be as honest and creative as possible. What’s in the book? My visual artwork, poetry, and some prose. There are several works of visual art and poetry in the book that have never before been seen or read. I really hope that people can relate to my journey. Thus, I’ve asked in the back of the book how your own personal experience connects with my own and left some blank lines for you to jot down whatever your heart desires. And if you want to share that with me I’m just a bubblemail away ;)! About the book: Paperback, 109 pages, 8.5in x 8.5in (21.6 cm x 21.6 cm), perfect binding, white interior paper (80# weight), full-color interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight), full-color exterior ink. The layout of the book was entirely designed by me (yes, it took forever) as each page has a different color/design. Cover: / A look inside: / Book Description: / Scarlet’s Journey is a visual and poetic healing journey through the dry and barren desert. On her journey, Scarlet must conquer disease, death, and heartache. While in the desert, Scarlet finds herself alone with a God who refuses to give up on her. In the end, she discovers what her Creator had created her for and finds herself madly in love with the Beauty of God. Here is where the book is available for purchase and you can see a much larger preview of what’s inside: / Scarlet’s Journey: through the desert Thank you for reading and for your interest :)

• Back from the Desert
  by DawsonImages

  Hi All, Back from the deserts of Utah and Arizona. Should get back in the swing of posting and commenting tonight! Take care Mik…

  Hi All, Back from the deserts of Utah and Arizona. Should get back in the swing of posting and commenting tonight! Take care Mike

• Whirlwind adventures!!
  by meerimages

  Hi all! / I’m heading down to Victoria next week for a whole week of nothing but photography and relaxion!! I can picture my self there no…

  Hi all! / I’m heading down to Victoria next week for a whole week of nothing but photography and relaxion!! I can picture my self there now….no kids, no hubby, no phone….just me and my camera! I haven’t been away on my own for quite some time now….so this trip will be good to rejuvinate both my mind and body! / I’m told there is some beautiful scenery where I’m going, so I think the photos will turn out ok! / Then, when I return, it won’t be long before I will be heading to outback Queensland with a girlfriend, we will be going across Sturts stony desert, catching plenty of Barra, and going to Longreach….can’t wait! / When I get back, you will see where I’ve been! / Take care fellow bubblers!

• The Central Simpson Desert, Australia
  by Joe Mortelliti

  My portfolio has a number of rare images of the inner Simpson Desert, which according to notes I have read is 178,000 sq km’s. / A search …

  My portfolio has a number of rare images of the inner Simpson Desert, which according to notes I have read is 178,000 sq km’s. / A search on “Simpson Desert” will bring up most of my desert images. These images show areas of the Simpson only seen by a small number of adventurous travelers. We have had great times combining photography and 4 wheel driving.. These trips have been described in 4×4 publications as “Hardcore Touring” Our small group along with our specially prepared 4 wheel drives have made two crossings over 2 years of the wilderness areas of the Simpson Desert. There is an established route that is easily followed that can be found at the south end of the desert. This east west route was blazed by early oil exploration companies. Known as the French Line after French Petroleum,and the QAA Line, we consider this the “popular tourist” route as you are likely to pass another oncoming traveler in the course of a week. Our trips were “cross country” without any track to follow, however the Hay River route has now become more readily defined, but is still one of the most remote wilderness areas to travel in Australia / The first trip was the Hay River which took us through the North Simpson Desert,via Lake Caroline and up to Batton Hill. / The second was a west to east starting at Old Andado Station crossing the desert following the Madigan Line using GPS co ordinates. Cecil Madigan in 1939 crossed this section of the desert by camel undertaking a scientific exploration. The Simpson Desert features parallel sand hills running roughly north south, that can be hundreds of km’s in length. / These sand hill are around 30mt high, with the top section being the “live” top that moves and shapes in the winds. / The rich red sand is very smooth and soft, very powder like and it’s rich colour varies in changing light from red, redy brown to iridescent orange. These sandhill or dunes are roughly half a km apart, with a spinifex valley in between. The Simpson has 1,100 of these sandhills running across it north to south. Traveling west to east we have crossed every one of these. The Hay River flows after seasonal rains and is a ribbon of green life from north to south through the middle of the desert. These cross country trips were very arduous, some days only covering 50km. We had to be totally self sufficient, and as an example we carried 110lt of water and 420lt of fuel. / We also undertook the trip on the understanding that if any of our vehicles could not be kept operational due to major part failure, that the unit would be left behind and another special recovery trip made later with the required parts and team members. This meant each member had to budget for a $5,000 recovery operation should it be needed. Towing out a failed vehicle would only result in serious damage and to the tow vehicle and result in 2 vehicles being not operational. / Our group is known as LCOOL. LandCruiser Owners On Line and all our trips and meeting points are arranged on the internet.

• Give Me A Buzz
  by robert murray

  If anyone is coming my way next year make sure it is after Easter as it is too hot this time of year and I will show you the outback dese…

  If anyone is coming my way next year make sure it is after Easter as it is too hot this time of year and I will show you the outback desert sights and you can stay at my place ,I have a free bedroom and can show you sights around here the average tourist never gets to see , beautiful breakaways, caves,desert sunsets,aboriginal rock paintings,and lots more..so if you are making a trip to the west drop me a bubblemail letting me know…it will be free to stay here so come and check out the western outback

• Sale to Jim Caldwell Card of Kimberley Track #5
  by ginnymac

  Thank you so much Jim Caldwell“ I am so thrilled, lovely start to a Sunday morning, glad I b…

  Thank you so much Jim Caldwell“ I am so thrilled, lovely start to a Sunday morning, glad I became bored reading the paper and checked here instead. / ginnymac kimberley track“

• Live Display
  by Joe Mortelliti

  We have put together a large wall display of Redbubble produced images…these are mounted large images on Gator board and are now on dis…

  We have put together a large wall display of Redbubble produced images…these are mounted large images on Gator board and are now on display at LifeStyle Furniture Nunawading. Fifteen of these 650×480 size images are featured, covering images of our remote wilderness Simpson Desert travel over 2 years as well as outback Australia. So here is your chance to be up close and personal with the product …visit LifeStyle Furniture 9 Moncrief Rd Nunawading,Melbourne behind Freedom Furniture Joe Mortelliti / PS you can see a large range of landscapes in my portfolio at… / www.redbubble.com/people/mortelliti/portfolio

• Goodbye Arizona (followed by a disaster)
  by AndyReeve

  AZ was wonderful (again). We decided to stay local this time so a typical day would be to set off in the morning somewhere…err….local…

  AZ was wonderful (again). We decided to stay local this time so a typical day would be to set off in the morning somewhere…err….local like one of the national parks, a zoo at one point, a copper mining town (looking for Cornish immigrants or descendents there of), sitting in spiritual vortex’s for a meditate, or just looking for photo opportunities. Then coz eating out is so cheap in the USA one of their huge lunches (which I was never able to fully consume, and whilst ordering, having to explain that I was a vegan and not a veggie else I got offered fish. I learnt that trick on the plane first time round) then home to the ranch to sit by in the pool or read or more meditation. If Cyndi had to do some phone astrological readings (she’s good – gets it spot on with me everytime damn it) I would borrow the jeep drive deeper into the desert; park up then leg it into the wide variously coloured yonder with the camera. Had a navigation problem tho; took several bearings then after wander used to make it back to the road to find myself about a mile away from the jeep. Hmmmm. Was someone moving the mountains around????? Evenings when not partying or having munchies with neighbors were spent being non-plussed by American television. I would be watching a play or something and every ten minutes, and without any prior warning, find myself in a completely non-relevant scene. Took me a while to realise that I was in the middle of an advert for Preparation ‘H’ or similar. But then I get easily confused. Mind you I did the to/from flights from the UK and only got lost in an airport once this time. Anyway about 9.30pm everyone peeled off to his or her beds as did I but not before I sat in the porch UFO watching. Apparently there are so many passing over Sedona that the locals don’t take any notice of them any more. I didn’t see one. Hmmm. Anyroadup the result of the early to bed action would be that I would awaken everyday before dawn. Twas great lying in bed watching the sun come up and if impressive enough stagger out with the camera to capture that or the early touristy balloons floating gently around the mountains. So there you have it – Another Excellent Arizona Adventure. On my return home tho I was confronted by a bit of a disaster. Before I left I burnt all my photoshop Bubble pix to a DVD and cleared 30Gbs of space. I then deleted the pix. I just put the CD into the comp and it’s blank. So I have lost the lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Two things – after the journal entry I made regarding ‘To frame or not to Frame’ I had agreed with the majority and the plan was to delete my framed pix from the bubble then re-upload minus frames. So much for that idea. And the other thing? Well I still have the raw shots in the Kodak programme (successfully burnt to disc). So all is not quite lost. Anyway never mind that I have some scrumptious new AZ shots which if I ever get to the end of the 534 emails aimed at my record label which arrived during my holiday I will get to work uploading. Hope you like them. Actually I played hookie and have a couple ready which I will upload now. Take care Andy

• To RedBubble's Photographers
  by Barbara Sparhawk

  I see a lot of strong black and white, and monochrome, showing up along with the spectacular color. / And let me take this opportunity t…

  I see a lot of strong black and white, and monochrome, showing up along with the spectacular color. / And let me take this opportunity to thank you again for the extent to which you all enhance my visual experience and knowledge. I am filled with admiration for the photographers here, your skill, the unusual subject matter, brilliant captures of impossible color and shadow, and sense of play. / I’m a generation’s difference at least to many of you, and the photographers much present in my growing up life are not the same ones you know. When I posted the portrait I did of Georgia O’Keeffe, using the Alfred Stieglitz photograph of her, I was surprised that he was unknown to many. So if you’d had some pleasure in discovering these Americans of yore, may I direct you to a few other favorites of mine? / One, a photographer of the north west wilderness & Yosemite, who trudged around mountains with a huge Hasselblad, or Agfa or one of its ancient view camera relatives, is Ansel Adams. He was famous for long exposures and a brand new crystal clarity in pictures that few equaled. / Two, (also three four & five) The Weston family: Brett, Edward, and Cole. The latter recently passed away. The whole family did brilliant work, Brett’s my favorite, he worked in the forties, possibly into the 80’s, the family lived long lives. I know them from the area I live in and their ongoing fame in San Francisco, they’re locals survived by grandchildren keeping their galleries and memories alive. Again, pioneers in black and white film, and people whose work may interest the fine practitioners here. I wish I had the sense to put a link here, but if you type in any of their names, pages of their work appear. I hope it’s a good romp for newcomers to these boys.

• Back from a desert journey
  by Nolan Nitschke

  Well we made it back in one piece with some fantastic photography to share with all you all. Hope you enjoy! A photojourney taken with…

  Well we made it back in one piece with some fantastic photography to share with all you all. Hope you enjoy! A photojourney taken with my good friends and fellow photographers Nick / www.redbubble.com/people/collectiveone and Benjamin / www.redbubble.com/people/benjamincharles So definitly keep an eye on them as well as they will be bringing some amazing photography from the trip as well :)

• If they put me on a desert island...
  by Gregoryno6

  ...and I could only take one piece of music, it would be this. Crank it up to get those s…

  ...and I could only take one piece of music, it would be this. Crank it up to get those shivers rolling down your spine.

• Desert Storms
  by redhawk

  i am sorry I have not been able to upload new work or view anyone elses work, because we are having our “monsoon” season here and I do no…

  i am sorry I have not been able to upload new work or view anyone elses work, because we are having our “monsoon” season here and I do not have my computer plugged in with the lightening and hard rain happening. (I use the premise that if it is not plugged in it can’t get broke.) When it is not monsooning (I do not know if that is a word LOL) I will be looking at my watchlist and comment at that time. / Redhawk

• Counting down the days...........
  by lindah3719

  Im so excited…........ counting down the days until I get to finally travel west of Colorado…....... going with the fiance’ to his b…

  Im so excited…........ counting down the days until I get to finally travel west of Colorado…....... going with the fiance’ to his birthplace, Show Low AZ….. and then down into Casa Grande where his brother lives. I am hoping to stop in Page, AZ and get some shots of Antelope Canyon, and i hope we travel within shooting range of the Shiprock in NM as well…... We are going to drive into Tombstone and i am going to get some shots of the famous landmarks around tombstone….. ;) / So much to see…......................and take pictures of…............... Linda

• A night at the movies (pseudo review and randomizer)
  by AbyssalSoul

  nah, I don’t go to the cinema anymore. Last movie I saw was Cellular with my bro and I’ll skip any comments about it. Today the weird …

  nah, I don’t go to the cinema anymore. Last movie I saw was Cellular with my bro and I’ll skip any comments about it. Today the weird happened. I randomly tune a channel and stumble upon a movie that I know it’s going to be about opression, slavery and such. Three aborigine girls are separated from their mothers and forced to go to one of those horrible religious place along with many many other girls while a british “gentleman” (Mr. Neville the Devil, aka Mr. Blondie) is supossed to be their protector or something. More of a slave-dealer to me. Anyway, you might already know which movie I’m talking about. It’s aussie though we only realised it was aussie when the dude opened at fullscreen a map that clearly said “WESTERN AUSTRALIA” and “MELBOURNE” near that. We first thought it was the native americans (the real americans along with incas and aztechs and the other tribes/cultures), then, as we saw so much desert and “exotism” we thought it had to be South Africa and the appartheid or something like that but no cigar. It was RooLand© I started to realise as soon as one of the actors started talking and pronouncing words in that… well, “particular” aussie way =P Yes, Rabbit-Proof Fence. (here stupidly called: “Cerca de la Libertad” = “Close to Freedom”) Excellent movie. Great music and ambience. Pity I didn’t see a single kangaroo. “They don’t realise how much good we are trying to do them” (or something like that). When Mr. British said that… argh… So it’s based on a true story right? They showed the two girls (grown old) and explained such a horrible treatment to the aborigines was applied till 1970! Something about the “Stolen Generation” too. This reminded me of the ugly “Campaña del Desierto” (Desert’s Campaign) that one of our presidents carried back in the 1880 decade if I’m not wrong. They forced all the aborigines to retreat or be killed without mercy, using other aborigines, renegades and gauchos as the front line force. I won’t rate it as I liked it a lot and ratings don’t really serve much of a purpose. Funny facts: It was my father who started watching it. Then me, then my mum and then my bro joined a bit towards the end. Needlessly to say as soon as he noticed the words “Australia” he was all “tsk tsk I should’ve known”. Like it’s my fault the freaking movie is aussie. Anyway, he loved it. Which was good ‘cause he held still during the entire movie. 9 weeks walking… holy crap. I get lost just by thinking about the immensity of the territory…

• Thank you/Ta Heaps! and About Me
  by PatGoltz

  Folks, Thank you for the VERY warm welcome I received here. This site is a really good fit for me; I love it here. Already someone has…

  Folks, Thank you for the VERY warm welcome I received here. This site is a really good fit for me; I love it here. Already someone has bought my art. That’s awesome! One of the special features I love is the fact I can add an art work to one of my groups just by checking the box! What a great idea! Hopefully, there will be more connectivity, such as clickable links. I’d like to see the archives of the bubblemail I’ve sent, but I can’t find it. If someone knows, let ME know! Thanks! I’ll try to tell a little about myself from time to time, and the work I have been doing. Today, it will be about my photography. I first got serious about photography 50 years ago when I joined the photography club at school. I was able to use the darkroom. It was very interesting, and I enjoyed it a lot, though that was the end of my darkroom career, after that year. That’s OK. At that time, it was pretty much just black and white, though my dad started taking color slides before that. But I couldn’t afford that. Somewhere, he scrounged an old reel of unexposed 35mm film, which I sliced and loaded in cans myself. After that, I didn’t do much with photography until about ten years ago, mostly from lack of time. At that point, I suddenly became more free to do stuff like that because the last of my kids had left home, and I had finished taking care of my mother-in-law. That’s about when I got on the internet, too. I spend most of my time on the internet these days, but I also take trips to do photography. Every time I have an occasion to go somewhere else, I pack a pile of camera equipment, though if the restrictions on airlines get any worse, I probably won’t be flying much. But that’s OK, because I can always drive. :) Most of my photography is done in or around Arizona, but I have also been other places. In particular, I was delighted to be able to go to the ocean in Maine and Massachusetts. I need to go back; you don’t do all the ocean photography you want to do in a couple of days. For one thing, you have to wait for the right skies, and that’s not easy, though I did luck out some of the time. I also got to go to an awesome botanical garden and butterfly pavilion there. In Arizona, I have been all over the state, from south to north, west, and so forth. In the south, I have been to Nogales, Sonoita, Parker Canyon Lake, Patagonia Lake, the Catalina Mountains, the Santa Rita Mountains, the Rincon Mountains, the Tucson Mountains, the Silverbell Mountains, Kitt Peak and the Quinlan Mountains, Organpipe Cactus National Monument, Ajo, Yuma, Castle Rock Wilderness (thereby hangs a tale, which I’ll tell sometime), moving north, Phoenix, White Tank Mountains, Globe, Prescott, Sedona, Lake Havasu (and the London Bridge), Flagstaff and the San Francisco Peaks, Cosanti, Arcosanti, Biosphere II, Sunset Crater, Meteor Crater, Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, Wupatki Ruins, Toozigoot, Horseshoe Bend, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, Glen Canyon, the Vermilion Cliffs, Antelope Canyon, Jerome and some places within some of these destinations, and probably some places I can’t remember. In Utah, I have been to Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Grand Staircase/Escalante. I have more trips into Utah and New Mexico planned. You will get to see some of my photography from all these places. I have also photographed many animals and plants, and have studied the ethnobotany of the Sonoran Desert. I have been preparing a book on this subject, and I have taken thousands of photographs of plants for it. Some of them are good enough to show you, so I’ll be doing that. I frequently go to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, which has plants, birds, insects, animals, and many other creatures of the desert. Arizona has 8 species of hummingbirds, and I have photographed five of them. I also was able to photograph birds in their other aviary. About half my wild animal photos were actually taken in the wild, and the rest mostly at the Museum. I also go to the zoo and the botanical gardens less often. The butterfly photos I have taken in southern Arizona were taken in a butterfly garden, so they are technically wild and free. The butterfly pavilion in Phoenix is enclosed, as is the annual tropical butterfly display at the Tucson Botanical Gardens. I have photographed quite a few insects inside my home! It’s interesting sharing my home with all these critters. Most of them are perfectly OK with me. The only ones I don’t like are the ones that bite and sting. At the museum, I have been able to photograph a number of large cats of Arizona, bighorn sheep, jaguarundi, otters, coyotes, bears, deer, iguanas and collared lizards (in the wild, especially), prairie dogs, and many more. We have had javelina living here on our property, and they are not the least afraid of us. So I have gotten a number of closeups. They’re supposed to be dangerous, but as long as they are hungry or thirsty and you don’t corner them or threaten their young, they won’t bother you, though they look fierce enough! Some of the flowers I have photographed are so tiny (1/4” across, for example) you have to get on your belly to see them. We call these “belly flowers” for that reason. To begin with, I didn’t have a decent macro lens, so I reverse-mounted my 55mm with a string of closeup lenses on it, and was able to photograph belly flowers with that setup. Other flowers are spectacular, like the cactus flowers (hedgehog, saguaro, organpipe, claret cups, prickly pear, torch cactus, and cholla), and others are downright peculiar, like the flowers of the Ephedra plant (from which pseudephedrin was developed). It looks like nothing but a bunch of vaguely green stalks, and the flowers have no petals at all! I got pictures of the flowers at Picacho Peak, another place I’ve been. Picacho Peak was the site of the westernmost battle in the Civil War. Some flowers are edible. I like the petals of prickly pear and cholla, and I eat the whole flower of the palo verde tree. The palo verde (“green trunk” in Spanish) has chlorophyll in the trunk, and during the part of the year when it has no leaves, it makes food for itself in its trunk. The beans are very good when they are not fully developed and still green, but they’re a pain to pick out of the shell, one at a time. They taste like green peas, but sweeter. Another flower I like is the ocotillo flower. I like to pick those, stuff a gallon jar full of them, fill it with water, and leave it in the refrigerator for about 18 hours. It makes a wonderful punch. People like to cut the branches and tie them together to make fences. If you stick the end in the ground, it might take root, and then you will have a green fence! Hummingbirds like the flowers, and I like suck on them like honeysuckle. The bark is used medicinally for female troubles. Maybe sometime I’ll tell you more about the medicinal uses of various plants. There are a number of stinging insects in the Sonoran Desert. We have several kinds of bees (including killer bees at this point), wasps, yellow jackets, and so forth. We also have more than one size of red and black ants. There is a very unpretentious plant called Sand Spurge which has tiny leaves and lies on the ground, with belly flowers. It is a member of the Euphorbia family, and has a milky juice. If you put that juice on the sting, it will take the pain right out! You can also take the pain out by cutting a chunk of prickly pear and laying the inside on the skin. Be sure and make it large enough, because otherwise you will be pain free in the center, but as the venom spreads outside the area under the chunk, it will hurt! If none of these are available, a paste of water and baking soda works well. I’ll tell you more about the other insects in the future. I do tell people, if you can’t stand the critters, you don’t belong in the desert! The fruit of all native cactus is edible. I like to juice prickly pear fruit and drink it fresh. I like eating saguaro fruit right off the cactus, IF I can reach it. Hedgehog fruit tastes somewhat like strawberries, and you can also eat the flesh, but don’t eat it when it’s cold, because it will cool you down some more. Also, they are endangered, so don’t eat them much. I also like some of the berries. Wolfberries and hackberries are wonderful, but very small, so you have to eat a lot of them to get a real meal from them. The seeds are also edible, as are the seeds of the barrel cactus. The fruit of the barrel has the texture of very firm green peppers, and tastes like lime when green and lemon when yellow. One of my favorite foods is chia seeds, but it’s very hard to harvest enough of them. So I buy them. People sometimes plant pyracantha in the city. It’s not native. But the berries are edible. Prickly pear pads can be boiled and eaten; make sure the prickly pear is standing upright. The best are the young pads before the “leaves” form into thorns. They’re called “nopalitos” by the Spanish-speaking people, and they are delicious! You have to cook them about five minutes in lightly salted boiling water three times, changing water in between. Then you can mix it with your favorite meat chili or other good ingredients. Well, I could tell you about all the other edible things, but that will give you an idea. It would be difficult to survive in the desert any time of the year, but not impossible. See ya!

• High Maintenance
  by Adrena87

  I’ll be here when you are gone / Love’s song echoing in my brain / I’ll be here when you leave / Passion singing through my limbs / As though…

  I’ll be here when you are gone / Love’s song echoing in my brain / I’ll be here when you leave / Passion singing through my limbs / As though you were still here with me / I’ll be here when you stay / And I am gone… In my thoughts / In a place I cannot take you / A place only I know / No chaperone – No map marked with red… / Directions unsaid / I’ll be here when you are gone / When trying to understand just gets too hard / And my need for reassurance / just gets too draining / High maintenance / Too high / Too much / Too long / Saps the spirit / Drains the soul / Easier to let it go / I’ll be here / when you are gone..

• SHE WAS
  by caroline caux-evans

  She was , a flower in the desert, / Sensing the moment to take her envol, / A pearl in the sea, / Carrying within her, / The wisdom of the a…

  She was , a flower in the desert, / Sensing the moment to take her envol, / A pearl in the sea, / Carrying within her, / The wisdom of the ancients. / Her wings, / Love , / Her courage, / That of the Lion! / He was calling, / She was responding. / The veil was lifted. Caroline Caux April 8th 8.13pm copyright ! /

• Is my bias showing?
  by Enivea

  When I wrote about the Pink Petunias, it was in a lighthearted manner. But deeper down, I will confess to my bias against- STANDARD…

  When I wrote about the Pink Petunias, it was in a lighthearted manner. But deeper down, I will confess to my bias against- STANDARD WHITE ICEBERG ROSES / BOX HEDGES / PETUNIAS The reason is quite simply this: they are environmentally unsound. When I lived closer to the city, and on the country outskirts, I watched as acre after acre of formerly prime market garden land was turned into suburbs of deserts. Too many people followed the latest trend in gardening and planted those noted above. Row after row after row of houses had these. What diversity of life can these plants offer? Very very little. And without the diversity of life, we are lost. / The so-called gardens in these suburbs have very little in common with the suburbs of the 1950’s, which supplied families with an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables and flowers. And I might add, these homes (not houses) also had a rainwater tank, often raised up on a concrete form which provided a cool retreat in the summer. Who needed air-conditioning then? Now before you respond and tell me all about the wonders of the plants I have denigrated, just consider them as examples of the paucity of diversity when combined in the manner I have described. So really, it is not plants at fault at all, is it? Next time you decide to put in a plant, please consider what it offers to all who share this planet, and see what a difference a little thought can make.

• Thank you for all the kind words so far everyone.
  by Northwest Creations

  Incase anyone is interested t-shirts etc. available at www.cafepress.com/swcreations Thanks again

  Incase anyone is interested t-shirts etc. available at www.cafepress.com/swcreations Thanks again

• Love and Passion For Photography
  by Blooeyes34

  I have been doing Freelance Photography for more than 20 years. / I Tarvel so that I can Snap That “Certain” Picture that jumps out at me….

  I have been doing Freelance Photography for more than 20 years. / I Tarvel so that I can Snap That “Certain” Picture that jumps out at me.In a Moments Notice I will catch”That” picture. / I have found that you will get the best photo when you least expect it..So always have your camera ready. / I never leave home without mine. The littlest object, can make a picture worth a Million. Stop by and tell me what you think of my photos.I am new here,would like to meet fellow Photographers,aswell as friends.