pg 20 Lots of water where you are, huh? I like the 3rd one a lot. Are there beavers there?

Nice stuff...that last one is a Christmas card for sure.

Photogirl started this challenge with a quote from Ansel Adams...here's a B+W (mostly) set that he would never claim as his own, but I must.

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Yosemite - Nevada Falls, from the trail between Vernal Falls and Nevada Falls


Tetons after the clouds


A dusting - Big Bear Lake, CA


The Merced River in Yosemite Valley on a cloudy day


Ysemite Falls in Spring


Finally, the "mostly" part...a sorta natural duo tone at a geyser basin in Yellowstone, late in the day.

Big Bear Lake. Former Serrano Native American valley homestead, with lots of Grizzly Bears back when. Became a mini Gold Rush site during the big one in Central/North CA. Now a days, a bit sleepy, but 3 big-ish ski mountains and lots of lake oriented summer fun. We tend to hike and enjoy the solitude on non-busy times of the week/year. Still skiing a little too. Our home is at 7,400 ft. elevation. We enjoy the thin air as long as we don't need to do anything strenuous :)

You mentioned Idlewild, I think, as someplace you knew. That is on the foothills to San Gorgonio (SoCal's highest mountain, I think...11,500 ft or so), kinda near Palm Springs. Big Bear is North of that a little in the next mountain range over the 10 freeway, just west of the somewhat famous Jashua Tree NP, with their milky way viewing fame...I've never been there for that. Not a big desert fan...or is that dessert? I like sweets, just not hot and dry, whichever that is. :) Sorry for the wiki response...just got interested in my own location's travel log a bit.

There's the train or drugs for the airplane

pg5 Wow RR! Pretty spectacular (if chilly). Are these sun sets or rises?

pg 3 Very Nice...looks like a great place to live. Is there a name for this place?

pg 2 I enjoyed seeing your travel log of the CA coast this last month. The Northern part is particularly spectacular, I think.

I like the two images of Horseneck Beach...I think I like the darker one better (although both are wall-worthy), it feels more moody and the sun on the horizon is that much more glowing. :)

Thanks for hosting (again) Photogirl. You've picked a topic that my hard drive is full of. It's making it hard to choose what to share.

To simplify, I've finally decided to stay close to home(s).

Here's a few... (there's not very much "land" in some of these...I hope they still fit the scheme)
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The beach with the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the distance.


Sand dunes blowing up on the beach, with Palos Verdes in the distance...and even more distant, Santa Catalina Island, 30+ miles off shore.


On the PV Peninsula with California Poppies in bloom.


and a couple from our other home in the SoCal Mountains.

Probably my last for this challenge...it has been very interesting to see all the different interpretations of "Wall art and graffiti".

My wife has a Masters in Public Art Administration from USC. She always makes a distinction between "public art" (which must be commissioned/owned publicly) and "Art in Public Places", which applies to everything else. In 2017 we spent 3 weeks wandering around Spain. It was a great time.

I have been making photo memory books of all of our trips. The one I made for our Spain trip ended with this image.

Here is what I wrote about it then....it still makes me choke up a bit when I see this image again. I hope you enjoy it.


"One home...above a Pintxo Bar in Donostia, had fit together a simple bench, on which to place a sculpture of Dad and Son, (or some other relation...it doesn't really matter who is being depicted) fishing....with Love as the bait.

That's probably what we all do, all the time.

This sculpture is a little dirty, a little worn, and a little ragged. But it is special!

This book uses pictures to document our visit to Spain, Catalonia and the Basque Country, but it can't capture the essence of the people we met there.

I believe we are all the same, around the world, all wanting love, peace and comfort.

It doesn't require very much wealth, but it does require compassion and the willingness to listen.

Maybe that's what happens when you fish with love as bait."

3 & 4 should be for sale in an art gallery (or at least hanging on your wall) - beautiful!

pg 8 Wow! There's perspective manipulation! Cool, and I glad you said looking up. Not sure I would have understood otherwise.

Here are a couple of street art pieces from Ennis, MT....the self-professed capital of fly fishing.

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life-sized metal sculptures in a park




the fish


The fisherman

sticking with Spain, here is wall art by Keith Haring, in Barcelona. And some "intentional" graphiti on a University wall in Barcelona.

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Here's a couple from Spain, Catalonia in particular. Here flies are sacred wall art, attached to buildings and painted onto glass elevator shaft walls. Google Sant Narcís and his flies if you want to know more.

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