Trying out a couple of nearby spots:

I'm constantly complaining to Ross about where we live. It's not conducive to beautiful pictures. Or at least not the kind I want. We don't have fields full of wheat or corn or dandelions. We don't have groves of trees that make beautiful messes in the fall. We don't have the beach, or the snow, ANYthing in bloom really besides bougainvillea, or much of nature in general. We aren't a big city and so don't have awesome urban backdrops, but we're not a small town with a quaint, run-down 'main street' with brick buildings and peeling paint. We are the desert. We have dirt, and palm trees, lots of golf courses and man-made stuff. We have some awesome modern architecture in Palm Springs, but it doesn't really do ME any good. So this was my attempt at a field in the desert. It's right down the street from my house, mostly, it's a patch of weeds surrounded by dirt. I shouldn't have told you... could you tell?

I feel like I'm getting carried away with posting pictures on my blog. So much that I'm not finding the time to write. And I don't always keep up on the normal stuff (like the stuff that happens at night time when it's too dark to take pretty pictures). I started a private photo-blog a while back that I never really updated and I think I'm going to un-private it, and start keeping most of my photos over there, because lets face it, it's really hard for me to discriminate and these posts can get pretty long. So this was my attempt at "just a few". There's more from this "shoot" on MyPhotoBlog.