This is a photo of Grand Falls on the Little Colorado River northeast of Flagstaff. It is quite an adventure to drive the thirty miles over a washboard road. We were amazed to find a four-way stop sign in the middle of nowhere. Believe me I don't think there was a building within fifteen miles of the four-way stop.
Nice photo.
Did you have safe stopping sight distance in all directions for the prevailing speeds? If you did, the 4-way stop in the middle of nowhere is a joke and the authorities should remove it.
That was a four-way stop on the Navajo Reservation. Actually the road was so rough you could not go faster than 25 mph. The approaches to the intersection were open and clear for at least a mile. I thought maybe they landed airplanes on that strip of road.
I use an old Nikon D-200 with a 18mm wide angle lens on a tripod with a remote control. Actually I prefer a Nikon D-80 cause it is much simpler to use. I shot film for forty years and now I am learning how to use digital cameras. The photo of the falls came out pretty good, but I should have taken it much later in the evening, however I didn't want to be in the middle of the Reservation late at night driving back from the site. Thanks for the comment. I really enjoyed the photos of the Gopher snake. When I was a kid my dad called them Bull snakes. We were raised in Christmas, AZ and Tonto Basin, but attended school in Globe. Dad bought me an old Sear's Tower Box Camera to learn with. He allowed me a rolled of film once every two weeks. As a youngster I had a great time taking photos of the desert. To this day I cherished the photos I took with that old camera in the late forties and early fifties.
Say do any of you folks remember the canvas burlap water bags we carried on the front of cars or the window swamp cooler for cars or trucks? My mother always packed our with ice for the trip from Christmas to Chloride and also for our trip from Phoenix to Victorville and Oro Grande where my uncle and aunt lived.
Thanks for the comments and I hope I didn't get carried away with the dialogue.
I remember those canvas water bags, we used to hang one off the side mirror back when I first started surveying....And before that, as a boy traipsing around the desert with my eldest brother. To tell you the truth, I never had much affection for that luke warm water.
You had a good daddy! Mighty fine of him to get you started in the hobby!
Lots of people still call them Bull Snakes. In modern nomenclature, Bull snakes are a subspecies of the Gopher Snake clade and range across the mid-west. Sonoran Gopher Snakes occupy most of Arizona, and Great Basin Gopher Snakes live in the Northern parts of the state.
