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A Photo a Week Challenge: View

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The view behind the visitor's center at Usery Park
The view behind the visitor’s center at Usery Mountain Regional Park in Mesa, Arizona.

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Bokeh

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When you focus your camera lens on a foreground subject, sometimes the background is pleasingly blurred. That blur is referred to as bokeh:

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Insects

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Anything

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My daughter and I saw a chuckwalla enjoying the scenery while hiking in Usery Park last June. My entry for the Photo a Week Challenge.

A Photo A Week Challenge: Signs

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For Nancy Merrill’s photo challenge this week, here is a shoppe sign from the Renaissance Festival:

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And a sign on Old Main at Arizona State University, dating back to when it was a teacher’s college:

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And the sign to my favorite prayer garden:

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Texture

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For Nancy Merrill’s challenge this week:

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The Shachi, from the Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix

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A Photo a Week Challenge: View

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Today I’m taking Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge. Here’s a view taken at North Mountain Park in Phoenix:

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And this one is a view of our backyard featuring Ralph the chihuahua and Mr. Peebody the fountain:

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And this is a view of a small portion of the Rose Garden at Mesa (Arizona) Community College:

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Bridges

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My daughter Katie invited me to visit Boyce Thompson Arboretum with her today. It was my first time, and I will be happy to return. The Arboretum in Superior, Arizona, is full of lush plants that thrive in the desert. I will be posting a photo essay soon, but for now, here is a footbridge for Nancy Merrill’s challenge:

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Music

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A Photo a Week Challenge: Music

My offerings for Nancy Merrill’s Photo a Week Challenge:

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In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt.

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Litany of Diseases
(and some things that are not)
by ARHuelsenbeck

Streptococcus
Staphylococcus
Measles
Meningitis

Roseola
Salmonella
Gastroenteritis

Scarlet fever
Yellow fever
Mononucleosis

Chicken pox
Tuberculosis
E. coli and
Halitosis

Bird flu
Swine flu
Cystitis
Influenza

UTI
HIV
Your grandma’s old credenza

Common cold
Mad cow disease
Ebola and
Pneumonia

West Nile virus
Lyme disease
Addictive cellophonia

Cholera, mumps
Anthrax
Malaria and
Rabies

Hepatitis
Botulism
Tetanus and
Babies