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June 10, 2016 – This spring I spent several days in northwest Arizona, mostly in the rural Navajo areas this time. Rather than photograph the usual places (Canyon de Chelly), I wanted to really get far into the back country, explore it, and meet people out there. Wow! I saw things that certainly rival Canyon de Chelly and Monument Valley: West and north beyond Many Farms; Northeast beyond Round Rock; and east past Lukachukai and over into the Red Rock and Cove area. I’ve combined those photographs in this gallery of NW Arizona (click here) . I think the most enjoyable part of this trip was seeing the herds of horses that live out in those open, un-fenced expanses. I was lucky to photograph some of the most beautiful horses I have ever seen (click here) . There were also lots of wildflowers in bloom, so I spent a lot of time getting those in focus (click here) , as well as a few nicely-placed trees (click here) . You can’t have livestock out there without having windmills and water tanks. Since some artistic Indians like to paint the tanks, I enjoyed taking photos of their work and made a gallery for those (click here) . I’ve also added more photographs that try to portray how native ways are part of the landscape (click here) . One of the highlights was meeting and talking to a Navajo woman who came by as I was photographing what appeared to be an abandoned homesite. It was where her grandparents had lived and where she had played as a child. That was a terrific reminder that places really aren’t abandoned out there, just temporarily uninhabited. On the trip, I took some photographs around Winslow, including the restored historic hotel, La Posada (click here). Also added a few to storm skies (click here) and horizons(click here) , too.