A few days ago, I jumped in the car and headed east into the Superstition Mountains for a quick photo safari. It never ceases to amaze me that within a 20 or 30 minute drive from home I can be in wilderness.  Because I was out at the end of the day on a weekday, nobody else was around.  So I was often able to stop in the middle of the road, sometimes for several minutes, to get a shot.  I saw a ton of wildlife – quail, a snake crossing the road, a group of turkey vultures clustered on the asphalt, desert hares, lizards and a bunch of birds whose names I don’t know.  The views both to the east and the west were spectacular.  It was a well-spent couple of hours – complete catharsis.  Here are a couple of images:

Superstition Mountains Haze

Tortilla Flat

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