I’ve been really quite on the blog this month.  It’s almost the middle of the month and only one post and that was last night.

There are two exciting trips coming up that should produce some great photographs.

First is a long weekend in northern Oregon.  I’ll be joining my brother Roger Nordstrom and good friend Jack Graham over Memorial Day weekend for some good photography on the coast and inland.

Then the day after returning from Oregon I’ll be heading North to Alaska with my family on my daughter’s middle school field trip.  Our entry and exit point will be Anchorage and the trip will extend south to Seward and north as far as Denali.  That will be two weeks of virtually non-stop shooting.

Looking back a little over a week, I was in Joshua Tree National Park the first weekend of May.  Would you believe it, the spring wild flower bloom was still going strong but now it’s moved up to the high desert (4000 feet elevation).  There are a couple of burn areas in the park where the flowers literally formed a carpet.  In an older burn area the carpet consisted mainly of wildly yellow desert dandelion.  In the fresher burn area the carpet was made up of soft white alisium.  The flowers were so think there was no way you could walk in them without stepping on them. 

A canyon wash I hiked up was vibrant with yellow senna and the cacti were showing off in the most gaudy (and wonderful) magentas.  Oh, and to top it all off the ocotillo boom was still hanging in there although the previous weekend would have been better.  But the sunrise Sunday morning couldn’t have been better.  Spectacular pink and gold clouds hung in the deep blue morning sky above the spindly ocotillo.  It was a great weekend.

The images from these trips will be posted on Nordstrom Fine Arts Landscapes.  Check back to see them.