Special Places # 37

I started my blog on September 11th, 12 years ago…


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Photo Art by H.J. Ruiz


Photo Gallery



1 – Top Left: Petroglyph found in Navajo territory at Monument Valley N.P. Utah.

2 – Top Right – Upper Row: Still Life by H.J. ( Decanter is part of my antique collection.)

3 – Top Right – Lower Row: Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore  in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture’s design and oversaw the project’s execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son, Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features the 60-foot (18 m) heads of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt(1858–1919) and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), as recommended by Borglum. The four presidents were chosen to represent the nation’s birth, growth, development and preservation, respectively. The memorial park covers 1,278 acres (2.00 sq mi; 5.17 km2) and the actual mountain has an elevation of 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.

4 – Bottom Left: White house, with pure white sand in front on the beach in Gulf Beach Island, Florida.

5 – Bottom Middle: View of a farm, far to the valley in Triangle, Upstate New York.

6 – Bottom Right: Acacia tree in the hot Negev Desert, Israel.


© HJ Ruiz – Avian101 – Some info from Wikipedia.

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