Petrified

Broken Petrified Tree, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, October 9, 2011
Broken Petrified Tree, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, October 9, 2011

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Natural Tunnel

Crape Myrtle Allee, Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, March 13, 2011
Crape Myrtle Allee, Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, March 13, 2011

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Mississippi Beach Sunset

Sunset, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, July 3, 2011
Sunset, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, July 3, 2011

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High Flow

Cedar Falls with High Flow, Petit Jean State Park, October 31, 2009
Cedar Falls with High Flow,Cedar Falls Trail Petit Jean State Park, October 31, 2009

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Raven

Bronze Raven, At Entrance to Visitor Center, Arches National Park, September 21, 2011
Bronze Raven, At Entrance to Visitor Center, Arches National Park, September 21, 2011

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Palace Tower

Square Tower, Cliff Palace, cliff dwelling, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, September 13, 2009
Square Tower, Cliff Palace, cliff dwelling, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, September 13, 2009

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World’s Most Expensive Painting by a Woman

Art on Sunday #2

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1.
1932, 48” by 40”, oil on canvas
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
(photo August 1, 2015)

American artist Georgia O’Keeffe was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers and New Mexico landscapes. Recognized as the “Mother of American modernism,” O’Keeffe was born November 15, 1887 in a farmhouse near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. (Wikipedia)

When it sold for $44,405,000 at Sotheby’s American Art sale on November 20, 2014, O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work of art by a woman and one of the most expensive works of American art.  Purchased by WalMart heiress Alice B. Walton for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, the painting was sold by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with proceeds going to its acquisitions fund.

Artist Georgia O’Keeffe, 1932 gelatin silver print by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz

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Colorado National Monument

Devils Kitchen Trail, Colorado National Monument, Colorado, September 11, 2011
Devils Kitchen Trail, Colorado National Monument, Colorado, September 11, 2011

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Ice!

West Central Arkansas - After the early December 2013 Ice & Snow Storm
West Central Arkansas – After the early December 2013 Ice & Snow Storm

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Curlycup

Curlycup gumweed, Custer State Park, South Dakota, August 22, 2007
Curlycup gumweed, Custer State Park, South Dakota, August 22, 2007

Grindelia squarrosa (Wikipedia)

Grindelia squarrosa, also known as a curly-top gumweed or curlycup gumweed, is a small North American biennial or short-lived perennial plant.

It is native to western and central North America, from British Columbia east to Québec and New England, and south as far as California, Arizona, Chihuahua, and Texas. The species may possibly be naturalized in much of the eastern part of that distribution

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