
Broken Petrified Tree, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, October 9, 2011
More on Petrified Forest National Park on Exit78:
- Petrified, July 13, 2015
- Petrified Forest, December 24, 2013

Broken Petrified Tree, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, October 9, 2011
More on Petrified Forest National Park on Exit78:
- Petrified, July 13, 2015
- Petrified Forest, December 24, 2013

Sunset, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, July 3, 2011
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

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

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