Nikki's Photography

Sun setting on the way back from Nakiska Ski Resort, Hwy 1, Alberta

Thousands of Grackles gather every evening at sunset throughout neighborhoods in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Texas. It doesn’t take long to learn not to park your car under trees.

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Awesome sunset near Little Rock, Arkansas – heading back to Dallas…and Happy 26th Birthday, Adrian!

During the summer in northern Alberta, the sun can be seen on the horizon late into the night… 11 p.m. Edmonton, Alberta

Oklahoma landscape at sunset

A colony of cormorants lives on SS Palo Alto, a beached concrete ship at Seacliff State Beach, CA

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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA

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Mohave Desert sunset near Edwards Air Force Base, CA. 5,000 wind turbines all spinning miles into the horizon is a thrilling sight to see, even if you don’t appreciate their great contributions. I suppose I’m pretty naive in assuming that everyone everywhere holds the sake of the planet in highest regard, even at the risk of paying higher taxes and energy bills…which are inevitable anyway no matter what resources we consume, and if we depend on others to create electrical energy for us.
Proposition 7, a Renewable Energy Generation Initiative Statute proposes all Government owned and private Utility companies in the State of California to generate 20% of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2010, 40% by 2020, and 50% by 2025, with possible penalties for not complying. I was kind of surprised that there is a controversy at all until hearing arguments from both sides. Now I’m confused! Who do I believe? A contraversial statute with good arguements from both sides. For details visit voterguide.sos.ca.gov/audio/proposition7.htm
To give an idea of scale of each Wind Turbine at the Tehachapi Pass, California, apparently six people can fit inside to fix and maintain the turbines.

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New Mexico sunset, Hwy 40 going West.

The Sunflower plant has so much character. Here the flower heads droop with the weight of seeds against the backdrop of a spectacular sunset — silhouettes nodding and swaying against the sky. Amazing!

I was just coming home from shopping so I missed capturing the double rainbow arching over our neighborhood after a short storm. Both ends were visible, and rare sights like that are so electrifying! I hurried home to get the camera, then still managed a few shots of the golden glow accentuating everything as the sunset.

Thunderbird Park, Royal BC Museum, Victoria, BC

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Arbutus trees, first thumbnail, only grow in the Pacific Northwest, here on Salt Spring Island, B.C. and in parts of China, nowhere else in the world. They are popular carve-your-name-in-the-trunk trees because the bark heals into a soft well-defined scar. A few trees on the island have been abused like this. Still, they couldn’t take the beautiful away! Groups of three and four Fluted Swallowtails spiraled in and out of the sunlight as I walked down the mountain road on Salt Spring Island. Fortunately one briefly settled on a fir tree.