Roger Blake Photography

SPRING BARN

roger — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:05:12 +0000

Trees are leafing out with delicate hues of green. Yellow mustard flowers are splashed over the grassy hills. White dogwood blossoms dot the woods, but it is still early. Until the wild azaleas bloom, it really isn’t Spring in the hills of southwestern Virginia.

BUCKBOARD

roger — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:41:07 +0000

Photo taken in the carriage barn at the Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona. It is the oldest trading post in the United States and on the National Register of Historic Sites. It is worth a visit to see the massive hand-cut timbers holding up the earthen roof, to take in the musty smell of hay and horses, and to walk the same dirt floors as our ancestors.

BLUE DOOR - McCarty, New Mexico

roger — Wed, 02 May 2007 00:50:47 +0000

There are certainly more old blue doors in New Mexico than in the entire rest of the universe.

THE WHITE HOUSE - CANYON de CHELLY, ARIZONA

roger — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:26:51 +0000

The White House is nestled in a sheer sandstone cliff that drops 700 feet from the canyon rim to the narrow valley floor. The rock structure has a coat of white plaster that gives the ancient cliff dwelling it’s name. It was last occupied approximately 300 years ago by ancestors of the current Navajo nation.

KACHINA -

roger — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:08:54 +0000

Kachinas convey wonder, mystery, and connections between reality and the spirit worlds. If an image is old and peeling, so much the better. Imagination is much more powerful than reality. This fragment is from a wall painting on a long-closed trading post in Divide, New Mexico. - RB