This month, since TreeSquares is over, I decided to participate in Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – (FOTD). Like Becky B, Cee offers us the freedom to post every day or when we feel like it. I made the mistake of classifying my trees as flowers for about half the month last month. So this month – no trees. (maybe). Cee’s FOTD challenge accepts:
- Single flowers
- Buds
- Multiple flowers
- Bouquet
- Flower fields
- Wildflowers
- Tree or bush blossoms
- Autumn leaves
- Spring leaves
- Decorative Cabbage
- Berries
WHO’S HEARD OF MORTIMER FARMS?
The good news is that if you travel from Prescott to Sedona, you drive right by Mortimer Farms. We’ve been doing it for almost a year now, meaning to stop when we had a chance. It looks like a beginning days Knotts Berry Farm.
We were on our way down to Sedona with Terri Webster Schrandt and her husband when suddenly Vince veered off the road into the parking lot. It was Sunday afternoon almost 90 degrees and only one parking spot in the entire parking lot. Terri and I got it. The men were nice enough to go fetch.
FOTD #26
In spite of the heat, the flowers along the fence were vibrant.
If it had been spring before my experience with bunny rabbits nibbling my plants down to the nub, I would have had a cart piled high with these beauties. Instead I got my camera out to capture their beauty to enjoy during the cold winter months.
one of the last chances to post a red flower to Jude’s Life in Colour
Thursday Trios
Along the fence was a fabulous old tractor, so this next three pictures of wheels apply towards Carol’s Thursday Trios Photo Challenge. I don’t know what these wheels process, and the attendants were way too busy to ask, so next time I go in the next year of two I’ll find out for you. I looked online, but to no avail.
Mama Cormier’s Thursday Trios is not up yet, but you will enjoy An Explosion of Wacky Birds.
UP COMING
Story Chat Guest hosted by Cathy Cade.
PPAC #11 ON FRIDAY
Have you run out of ideas? Here are some of the wonderful examples of public art we have seen in our first ten weeks of Photographing Public Art.
- SCULPTURES
- STEPS
- WATER TOWERS
- MURALS
- BUILDING AND STORE FRONTS
- CHALK ART (ART DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PERMANENT)
- MOSIACS
- SAND ART (LAPC post that qualifies)
- LIGHTS
- CUT OUT FIGURES
- SIGNS
- YARN BOMBS
- STICK SCULPTURES IN THE WOODS
- GIANT BALLOON ART
- CHEWING GUM
What’s in your archives?
Have a wonderful rest of your week.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
30 responses to “FOTD #26: Mortimer Farms in Dewey Humbolt, AZ”
Thanks for the shout out, Marsha. Just back from a fabulous time in the UK and trying to gather my thoughts.
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You are welcome. Glad you are back. It’s good to gather your thoughts rather than leaving between UK and your home! 🙂
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some vibrant, lovely, and lively looking flowers despite the heat!
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Very nice wheels pictures, Marsha.
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Wheeeeel, thank you! 🙂
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Lovely pics.
The rusty red wheels are pulleys, probably part of a drive chain to drive a piece of an equipment-maybe a vibrating screen or a vibro feeder. They certainly are a good subject for photography. 🙂
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I’ve never heard of a vibro feeder. Looking at images on Google, it might have been a gigantic one. I will have to call them. I want to make another visit when it isn’t so busy. Sunday afternoon is not the time to go. 🙂 Thanks for your comment, GDUTTA. 🙂
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My pleasure. A vibro feeder is nothing but a vibrating feeding mechanism…it is given a shake mechanically to make the material.move forward on it. Usually attached below a chute or storage bin. 😊
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It kind of looks like that is what it is, then. Thanks, Gdutta.
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Beautiful flowers but I’m attracted to the rusty wheels.
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I was too, for some crazy reason. I love rusty stuff! 🙂
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Beautiful blooms!!
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Thanks, they were perfect for photographing. 🙂
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They did look wonderful! That said, I thought the old wheels looked great too! 😉
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I can tell by reading one article of yours that you are a superior historian. I am an amateur of the rankest level, but I love rusty stuff. You should have seen our house in CA. It was on an acre basically decorated in rust. LOL
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Haha, not at all but things I find interesting do tend to excite my attention and I have always been one to double-check a double-check! 😉
I like rust too!! Have shed full of old iron implements and hand-forged stuff that I’ll never use but thought they were too good to let rot! 🙂
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Or too rotten to not keep. Our biggest find – a 1966 Ford Dump Truck. Here are some photos from our yard. We moved from there last Nov. so now all I have are my photos to remind me. https://alwayswrite.blog/2020/11/10/sunday-stills-decorate-with-the-weathered-look/
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Haha that is great!!!
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Beautiful photos.
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Thanks, Sadje!!
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You’re welcome
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Oh what beautiful gardens. You even got a dahlia 😀
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Just for you!
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Thank you for two of my public art links! See you tomorrow! Love the three wheels most of all.
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I thought they were too cool! Thanks, Manja.
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Thanks for adding the red flowers!
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Just for you, Jude!
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what a lovely farm and your pics are beautiful. looks like those bunnies won’t be pesky here, 👏👏👏
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Not like at my house!
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😂💝
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