Scavenger Hunt Sunday

This is my first entry into Scavenger Hunt Sunday. Normally this wouldn't be something I would do. Given five subjects and seek them out to photograph can be a challenge, but I do like a good challenge now and then, so here goes.

What is it?

(answer at the end)

Fur Baby Sleeping
Sinbad napping in the late afternoon sun rays.

What more needs to be said?

Joy
I went with a different route than this subject was meant to be.
Done with an ultra wide angle at the grocery store.

Window

Scavenger Hunt Sunday rules encourage you to use fresh photos but old ones are okay too. Well this is my "old one" and I like this picture from inside of an abandoned house in the middle of the desert with the natural decaying process going on. We all are going through a natural decaying process but rest assured, there is that bright light through the window.

Half

I was really at a loss for this one until I drove by this raccoon roadkill.
It just spoke out to me "This is it."
The back half of the raccoon standing up on end looking as if he was squeezing down into a burrow.
Where the front half was, I don't know.

The answer to the first photograph is that it is a large container I have in my study. In it I have put a 1 inch layer of soil from places I have been, comprised of interesting material in their make-up.

Bottom to the top is:

From a 400 square mile alkali lake bed in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada

Red Rock Canyon in the high desert of California north of Mojave

Desert soil from Anza Borrego (I just like this place)

Salt from the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

Arches National Monument, Utah

Death Valley, California

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

~ there is space for 4 more "special" places yet ~

I'd like to give a thank you to Ms. Becky at Shaking The Tree for encouraging me to do this.

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