Wet rocks are no dumber than dry rocks. I checked.

No photos of scenic Bullhead City?

The last of the contiguous states to join....... we kept them out as long as we could.

I bet she knows how to use punctuation Subby is Dumberer dont you think!

Dude, I have such a love/hate relationship with this god forsaken place.

Happy Centennial AZ!

Mirrorz: LDM90: I bet she knows how to use punctuation Subby is Dumberer dont you think!

The headline submission thingy removes punctuation.

/not subby.

Subby should still work on his/her grammar.

Gorgeous pictures. Thank you.

Enjoy the natural wonders of Arizona!

Happy centennial, Arizona.

/ from you neighboring state of New Mexico, also celebrating it's centennial.

// ever find yourself actually LIKING your adopted home-state?

Mirrorz: LDM90: I bet she knows how to use punctuation Subby is Dumberer dont you think!

The headline submission thingy removes punctuation.

/not subby.

If you look at some of the other headlines, you'll notice that only the punctuation at the end of the headline is omitted, any punctuation in the middle is permitted (except ! IIRC). As it stands, subby needs to take a pregnancy test because she missed a period between hell and Dumber.

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/I found that missing period subby.

"They gave me a big cupcake, like this. They said I was the President of Arizona."

Needs moar pics of the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest National Park.

Ha! Nice try subby, but the U. S. of A has 50 states, has always had 50 states, and will always have 50 states. Learn some history, George Washington didn't include DC when he built it, and you shouldn't spread lies about other states being allowed to join.

Wellon Dowd: Enjoy the natural wonders of Arizona!

That is the first picture that makes me at all interested in the state.

my_cats_breath_smells_like_cat_food: Ha! Nice try subby, but the U. S. of A has 50 states, has always had 50 states, and will always have 50 states. Learn some history, George Washington didn't include DC when he built it, and you shouldn't spread lies about other states being allowed to join.

Obama recently added it but tried to keep it secret. He couldn't fool the Arizona Truthers though. Why does Obama hate Arizona and the truth?

Some outstanding photos. Any easterners that have never ventured west of the Mississippi, you absolutely have to. No flights, drive. I have been lucky enough to see all 48 contiguous states via road trip during my lifetime. There are some truly fantastic sites in this great land.

Gorgeous, gorgeous photos, but...

FTFA: Wupatki National Monument, off old Route 66

Did they forget to build the monument?

goodidea for a PS contest: Painted and/or Petrified...

Yeah, and as she gets old she becomes more and more racist and senile.

Walker: Arizona, forever remembered as the last state to make Martin Luther King Day a holiday, and they fought aggressively against it. Thanks Arizona, for making my state of Virginia look less racist than you.

I remember MLK being added to Lee-Jackson Day with very little fuss.

I went a couple blocks over to the state capital on Saturday to do the centennial festival. Now mind you, not all Phoenix is bad. I live in a historic district next to a fairly large art scene in the downtown area. Typically, we don't mesh well with the burbs. While I knew the event would be a state wide celebration, I expected... well, normalish people.

Instead, Arizona had a biker rally. I would have to guess that 4 out of 5 people at the capital were white trash, hicks, or bikers. Mostly a combination of all three. I could never imagine a centennial event happening anywhere with so much bottom feeders in attendance. The ambience was enhanced by the fact that the capital is in an industrial parl. It's surrounded by a huge train yard on the western and southern sides. That and it's under the landing path for SkyHarbor airport. Yep, motorcycle gangs, landing jets, and trains rolling past. Welcome to highball Arizona.

Of course, the worst sound was saved for last. Arizona got the best local band they could to play for the finale. The Gin Blossoms finished the night off for us. Under fireworks of course. Well, kinda fireworks. They couldn't go that high in the air, less they take out a jumbo jet overhead.

Mykeru: No photos of scenic Bullhead City?

HAHAHAHA!!

Stop, you're killing me! Oh, damn my sides hurt!

If she uses proper punctuation and capitalization then she's a hell of a lot smarter than subby.

My pics of our SW vacation are offline now, so I can't add to the thread, but I agree, needs moar Painted Desert.

Oh, and La Posada Hotel. While not a natural wonder, a wonderful place to stay in Winslow. Its the "other" reason to visit Winslow, besides Standin' on the Corner.

Well, and the big fiberglass bulldog.

Wow, how'd you guys get all the Mexican gangbangers to clear out long enough to take such awesome pictures?

I'd hit it....oh wait...what? Gotta read them articles I guess...hehehehehe....bloody state income tax or I might live there....

The AZ bashing in this thread is worse than Subby's Headline.

theorellior: That's an HDR photo, isn't it. For some reason HDR photography enters the Uncanny Valley for me. My brains says, "Ain't no farking way the light looks like that. Fa-a-a-a-a-ake!"

Perhaps. It's not my image. One thing I've noticed about nature images, and particularly images of desert scenes, is that plain old photography often does not capture what the eye sees. For example, in the red rock country, photos often look flat, depthless, and colorless compared to what you see with the human eye when you're actually there. So enhancing the contrast and color saturation might be "fa-a-a-a-a-a-ake," but it helps one appreciate what one might actually perceive if one was to go there in person. Compare the image just above (from Whitmore Point) with the "fake" image of Rain God Mesa, for example. I guarantee you the image from Whitmore Point does not convey the depth and color of the scene - how it would actually look to the naked eye - as well as the other.

So, farkin' A the light does indeed look like that - "fake" is in a way more authentic than "real."

Saw something about it in today's paper.

Arizona is a female?

I thought maybe subby was talking about Jan Brewer.

Gaumond: Love this state, hate brewer and her cronies. Nice thing about Tucson is it isn't Phoenix.

Now I'm going to celebrate with one of these:

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I would chop off my pinky toe for that hot dog right now. Damn that looks good.

/Misses AZ
// Sierra Vista FTW