Fooled me.

Since when does the southwest have winters like this? owwwwtrageous.

My 2013 mantra is better than yours. But we can share if you like.

I'm a known cheeseball so please endure this cheeseball new year confession: this might just be a girl's best swinging-the-world-by-the-tail song evah. (And this video in its jewel toned glory? haaale.) It also can't hurt that Alicia Keys is and forever will be my wannabe doppelgänger. 

stevie wonder aint got nothin on you.

Lost Dutchman State Park is a place that's best seen by stepping back a few paces, and then taking a couple more. Everything is so grand and enormous and fitting for a wide angle lens. Standing close made you feel small. The canyon walls, the towering cactuses, were giants and the scale of things only got bigger after the hike to the summit when the entire desert floor reached to the horizon.

batman and robin. ben and jerry. lady and the tramp. thelma and louise.

Whatever you want to call it, it was downright fantastic to have a travel companion again. (even better when that partner loves, hell, even requests being photographed.)