They say there’s a pot of gold at the end of each rainbow. But sometimes, when you’re staring at a pot of gold, you should leave it aside to go look for the rainbow instead. Sometimes, the rainbow is worth a great deal more.

[Click on the image above to view the full album.]

It was –2°C on this Saturday morning, and the warmth from the Sun had not yet thawed the grass and leaves that were covered with frost.

Photos of my trip to Irvine, California, followed by Death Valley National Park, Dante’s View, Badwater, Beatty and various other places along the route. It was an exciting Thanks­giving weekend.

Knowing that winter was just around the corner and weather like this wouldn’t last, I went around taking some pictures. Click on the image above to view the full album.

Pictures are sometimes so much more expres­sive than words could ever be. I have decided that I want to start a photo collec­tion. You know, like a coin collec­tion, except with photos instead of nickels and dimes.

So here’s what I’m going to do: I’m going to start with baby steps. Every week, I’m going to take at least one good photo (“good” being my own subjec­tive evalu­a­tion) and post it on my Flickr page. As you can see, my Flickr collec­tion is empty now — I cleaned out every­thing to start afresh.

If you’re feeling a sense of déjà vu, I said something quite similar in an old post.