Bicolour

[armand]

First batch from a series that I shot in Arizona

[armand]

Few more

[shutterpup]

My favorite is the very last one of the second set. Aren't the wildflowers in Az marvelous!? Where were these taken; I live down in Tucson.

[Rob C]

My favorite is the very last one of the second set. Aren't the wildflowers in Az marvelous!? Where were these taken; I live down in Tucson.

That's something I'd like to ask you US folks: I used to believe that the names of states were always written with a capital letter to start them and then followed with a lower case, as above. Recently, I've noticed them written as LA, FL (Fla?) etc. so I wondered which way was correct.

Rob C

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

That's something I'd like to ask you US folks: I used to believe that the names of states were always written with a capital letter to start them and then followed with a lower case, as above. Recently, I've noticed them written as LA, FL (Fla?) etc. so I wondered which way was correct.

Rob C

Some years ago the U.S. Postal Service decreed a set of "official" state name abbreviations for use in postal addresses. Those are the two-letter ones like AZ, MA, LA, NV, etc. Both letters are supposed to be capitals. Long before these "official" abbreviations came on the scene, lots of other abbreviations were in common use, such as Ariz, Ala, Miss, Mass, Cal or Calif, etc. States with two-word names generally had two-letter abbreviations, both capital, such as NH for New Hampshire and SC for South Carolina. I haven't checked, but I believe all the traditional two-capital-letter abbreviations were kept as part of the "official" set.

Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about U.S. state name abbreviations. Oh, by the way, U.S. is correct and AZ is correct, but A.Z. is not.

Cheers,

Eric (from MA, Mass, or Mass.)

[Rob C]

Some years ago the U.S. Postal Service decreed a set of "official" state name abbreviations for use in postal addresses. Those are the two-letter ones like AZ, MA, LA, NV, etc. Both letters are supposed to be capitals. Long before these "official" abbreviations came on the scene, lots of other abbreviations were in common use, such as Ariz, Ala, Miss, Mass, Cal or Calif, etc. States with two-word names generally had two-letter abbreviations, both capital, such as NH for New Hampshire and SC for South Carolina. I haven't checked, but I believe all the traditional two-capital-letter abbreviations were kept as part of the "official" set.

Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about U.S. state name abbreviations. Oh, by the way, U.S. is correct and AZ is correct, but A.Z. is not.

Cheers,

Eric (from MA, Mass, or Mass.)

Thanks; Eric. I suppose the next logical question about things U.S. is why a zip code is called a zip code. In Spain, a zip's a cremallera and often used for undoing your trousers (pants) or undoing dresses... or, alternatively, doing them up, which if we are thinking about the same thing, brings us to that famous hourglass figure: is it half-full or half-empty?

Rob C

[Ray]

I take it Rob, that both you and Eric are not too impressed with the flowers. 

[Rob C]

I take it Rob, that both you and Eric are not too impressed with the flowers. 

What flowers? On the dress with the zipper, you mean?

;-)

Rob C

[Ray]

What flowers? On the dress with the zipper, you mean?

;-)

Rob C

Did you know that your frequently used 'smiley' or whatever it is, ie. ( ;-) ) always appears as a 'semi-colon, dash, bracket' on a Windows PC, on Internet Explorer?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I take it Rob, that both you and Eric are not too impressed with the flowers. 

I like the flowers, but I didn't have much else to say about them that hadn't already been said. I love a good wild flower field.

Eric

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Thanks; Eric. I suppose the next logical question about things U.S. is why a zip code is called a zip code. In Spain, a zip's a cremallera and often used for undoing your trousers (pants) or undoing dresses... or, alternatively, doing them up, which if we are thinking about the same thing, brings us to that famous hourglass figure: is it half-full or half-empty?

Rob C

To return to the main hijacking of this thread (which has some nice flower pix in it), I'll mention that a long time ago the U.S. Post Office used short, generally two-digit postal "zones." For example, Medford Mass.  had the postal Zone of 55, so letters were addressed to "..., Medford, 55, Mass." Some time after the dinosaurs stopped sending letters to each other, the Post Office came up with the new, 5-digit numbers, calling it the "Zone Improvement Plan" or "ZIP code" for short.

But if you ask me anything useful about photography, I expect I won't be able to help you.

Eric

P.S. I think #3 is my favorite. I like the contrast between sunny and shady flowers.

[armand]

My favorite is the very last one of the second set. Aren't the wildflowers in Az marvelous!? Where were these taken; I live down in Tucson.

a very mundane place, Phoenix zoo