Charles Golson

@charlesgolson.bsky.social

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Retired rocket scientist, casual hiker and photographer, still learning.

Cropped image of pale gray badlands with a long horizontal feature resembling a snake, with head at left center.
A fluffy white cloud behind redrock spires, under blue sky and above green trees.
Towering clouds, fluffy in blue sky at the top, tinged with yellow and orange below, with silhouetted redrock formations and dark trees.
Green trees, a redrock ridge, and blue sky with wispy clouds, all beyond a stucco and iron wall.
Poster for film “Local Hero” of a man (Peter Riegert) in a suit and briefcase, with pants rolled up for wading.
A buff and red rounded rock formation on the left, a redrock spire on the right, with green trees below and blue sky above.
Coffeepot Rock emerging from the mist surrounding Thunder Mountain, with green trees and houses below.
Redrock formations peek through mist and clouds, framed by foreground green trees.
A redrock ridge under blue sky, with three stone fingers sticking up.
Screenshot of New Yorker story “The Crotchgrabber” from August 2016.
A redrock finger is glimpsed through a screen of trees, beneath orange, yellow, and pink pre-sunrise clouds in a pale blue sky.
Two gray javalinas (that resemble wild pigs) crossing a street at dusk. Beyond and above them are green trees and two redrock formations.
Pink and gray clouds in a pale blue sky above redrock formations framed by nearby green trees.
Reddish smoke rises above several mountains. Tongues of flame dot the one on the right like an army’s campfires.
Redrock monoliths are silhouetted against dense white smoke from a wildfire, framed above by blue sky and below by green trees.
Smoke almost completely obscures redrock formations. Nearby trees are clear but mostly silhouettes.
A large twisted juniper tree grows from a redrock shelf, with a pine tree and a redrock ridge behind it on the left.
Redrock formations glow orange-red in evening sunlight under a pale blue sky with bands of white and gray clouds.
Small plume of wildfire smoke in the distance, beyond a sloping redrock ridge.
Big fluffy cloud catches a bit of sunlight in light blue sky above redrock formations.
Long horizontal shadow on base of redrock ridge resembles open jaws of a reptile.
Billowing smoke rises high into blue sky above a sloping mountain ridge at about 5:30 pm.
Late sunlight strikes horizontal clouds above a redrock ridge, behind a green hedge.
A snatch of rainbow above a red rock ridge, with green bushes in the foreground and part of a red boulder at bottom of frame.
Orange and yellow sunset light behind silhouetted redrock humps, beneath blue sky and frilly white clouds.
A blooming century plant arcs at left above the redrock ridge of Wilson Mountain, in a blue sky with scattered horizontal clouds.
A saguaro cactus and its reflection in a deep blue swimming pool at night.
A diagonal redrock ridge meets a diagonal cloud bank.
Buc-ees logo: beaver in a red hat surrounded by a yellow circle.
A flowering century plant towers above a redrock wash, with green trees and redrock formations behind it, all beneath blue sky.
A lot of feathery clouds scattered in a blue sky, above a redrock ridge with green trees at bottom of frame.
Chinook helicopter on left, above redrock formations of Schnebly Hill, in a partly cloudy blue sky.
Two flowering century plants flank a tree, with the redrock cliffs of Wilson Mountain in the background.
Orange and yellow flowering century plant on left, with redrock formation on right.
Tori Amos playing two keyboards at once on stage in Mesa, AZ, in July 2023. 117 degrees that day!
A rock climber is about halfway up an 80-foot redrock cliff under a blue sky with a few thin clouds.
5 yellow and orange flowers on a prickly pear cactus.
Horizontal cloud layer in blue sky above bright red rock formations with evening shadows.
Scattered clouds in blue sky above redrock monoliths framed by trees.
Red rocks glow in sunset light beneath a gray sky. The House of Seven Arches is below, in the foreground. Snoopy Rock is at far right.
An orange and buff rock ridge beneath a horizontal cloud bank. At right is a smaller rock in shadow, Snoopy Rock, with a green mountain behind it.
Red stone courthouse under a blue partly cloudy sky.
An arc of thin vertical clouds displays a rainbow of colors. Horizontal clouds frame it above and below, with a fringe of green trees at bottom.
Chaotic clouds in a bright blue sky above the red and gray ridge of Wilson Mountain.
Thin clouds in blue sky above a long buff and red rock ridge, with a long evening shadow running diagonally up it.
Pink and gray sunset clouds above two redrock formations, framed by green trees.
A cluster of fluffy clouds above a cluster of redrock pinnacles.
A snow-capped mountain peak and ridgeline under light blue sky, with green trees in foreground.
Green trees in the foreground, redrock formations in the middle ground, billowy clouds below blue sky in the background.
Hundreds of people with anti-Trump signs along the highway in Sedona. Thunder Mountain is in the background, seen through thin haze.
Two contrails form an x in the sky above redrock monoliths, dimly seen through thin morning smoke. Nearby trees frame the scene.
MAGA sticker on mailbox with Trump picture.
Pink clouds in blue sky, above redrock monoliths, with green trees in the foreground.
Rising sun just peeking out at bottom left of a redrock formation.
Wordle states page showing 1000 Wordles badge and guess statistics
The glow of the sun suffuses a redrock formation in the moment before sunrise, under a pale blue sky with scattered clouds and a contrail.
A band composed of bagpipe players perform in the street, with Schnebly hill redrocks in the background, under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Redrock monoliths almost glowing red in late-afternoon sun, beneath a gray-blue sky, framed by green trees.
U.S. and Arizona flags flapping on a windy day in Flagstaff. The courthouse spire juts into a white cloud that partially obscures the sun.
Mountain peaks along the rim of an ancient volcano. Clouds extend horizontally from the highest peak, into a blue sky. There are trees in the middle distance and on the right.