Photography Art from Reno, NV

phart.art is a mischievous play on the phrase PHotography ART. 

I thought it up the day the .art domain became available.  I did not have time to Google it – I was trying to stay ahead of the domain ‘namejumpers’ who claimed in seconds all of my top choices.  For the first months, if you Googled ‘phart.art’ you got back websites of 19th century Japanese watercolors of Samuri in (literal) fart wars, with peasants holding their noses!  That’s where a corporation’s billion-dollar AI search brain preferred to spend its ‘mind’.  I guess no clever phrasing goes technologically unpunished…

Back to the plot. 

The whole point of phart.art is to trumpet the unrecognized beauty of a small part of Earth, the Truckee Meadows.

The Truckee Meadows is tucked away in the western edge of Northern Nevada in the U.S. 

The Meadows gives shelter from a mile high desert to the towns of Reno, Sparks, Spanish Springs, and Sun Valley, NV.

Truckee Meadows is bounded to the west by the spectacular Carson Range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, including Mt. Rose, Mt. Slide, Mt. Peavine, Mt. Snowflower, Mt. Job, and by other mountain chains including Mt. Clark, Mt. Spanish Springs, and Mt. Virginia to the east and Steamboat and Mt. Scott to the south.

Discovering this place late in life gave me the wisdom to realize that Truckee Meadows was a field of gems.  So much so I think the spectacular beauty of the Meadows easily rivals that glittering blue sapphire, Lake Tahoe, our glamorous next-door neighbor.

So, decide for yourself if the phart.art picture Galleries of the Meadows gives Tahoe some surpassing scenic competition.