Escalante River to Chop Rock Canyon Examining our topo map, another side-canyon beckoned–Choprock Canyon. It’s on the other side of the Escalante, and not over a mile away from camp. Our plan for the next day was to do a day hike there. After breakfast, We thrashed down through the nasty walls of tamarisk bordering […]
Mike, Katie just sent us some pictures of her latest construction work in Thibodeaux. But it’s not all work down there in steamy Louisiana. She also went with her buddies on a swamp tour. –rakkity
For a handful of days, I had pondered upon the summons of the Medicine Shaman of the House of Or, who had demanded my appearance at a healing rite which I could not afford to miss, since it could determine my stay in this plane of existence. Duly advised, on the appointed day, when the […]
Harris to Escalante to Silver Falls Creek After passing through some fine narrow streches in Harris, we could see a castle-like tower. This tower, shown on the topo map, stood just above some benches on the Escalante, so we knew we were close. By a raven’s route, we were close, but we had to nearly […]
Saturday, April 21 In the little town of Escalante, we found out where our contracted shuttle driver was located–the Outfitter/bar/tee-shirt-shop/pizza joint–and made final arrangements. He would lead us to 25-Mile Wash where we’d drop our car, and drive us to the trailhead at Harris Wash. Then we’d hike down Harris toward the Escalante River, down […]
DATE: April 3 SUBJECT: The canyon lands TO: the fogies4 FROM: Phil Guys, I’m happy to report that I will be able to make the canyon lands trip. I will arrive in Grand Junction, if the flight is on time, at 2:32 on the 20th. Phil DATE: April 15 SUBJECT: The canyon lands TO: the […]
Michael, Boulder is an amazing town to bike through or walk through. There are spectacular bronze/steel/brass statues, busts, and plaques all over town. There may be more per sq km here than even D.C. I’m not sure. Attached is a jalbum of 13 that I’ve collected in the last couple of days. The Mrs sez […]
Michael, Back in tropical Balmie (oops, I mean Bowie), Maryland, our spring blossoms rarely got frosted. But just after our local cherry trees blossomed out, we got a heavy ice storm. So I went out to shoot some closeups of the ice that encased everything. Then a snow came, but soon after, I was surprised […]
Michael, We have pretty tough tulips out here. When I first shot this weekly/daily/hourly sequence of the tulips in our front yard, I thought the tulips were doomed by the ice storm and snowfall on Easter weekend. But on Easter Monday, they revived and are still thriving. –rakkity
Hi Mike, Knowing your love of panos, I’m sending a first cut at a 7-panel shot I made from the east side of Boulder a couple of weeks ago. This is not the final version–there are lots of joints visible, and the exposure varies from picture to picture, and there are 2 more photos to […]
(Feb – Mar 2007) Hi Mike, Thought you and the blog would like to hear about daughter Katie’s amazing experiences in Americorps. I’ve put together a slide show using a bunch of Katie’s photos. (It was done with jalbum, which we all have come to know and love.) Americorps has paired up with Habitat for […]
(Feb – Mar 2007) Hi Mike, Thought you and the blog would like to hear about daughter Katie’s amazing experiences in Americorps. I’ve put together a slide show using a bunch of Katie’s photos. (It was done with jalbum, which we all have come to know and love.) Americorps has paired up with Habitat for […]