Summer of 2006 to September, 2007

Well, obviously, I haven't been much as a blogger in the past year. So, to catch up a little, here's some of what's happened:

 

Last October was notable in that I broke my left fibula in an inexplicable fall while hiking along the edge of Lake Powell. I was trying to get back to a houseboat before darkness set in. Moving too fast, I suppose. (The images made at sunset, only a few minutes before the stumble, almost made the accident worthwhile. Almost, almost, anyway.) Fortunately the fracture was clean and simple, and I was back at full speed by February.

 

Spring was busy with photo trips, Elderhostel classes, Grand Circle Field School trips and backpacking trips with friends in Grand Canyon and in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Summer zipped by while I spent most of my time in my home office writing--working on articles, a book project, writing captions for 4x5 and 35mm transparencies. One result of spending so much time in front of the computer: the addition of a few pounds of blubber.

 

To shed the pounds, among other things, I'm about to begin three months of trips: Grand Canyon river trip, many Lake Powell trips with Grand Circle Field School, Hidden Canyon Kayaks, the Friends of Arizona Highways. Nothing terribly exciting. I just continue to work on images of my two favorite terrains, Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon.

 

My self-published book, Page, Arizona, Hub of the Visual Universe, released a little over a year ago, has gone into a second printing. (It's available on this website.) With luck my book published by Grand Canyon Association, tentatively titled Grand Canyon Views Beyond the Beauty: A Guide to What's Down There, will come out in late spring or early summer.