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From Phil Farquharson ( http://calendar.geology‐guy.com )
CoverPhoto Marble View, 2003Photo
North Rim of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in Kaibab N ti l F t National Forest, 9,000 feet altitude. Camped here for
i h i h two nights with no one else around for miles. Note the East Kaibab Monocline behind me…
February2010
Highway 1, South of Monterrey, 19892010
You can just see Point jSur (a tombolo) in the distance. This was my welcome to California on Groundhog Day, as I was driving from Seattle to Palmdale, th k t B ithanks to Boeing.
A truly memorable day!
March2010
Carrizo Plain, 19912010
This area is now part of Carrizo Plain National Monument. It is part of
f f it one of my favorite getaway drives, unpaved from SR 33 about 30 miles at that about 30 miles at that time. I saw only one other car between this point and Cholame, point and Cholame, about 70 miles.
April2010 Borrego Palm Canyon, 20032010 g y
While on a hike up this canyon, I photographed many wildly colorful ildfl h wildflowers: chuparosa,
ocotillo, numerous cacti varieties, etc.
But, looking closer at the apparently empty spaces…spaces…
May2010 Near Holly Beach, Louisiana, 19872010 y
Another Boeing assignment: this time, I was training locals to f bi h KC refurbish KC‐135
tankers in Lake Charles.
This water lily was next This water lily was next to a wooden walkway over a bayou.
And why do they call them bayous? ‘Cuz, wherever you live, it go gby you! (Cajun humor…)
June2010 Movie Set, Jackson Hole, 19692010
The haiku refers to my i l h I pivotal summer, when I got
to work for Lloyd Furer, supporting his Ph.D. dissertation field work. We only slept inside a hard shelter about 5 nights out of the 60 we were gone from Madison Big time Madison. Big‐time adventure!
This picture was made on pmy grand “See America” tour – 9,000 miles in 41 days, from Dover, Delaware to Comox British Columbia to Comox, British Columbia. Hard to believe it was 41 years ago!
July2010 Central Vancouver Island, 19712010
After arriving at Canadian Force Base Comox in July of 1969, I quickly began enjoying the local scenery. enjoying the local scenery. I took up skiing and backpacking, and ate both fresh‐ and saltwater fish h I h d hthat I had caught.
Truly paradise!
August2010 Fuller Mill Creek, 19982010
We were caretakers of a We were caretakers of a family cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains from 1997 to 2000. It was 997truly remarkable to be in this four‐season wonderland only 70 miles northeast of San Diego.
Thi i h hThis is the northern‐most part of the Peninsular Ranges Batholith which Batholith, which extends south though most of Baja California.
September 2010 Missouri River, 19732010
Sunrise from the Garrison Dam campground, on a Geomorphology field t i ith L Cl ttrip with Lee Clayton.
There is plenty of beauty in the United beauty in the United States, but you won’t get to see it if you travel on the “Eisenhower on the Eisenhower roads!”
October 2010 Western Grand Canyon, 1991
While flying to the y gGrand Canyon for my first visit, I was surprised to see these cinder cones and basalt lava flows on and in the canyon. I have since
d l t i t made several trips to this wonderful isolated place. Ten campsites: no reservations firstno reservations, first‐come, first served.
November 2010 Sauk County, Wisconsin, 19672010
My Grandmother, Ruth
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My Grandmother, Ruth Porter, taught me to drive in 1962. She liked having me drive around the Wisconsin countryside and I was with countryside, and I was with her when she bought this log cabin from several old farmers who thought they h d ll t had really put one over on this eccentric old city‐slicker lady. The family still uses it today…
December 2010
Wupatki National Monument, 20052010
This national monument adjoins Sunset Crater Nat. M j t th f Mon., just north of Flagstaff. It contains many well preserved Anasazi and Sinagua Anasazi and Sinagua ruins at the edge of the Painted Desert. There are many cinder cones are many cinder cones and lava flows throughout the area, including these blocks gof basalt seen here.
January2011 La Jolla Shores, 19992011 ,
San Diego is a virtual desert, averaging about ten inches of rain per
H i i th t year. How ironic that there is this huge “lake” on our western margin!