Doing a road trip from Vegas to all the Utah national parks and multiple state parks and national monuments next month. Anyone got any tips or any places I should check out? I probably have most of the open spaces saved but lesser known places are good to know and even more so I'll take some food recommendations or just general tips :)
We are renting a jeep so dirt roads are fine ❤️
Just a photo of my cat watching travel videos with me in preparation, for visibility's sake.
Honeybees, hive killers, and vaccines
Without pollinators, we might not have food. With pollinators come food and beauty.
Beauty like this — https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/featured/the-blue-knighthood-of-bees-jim-wilce.html
or this freebie for y’all
7-31-2022 Flagstaff Arizona, shot with Olympus gear
At a time when disease is wiping out whole insect colonies, a new vaccine shows promise in…
Source: Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona
Upstream of Lees Ferry and the confluence of the Paria and Colorado River lies the canyon of the Paria River. Jurassic-age rocks exposed in the canyon walls (from youngest to oldest: Jn-Navajo Sandstone; Jk-Kayenta Formation; Jks-Springdale Sandstone Member; Moenave Formation & Wingate Sandstone; and Trcp-Petrified Forest Member of Chinle Formation) are largely mantled by Quaterary dune sands (Qd - Holocene), talus and rock-fall deposits (Qtr – Holocene and Pleistocene(?), and landslide deposits (Ql – Holocene and Pleistocene).
For the geologic map with contacts and additional information see Billingsley and Priest (2013) map of Glen Canyon Dam 30’ x 60’ map at https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_98793.htm
A little over 9 years ago, we stumbled across a group of indie comics artists who would meet up and draw and hang out and just share stories with each other. We were a brand new store and didn’t really know any “industry” people. In walks the Janimal with his book Time Shark (about a time-traveling shark)! A kid-friendly comic artist who is quite possibly the nicest human to ever walk the earth. We immediately fell in love with both his work and him! Shortly after, life took over and Janimal moved to Arizona and we stayed in touch but we didn’t get a chance to host him again.
Now - almost a decade later - the Janimal returns to the halls of East Side Mags!
Jan Marc “The Janimal” Quisumbing is a Jersey tomato roasting in the Arizona sun. A graduate of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (NJ), he now resides in Northern Arizona with his family and 3 cats. He has exhibited at comic conventions from Phoenix Fan Fusion to New York Comic Con and serves as the acting president of the Northern Arizona Cartoonist Association (NAZCA). His fun and cartoony style has a great retro feel and translates easily to the drawing demo classes that have been a staple at Verde Valley libraries and LibCons over the past nine years. He currently works at a library in Northern Arizona as its Program and Marketing Coordinator.
Wow, someone in California just bought a 36×12″ print of a photo I took while visiting my hometown, Claremont. Here is the announcement on Fine Art America!
Given my goal, of re-branding myself and my work, emphasizing landscape photographs, this is very encouraging.
Thank you so much for your encouragement!
A gift for you now— an image, watermarked but not assigned a price, and one of those…