tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48225590596056025712024-02-22T02:40:51.162-07:00Robert (GeoBob) Ford's BLOGAn Early Boomer's Life: at Work, Play and Semi-Retirement...Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-55051359112077953782023-02-14T11:12:00.000-07:002023-02-14T11:12:35.001-07:00Winter in the Zion National Park Region--2023<p></p><h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgubz1pmID8-_GwAj9k6nApKgJ2OqLwC2p5HXHy6gG-KslEWqAeyHyGxKPIpkXUYPMv2OqBYj7b4jnTB1WGUuw6JT2aM9ldRJAAOYksVNhSGQxIYHKLtcbT4PMbCLhnsxGtxSk1s0oSdSHS23IUy8NZeGZ4VkpanM7KAHO2JDYpwCk4cwZ_SDuL-hGN8Q/s4080/PXL_20230121_221212262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgubz1pmID8-_GwAj9k6nApKgJ2OqLwC2p5HXHy6gG-KslEWqAeyHyGxKPIpkXUYPMv2OqBYj7b4jnTB1WGUuw6JT2aM9ldRJAAOYksVNhSGQxIYHKLtcbT4PMbCLhnsxGtxSk1s0oSdSHS23IUy8NZeGZ4VkpanM7KAHO2JDYpwCk4cwZ_SDuL-hGN8Q/w587-h379/PXL_20230121_221212262.jpg" width="587" /></a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Kolob Canyon after Winter Snowfall January 2023</i></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Zion National Park Utah: </h3><div>This year--2023--has been the wettest year in many years around <i><b>Zion National Park Utah</b></i>. It has really helped mitigate the extreme drought we have been in for 7-10 years. What's particularly good is that a lot of the snow has come as snowpack in the mountains of Southwest Utah ie <i><b>Kolob Canyons</b></i>, Brian Head, <i><b>Cedar Breaks</b></i> National Monument, <i><b>Zion National Park</b></i>, Bryce Canyon, and the <i><b>Pine Valley Mountains</b></i>. This means that our irrigation season this year will be wonderful. Following are some pictures from the "snowy winter" we've had around our home and in the local mountains.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1Chsg6cOw61z3APs-FHn2T0YleqSXUq79GUv0qY3hYUPXOFSYjOYY6xH5PXz7-x82GFM0j5FzWWo7brE7E_829CpWWlXT42MsnlIurnrlgWAQUM-ZE5wM6nNZ1aJNbKpNVE0rf-CpqidJwhVstw6c2KPU01KFGWaCPnhAvdtSvl-5rJOtwipGGKxTA/s3029/328623252_571713757926447_3673878448191184525_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="3029" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC1Chsg6cOw61z3APs-FHn2T0YleqSXUq79GUv0qY3hYUPXOFSYjOYY6xH5PXz7-x82GFM0j5FzWWo7brE7E_829CpWWlXT42MsnlIurnrlgWAQUM-ZE5wM6nNZ1aJNbKpNVE0rf-CpqidJwhVstw6c2KPU01KFGWaCPnhAvdtSvl-5rJOtwipGGKxTA/w490-h223/328623252_571713757926447_3673878448191184525_n.jpg" width="490" /></a><br /><br /><i>Red Rocks and Snow near Checkerboard Mesa Zion National Park</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXx67aIEsnZzMD9UXLPZNUDF2TO7LWsmr1-k_f-21BoASsMusnY4MduEmooi7pQ-vwtCtFyjY1bqUFA5QiERzLLZ-qatUkf7y9XOeSPPLCfIWck04X-JGaBPQfFKoTKMVqRE7WZcZuucO3q4I7eTEsf_dPptGyQQmgO6oAhy0c0eVgBLp5zdLM58WmKw/s4473/Utah_Springdale_Snow_Ranch_Gate001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZe6ZV7bIKGJ9JZbWNpC8-1sFwtX-r4DpUmf7ue__plNq4xbEyAjGT4JORFhscaiP44tuQORJ-0C79Tn6_z_yvRWab4Swso-RKNAJLraa_63aGSm7rSwhXwM28FUiWhwIs8JkEAGTnTSTueIs_SHDAfx0vzTxCgE4O0XzuapTodf_sk-4S7UiT9rrN3g/s4723/Utah_Springdale_Snow_Town_Sign002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3240" data-original-width="4723" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZe6ZV7bIKGJ9JZbWNpC8-1sFwtX-r4DpUmf7ue__plNq4xbEyAjGT4JORFhscaiP44tuQORJ-0C79Tn6_z_yvRWab4Swso-RKNAJLraa_63aGSm7rSwhXwM28FUiWhwIs8JkEAGTnTSTueIs_SHDAfx0vzTxCgE4O0XzuapTodf_sk-4S7UiT9rrN3g/w460-h316/Utah_Springdale_Snow_Town_Sign002.jpg" width="460" /></a><br /><br /><i>Entrance to Zion Canyon, Springdale Utah</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4320" data-original-width="3240" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrsnywpZ21BRg9eKJtYyScRTmwxBPk4h0YuIC4mJKShATBCSWqBboUF-ZgRXDU7JyD9cB0z7B9e_PWzhStfmTOYvM0Y6qzZAEBd8XyN8F9TGQmJ86qyJxHR0Da4ZPdiQowxvZz1JFAkUIeN-neH_pnPgG46vote1tGuTHArmGMeqEaeaecHgHXXW40Fg/w365-h486/Utah_Zion_Checkerboard_Mesa_Winter_Snow001.jpg" width="365" /></a><br /><br /><i>Swirling Sandstone Rocks on the Eastern Plateau of Zion</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvPYoNWV6WeFnMvT6Rfp052iEUqBzIaiDokwX2Qqem5jHT2_p_qpWVVRc_iwp8N3EgxMAIrI0EWTfE6vMJ3EseXBrP958r0NMptUiR5SJwxv_YwN8D3B3FfUDsbSIfwGpFUmNXaJJ9wBELUdpIEq28Vz3DycqWZNo1GSOoIku4VSe3PWmSQzCnfT16w/s4075/PXL_20230121_220813427~2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2549" data-original-width="4075" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvPYoNWV6WeFnMvT6Rfp052iEUqBzIaiDokwX2Qqem5jHT2_p_qpWVVRc_iwp8N3EgxMAIrI0EWTfE6vMJ3EseXBrP958r0NMptUiR5SJwxv_YwN8D3B3FfUDsbSIfwGpFUmNXaJJ9wBELUdpIEq28Vz3DycqWZNo1GSOoIku4VSe3PWmSQzCnfT16w/w531-h332/PXL_20230121_220813427~2.jpg" width="531" /></a><br /><br /><i>Kolob Canyons after heavy Snowfall January 2023</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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From the LAX airport on April 6 we took a direct flight on TahitiNui Airlines to Paris France arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport the morning of April 7. We spent the night at the nice little Tim Hotel across the street from the Gare du Nord railway and metro station. </p><p>On the morning of the 8th we took FlixBus from Paris for a seven hour rainy trip direct to Lausanne Switzerland where we met Brian, our eldest son and wife and his two boys Mtheo and Leo for dinner. Then we continued by train to Aigle where we transferred to a CogRailroad up the mountain to the Leysin ski resort where Brian has a nice little apartment. Below are some pics from our trip.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieOifKbBcZcbDQSkyWsyrC_1XjbOZEISKClKSuAc9fTFWBcc_BvHiqhkQut7YitpPGOk8t0omHTqov64dTPO6EYty95h1H2XckyL8cdZjhGpeoZznB_o7ucEYDq9-zWjC7O4yP4w0S3f7gV-GLl13H51xv_D7W_evCViohGZ9h5OS2nTT-cMrwUezq_A/s4080/PXL_20220402_010234657.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieOifKbBcZcbDQSkyWsyrC_1XjbOZEISKClKSuAc9fTFWBcc_BvHiqhkQut7YitpPGOk8t0omHTqov64dTPO6EYty95h1H2XckyL8cdZjhGpeoZznB_o7ucEYDq9-zWjC7O4yP4w0S3f7gV-GLl13H51xv_D7W_evCViohGZ9h5OS2nTT-cMrwUezq_A/w640-h482/PXL_20220402_010234657.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our place in Rockville Utah in early spring 2022 a couple days before leaving to France</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Our Airline to Paris (Tahiti Nui)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLpiRKZn58Tofvw4rpDqfGl3vGCAmaz2lb09ay6_WmoNrjQDfe3va1xK4xDz1XVDKDUN58LBPmyY5Shz2rlaipegZ0bwNVTYUh1n2yku_i9QA0mPcyBGtEquBDBpgpHD7MIw3Tee6RUmvz7hzKIfuQt-wMu8Z45teb2TdK-ST2ibtHDaVEpbEQ5z76g/s4080/PXL_20220406_200617251.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfLpiRKZn58Tofvw4rpDqfGl3vGCAmaz2lb09ay6_WmoNrjQDfe3va1xK4xDz1XVDKDUN58LBPmyY5Shz2rlaipegZ0bwNVTYUh1n2yku_i9QA0mPcyBGtEquBDBpgpHD7MIw3Tee6RUmvz7hzKIfuQt-wMu8Z45teb2TdK-ST2ibtHDaVEpbEQ5z76g/w400-h301/PXL_20220406_200617251.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7E_OYHNGrHwEgqUubrXIiJTft3FkkTZS2BGL6lreN7D6ExaA9ikwG3ku14_HJrPdECeZQLfJAY8UbSa17y8Pfogkz_www6xnMJMPCVquGwdHLJGNGaCFpwhDNr_zbeTltBOj815f4w2OfsGqDtlejndLEqd6bkR9jSlM5ZNN2XtU17R2inEJaHEf2A/s4080/PXL_20220406_185940910.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Waiting at the Tom Bradley International Air Terminal in Los Angeles (LAX)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcGf_jirrmKeuDZ1cbxuBpcaz3x7833JqyLBrjCOBqHCgMG0smvG9KQIYRwYLSc755NNmWOw48pxULcIafcjlvdtmqNH9CdiWfRRWRLnW_hn_XVvUFleAKdvj_HkuKhgJ6hYO7gbZeH9sbopfynMoXPAC2Xf61pCM76bEOb8XEcw9x7FnJ5eP4PLO_A/s4080/PXL_20220407_160644545.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcGf_jirrmKeuDZ1cbxuBpcaz3x7833JqyLBrjCOBqHCgMG0smvG9KQIYRwYLSc755NNmWOw48pxULcIafcjlvdtmqNH9CdiWfRRWRLnW_hn_XVvUFleAKdvj_HkuKhgJ6hYO7gbZeH9sbopfynMoXPAC2Xf61pCM76bEOb8XEcw9x7FnJ5eP4PLO_A/w286-h215/PXL_20220407_160644545.jpg" width="286" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc3uBw89TP_jFDyxo_o75lNHG2nUwDj7FmznDaEqAqPQw-v7pm3rBTi4M-kz6n9tqWKcvX-mbH9hI-0ETtYP2GdT_7A6pG61lPcXs3CqdkquIdPCUU8yXAUMvdSQ0-lPwStfCz15EHYWzDZmnBJe-PYQqid_CUHfdqqnnGWixg99FSqEdARS-vZPTvBQ/s4080/PXL_20220407_163439905.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Above) Rainy day in Lausanne as we arrive and rainbow over the Riponne Plaza near the Cathedral and Vaudois Restaurant where we met Brian Ford and partner Carla Mendes and the boys</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipBtRvhCi7QWSWsNe-7uhu7TbnGvzaOjdZbGRTXB1mWhksu9SJRZ4u-GJDwO9wUbI3nMC0psWayRFsaattjURaDX5yemSGxi1S-xlui_kfEPRQUqcQ1E7YnOmVZQYw1XEyj05DBsoRLHrUt9pBf52ApX0JiPjl-krX7RNgpJWOktm_fr2vGIKhd70FQ/s4080/PXL_20220408_161957799.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjipBtRvhCi7QWSWsNe-7uhu7TbnGvzaOjdZbGRTXB1mWhksu9SJRZ4u-GJDwO9wUbI3nMC0psWayRFsaattjURaDX5yemSGxi1S-xlui_kfEPRQUqcQ1E7YnOmVZQYw1XEyj05DBsoRLHrUt9pBf52ApX0JiPjl-krX7RNgpJWOktm_fr2vGIKhd70FQ/s320/PXL_20220408_161957799.jpg" width="241" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhEzJOdQ4CwhFzYvX9TeVGuZ7Tn_XaogaIuPcIhw-lCqUycTgm0nVfJ1jaYj_84RUzjuET_z2q2oXgPU83bkOzdDTgTFN6GJ_uec9o-OvFxRigEqO9lmQmAsf_WZqQ2U_6oWRQdLL5Sr5r80cOPUUtPiSbnkiASmWhcabWf5dVMWDcCQlQjryNR-s9vw/s4080/PXL_20220408_161906883.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>My best,<div><br /></div><div>Robert Ford</div><div>Leysin, Vaud, Switzerland</div><div>April 9, 2022<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-70930548242061027852022-03-25T10:57:00.000-06:002022-03-25T10:57:18.583-06:00Trip Home via the California Poppy Preserve near Lancaster <h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>Last Part of our 2022 Winter Road Trip - March 20-23, 2022:</b></h3><div><b>Trip Summary</b>: </div><div><br /></div><div>Early morning on <b>Monday 20</b> we left <i>Loma Linda</i> via <i>Cajon Pass</i> on <b>Old Highway 91</b> (Old <i>Route 66</i>) with a brief stop at <i>Mormon Rocks</i> near <i>Wrightwood</i> then continued on<b> CA-138</b> toward the <i><b>California Poppy Preserve </b></i>located near <i>Lancaster</i> California on the <i>Mojave High Desert</i>. On our way we stopped at a place we had not seen before--the <i><b>Charlie Brown Farms--</b></i>in <i>Littlerock</i> California (see photos below).</div><div><br /></div><div>We continued on <b>Tuesday</b> <b>March 21</b> toward <i>Mojave</i> California on <b>US-14</b> to catch <b>US-58</b> toward <i>Boron</i> California. We spent overnight at the <i>Boron Rest Stop</i> then toured around the <i><b>20-Mule Team / Borax Mine</b></i> in <i>Boron</i> California. Then we continued on via <b>Interstate-15</b> with stops in <i>Barstow</i> California and nearby <i>Peggy Sue's Diner in Yermo, </i>California<i> </i>with an overnight stop at the <i>Valley Wells Rest Stop</i> near <i>Nipton</i> California.</div><div><br /></div><div>On Wednesday <b>March 22 </b>we continued on toward home in <i>Rockville</i> Utah. We had short stops in <i>Mesquite</i> Nevada then <i>St George</i> Utah and <i>Hurricane</i> Utah. We arrived home to a beautiful spring day around <i>Rockville</i> Utah on <b>March 23</b>.</div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Select Trip Photos:</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuw2k5iUcuWV7_6Drju7Pgn8mYzyTZH1grfDPIbPc3vT2m_0BKgJjbb2znG7YKQcMg-PauuHTPa89mMXM4jcU6Reiics_lNxVAnWTUtyhi2harx64HNipK2-q3KQwCdwPvSG_FmrFTx0vCcoMa7sbwCNS7MSML4u5jEOVbMocmOxKrYlUDqqL-wsEGpQ/s4080/PXL_20220321_175705327.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuw2k5iUcuWV7_6Drju7Pgn8mYzyTZH1grfDPIbPc3vT2m_0BKgJjbb2znG7YKQcMg-PauuHTPa89mMXM4jcU6Reiics_lNxVAnWTUtyhi2harx64HNipK2-q3KQwCdwPvSG_FmrFTx0vCcoMa7sbwCNS7MSML4u5jEOVbMocmOxKrYlUDqqL-wsEGpQ/w640-h482/PXL_20220321_175705327.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><b>Mormon Rocks near Wrightwood California on CA-138</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Strange Mural / Liquor Store in Barstow with Mural about "Wilderness" in the Region (above)</b><br /><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>(Below) Return Home to Rockville Utah where Spring has Sprung!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0G58saZLJ5ydyedWvRsji2ciDByjaqwLfyaI75LpGpAT1fQyRZp-djKJcCPUOlzF9hnqY7x8Tzvq8jCPd5zGzeUlmyOb7TTanAWMB5X1g_2IoTJfrANyaGHQt3-b_Wm7VsmRtY_HLJA2oOfwV4h6OEF6Ty6-R9WH8hzGiGfb7QBsU-es1W9lg9UeQg/s4080/PXL_20220323_210339412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0G58saZLJ5ydyedWvRsji2ciDByjaqwLfyaI75LpGpAT1fQyRZp-djKJcCPUOlzF9hnqY7x8Tzvq8jCPd5zGzeUlmyOb7TTanAWMB5X1g_2IoTJfrANyaGHQt3-b_Wm7VsmRtY_HLJA2oOfwV4h6OEF6Ty6-R9WH8hzGiGfb7QBsU-es1W9lg9UeQg/w640-h482/PXL_20220323_210339412.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-20765373762671971122022-03-07T11:38:00.003-07:002022-03-08T09:16:35.374-07:00Return to Loma Linda for Dog-Sitting and Spring Travel in California > March 2022On March 5, 2022 we "hit-the-road" again, this time for some early spring travel that took us back to Southern California (<i>Loma Linda</i>) to do some dog-sitting for my sister's dogs (Abbie and Pepper) while she and an artist friend stay at our place for a "plein aire paint-out". One our way we spent the night in <i>Baker California</i> near the <i>Alien Jerky</i> and <i>Mad Greek</i> stores...see pictures below. Then on March 6 we traveled the backway through the <i>Mojave National Preserve</i> to its <i>Kelso Depot</i> visitor center which is near the <i>Kelso Dunes</i>. It was beautiful and sunny but very cold wind. <div><br /></div><div>Below are some of the photos on this phase of our spring trip. We will be traveling most of March in Southern and Northern California to see spring flowers, where we find them. And also visiting my old alma mater at <i>Pacific Union College</i> in Angwin (<i>Napa Valley</i>) California. Then we return around March 25 to our home in <i>Rockville Utah</i> to prepare for the coming irrigation season and for our April > May trip to see our grandkids in Switzerland. Though with war now going on in Europe, we are having to be flexible...who knows what can happen! Pray for peace!!<div><br /></div><div><b>March 2-4 at Home in Rockville Utah - spring "premonitions":</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmss78nfhcS0_Gj-fxNNSRUQTVsfQzYrMwAc6aw4agGHdap7snuF4sVTzMFmrXRxoOtSkKc_JSnqtdtjvIrg3b6AutQYwuEcX5Jk-Yd_40YlDSavEgSbRRh-e1jxp9IeAtXx1aiZ0OIfshh2zwhS7fRqs8VXYbLLovhtTNwiERc5ch2yXhhqZRO_ZXCQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmss78nfhcS0_Gj-fxNNSRUQTVsfQzYrMwAc6aw4agGHdap7snuF4sVTzMFmrXRxoOtSkKc_JSnqtdtjvIrg3b6AutQYwuEcX5Jk-Yd_40YlDSavEgSbRRh-e1jxp9IeAtXx1aiZ0OIfshh2zwhS7fRqs8VXYbLLovhtTNwiERc5ch2yXhhqZRO_ZXCQ=w295-h222" width="295" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoeShfhAM1eeE_0j4TwvfQZvIYzoMpnrULNaKkhmKGo0_tyJYBRWSo9aOWBU_5qPb4V7SYCEHDDNDYFG3uPZFY5sKK3xlBcvcWYGDfVykj59eFK2tduaJM75bwtAOooBv-9Fl5VgLbRQcZUZpFDYyoB6B5RdV9Jo1-P_V-6cIX_2ihwgnUxVtw-Dn43A=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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A Coyote walking along the train tracks</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgro0Z53ir23801cfI-AdXTSZtD2qEW7K24zf7SV23qQeFk8ntveuU53ujUYP2mz4yZCv9vH7KhFDLPtFJ4Pt9KPABLtGfZraR_NcGzkyEQCMEhm4d7yWYHuuu-HRw0cjO4avGxn-L0VoNV-nvni_viIBkU3mnIq3klsrxevTPYwgtkvY93INNpsrkdDw=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgro0Z53ir23801cfI-AdXTSZtD2qEW7K24zf7SV23qQeFk8ntveuU53ujUYP2mz4yZCv9vH7KhFDLPtFJ4Pt9KPABLtGfZraR_NcGzkyEQCMEhm4d7yWYHuuu-HRw0cjO4avGxn-L0VoNV-nvni_viIBkU3mnIq3klsrxevTPYwgtkvY93INNpsrkdDw=w356-h268" width="356" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZVFWsic1ji2ZhPHqqRXyqnqQPO01sbne3yG3OeKccDnYAtPaiDQk6TuKZifm9O4qe4aWpzsf5NyFHKGZSVoU5bH2w2palEWVC1aSDpQiizz9A5k43bv9v9AKsz4_FZcTo7Astb1lHbNJ2xUtlv5VZWtOJhLlKfA85-_aePK0Mq7Rm_3EOH-EtHWB0Fg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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See more about me at my website: <a href="http://geobobford.com">geobobford.com</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Robert Ford</div><div>Photographer<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b></div></div>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-55284855243787359262022-03-04T18:47:00.002-07:002022-03-04T18:47:35.850-07:00Part V: Conclusion to the 2022 Winter Road Trip<p> <b>Part V: </b>This section will cover the areas traveled on US-89 from <i>Flagstaff</i> to <i>Bitter Springs</i>, and then <i>US-89A</i> to sights such as the marvelous feat of engineering over the Colorado River--<i>Navajo Bridge. </i></p><p>On the way we saw beautiful scenery such as <i>Echo Cliffs</i>, <i>Lee's Ferry,</i> <i>Vermilion Cliffs National Monument</i>, the <i>LeFebre Grand Staircase Overlook</i>, and finally overnighted in <i>Fredonia Arizona. </i>The final day saw us go through <i>Kanab Utah </i> to <i>Mt Carmel Junction</i> at the eastern entrance to<i> Zion National Park </i>and to our home on the<i> Virgin River </i>in<i> Rockville Utah</i>--within sight of<i> Zion.</i> Following are some pictorial highlights of this last part of our winter road trip.</p><p><b>February 26 > 27: Visit to Prescott Arizona</b>.</p><p>After visiting with our kids near <i>Tucson Arizona</i> we traveled north on <i>I-17</i> from Phoenix Arizona toward <i>Prescott</i>. The night of the 26th we camped at a wonderful Rest Stop near <i>McGuireville Arizon</i>a which is close to the turnoff to go toward Prescott and Fort Verde. We had a glorious sunset over the desert and the next day drove to Prescott which is truly a historic and beautiful town. It's main square--around <i><b>Whiskey Row</b></i>--is a treasure trove of Old West Saloons, boutiques, art stores and its great courthouse, that is a MUST SEE !! Below are some photos from our visit to Prescott and nearby <i>Dewey-Humbolt</i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWis5Nzc8Hp3GMfZYpQJD7IeUtqGr7633pnKeeql6CFeR7xj7lRpsJ12tF98zPUtZacuAk5vrcHMnhv8ydIvZWQUjUjmFFJFxAJ-7yNw7ZI89NkuXxHV58ZFwZQvUx8P4mmK1UltqXaXZRlBbMiwop8776ZHw9mfrrAh0LwWO3ezBdXxYjU-L0NVX9xA=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWis5Nzc8Hp3GMfZYpQJD7IeUtqGr7633pnKeeql6CFeR7xj7lRpsJ12tF98zPUtZacuAk5vrcHMnhv8ydIvZWQUjUjmFFJFxAJ-7yNw7ZI89NkuXxHV58ZFwZQvUx8P4mmK1UltqXaXZRlBbMiwop8776ZHw9mfrrAh0LwWO3ezBdXxYjU-L0NVX9xA=w304-h229" width="304" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5R2CymUW6Jhpim_dts-SrFmKNc-hFRsLi9NpD10q3Yc0CUIsIZctL9-2M2SA5BHgwFfqbBO-8kOB9RYH1KFeRa6pWRN59dkku29ZtPR_qtY-HnY3PzoHfb9KeNlVZLAeCCIIXucAnJ49p0sk6ylS1n-Fss8QYGYaD-4tJcNWU1622olo-L4QcwFe5Mg=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b>Navajo Bridge</b></i> near <i><b>Bitter Springs</b></i> on <i><b>US-89A</b></i> and views of <b><i>Echo</i></b> and <i><b>Vermilion Cliff</b></i>s <br />on our way home to <i><b>Rockville Utah</b></i> via <b><i>Fredonia Arizona</i></b> to <i><b>Zion National Park</b></i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcqgamaMwU21HXhvPIq3nAzrqUWrvCioRAaku1AwevrHa8Pvt_BEaVsh4kI-WbLiFHR7eZw3IZDOnAAvnXsFx2HsOGVleypObzbzF5Nh2aWLpUkVI22VfXPVYxwti7XjYuNT8rGIzQEkZXIj1VmMUKm9Stm_z1i1ITnsBbbj1aPKZ-MbLvUU4RBwvaOQ=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcqgamaMwU21HXhvPIq3nAzrqUWrvCioRAaku1AwevrHa8Pvt_BEaVsh4kI-WbLiFHR7eZw3IZDOnAAvnXsFx2HsOGVleypObzbzF5Nh2aWLpUkVI22VfXPVYxwti7XjYuNT8rGIzQEkZXIj1VmMUKm9Stm_z1i1ITnsBbbj1aPKZ-MbLvUU4RBwvaOQ=w310-h233" width="310" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1okZPBdAaPgqcaP-79-zJe1v9ZDJTzFRAZ60HfkoYC8o1VbRbwVmayVJo9cWvcfrzJj8JIFEtefU22L9lX4bHe0I20YZDtMNt_PMpalvrIYcxuoIGKjKtSTCya_rMCiALcZnowlkZ5iK7TL5YDzfTYts_W9gFQDOz4ijqu8vweNRsQvRkSh6K6P3t7A=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZm4ONFjui2_3bEZvow8JrVN22hG7uUNWmu7TOR4ksZvomXbLFASybDbM0egsCdNio5_70xzo5bmOokIRePKDJvaCDH4otCxKn77L6_De7Lr9IFxpy5kGi6G5_c1AXVHz1ubhs2Fl31JSEz9-PyGnfwjRg77xYXLDGLv8W2621CGVN0voMNO9cYguPLw=w308-h232" width="308" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxgNcYaOQyieOyxERqro9dtlcLwLzdoNNTTR9y4j-cbZEh4bprfmijPnFC4pZicmyNYLnITb2fvTyx_kByh86FlS0d_SmR_6GzPEdu7zsZAo5kINSB3sGRpXf7WkDTHTLZFg5SwvpoBhBmnC8YxV4DTb85u8a5qrHkNUCZONVu5us7yPGjVy3gwXZbhA=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxgNcYaOQyieOyxERqro9dtlcLwLzdoNNTTR9y4j-cbZEh4bprfmijPnFC4pZicmyNYLnITb2fvTyx_kByh86FlS0d_SmR_6GzPEdu7zsZAo5kINSB3sGRpXf7WkDTHTLZFg5SwvpoBhBmnC8YxV4DTb85u8a5qrHkNUCZONVu5us7yPGjVy3gwXZbhA=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><i>LeFevre Overlook</i> to the <i>Grand Staircase</i> of cliffs named by Powell many years ago - seen on our way <br />home to <i>Rockville Utah</i>. There was snow over the <i>Kaibab Plateau</i> near <i>Jacob's Lake</i>.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQkNI47sQL4B9xbzfvSfQ30MGo21ArFI8vmnIVwvLgQfwzawh7R3T3mq0b44Tbe9MeBeY1iqQ-WCM-J4Wuaq5zJDcjjlLYwNye7YBg9th5ABic0N_nCR6_ny4yK0EArdk9R4x7j17L1nwytopYh45GJLeFvbs4wdMfP5-RxkqahOzmppyiwgCHXr6omg=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQkNI47sQL4B9xbzfvSfQ30MGo21ArFI8vmnIVwvLgQfwzawh7R3T3mq0b44Tbe9MeBeY1iqQ-WCM-J4Wuaq5zJDcjjlLYwNye7YBg9th5ABic0N_nCR6_ny4yK0EArdk9R4x7j17L1nwytopYh45GJLeFvbs4wdMfP5-RxkqahOzmppyiwgCHXr6omg=w310-h234" width="310" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghs9Yp4jpN0HoukowZ3uskyOZsAZkq2ckSYkSI7VkjgTWrm6CPQL5Gsljbx4GmclNWk8xqoYWKLmdvwA3h3J-GLoFOaDygRCERjg0E0201dQfZFIK8UEra-IYZZECTLglIW9_bH2IXPatfj4RFSpGz2UTgV6bHpbjT0b0jp576xdPsmaVdIWsgwqaUbQ=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghs9Yp4jpN0HoukowZ3uskyOZsAZkq2ckSYkSI7VkjgTWrm6CPQL5Gsljbx4GmclNWk8xqoYWKLmdvwA3h3J-GLoFOaDygRCERjg0E0201dQfZFIK8UEra-IYZZECTLglIW9_bH2IXPatfj4RFSpGz2UTgV6bHpbjT0b0jp576xdPsmaVdIWsgwqaUbQ=w313-h236" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Thanks for coming along on our trip. Remember, I have many more pictures on my Facebook and Instagram accounts.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Robert Ford - website: <a href="http://geobobford.com">geobobford.com</a></div>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-34597261881970692152022-03-04T17:14:00.001-07:002022-03-04T17:15:19.192-07:00Part IV and V - Conclusion to our 2022 Winter Road Trip<p> <b>Part IV:</b> The conclusion of our "2022 winter road trip" exploring the Lower Colorado River took us to the <i>Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument</i>, the famous town of <i>Ajo Arizona,</i> and then east to <i>Tucson Arizona </i>to visit our younger son and daughter-in-law at the <i>University of Arizona</i>. </p><div>Then our trip back home to <i>Southern Utah </i>took us on a side trip via <i>Prescott Arizona, Montezuma Castle National Monument, Fort Verde State Park, </i>then through Indian country from Flagstaff Arizona north to <i>Cameron</i> on the <i>Little Colorado River</i>, and <i>Bitter Springs</i> on the <i>Navajo Indian Reservation</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Part V: </b>This section will cover the areas traveled on US-89 from <i>Flagstaff</i> to <i>Bitter Springs</i>, and then <i>US-89A</i> to sights such as the marvelous feat of engineering over the Colorado River--<i>Navajo Bridge. </i>On the way we saw beautiful scenery such as <i>Echo Cliffs</i>, <i>Lee's Ferry,</i> <i>Vermilion Cliffs National Monument</i>, the <i>LeFebre Grand Staircase Overlook</i>, and finally overnighted in <i>Fredonia Arizona. </i>The final day saw us go through <i>Kanab Utah </i> to <i>Mt Carmel Junction</i> at the eastern entrance to<i> Zion National Park </i>and to our home on the<i> Virgin River </i>in<i> Rockville Utah</i>--within sight of<i> Zion.</i> Following are some pictorial highlights of this last part of our winter road trip.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for coming along on our trip. Remember, I have many more pictures on my Facebook and Instagram accounts.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>February 21-22</b> - <i>Ajo Arizona</i> and the unique town of "<i>Why</i>" near the entrance to the <i>Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUS57PlNxNm4M3fe3lfumz--AG7v5ttT8C4qI7bI3Ur5rXuws4tyXkzeKNaMKLKGO8YVBY8ndOYlGVI38mDzf9iMZgTqvT8h_q7cuLSTQel-mYMwJWiAwBPpBAR9q2-OaU91kytc77ojfsFWXRgl3-V1tAsYmIhq3pW83VrpUhy_2FMlZRZChsJJownw=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUS57PlNxNm4M3fe3lfumz--AG7v5ttT8C4qI7bI3Ur5rXuws4tyXkzeKNaMKLKGO8YVBY8ndOYlGVI38mDzf9iMZgTqvT8h_q7cuLSTQel-mYMwJWiAwBPpBAR9q2-OaU91kytc77ojfsFWXRgl3-V1tAsYmIhq3pW83VrpUhy_2FMlZRZChsJJownw=w301-h227" width="301" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgRWzjk6S-6xWAekNhSKTBBvKH6uKoO8rcEJh_8QMxRhbOVnPjhvlYmSgjTx3-DwPf-T-YHDg14_l5pCIkKl2tLo5iimZRKXcNwNLRvK4jl30g5HpEsDCjxQI3ccG2BMc26I-Q-h5BXtZF4TYR69GzEWHdfKcbu67jUO64O4w1NJ98NCsn7VEGyy8nsA=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgRWzjk6S-6xWAekNhSKTBBvKH6uKoO8rcEJh_8QMxRhbOVnPjhvlYmSgjTx3-DwPf-T-YHDg14_l5pCIkKl2tLo5iimZRKXcNwNLRvK4jl30g5HpEsDCjxQI3ccG2BMc26I-Q-h5BXtZF4TYR69GzEWHdfKcbu67jUO64O4w1NJ98NCsn7VEGyy8nsA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The historic district of <i><b>Ajo Arizona</b></i> - once a major "company town" focused on mining Copper.<br />The wealth was used to create one of the world's best examples of Spanish Revival Architecture<br />in its public spaces, e.g. churches, town square, houses, etc. See some pictures below.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9T7UvIZPDvLO2jlxopY9Mn1e6f64R-pzro_jYeq06NhV71Rw9n1LvO1A2qr-pbH1xszLvP1FV6g4lD0y8hDosrQNj7vV9fLASzYd1EWIwtwnTxon7Sggs1QFMWM4BgVYdev2me9M0eKelIVDv8X4uSg2Zxd-oc4XEXz6uv7Wccv4fKeGHfZs23jHEwg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9T7UvIZPDvLO2jlxopY9Mn1e6f64R-pzro_jYeq06NhV71Rw9n1LvO1A2qr-pbH1xszLvP1FV6g4lD0y8hDosrQNj7vV9fLASzYd1EWIwtwnTxon7Sggs1QFMWM4BgVYdev2me9M0eKelIVDv8X4uSg2Zxd-oc4XEXz6uv7Wccv4fKeGHfZs23jHEwg=s320" width="241" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1fhOJrkfNRStfzM1rNjtDdWESUxj8KMt_7GPwRKIQHTl2MK8VqsVbNS-G6Wn99ZjHQSoIaH-SboVAZouzBKN_NUtTmso5dKtW4V00FcsfIkDVIAduFCTqbE7XCytxxlyJfU84cAK6lwjLFgooMPFmdlecRscMTq3lui_uD7LlAKLEYqD3I5eqaVT_EQ=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1fhOJrkfNRStfzM1rNjtDdWESUxj8KMt_7GPwRKIQHTl2MK8VqsVbNS-G6Wn99ZjHQSoIaH-SboVAZouzBKN_NUtTmso5dKtW4V00FcsfIkDVIAduFCTqbE7XCytxxlyJfU84cAK6lwjLFgooMPFmdlecRscMTq3lui_uD7LlAKLEYqD3I5eqaVT_EQ=s320" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Left) Abandoned railroad tracks leading to its station and the giant copper mine <br />which was the source of its wealth in the 1890-1930s. Now it's just a huge tailings pile</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and pit with an overlook worth seeing.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOIg1aOWLG3cyf7JanpvW03nGHP-4HYay0kNEqJexKawdbArq1fKi_sm-VMNQIQ0bGKbq69tUCd0qj8TpFzyGlhXJwsW0BmzjlwD6C6Faps39xUM7upiyTJ8TsKEK0yK5rpGo_UgvcCDogfXsyhu3QJrkUidAhKJTdx5BFcqvSLMOTSnFoBPAKlU59kw=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOIg1aOWLG3cyf7JanpvW03nGHP-4HYay0kNEqJexKawdbArq1fKi_sm-VMNQIQ0bGKbq69tUCd0qj8TpFzyGlhXJwsW0BmzjlwD6C6Faps39xUM7upiyTJ8TsKEK0yK5rpGo_UgvcCDogfXsyhu3QJrkUidAhKJTdx5BFcqvSLMOTSnFoBPAKlU59kw=s320" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtHc6fb99xsKzMDK0f06onuMq3xfVDvldgSR2KGXxjfEEiAkEipMUsojsIicGK9Hg434rw4suhgdtYQFFJG8gmQeD4EbWmTUBdzU0i7T-FhoP2BFD3JVPDgbZ6wOaUxBeyYywojtVzkzTpiydhsgRYYFHvDX-eApCPBMOccm_gHow7IfK7FvU_LxRzfw=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtHc6fb99xsKzMDK0f06onuMq3xfVDvldgSR2KGXxjfEEiAkEipMUsojsIicGK9Hg434rw4suhgdtYQFFJG8gmQeD4EbWmTUBdzU0i7T-FhoP2BFD3JVPDgbZ6wOaUxBeyYywojtVzkzTpiydhsgRYYFHvDX-eApCPBMOccm_gHow7IfK7FvU_LxRzfw=s320" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Left) The beautiful arcades of the town square in Ajo and (Right) a view of the great Curley School.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZY6OFFrs5KT-iQyvLJl0XXeFYGL_tmUmAjMpiUEb52Fs0dCs5UEyC2pvXSuMiOtjqav1_N0LJhBE1GYahBkwJ8PHL8pf3UCot8j5xd2A3i4P42idvyqezj9wIGS51s2k7WhKwkuf40OeoXKt1LT89uB6bklmCjTD1Z8P5b1z8MDV2XAZkcPvOHEilDw=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZY6OFFrs5KT-iQyvLJl0XXeFYGL_tmUmAjMpiUEb52Fs0dCs5UEyC2pvXSuMiOtjqav1_N0LJhBE1GYahBkwJ8PHL8pf3UCot8j5xd2A3i4P42idvyqezj9wIGS51s2k7WhKwkuf40OeoXKt1LT89uB6bklmCjTD1Z8P5b1z8MDV2XAZkcPvOHEilDw=s320" width="241" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivWFCml0UoePlcAHaRul3SHb16ovrdm6hM29nGz1-5MjEoqZqClMEHWJpc2n1a3veF-v0uUDy4GC0NaDHtMEZfLqTvhFmCUjcmmWK8fd945sOuKYT9b5jpfoAnq2MRDnsAToAPy66XOfxxpxQDXbEt0-kl5lRGlMfBszlEzvh0KZ3n29ZKrRVwJgFD2w=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivWFCml0UoePlcAHaRul3SHb16ovrdm6hM29nGz1-5MjEoqZqClMEHWJpc2n1a3veF-v0uUDy4GC0NaDHtMEZfLqTvhFmCUjcmmWK8fd945sOuKYT9b5jpfoAnq2MRDnsAToAPy66XOfxxpxQDXbEt0-kl5lRGlMfBszlEzvh0KZ3n29ZKrRVwJgFD2w=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Ajo <i>Curley School </i>was once a place where Indian and Mexican children were housed<br />and taken from their families to "teach them to be Anglos"...a truly dark past!! Today it <br />is a wonderful high school specializing in fine arts.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr0Hf9xYxY3He_LgAErsiEmQHm8kDcYVBWhaRVIoi_dykTMuLEYQNVRqVre_nwOJty_fUjqlUvIkFwobHh96Q5PuCp-SfGeP56GjGvZI8thpnNjaebhVvIu-_ONLu4p5s-ack8Q4ANhKWRECq6ZhnCMs-RXzWh1GAALy0YxTYEdNzEPNvIrtktP_v2WQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgr0Hf9xYxY3He_LgAErsiEmQHm8kDcYVBWhaRVIoi_dykTMuLEYQNVRqVre_nwOJty_fUjqlUvIkFwobHh96Q5PuCp-SfGeP56GjGvZI8thpnNjaebhVvIu-_ONLu4p5s-ack8Q4ANhKWRECq6ZhnCMs-RXzWh1GAALy0YxTYEdNzEPNvIrtktP_v2WQ=s320" width="241" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgylij85ez_6zCLDPOv_X5aQkOwJ0sS3oOGzJTEiTnVbZ_qz_G58d1H-jjp6_IQZYXrFVwaUxWXGIv82ll-YxpAOthxd4rD7KTK6Xj2BRdqmnCj-6ncdwV1KAveM-Fs-YzbU2d5CXqfZjKOvqbKXiLYEa3y6uGemHgtpDHn7GzaVUeL1dhGGdtyujd5BQ=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgylij85ez_6zCLDPOv_X5aQkOwJ0sS3oOGzJTEiTnVbZ_qz_G58d1H-jjp6_IQZYXrFVwaUxWXGIv82ll-YxpAOthxd4rD7KTK6Xj2BRdqmnCj-6ncdwV1KAveM-Fs-YzbU2d5CXqfZjKOvqbKXiLYEa3y6uGemHgtpDHn7GzaVUeL1dhGGdtyujd5BQ=s320" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Above) Some of the unique and artistic welcome signs for the town of Ajo.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKlZG8Z-PPJbYw7Ny42Z713dt2Kmuf-u1MovXXNY9UMJcQJKCdFh02PpnEJPVgYHd0mSsrIJPwBzn4V3-_Mm9T8V_hNqOWB8vFPQQGvTusaIbnAcICO56BO33HI9CIgLtX_1EOMlUVX3Qkryb3xn3gYGkWQJuGfKCG8ddB7YvYj7GRGnEKZ8tMPstIHg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKlZG8Z-PPJbYw7Ny42Z713dt2Kmuf-u1MovXXNY9UMJcQJKCdFh02PpnEJPVgYHd0mSsrIJPwBzn4V3-_Mm9T8V_hNqOWB8vFPQQGvTusaIbnAcICO56BO33HI9CIgLtX_1EOMlUVX3Qkryb3xn3gYGkWQJuGfKCG8ddB7YvYj7GRGnEKZ8tMPstIHg=w482-h640" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Below (right) the fun little<br />store in Why called "Why Not"!!<br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5sVTCs660unHrTHV5c5acZXzaWug7HEe2KnpbSh2Ak84f3TaxygIDMZwtQV05fhwdrPoQiAcLTO4YWqHjpash9H3xDcxI6b4PvcXkMdi1V02TPL0V0A3yuBQxzbTZBDjJbthACeXPYk7cVvVb7drlD9kYtXJ3CUTXBuKxxG5U4DnXoZVpcWApYgiI7Q=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsqu6WTP8kTFStfrNEj-yrSzrKD_JuEq-Ir0rkuKS4jUMwTWSz3LTyUKniyqff7iz2JCxIShchGmqh2cPoYWCLf7DpYb2UscgztDXjOxB_dMwnSFlCa5Yy0jV--_Wnt3WC1pzNtinPXgcmzyC809HQD78QNutlDps9OJDLI3IsXHI6ZZVFOgyg4uIjWw=s4080" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsqu6WTP8kTFStfrNEj-yrSzrKD_JuEq-Ir0rkuKS4jUMwTWSz3LTyUKniyqff7iz2JCxIShchGmqh2cPoYWCLf7DpYb2UscgztDXjOxB_dMwnSFlCa5Yy0jV--_Wnt3WC1pzNtinPXgcmzyC809HQD78QNutlDps9OJDLI3IsXHI6ZZVFOgyg4uIjWw=w307-h231" width="307" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsqu6WTP8kTFStfrNEj-yrSzrKD_JuEq-Ir0rkuKS4jUMwTWSz3LTyUKniyqff7iz2JCxIShchGmqh2cPoYWCLf7DpYb2UscgztDXjOxB_dMwnSFlCa5Yy0jV--_Wnt3WC1pzNtinPXgcmzyC809HQD78QNutlDps9OJDLI3IsXHI6ZZVFOgyg4uIjWw=s4080" style="clear: right; 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text-align: center;">The infamous US-Mexico Border Wall near Lukeville Arizona.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1ssgJS3jUUaVX1ihUMWc-FffXdoxol54EOmklq29zkECtzZAjp1LckWD64uzKBLeFaP75zdTgcmLnbk7rkBzm6AOwvflwhJdY_G173yDvxsB6j9DfmP7yrmdd-HB20Jlay11Kjnh1ZAUMBS9wqoM32tsi1i39Q87t2Rv3rkskIpExj_1p53dNsCv6Tg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1ssgJS3jUUaVX1ihUMWc-FffXdoxol54EOmklq29zkECtzZAjp1LckWD64uzKBLeFaP75zdTgcmLnbk7rkBzm6AOwvflwhJdY_G173yDvxsB6j9DfmP7yrmdd-HB20Jlay11Kjnh1ZAUMBS9wqoM32tsi1i39Q87t2Rv3rkskIpExj_1p53dNsCv6Tg=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div> (Below) The US-Mexico border station in Lukeville Arizona.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiO2vF3pXnk2MI205Wndf_5qH4JQdThldOL84bBqIJpJm5UWj4q9iWssAi7Wd6taroIda9TIcu6wRMbEM_b80zlz980rnjvlqYc5oJ8U3vu1lVhOH0ZVBT6zDE3FKhEjA0Ux6IP7qkhKxonNJWK1Q7zBDmJTM3tqCadCYqwHTiRSO5cq4SQ--kxXDV6w=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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On the way see the famous <i>Kitts Peak National Observatory</i> and visit a farmer's market run by the "Papago" (<i>Tohono O'odham</i>) Indian<br />Nation tribal center in <i>Sells Arizona</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikbTk3LHq6H2stCUGmmlVv89fvaYIAkpK6HeSVScrWbiqIuVvQV4B3TDQExsaADjihWtpq6o3RyyV741TCaHyKaYdqy3diJyRNdiNovNBmOYGPY9gcTR1wCsVVTwqyRVw_R3rLCY3EFIie0WNlMkSaksf3Y3PRH5SoSLWO2irqzm1maq4b98OH0sMzMg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikbTk3LHq6H2stCUGmmlVv89fvaYIAkpK6HeSVScrWbiqIuVvQV4B3TDQExsaADjihWtpq6o3RyyV741TCaHyKaYdqy3diJyRNdiNovNBmOYGPY9gcTR1wCsVVTwqyRVw_R3rLCY3EFIie0WNlMkSaksf3Y3PRH5SoSLWO2irqzm1maq4b98OH0sMzMg=w193-h256" width="193" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5dMInOBuHkVXZybv7qKVFG8DTPL9iky0F2rGAQQWZsfNUNE5znow37FgLEqvor9vLN-NfTLkX3V3oYIpr-rnRXCIAP4DdxtF8KhKe2EA1ZCApjZHgRQYKNMqaQ0YdHFQKs_MR54m1AED-XHA3emnLnH-pP9ikTFa9N47X0ng2RjHNRvSfPKNdD4GOHg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The <i>Baboquivari Mountain Wilderness</i> near <i>Kitt Peak</i>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhauxSwW1ulXHQtC0fQKTCQ9WV7DUA58OeHM3bt1WlYmMVepO4Z1VvL4lo8vv3IDnbBs5Xjy9MLeGm0f02jQhHQ8b-6cehwZvZhXeVbCnlK5LbX2YQH9n6TUBnNUVh5dB8XQjwqjyGDYY71wS3uU3Ry8DV0NL2imATuGIidFJvTbH5VbcvzDie72k0Afw=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhauxSwW1ulXHQtC0fQKTCQ9WV7DUA58OeHM3bt1WlYmMVepO4Z1VvL4lo8vv3IDnbBs5Xjy9MLeGm0f02jQhHQ8b-6cehwZvZhXeVbCnlK5LbX2YQH9n6TUBnNUVh5dB8XQjwqjyGDYY71wS3uU3Ry8DV0NL2imATuGIidFJvTbH5VbcvzDie72k0Afw=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The tribal headquarters and farmer's market of the <i><b>Tohono O'odham Nation</b></i> in <i>Sells Arizona</i>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB1O_FTIM47UTa6uO7JY96AXSZdL11BG_wPRyyUA3SA627tslGZ5bGi2bjzvQJzdC1agURTvufuI94K11IdeZPLeAGljUAbtvx_GLWwFV0CgCb631U5Yu1fE9y79PDjvU37MV7LS-PwzuCGEt53HhqIjnwbQQoIaPgfl1ZYd5hHsWxjNh4T9nqQSsKZg=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjB1O_FTIM47UTa6uO7JY96AXSZdL11BG_wPRyyUA3SA627tslGZ5bGi2bjzvQJzdC1agURTvufuI94K11IdeZPLeAGljUAbtvx_GLWwFV0CgCb631U5Yu1fE9y79PDjvU37MV7LS-PwzuCGEt53HhqIjnwbQQoIaPgfl1ZYd5hHsWxjNh4T9nqQSsKZg=w301-h227" width="301" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeUVQRqwp9IJq_Tzt_yOe9JUHtAcu10cQ99NVzFp5uZJeJH5Dc_0P4SWAdcmrnnkQStLD820vimgL-447ZkSLX0ERzxRz95uEp8Vhtid5ojIjfObSOmHPibdWZBD5XNlD07z56OV9GyGHITEiopg0-t-bfjhfyQeSYQMYoCRKglcZjb6PqJEvxzhr5WQ=s4080" style="clear: right; 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It was nice to see some of the new developments in Redlands, including the progress on building a new <i>Museum of Redlands</i>. And we saw a few other sights around the downtown (see below).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH04HgjmGVFovRmThNT9qJq7JGaMdducFZ2GQiDaD6WMoLQQfsEbCWTVAvHOmctCtcdWKTZavqTYDIWCoRESnQh47lYNC6_cqRkhjIQu6_AlXuqI4M1RY3P0gdwyk2XjPs59OXAN1rPNPUknd_HpxrcCDlJF41Afn_tvAmI9CdlQvz7h6J71rH9scowg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgH04HgjmGVFovRmThNT9qJq7JGaMdducFZ2GQiDaD6WMoLQQfsEbCWTVAvHOmctCtcdWKTZavqTYDIWCoRESnQh47lYNC6_cqRkhjIQu6_AlXuqI4M1RY3P0gdwyk2XjPs59OXAN1rPNPUknd_HpxrcCDlJF41Afn_tvAmI9CdlQvz7h6J71rH9scowg=w289-h218" width="289" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZfYNw_HcTQfcLMhaS0ZbcHOAD9BdLDOPtRoJYQQKlj06bEU9uJ1vB40e2LNoRsVP7Q_23lDQ1RdM0EcNwFh0n4cJ3jz5nRdW6Jomm54luP-FhelYyNuH0WabN5mSS8sIlbnRBL-lVZHneOd8hUY903WfsKGLi_B7dyC0W21B6y_c0w1C_Qf_Z4Gm5iQ=s4080" style="clear: right; 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See below some pictures. We also revisited the Memorial Walkway leading to the Centennial Complex on the University Campus where there is a memorial plaque to my grandparents who got basic medical training here in the early 1920s before returning as missionaries to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUTeqyMevouqzgp-fgKCOmk6tJJP7MR6FChobVKMmuVw4wvFrIJAmrqut-COtaN0ZQc7rc7rg3PVHSzGN383ufwKKu36AWrNvcmuJIqnRClH_t_Ts8IBXQhugt22Gb18vEkFATgIar01TYmGNPqs-cl15L82BvYmC2lPZb4Tv07L3NNB7aysWH1f57RA=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUTeqyMevouqzgp-fgKCOmk6tJJP7MR6FChobVKMmuVw4wvFrIJAmrqut-COtaN0ZQc7rc7rg3PVHSzGN383ufwKKu36AWrNvcmuJIqnRClH_t_Ts8IBXQhugt22Gb18vEkFATgIar01TYmGNPqs-cl15L82BvYmC2lPZb4Tv07L3NNB7aysWH1f57RA=s320" width="241" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoDoy2qoB7hQX0Em4v1WK6B3771f40McsnX05Hv0jXtTOMlFOXGdse5g8XK0b8aQ7PLfFFu_e377LFKleU4F5EF-HyjRw-yYe8J9u9Q9-RDx8TG3x4Qv6yD0l3fDjWLf4iwuSmFtwNe9vuqcoRs4aKuY3pVd6Lkeez0McyRXn6TuePSJZ-DpwlKN8clw=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoDoy2qoB7hQX0Em4v1WK6B3771f40McsnX05Hv0jXtTOMlFOXGdse5g8XK0b8aQ7PLfFFu_e377LFKleU4F5EF-HyjRw-yYe8J9u9Q9-RDx8TG3x4Qv6yD0l3fDjWLf4iwuSmFtwNe9vuqcoRs4aKuY3pVd6Lkeez0McyRXn6TuePSJZ-DpwlKN8clw=s320" width="241" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below - the Centennial Complex and Memorial Walkway at Loma Linda University</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxGfNLf9_4_fKzxlfPuW2g9EOwTV09Q7-nGx_xjgcjzkdMUuIKD2pvurzv-3JFXrlBD80JeDC6OcJuToTLni_X90MwF-4pzGNGEoQOLH0Ij7pAU2HscMsa_hPNCrOUgn0Gcj4BIRayZEDrDsHjcvhrh4u7jPUVzxvrxqDmHLU8avw-4-cucv85D6S0bA=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxGfNLf9_4_fKzxlfPuW2g9EOwTV09Q7-nGx_xjgcjzkdMUuIKD2pvurzv-3JFXrlBD80JeDC6OcJuToTLni_X90MwF-4pzGNGEoQOLH0Ij7pAU2HscMsa_hPNCrOUgn0Gcj4BIRayZEDrDsHjcvhrh4u7jPUVzxvrxqDmHLU8avw-4-cucv85D6S0bA=w292-h220" width="292" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP_TxGNvhjBOqTL1nk4H0cZ1MEeqtqNB-vPOOnmbnVpk4UwgxM0HgzvZYMzbnhBubGsFYxf1N_G9SjxZqDrbroDt8is8Bk_JON74Hyi2LB1wSfdgE-q4Yjp3imfBPATnrxpuJi2UI268W7O5KE9bW4i9xHN67ad6P_PS5VfDr1szAQhh-JLRTaWWOmog=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP_TxGNvhjBOqTL1nk4H0cZ1MEeqtqNB-vPOOnmbnVpk4UwgxM0HgzvZYMzbnhBubGsFYxf1N_G9SjxZqDrbroDt8is8Bk_JON74Hyi2LB1wSfdgE-q4Yjp3imfBPATnrxpuJi2UI268W7O5KE9bW4i9xHN67ad6P_PS5VfDr1szAQhh-JLRTaWWOmog=w292-h220" width="292" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Centennial Complex at Loma Linda University Health Memorial Walkway.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn6aR00hMsWDk2VAPWsqetEbsCe2Pk6ievPfZWgZwpts46XCofNdj1rguvdbZFkewgscIs6K0q6ftIJzfI_ktjPAdkpwarK-cNc3X-Bp1LlX53QPYicXEnbJ7Bkz0_X8De3A1G39quubJL8hRqOnalI5mIUpBceMY50G7C23kuWgZwFnSLeGev56hKSA=s3759" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3759" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn6aR00hMsWDk2VAPWsqetEbsCe2Pk6ievPfZWgZwpts46XCofNdj1rguvdbZFkewgscIs6K0q6ftIJzfI_ktjPAdkpwarK-cNc3X-Bp1LlX53QPYicXEnbJ7Bkz0_X8De3A1G39quubJL8hRqOnalI5mIUpBceMY50G7C23kuWgZwFnSLeGev56hKSA=w303-h248" width="303" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU5oLL1ckcxahWDzfGvuEDHV4v71UxOKnjcZoHWpHTJts9UmwTLoL0SQzsdaWgqg5iSEcI2n76dsWe5mmuxiJ2zotHElgLa4qFINpCvJ348c2M7JWt1rvW9Fh4zfjiv6RE-2zBmynppl_BFp6jUjU0bRyeJLehUiGS3ZLPTdUvURzOIv_EriNVGPuwyQ=s2915" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2538" data-original-width="2915" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU5oLL1ckcxahWDzfGvuEDHV4v71UxOKnjcZoHWpHTJts9UmwTLoL0SQzsdaWgqg5iSEcI2n76dsWe5mmuxiJ2zotHElgLa4qFINpCvJ348c2M7JWt1rvW9Fh4zfjiv6RE-2zBmynppl_BFp6jUjU0bRyeJLehUiGS3ZLPTdUvURzOIv_EriNVGPuwyQ=w287-h250" width="287" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Memorial Plaque to my Grandparents (Orley & Lillian Ford) who got specialized medical<br />training at LLU (then called the College of Medical Evangelists) in the early 1920s before <br />returning to serve as missionaries in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b>Part III</b> - <b>Continuing our Winter Road Trip</b> - <b>February 19- March 1</b>: Exploring sights around the <i>Salton Sea</i>, the <i>Coachella Valley</i>, <i>Joshua Tree National Park</i>, as well as <i>Anza-Borrego State Park</i>. Much of that exploration during this phase of our trip was based from the lovely <i>Sky Valley Resort</i> in the outskirts of <i>Desert Hot Springs</i> and <i>Palm Desert</i>, California. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHCOW4ZDVb2QrCmWlIi_okdfw9ASN8sN-W1oryhyTa_XgpQfZYbWqNKZoDNjH6DBVPYW62fEFYcBrogTc4B9gshLM_y_VMxohhxGhHpLkjNQpJ3RrokPNWBRsC_Tr6LC7ClJAbgdcKALFOaFyNm9fd9bK3YsQiPbHzHfHo5SSkGrWVmGnUQb73b4JhmQ=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHCOW4ZDVb2QrCmWlIi_okdfw9ASN8sN-W1oryhyTa_XgpQfZYbWqNKZoDNjH6DBVPYW62fEFYcBrogTc4B9gshLM_y_VMxohhxGhHpLkjNQpJ3RrokPNWBRsC_Tr6LC7ClJAbgdcKALFOaFyNm9fd9bK3YsQiPbHzHfHo5SSkGrWVmGnUQb73b4JhmQ=w212-h282" width="212" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1BfWtMBiv_q3ca7K7JWps7fv6o5r8cY3vvFkfVKgg_V_V60f3MyDyTOpRfUzO_XV7pV1lhl9iFpdAyUmnPuIGTmlEPkp9ejCOZ8RtpJ5DusFJsuOGuHg_QjC6hBV0t_gfxID_vfnjyLHWiBIop30MOqkO80JDLubI7mWbcRwN2wyWu-ehhaiW4NKyiw=s4080" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Some Excursions while Staying at Sky Valley Resort in the Palm Springs Area</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Day-Trip to Yucca Valley and Wind Turbine Farm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqhsHh3Y4EYsHs4buxxiSOYbtVegylT0DMSt4uzyQXHkV6V2SaXm4Mp1Fd44F3jc6jwVXoIvjOf0Hw9uXB4q5I_APMp1zIgrX_e78QmFEj-zoCgficGqUAg0KXaBiiiiNLOlg0F_seLmsNVo--SABtTrM-3wexDRrb1Ses0NE3zeXJgShO5qiO0p8rTA=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqhsHh3Y4EYsHs4buxxiSOYbtVegylT0DMSt4uzyQXHkV6V2SaXm4Mp1Fd44F3jc6jwVXoIvjOf0Hw9uXB4q5I_APMp1zIgrX_e78QmFEj-zoCgficGqUAg0KXaBiiiiNLOlg0F_seLmsNVo--SABtTrM-3wexDRrb1Ses0NE3zeXJgShO5qiO0p8rTA=w308-h232" width="308" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_o_UlxP3gFnp5cWuYXGahoHJ4_r3tBxM1hfXKlpnztJGTlT7fbntmFU_Jm4DpBD3XTzcXu9BjD1kNNpfPiPZfwGnIKtKG8oVG7IhzxcrdRmFV8_IWmIPSlNZ3NgGpWUGLstBOpmOIFu28yNhYFYj8OkGh9CprgwVyrUhCPo2GdPUo1rlWuctAApCeIw=s4080" style="clear: right; 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text-align: center;">Cut rock formations in Joshua Tree and Valley of Fire</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLezhF9VqonEkY_RCHF02G9-U1C4j_H18NK90FV9p41jPnG6U2jXd4IlVYwtwqbOnB7KXtA21TTRcBbudAgoGCYTxcZiQJUInwpq1CFaawFmHXy_5eXGTAfR1tRmXJ4ei4gjFLnN9Iuh-9nBwCX5dFSdMpSb_hgx9E1pxJsCkH9j_xYjd4d3XZ6m2s5A=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLezhF9VqonEkY_RCHF02G9-U1C4j_H18NK90FV9p41jPnG6U2jXd4IlVYwtwqbOnB7KXtA21TTRcBbudAgoGCYTxcZiQJUInwpq1CFaawFmHXy_5eXGTAfR1tRmXJ4ei4gjFLnN9Iuh-9nBwCX5dFSdMpSb_hgx9E1pxJsCkH9j_xYjd4d3XZ6m2s5A=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfYB6588vYwIqMXum2IgkvDicJUGgAYsuyiUAkp1Q-ha2bAxw4Djy9OjK5oAg6I7ldnUO_2BTk_3sTXQPueG5oAWLZ0nL9flPpblhW9DqFrCOaNZc9i9zrEFozAb9dYZA6yyD2pDgFQ3ymmZeH3ZdSJ0Z1dORk_GvC1FcEG-EukvwB7gWtRQkPr5_84Q=s4080" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Cholla Garden in Joshua Tree National Park</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZx6ZFlGIQPQq5iG91pVYEIABcNw9UXQpbbRoTA6KUAHe6FlopGj6349lxenIsosyQfuKGtnUQzUVQzKcMVPSWHKNrqYlCeHyYdjUyGhWMS2td82HAuJVPzq67JaTIx46TntGlTw5llw2sG-U0gX0ccIg6eTRjty2UKcZAc51wAxgGuDki0V5hzgC6yw=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZx6ZFlGIQPQq5iG91pVYEIABcNw9UXQpbbRoTA6KUAHe6FlopGj6349lxenIsosyQfuKGtnUQzUVQzKcMVPSWHKNrqYlCeHyYdjUyGhWMS2td82HAuJVPzq67JaTIx46TntGlTw5llw2sG-U0gX0ccIg6eTRjty2UKcZAc51wAxgGuDki0V5hzgC6yw=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Park's Landscape is Changing due to Climate Change and Human Action - from a poster in<br />the East Entrance Park's Visitor Center</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>On our Way Back to Pat's in Loma Linda stopped for a Date Shake at Hadley's--it was years ago<br />since we had such a treat!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaZeaOCqBhXxBsI6VFqMrogq4KjdB8-GfLudhnL8bT7gt_Kx8EgOw9Kjl-eGyNIl1WaaIawO_vdGfrGG_xVSFEy9vzPNM-Wh_rEYP_e5QqYqV9IAr9ML0jDrpnNZVIj6eAIkhiCP-s0LFFxYEBioU3P3OYELCc9dq5OtZpU1wDEghH23d_wnZgNpjy6g=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaZeaOCqBhXxBsI6VFqMrogq4KjdB8-GfLudhnL8bT7gt_Kx8EgOw9Kjl-eGyNIl1WaaIawO_vdGfrGG_xVSFEy9vzPNM-Wh_rEYP_e5QqYqV9IAr9ML0jDrpnNZVIj6eAIkhiCP-s0LFFxYEBioU3P3OYELCc9dq5OtZpU1wDEghH23d_wnZgNpjy6g=w301-h400" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below - Golf course in Borrego Springs and below is the<br />sign at the entrance to Anza-Borrego State Park...another "day-trip" from Sky Valley Resort</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL3WCD0BF_5Gp0yu8JS2TpasufKve4o8E_2aZU7TKigpJ_goBQMV9GPzceGd5ue5IGxtu2U06rbSr7qAnWscHSHCBMpAwxcMBKXZmZgIiiqv-IkDf5YygdZyDtpijcXLV1Fv5nj_P4AtyGBZ_FWF0VwgNdfarRAApFCG3Vo0gDVwo0dOPE07SmPQ3ADQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL3WCD0BF_5Gp0yu8JS2TpasufKve4o8E_2aZU7TKigpJ_goBQMV9GPzceGd5ue5IGxtu2U06rbSr7qAnWscHSHCBMpAwxcMBKXZmZgIiiqv-IkDf5YygdZyDtpijcXLV1Fv5nj_P4AtyGBZ_FWF0VwgNdfarRAApFCG3Vo0gDVwo0dOPE07SmPQ3ADQ=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div></div><p><b>February 20 > 21:</b></p><p>Continuing our "road trip" down the <i>Colorado River</i> we first explored the <i>Coachella</i> and<i> Imperial Valleys</i> and some settlements on the <i>Salton Sea</i>. The agriculture in this valley is amazing but the poverty in some of the now degraded communities along the Salton Sea was disheartening and sad! As the Sea has dried up over the years, what used to be thriving beach communities are now rural ghettoes and hangouts for some of the poverty-stricken immigrants and laborers working in the fields of these rich agricultural lands. It's a travesty that these essential workers have to live in such squalor!! </p><p>We also saw some amazing attempts to create religious art in the desert at the so-called <i>"Salvation Mountain"</i> near <i>Niland </i>California in the <i>Imperial Valley</i>. In the late afternoon we found a place to spend the night at a "rest stop" near the <i>Buttercup Sand Dunes</i> along I-8 near the Townsite of <i>"Felicity" </i>and <i>Winterhaven</i> California and <i>Yuma</i> Arizona on the Lower Colorado River.</p><p>Even more disturbing was seeing rich agriculture in the lower Colorado River being cut-off from the Mexican side by the infamous 'border wall' seen south of Yuma Arizona near Somerton.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHq4VutLE2jjE4TuPOOmWz4Y1YTbf_s2H_gUWtqK7p9yx09AENa_GeRm8ITehkIX2Ol0Q30qSpb1CwkRmP4bqlgDKvplUUbLz6CI5RqF--uwRdsWZV0HRuIuEVf3Zwbo8eDPm_zQyFwiDlewpKB1qBYbBgl87D-_cm70FBfxayfHRTujG996gMkrkrEQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHq4VutLE2jjE4TuPOOmWz4Y1YTbf_s2H_gUWtqK7p9yx09AENa_GeRm8ITehkIX2Ol0Q30qSpb1CwkRmP4bqlgDKvplUUbLz6CI5RqF--uwRdsWZV0HRuIuEVf3Zwbo8eDPm_zQyFwiDlewpKB1qBYbBgl87D-_cm70FBfxayfHRTujG996gMkrkrEQ=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">World-class irrigated agriculture in the Imperial Valley near Niland California.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwcxzDMS1BLVeVgLkIlYDqwEwAEiuLbvdmcg-Q76uV3yphAJgwq6XYYHX18cVGbT1suQ3u01jUs5AX_9rvDaPCC7WBlGXKQxPziXgltIPf407-LPn1PwIxOlKagpZPwEaK7nF4b0J1CpECzaZZELnmsFdghPSGLCfb0JFnb71299qXdh5dDXUOmmsC2g=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwcxzDMS1BLVeVgLkIlYDqwEwAEiuLbvdmcg-Q76uV3yphAJgwq6XYYHX18cVGbT1suQ3u01jUs5AX_9rvDaPCC7WBlGXKQxPziXgltIPf407-LPn1PwIxOlKagpZPwEaK7nF4b0J1CpECzaZZELnmsFdghPSGLCfb0JFnb71299qXdh5dDXUOmmsC2g=w233-h310" width="233" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzbUL4Farbn6ejRlc7vHo-VyGtaMHs2D-KS66pLO8uc0lV_8u_RgldZYQ7U_M6YXgO2hfxVzBll-gDZ04JVcYxVP7idv_s42R0O4fBenN0dxD3chL0-pKfu_qgNH8cC1hAI9RTcRwWgrOZmtVhI1efkNObco5ot71MfGuPQrkm7Q84mr9ajVTR_Hnl9g=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Semi-abandoned and degraded homes and facilities at the Salton Sea Resort</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtU9xOj2d9ybB6raWaAzPxN0YhqyUhsgChScXBs9KaXhtC0rCzbMN6GAI5KlXPBiwixcdRajtbfouxS98w8Kreud5_KImvmxS5RR1DEFrT5KJgC2iSh5Q0VQojaT97_EFpZJe3Zd7_2ZxSNmEet-0fFyTs8bR76-ED_y62aaZ3eW3JK3T42twWNFcI-w=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtU9xOj2d9ybB6raWaAzPxN0YhqyUhsgChScXBs9KaXhtC0rCzbMN6GAI5KlXPBiwixcdRajtbfouxS98w8Kreud5_KImvmxS5RR1DEFrT5KJgC2iSh5Q0VQojaT97_EFpZJe3Zd7_2ZxSNmEet-0fFyTs8bR76-ED_y62aaZ3eW3JK3T42twWNFcI-w=s320" width="241" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiySULsaYeVhgqZzwruvUg_Lml9OptOpyh3e2HkAMAsPSRvR47OleCRnrDfjEW1Zs724oI6FMl4xA-GYSfAuNhQ4_uQ3mFBmb5IxjrI10aYQ9HrSLpqR8Ofne80b91QLY750dcjwbsnpB-WK2QIawc3KTdHOgRL1XdGM1fzuI0GGnIuqpHVGS2IyTbs6g=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiySULsaYeVhgqZzwruvUg_Lml9OptOpyh3e2HkAMAsPSRvR47OleCRnrDfjEW1Zs724oI6FMl4xA-GYSfAuNhQ4_uQ3mFBmb5IxjrI10aYQ9HrSLpqR8Ofne80b91QLY750dcjwbsnpB-WK2QIawc3KTdHOgRL1XdGM1fzuI0GGnIuqpHVGS2IyTbs6g=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Receding shoreline and abandoned beaches at the Salton Sea Resort now covered in grafitti.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvJt8HNmDlGeY9UB0XNB3MgW6edWpoLPW8QM1Niprs3RXd6_dsqVFKm8xgFByjrNOm6sC4SWkso5c3KIJRviH7HreAhwnNdey7HMOTBMDnVn80pXvJiSf8rQFkdhbUpRwczYLjBbj8EdJ89Y2OL3Ty-3pmypd-WO2f6mXI5LLc8tHCyjBfFTJVtWd7Dg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvJt8HNmDlGeY9UB0XNB3MgW6edWpoLPW8QM1Niprs3RXd6_dsqVFKm8xgFByjrNOm6sC4SWkso5c3KIJRviH7HreAhwnNdey7HMOTBMDnVn80pXvJiSf8rQFkdhbUpRwczYLjBbj8EdJ89Y2OL3Ty-3pmypd-WO2f6mXI5LLc8tHCyjBfFTJVtWd7Dg=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below - Boarded-up former shopping center along the Salton Sea and in the Imperial Valley - <br />Once thriving communities now degraded and home for immigrants and agricultural workers <br />living in terrible rural poverty ghettoes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjhwA6sVbF4Hg-ukA_zQjgxWtfUsV-oWuq6a8Wkdc6JukMLyoUR6cXHD8d1pMu5J7IU9oYEk0DSRDgaxvdu0MgXqdICzW7ch8nxMy7NBrQsGmXhsgn_RQ2F6k0bTF2aOSkDDVMquzVcI3g2T-9vTQhwwoKTpKZTcfZSfbibll1Fi9oT9fSLYZd6yifPw=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjhwA6sVbF4Hg-ukA_zQjgxWtfUsV-oWuq6a8Wkdc6JukMLyoUR6cXHD8d1pMu5J7IU9oYEk0DSRDgaxvdu0MgXqdICzW7ch8nxMy7NBrQsGmXhsgn_RQ2F6k0bTF2aOSkDDVMquzVcI3g2T-9vTQhwwoKTpKZTcfZSfbibll1Fi9oT9fSLYZd6yifPw=w301-h241" width="301" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv2oQvxkfAZAWFCWFFRVdork_1nPCiF1w8dZrDB2rmLP4Fot1i2dC3LeeHfS2scbNM9M0Fr0BUC7-4kfjwK1XWMlXIEmQkvQlG7B_U2oPbCqAsBR6G1X1sJpqawGmdHwrH-l6r9Crsko5-CuH_Fs6hxuFCOE-7itwLEcxuHVYKUx10LKY9Qw7bU9SO4Q=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv2oQvxkfAZAWFCWFFRVdork_1nPCiF1w8dZrDB2rmLP4Fot1i2dC3LeeHfS2scbNM9M0Fr0BUC7-4kfjwK1XWMlXIEmQkvQlG7B_U2oPbCqAsBR6G1X1sJpqawGmdHwrH-l6r9Crsko5-CuH_Fs6hxuFCOE-7itwLEcxuHVYKUx10LKY9Qw7bU9SO4Q=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below: Salvation Mountain - Religious "found art" at Salvation Mountain near Niland California.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgU3rXzpJPTqP5cgY3C_c54F6a19XSXeNZbqAvDTm4gitNmzT7Ppf05u0mVE_clb-v7RSkDeKLZbNeJCH8HRjYWMiuObEKFoDBjVs9m_e7ouzNGy3SosbvU3F5oyh8uue_JHQ-Jaf19_SbFiWvlR_FRaHKt_gH35GxTtcakQBEOh90Vx3tLSDGYF9Vc6w=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgU3rXzpJPTqP5cgY3C_c54F6a19XSXeNZbqAvDTm4gitNmzT7Ppf05u0mVE_clb-v7RSkDeKLZbNeJCH8HRjYWMiuObEKFoDBjVs9m_e7ouzNGy3SosbvU3F5oyh8uue_JHQ-Jaf19_SbFiWvlR_FRaHKt_gH35GxTtcakQBEOh90Vx3tLSDGYF9Vc6w=w299-h225" width="299" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiClN_tXDEKZxYyCqam5hNoG-fTiAttMwlySxQGvQzAqfC8jOL_NNNyGB72Ys83UlKAoXKY8kC26bl5nqEgsKDmKsErJ9tH7iNmw_W66b8a-c706QUZ0wrtEw__xKIbT2QWAcgJYmpxUUd-D2kajXUaxviio30morvX5Jn9LsJM3EaY7GQ3TDKtAu18Nw=s4080" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiClN_tXDEKZxYyCqam5hNoG-fTiAttMwlySxQGvQzAqfC8jOL_NNNyGB72Ys83UlKAoXKY8kC26bl5nqEgsKDmKsErJ9tH7iNmw_W66b8a-c706QUZ0wrtEw__xKIbT2QWAcgJYmpxUUd-D2kajXUaxviio30morvX5Jn9LsJM3EaY7GQ3TDKtAu18Nw=w300-h226" width="300" /></a></div> Salvation Mountain near Niland California in the Imperial Valley<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrHcvucvCQ7jEP1ZPzSjRo73ufngqj5WE_BspMcgknORkpS5u8nEgeMeMISkHFVAtQ0sqCPrNFEjxE7k6EpbKm_EG5WYYLAimGKvrJfHDF9NVyt9RxwuZoYfzpayng98mwTgtSJRHCUKPD8gjxGA-zBx4rHR1eo9R4mcNW_qyBkWJX9L5if-CGSHU5LA=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrHcvucvCQ7jEP1ZPzSjRo73ufngqj5WE_BspMcgknORkpS5u8nEgeMeMISkHFVAtQ0sqCPrNFEjxE7k6EpbKm_EG5WYYLAimGKvrJfHDF9NVyt9RxwuZoYfzpayng98mwTgtSJRHCUKPD8gjxGA-zBx4rHR1eo9R4mcNW_qyBkWJX9L5if-CGSHU5LA=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Buttercup Sand Dunes near the California/Arizona Border on the Lower Colorado River.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikskbc6szxrDJVHVyqcdgRM_1QfnPzmPG1wuddZ9Gm-kvD2qixdJ-qNz44hUBG-m9YH4kJvhIaEiO1DXbSLyxLDkxoPIWsutdPcmIU16PHI2-VtgrC8cVnAjElXl3HyMyjezMzKH0THoVF9AvOLRy6vyJZoSNsI1NW1G2jKGY6DvZqwRvLXqrV600xEg=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikskbc6szxrDJVHVyqcdgRM_1QfnPzmPG1wuddZ9Gm-kvD2qixdJ-qNz44hUBG-m9YH4kJvhIaEiO1DXbSLyxLDkxoPIWsutdPcmIU16PHI2-VtgrC8cVnAjElXl3HyMyjezMzKH0THoVF9AvOLRy6vyJZoSNsI1NW1G2jKGY6DvZqwRvLXqrV600xEg=w306-h230" width="306" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZzb_DirKE6B9xAd_d9_Lkgu1tUajgUga3xsZGQmE2O9BinYUcsiAAfNTLg_-KszxhnQva3XOP0NDX7NweMMuTpsMb0JmA05A9JFSAC37cKD-4GGeWIqogZ37cu32U36iKC9ZOxYEkBTUfRSoQqdXavGn8k0aWoxsQFr1_XQZMnSPwTmFck2uhNp63AQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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On this phase of our trip we visited the <i>Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument</i>, the famous town of <i>Ajo Arizona</i> and then east to <i>Tucson Arizona </i>to visit our younger son and daughter-in-law at the <i>University of Arizona</i>. <div><br /></div><div>Then our trip back home to <i>Southern Utah </i>took us on a side trip via <i>Prescott Arizona, </i>then through "Indian country" along <i>US-89A</i> to sights such as the <i>Navajo Bridge</i>, <i>Echo Cliffs</i>, <i>Bitter Springs</i>, <i>Lee's Ferry,</i> <i>Vermilion Cliffs National Monument</i>, <i>Fredonia</i>, <i>Kanab</i>, and <i>Mt Carmel Junction</i> at the eastern entrance to<i> Zion National Park</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Thanks for coming along on our trip. Remember, I have many more pictures on my Facebook and Instagram accounts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Robert Ford - website: <a href="http://geobobford.com">geobobford.com</a></div>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-55922925990910692702022-03-03T18:20:00.003-07:002022-03-07T10:00:51.808-07:00Part II - Winter Road Trip January to February 2022<p>From <b>January 28 > February 14, 2022</b> we continued our winter excursion down the <i>Colorado River</i> by first camping in the <i>Lake Mead National Recreation Area</i> at the lovely <i>Callville Bay</i> Campground and then visited the <i>Hoover Dam</i> and <i>Boulder City</i> region east of <i>Las Vegas</i>, including a side trip to the <i>Red Rock Canyon</i> area west of Las Vegas where we also camped a few days. Driving down along Lake Mead toward Callville Bay we saw some beautiful red rock outcrops in the Valley of Fire State Park.</p><p>We then continued down the Colorado River toward <i>Laughlin</i> Nevada and <i>Bullhead City</i> Arizona eventually going back west from Needles California to end up in the lower desert areas around <i>Palm Springs</i> California. </p><p><b>Select Photos from Valley of Fire State Park Nevada:</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMeyFh01qEcWkFR5nKzXEHG_8spXDsYLVVnrFjNFwM2KW1lJgcVAOHzKgOGkplwC0UCV6dg__yo1M8oz_lSMWEfXXAPEOTLDXuSEyzb7wsFfhnmfc0xpYgr4b3wiVc6UkMks5xZ_MqoJquPghC7zt6KoIcd350HcsEHnh9wzW6khMU8Z-Zp0JWdTw2Gg=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMeyFh01qEcWkFR5nKzXEHG_8spXDsYLVVnrFjNFwM2KW1lJgcVAOHzKgOGkplwC0UCV6dg__yo1M8oz_lSMWEfXXAPEOTLDXuSEyzb7wsFfhnmfc0xpYgr4b3wiVc6UkMks5xZ_MqoJquPghC7zt6KoIcd350HcsEHnh9wzW6khMU8Z-Zp0JWdTw2Gg=w343-h258" width="343" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4fh7HLUcHLtv0QW9Lls_FcHLs1ZZMBvOr7d0vNfR9HxVTnTIYCPKUzt6Qmq--9IRTj37tnubbPMlu_grzRoG2BF1rzyx99lxEwrwi2ES7hyWtB83BDUMeK5IzPJGjvn9kyDW9AHP7xIaB9uzozGIs-RSVQzVCFD2EP_1vMRy0Z74Fwo209h7b3Uuxvw=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Colorado River looking across from Bullhead City Arizona to the Hotels and Casinos in Laughlin Nevada</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgloiSefNdjMK9ywZPVA34QSJOSjYTRTj6Po1CJrKVoy3tmchD6hui14iM3gpPahbpCTs2QQ0v0lwk93lfliILqvJPQUVtvFHHyGiDYAbO8o8nykuAfXet60wWqRlryhHyOHd9NKnPTAZnYdXSYSAdcd6tnIiL01llZre6507l0EZRqPB9um-bJ7q7GXA=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgloiSefNdjMK9ywZPVA34QSJOSjYTRTj6Po1CJrKVoy3tmchD6hui14iM3gpPahbpCTs2QQ0v0lwk93lfliILqvJPQUVtvFHHyGiDYAbO8o8nykuAfXet60wWqRlryhHyOHd9NKnPTAZnYdXSYSAdcd6tnIiL01llZre6507l0EZRqPB9um-bJ7q7GXA=w213-h282" width="213" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqEk1f-9u0cxWT7SZw4wC8R7aCgzHTFhy8f1Tswthpxc0or80hyTmHfrOmENCXk8wasY40pJsxmdqY_dLze9hYINUuGctpvrcMnFdqFv6Qk1lIoNRBn1xxkaEEfjmhiA-F3vJPteYNZFseB9nUexyCnEH1VYtJ5lmfiD7gTX6nGExRp6_AP9zdnMlGhA=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Red Rock Canyon and its great Campground west of Las Vegas.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdlzm9fo8eQxUsns3ZhEQJS2lQrap27lj8egDh_vzD0ZFQlenMXozBBHHBIaYcMWpYCFtZl23RaqrUm6VOuNRgfSoIZesxBzohkaubYlE5MiZwBsM7ciRtdfI2CPT5PlK11OWVfJXPKjUYNfrw-FQfotFIhjFqmc5HnYA8cV_yYKNeMqfmrb_w-ZPmMQ=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPNgvQgThYA-Zjr6N8LHalXlh5T5dl9xcNyhTwTJy2Yq-DcJC26x74dUjFIi-afvYQLHOzhx--moSGYkghrp7C_sxc04BV8ihJEfZgT6fp22_l8Y1_H3FGseSXWFYxlkX17RfY1u3vC0MsmRDY8ezGuB3whFg5g619QsdRShv_UNtY9iGRtuF4O3mqjw=s4080" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPNgvQgThYA-Zjr6N8LHalXlh5T5dl9xcNyhTwTJy2Yq-DcJC26x74dUjFIi-afvYQLHOzhx--moSGYkghrp7C_sxc04BV8ihJEfZgT6fp22_l8Y1_H3FGseSXWFYxlkX17RfY1u3vC0MsmRDY8ezGuB3whFg5g619QsdRShv_UNtY9iGRtuF4O3mqjw=w204-h271" width="204" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdlzm9fo8eQxUsns3ZhEQJS2lQrap27lj8egDh_vzD0ZFQlenMXozBBHHBIaYcMWpYCFtZl23RaqrUm6VOuNRgfSoIZesxBzohkaubYlE5MiZwBsM7ciRtdfI2CPT5PlK11OWVfJXPKjUYNfrw-FQfotFIhjFqmc5HnYA8cV_yYKNeMqfmrb_w-ZPmMQ=w361-h272" width="361" /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Red Rock Canyon camping and desert vegetation.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ3eayRKZJ_GDQ0XBvYNGOIkjSb4R6cUD0ptUuy0p3j_kCygXsPplRApGCAV_eBYkon72mOjUduNkKHF6rL3bSmNqF_zy_vu-2FcXyJSq8HSli5AKyBixJE0r4oORfKhaX6N6jFHD4TTQjAw0or3TeTAayRNHFkve7YhA8gvu6GOLpbIfyTglH36VhqA=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ3eayRKZJ_GDQ0XBvYNGOIkjSb4R6cUD0ptUuy0p3j_kCygXsPplRApGCAV_eBYkon72mOjUduNkKHF6rL3bSmNqF_zy_vu-2FcXyJSq8HSli5AKyBixJE0r4oORfKhaX6N6jFHD4TTQjAw0or3TeTAayRNHFkve7YhA8gvu6GOLpbIfyTglH36VhqA=w640-h482" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">View of Red Rock Canyon entrance from a hilltop near the Red Rock Campground.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5UGyx4u4jqx4xxrCpprFzMJiNASj9S0EbVG9ndWFIQhJTLdmqiEPT3OHg9PiZEWGM6ruCUY17mWfrSkNf24YAjojxtgKPqzgywuUdCSrXNUIqE4H4_7KOtAYau9yeOelBT3dSWzu6-eoQoYOn-_NDAhk8nDdUVKhNh9u5CbVsemwPsbFtaCA81oCePw=s3050" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2194" data-original-width="3050" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5UGyx4u4jqx4xxrCpprFzMJiNASj9S0EbVG9ndWFIQhJTLdmqiEPT3OHg9PiZEWGM6ruCUY17mWfrSkNf24YAjojxtgKPqzgywuUdCSrXNUIqE4H4_7KOtAYau9yeOelBT3dSWzu6-eoQoYOn-_NDAhk8nDdUVKhNh9u5CbVsemwPsbFtaCA81oCePw=w640-h461" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On our way to the Palm Springs area and Southern California we went through Barstow California<br />on February 14 on the Old Route 66 which has been beautifully restored with many old buildings and art to commemorate earlier eras of transcontinental auto travel.</div></div></div><p></p><p><b>NEXT: Part III</b> will explore sights around the <i>Salton Sea</i>, the <i>Coachella Valley</i>, <i>Joshua Tree National Park</i>, as well as <i>Anza-Borrego State Park</i>. Much of that exploration during this phase of our trip was based from the lovely <i>Sky Valley Resort</i> in the outskirts of <i>Desert Hot Springs</i> and <i>Palm Desert</i>, California. </p><p><br /></p>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-89049887199556595422022-03-03T13:08:00.006-07:002022-03-07T10:41:36.953-07:00Part I - Winter Travels January and February 2022 <div class="separator"><b>Winter Road Trip January to February 2022</b></div><p>This winter (mid-January > early March 2022) we took several "road trips" from our home near <i>Zion National Park Utah</i> to <i>Southern California</i> and <i>Arizona/Nevada</i> to visit family, get warm, and explore areas along the <i>Lower Colorado River</i> we haven't seen for a few years. We'll present highlights in five parts.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Part I -- January 16-28, 2022:</b></div><p>Our first stop starting in mid-January had us stay several days in and around the <i>Valley of Fire State Park</i> near <i>Overton Nevada</i> (see picture below). It was cold in the shade but warm in the sun and the geological wonders were truly spectacular. BTW, we show many more photos on my <i>Instagram</i> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GeoBobsPhotographyAndConsulting" target="_blank"><i>Facebook</i></a> pages than we have here on the BLOG. See my website: <a href="http://geobobford.com">geobobford.com</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLJVpQzcXYJHb0FM698H8_uAgdsCKajmLZRCDwZDjPDi4dv08N1F8rRBQHT17bvovEPx_LFj0BzbQ7mGIwCQxSrw8MnAKkNlVi8F9A4nJzZBYqyfgyXKCQXURB-NyZeOMwJDaBvYTkQSodOv-R64NrRV63J9LmgM3PEaXp6mjCTSRgeRVGqqqe-QsBUQ=s4032" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLJVpQzcXYJHb0FM698H8_uAgdsCKajmLZRCDwZDjPDi4dv08N1F8rRBQHT17bvovEPx_LFj0BzbQ7mGIwCQxSrw8MnAKkNlVi8F9A4nJzZBYqyfgyXKCQXURB-NyZeOMwJDaBvYTkQSodOv-R64NrRV63J9LmgM3PEaXp6mjCTSRgeRVGqqqe-QsBUQ=w297-h223" width="297" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCxnaOrtRm6lsoM5YwgZjZ5idGs-qudvETaGstaAbVhyFjm7SQaCNB5TEiEWLykiocOHw_0ppz93LBrUF-F4L_PyK6Nn-6NB92yUQ_E4FdZYmrgMaJErHmSTGDoYQ4rZgynNdUEWkwmzMkeYPACheIxYsHVN_seSSKyXfVCKi7aGEHQMrMAdRKwEc_MQ=s4032" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCxnaOrtRm6lsoM5YwgZjZ5idGs-qudvETaGstaAbVhyFjm7SQaCNB5TEiEWLykiocOHw_0ppz93LBrUF-F4L_PyK6Nn-6NB92yUQ_E4FdZYmrgMaJErHmSTGDoYQ4rZgynNdUEWkwmzMkeYPACheIxYsHVN_seSSKyXfVCKi7aGEHQMrMAdRKwEc_MQ=w299-h225" width="299" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the entrance station to Valley of Fire State Park Nevada</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCUhGI3dhz1MQ0B5ICZ9m9esWnEMsZYHKyVEBAR2LrBANLDy8Kci7XzdcLGxNpOGZ4e4hfrGwaQ_ZsiNtmgJW4NtPTrWwDSvhp_Ha8GGPmQq4yLfg-wz5CA-3NbZBh4EtLyteeQVQ63Ke1ifoCgOOZzqnB-GuTH1-xP2kLZ0LvzOzk7ERv208rZ_-xVA=s4032" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; 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Following are a few memories in photos.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvMYbnn-vnCibwLfcDgQL9iDWjLbpSrEobkc79l4eMCJUuzaAY4avhg7tWT3dvZCC14LSohw1WCABwSsQ6d2ijVXYpW8raLMOIN09fO8AjfOVM2koKRmvwG8EWSfOcp20ciNFwu-hjOl6WpZ_QZNK_rjFmwnYnJy18liqNOclcoYBve1ujp1h4tPk_tw=s4080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvMYbnn-vnCibwLfcDgQL9iDWjLbpSrEobkc79l4eMCJUuzaAY4avhg7tWT3dvZCC14LSohw1WCABwSsQ6d2ijVXYpW8raLMOIN09fO8AjfOVM2koKRmvwG8EWSfOcp20ciNFwu-hjOl6WpZ_QZNK_rjFmwnYnJy18liqNOclcoYBve1ujp1h4tPk_tw=w288-h217" width="288" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEii70mFde7v0_y2mGrkimgN5OvOEZA44i2GfcwnOUCzF1ajbztKLIJSTGMvhNg8szjJTdcxCbZ_nzOy2-LW46pBt0ftSrZ79I_MzyAmnFI8GsG11GPXuTkVsv5lc_VV0kZZ_d4CC65Zx8sKJ0jCUpd7O3BO7Gk0l6s3TvXkL-PWTElxLJz_f3AZxbOySw=s4080" style="clear: right; 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text-align: center;"><br />Around the towns of Julian and Ramona near Escondido.</div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ8CtnzW9GUtitzHg9rk4dH6P6BzgIyXK8I1w6_s2JczgYYE_Gyk5cEZSdLFPrrPGR-EOuU8lsZAagmuzL3cJ7kv7SxQ5G0fPojiBDCu1uns_bGgI1FNGk1pRQPONeoJll-VuWGB_oAYjoSZ9BIeh5c8j8nFrAEzRjyDU-bmfl1t1LlSRrHn_nAFjVyQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ8CtnzW9GUtitzHg9rk4dH6P6BzgIyXK8I1w6_s2JczgYYE_Gyk5cEZSdLFPrrPGR-EOuU8lsZAagmuzL3cJ7kv7SxQ5G0fPojiBDCu1uns_bGgI1FNGk1pRQPONeoJll-VuWGB_oAYjoSZ9BIeh5c8j8nFrAEzRjyDU-bmfl1t1LlSRrHn_nAFjVyQ=w359-h271" width="359" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDbMbcdDfHI6slvFo_5SnBctfOydmflNAbU1f0ifBK05RJ3sNqedFCG0rCF9QTINt8ditJDsMC827OeMdJ3J2lXdNz5hI9VsbZGAbY2_HN2DGqipVUlvrZmcUer4ttc3HpzTnAlP8Qxnjc5xjGcKhzgQ3SSDfZ1r2hCSes8kutYl5zUV1BaaeNPEwWpg=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDbMbcdDfHI6slvFo_5SnBctfOydmflNAbU1f0ifBK05RJ3sNqedFCG0rCF9QTINt8ditJDsMC827OeMdJ3J2lXdNz5hI9VsbZGAbY2_HN2DGqipVUlvrZmcUer4ttc3HpzTnAlP8Qxnjc5xjGcKhzgQ3SSDfZ1r2hCSes8kutYl5zUV1BaaeNPEwWpg=w202-h269" width="202" /></a><br /> Our small RV at camp near Ramona California. One of our campsites at a winery.<br /><div> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7D7pYNpSlfainmZKcZn8xVXExoTuHCmXFOa0-UcBkhwlS5hO2y3Ny71Z06dAnl-nRjRYgL33YGEFjFIXi5eCAZK4FeYYCfKloryiR6k9DbbapXMW1xFH0YCAAcHxUTG_IrlfFTN9f89V2ZE7f7COWiipmQjEfzWLPm0RNkyNMDvVzeQltExCoOFLzOQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7D7pYNpSlfainmZKcZn8xVXExoTuHCmXFOa0-UcBkhwlS5hO2y3Ny71Z06dAnl-nRjRYgL33YGEFjFIXi5eCAZK4FeYYCfKloryiR6k9DbbapXMW1xFH0YCAAcHxUTG_IrlfFTN9f89V2ZE7f7COWiipmQjEfzWLPm0RNkyNMDvVzeQltExCoOFLzOQ=s320" width="320" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg49HTwc32dTpRLGPUQQWZlETpvAvFckCXr0zszuu2KMCL8tQkMMrzb6BKKvFMH3RzQZvvg-9JIf2VSCTB_-ud2HUERSMxd5lPdcuN4LgHsiN_TYogd905KqeMic5XBlwa2c6wuR_jnYfAVonvae7N9pti3107oAQzFC7ksBCuWFDg6uWoEgkcwWd_jmQ=s4080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg49HTwc32dTpRLGPUQQWZlETpvAvFckCXr0zszuu2KMCL8tQkMMrzb6BKKvFMH3RzQZvvg-9JIf2VSCTB_-ud2HUERSMxd5lPdcuN4LgHsiN_TYogd905KqeMic5XBlwa2c6wuR_jnYfAVonvae7N9pti3107oAQzFC7ksBCuWFDg6uWoEgkcwWd_jmQ=w270-h203" width="270" /></a></div><div> Wonderful art at the winery campsite. A few days at another ranch near Temecula<br /><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgIQhJ4mUPP2fAidaCwfPfVair-sXDc-lFckOt9DzM9DetTH1N3__7qSGCo2JLPs9mpoaI5EBJ-HqoSknfSiXoBVf4OhuRbvn6u_ax1sKicGZOWFOroLontJ4NSQRk7-Ci6smU2hESVRxC4XtKJN3dLJUnc3QNeoFj-s6A89q-9vSGbXY1vN5EV9bIBw" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="1114" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgIQhJ4mUPP2fAidaCwfPfVair-sXDc-lFckOt9DzM9DetTH1N3__7qSGCo2JLPs9mpoaI5EBJ-HqoSknfSiXoBVf4OhuRbvn6u_ax1sKicGZOWFOroLontJ4NSQRk7-Ci6smU2hESVRxC4XtKJN3dLJUnc3QNeoFj-s6A89q-9vSGbXY1vN5EV9bIBw=w304-h229" width="304" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsZiVcF5xUEzxUaUSCvdbCva-TCaG5oiOMeocjS5qF5jAtRS_WGgGoakrkDGgIpB3fOyfx_r2rMkJItwbbp_TuQ5Zkb0fFgkEwKJ7mWUNARnQH2f9I4KlRQzGelxT64I_A3GnwQHubmGPczdmoFh4CI8O38oJmloFUN524qRMAOYqLrJTGTR4qJgp40A" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="1114" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsZiVcF5xUEzxUaUSCvdbCva-TCaG5oiOMeocjS5qF5jAtRS_WGgGoakrkDGgIpB3fOyfx_r2rMkJItwbbp_TuQ5Zkb0fFgkEwKJ7mWUNARnQH2f9I4KlRQzGelxT64I_A3GnwQHubmGPczdmoFh4CI8O38oJmloFUN524qRMAOYqLrJTGTR4qJgp40A=w306-h230" width="306" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Poster on a fence and memorial to veterans from the Ramona / Temecula area.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>GO TO PART II - Covers early February 2022</b></div></div></div></div>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-80942052803134763132021-12-25T10:48:00.000-07:002021-12-25T10:48:35.786-07:00Return to Blogging! Happy Holidays to All<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaVwKNPzPXwUhJ30n-ZElmPgcb3RcA-AApDR5wVrO0yxHA5SRdG_EpsGFn7zb2EnyHlbdXnyLfuliIQgoZMPt7WD2mIlXdeeftiEdOHOLKQ1pEO-NoiScGxeh0RCMN--NYZXyP7UtPjDtdt1rsUgze5nG9d797FfF4wsoSp3ICW0AnKAxi5n7dCFd0nw=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaVwKNPzPXwUhJ30n-ZElmPgcb3RcA-AApDR5wVrO0yxHA5SRdG_EpsGFn7zb2EnyHlbdXnyLfuliIQgoZMPt7WD2mIlXdeeftiEdOHOLKQ1pEO-NoiScGxeh0RCMN--NYZXyP7UtPjDtdt1rsUgze5nG9d797FfF4wsoSp3ICW0AnKAxi5n7dCFd0nw=w590-h396" width="590" /></a></div><br /> Yesterday, December 24, 2021--Christmas Eve--we had a most glorious and propitious Sunset as storm clouds cleared for a few minutes! It was a great omen for a New Year!! It has been a rough two years for many, with contested elections, political fragmentation, the COVID pandemic, and other troubles. But I hope we all look forward in hope that better days are coming. <p></p><p>Below is a SLIDESHOW of some of my favorite photos from around our place along the Zion Corridor leading to Zion National park. Enjoy!! Look on the bright side!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyUOfJa4_w6kiUBQvH7_gfNna1eTe_MiHGwwm03rp-fDnVYQglSWZ79WjIYrhN5Y_FsYP9DONsbx-O_XySkig' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>For those interested in my photography; I have two new websites where you can look and enjoy, and if you desire--purchase my photography.</p><p>GO TO:</p><p>1) Artstorefronts.com website = <a href="https://www.roberteford.com/">https://www.roberteford.com/</a></p><p>2) FASO (Fine Arts Studio Online) website = <a href="http://www.roberteford.net/">http://www.roberteford.net/</a></p><p>My best to All and Happy Holidays!</p>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-46940835969910219512020-08-23T13:01:00.000-06:002020-08-23T13:01:32.705-06:00Return to Blogging after a Long Hiatus<p> I last published in my <a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">BLOG</a> in early 2018 after returning from a stint of cancer treatment at the <a href="https://lluh.org/" target="_blank">Loma Linda University Health</a> at the world-renown <a href="https://lluh.org/cancer-center/cancer-programs/prostate-cancer-care" target="_blank">Proton Beam Treatment Center</a>. I returned to my lovely small ranch near <a href="https://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm" target="_blank">Zion National Park</a> located in <a href="https://rockvilleutah.org/" target="_blank">Rockville Utah</a> where I served for over five years on the Planning Commission. This small town is quiet, rural, historic, and boasts a very famous old bridge first built by the National Park Service in 1924, but which was restored to its original glory a couple of years ago--SEE <a href="https://www.rockvilleutah.org/bridge/" target="_blank">Historic Rockville Bridge</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXg8y6TYLKC5hRM5nGAYS_6_yeuYtzhxOUmWVoN_eN62-6ZGKBwca2SWnTEsgnaA4E1Cs2QOTtGaVidViLU3oNHHkiEkD4Np32katyVYNFK0mmRmYSG8cgniruYA5HsNfPka9ToRJRzpJ/s4032/IMG_20200811_091130.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIXg8y6TYLKC5hRM5nGAYS_6_yeuYtzhxOUmWVoN_eN62-6ZGKBwca2SWnTEsgnaA4E1Cs2QOTtGaVidViLU3oNHHkiEkD4Np32katyVYNFK0mmRmYSG8cgniruYA5HsNfPka9ToRJRzpJ/s640/IMG_20200811_091130.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The photo above shows our view of the bridge along the Virgin River from our property along Grafton Road in Rockville Utah as of August 2020. The peaks of <a href="https://zionpark.org/" target="_blank">Zion National Park</a> are in the background. Below are a few other photos of our newly <a href="https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2020/08/07/prc-historic-rockville-bridge-project-earns-national-award-for-excellence-in-historic-preservation/#.X0K5oMhKjb0" target="_blank">restored bridge</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6PTz9IEDCEYeXoBhyphenhyphen6G4mecEOo4SoH516F2RXrDbICYWkAS9BgN-1PP-tJATcMZUC4ICpmP9b1Kac-LHiZ4g0mnObzWxjp9iO3wFZezy056gKpvEHRvRqNNEvvmV9iOTTPH7M5CUISfD/s2048/Utah_Restored_Rockville_Bridge_001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT6PTz9IEDCEYeXoBhyphenhyphen6G4mecEOo4SoH516F2RXrDbICYWkAS9BgN-1PP-tJATcMZUC4ICpmP9b1Kac-LHiZ4g0mnObzWxjp9iO3wFZezy056gKpvEHRvRqNNEvvmV9iOTTPH7M5CUISfD/s640/Utah_Restored_Rockville_Bridge_001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I also have continued my photography business (see my homepage <a href="http://Geobobford.com" target="_blank">Geobobford.com</a>) from which I sell photography from my work around the world as well as here in the Inter-Mountain West. Go to to my online <a href="https://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/robert_ford?assettype=image&sort=best" target="_blank">Portfolio at iStock/Getty Images</a>. See some photos below from the most recent hay-cutting in early August 2020.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVV8Mb4OVoUJzJVNq4i5z8GuT1Voxx2pqtI0USX7c6LV1l9I0KhcrqIEKKNrzRMPLEB9E4pI61cJ5rxkSuwRhs39gO3kxxGXjsEaIx6MXmm3-5I-nNPwNv77iwxtsag6vd-lMeL4YYDv8f/s2048/Utah_Rockville_Hay_Floods-00059.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVV8Mb4OVoUJzJVNq4i5z8GuT1Voxx2pqtI0USX7c6LV1l9I0KhcrqIEKKNrzRMPLEB9E4pI61cJ5rxkSuwRhs39gO3kxxGXjsEaIx6MXmm3-5I-nNPwNv77iwxtsag6vd-lMeL4YYDv8f/s640/Utah_Rockville_Hay_Floods-00059.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQm5u0s1bvviBA7qRCz544G801a4u4jC4zSaZ9-kNYb-wINlBLd3zjfdNlBq6Af5qtkrhyphenhyphenaYb4DeKwfTYNR0KDWvj5Oe42YsdV8AK-GdJNC1xNtIrLsdmUGa73aF_vnu1KA9izz3hlno8_/s2048/Utah_Rockville_Misc_0003+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDGqh3_jdTtSRbmOslLSIF60o1wkCPA3CJZQgEG_D_lob3uWnZ64HuZ2_LeDm33JY_9rBLpG5OEw_VX6YXnbPEoVe3WtP4wKVvtKjSxmEvrt2hEq3tYFr0vi1VcdARmw1NJ7NV5CBll5f/s4032/IMG_20200803_200951.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDGqh3_jdTtSRbmOslLSIF60o1wkCPA3CJZQgEG_D_lob3uWnZ64HuZ2_LeDm33JY_9rBLpG5OEw_VX6YXnbPEoVe3WtP4wKVvtKjSxmEvrt2hEq3tYFr0vi1VcdARmw1NJ7NV5CBll5f/s640/IMG_20200803_200951.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Note the sunset into haze from a wildfire in Nevada spewing out smoke into Southern Utah. Of course, during this very dry 2020 summer, we've also been plagued by smoke coming from California as well where a truly apocalyptic-level of wildfires have erupted. We're thankful to have sufficient water from our well as well as runoff from the Virgin River to grow our crops, but we're concerned for the long-turn; climate specialists tell us we're going back into a "mega-drought" affecting the whole US Southwest. This summer (July-August 2020) has been the hottest and driest I've seen in the ten years since we built "our place" here in Rockville. Pray for rain, though as a conservation scientist, I recognize this as part of a long-term weather pattern related to "climate change" that too many people still ignore as a truly existential threat to humanity. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNoCj_S-5ayuJfOcKq900xVE_mvbFvQaDCc-gATRQomXhaNFWclJUHiJZPZBnMThC9P7W93rYy8MuavP8_ltrrm9h90W92439t_SB5QWJTxuXY673MwSivstuC4QwQdc3KDhaCgThyphenhyphenrb2m/s4032/IMG_20200822_070821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNoCj_S-5ayuJfOcKq900xVE_mvbFvQaDCc-gATRQomXhaNFWclJUHiJZPZBnMThC9P7W93rYy8MuavP8_ltrrm9h90W92439t_SB5QWJTxuXY673MwSivstuC4QwQdc3KDhaCgThyphenhyphenrb2m/s640/IMG_20200822_070821.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN7qzS259qvAJd-1Wrv_V73HZuiwko7BZ67OMh0jy6lCZV1me2SZXWeoM2OrK1-s0SM1qGlfPdq-lu3OvM5CLdOTHRum_67suEMxcTbeCZkO0Xd-Pi3ToSH979vlkqqb9s5GJlOoFCeQBH/s4032/IMG_20200822_073026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN7qzS259qvAJd-1Wrv_V73HZuiwko7BZ67OMh0jy6lCZV1me2SZXWeoM2OrK1-s0SM1qGlfPdq-lu3OvM5CLdOTHRum_67suEMxcTbeCZkO0Xd-Pi3ToSH979vlkqqb9s5GJlOoFCeQBH/s640/IMG_20200822_073026.jpg" /></a></div><p>Finally, since early March 2020 we have been "social distancing" here on our ranch as a result of partial or complete "lockdowns" related to the <a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019" target="_blank">COVID-19 Global Pandemic</a>. As a person who was trained in public health, we've been trying to be a good example, and to protect ourselves due to our being in a higher-risk category--older age--by wearing masks whenever in groups, washing hands, restricting travel and social contact. We're so thankful we have a nice quiet road to walk along and helpful neighbors who watch out for us. </p><p>And,as much of the world has had to do, we're becoming experts in the use of ZOOM for virtual connecting with friends and family and our church brethren. And in a few weeks I return to my part-time teaching at <a href="https://www.dixie.edu/" target="_blank">Dixie State University</a>, in their <a href="https://icl.dixie.edu/courses/" target="_blank">Institute for Continual Learning</a> where I teach to adults a course entitled <a href="http://geobobford.com/ICL_FALL_2019_2.pdf" target="_blank">Globalization and Diversity</a>--this year it will be by ZOOM online only.</p><p>I wish you all the very best as we weather the Pandemic but also the other truly catastrophic crises affecting the United State of America including the economic collapse, a crisis in race relations, and a sad political fragmentation and polarization in our national politics between right and left which has also affected the US geopolitical environment as well.</p><p>I will try to continue this blog with postings at least once-a-month, but you can also follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geobobford" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/geobobford/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a> for a more daily or weekly update in my life.</p><p>Stay SAFE and HEALTHY!!</p>Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-72094161354475177762018-05-21T13:23:00.001-06:002018-05-21T13:28:33.833-06:00Back Home on the Ranch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b>Update from last post</b>:<br />
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In my <b>last post </b><i>on January 4, 2018</i> I discussed my recent time in southern California getting some needed health treatment. Earlier this month (May 3, 2018) I had a followup "wellness exam"--something that Medicare is encouraging and covering in their plan. Thankfully, I found out--as far as we can know for now--completely cured and recovering well. <br />
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I thank all those of my family and friends who have supported me through this challenging stage of life. And I'm thankful for the access to top-notch latest medical technology and practice that Medicare affords. I'm even more aware now than before how essential good health care is a necessity for all. I worry for those who don't have such access and coverage, and, I'm supportive in a strong way, for seeking ways so ALL Americans will have excellent, affordable, accessible health care. <br />
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Finally, it is wonderful to be back home and feeling myself again! Though it will take a few months to fully recover, and I will need to be vigilant into the future, eat well, and exercise! Something we should all do anyway. I plan to live a long and fruitful life!<br />
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<b>Recent activities</b>:<br />
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I returned to our lovely Utah home on January 6, 2018 and had a lovely time getting reacquainted with our fantastic Zion landscape and our friends at the <a href="http://redcliffs22.adventistchurchconnect.org/">Red Cliffs SDA Church in St George Utah</a> where we are in the process of helping with a remodeling project:<br />
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And with returning energy and strength after the successful treatment at <a href="https://lluh.org/">Loma Linda University Health</a>, I also got to work again on our land and with my volunteer work with the <a href="http://rockvilleutah.org/">Town of Rockville</a> on the <i>Planning Commission</i> as well as a new post on the <i>Rockville/Springdale Fire Protection Special District Board</i>. Both entities had a lot to do over the last few months (more on that later).<br />
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It was wonderful to see and experience the change in seasons that we have here in Rockville--from winter to spring! And we had visits from my sister (<a href="http://www.patriciaroseford.com/">Patricia Rose Ford</a> the artist) and my younger son and daughter-in-law with their new dog Ollie while Ollie met my sister's dog--Abbie. They got along for a while but then got into a famous fight! But now they are friends--hopefully ?? We were also involved like much of the nation in following the national and political debates surrounding the very sad Parkland School Shooting in Florida--and joined a local protest led by students in St George. Some photo highlights here--much more on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geobobford">Facebook</a> page:<br />
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In March/April Karen and I were also able to travel to spend some time in Switzerland with our older son and daughter-in-law (<b>Bryan and Anya</b>)--and with our granddaughter <b>Celeste</b>--in <i>Lausanne Switzerland</i>. Some photo highlights here--much more on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geobobford">Facebook</a> page:<br />
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And in late April we attended our <i>50th college alumni reunion</i> at <b><a href="https://www.puc.edu/">Pacific Union College</a></b> in Angwin California--see some media highlights from PUC <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1796327734"></span>HERE<span id="goog_1796327735"></span></a>. Below are some of our photo highlights:<br />
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<br />Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-160716183692059602018-01-04T13:43:00.000-07:002018-01-04T13:43:50.455-07:00New Year Update--January 4, 2018<br />
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In my last <a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/">BLOG</a> post I updated the key recent events in our lives and promised a more extensive update early in 2018.<br />
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<b>So here is some of what's been happening</b>:<br />
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Over the last four months I've been in California except for short trips back for holidays to our place near Zion in southern Utah. I've been dealing with a recently diagnosed health issue--<b>prostate cancer. </b>I was first diagnosed after a routine health checkup in early summer; luckily, it is not the most aggressive type. My physicians had us evaluate various options and after much consideration settled on going to the <a href="https://home.llu.edu/" target="_blank">Loma Linda University Health</a>--<a href="https://protons.com/" target="_blank">Cancer Proton Center</a> where I started treatment in mid-October. This has turned out to be the right decision in all respects and I cannot speak more highly of the medical and support staff and their "<i><a href="https://wholeness.llu.edu/education-and-events/clear-whole-person-care">whole person care</a></i>" approach. During my treatment I've stayed with my little sister <b><a href="http://www.patriciaroseford.com/" target="_blank">Patricia Rose Ford</a>--</b>the <b>pastel artist--</b>who lives nearby which has been a Godsend in so many ways--including getting to walk her dog Abbie twice a day.<br />
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I go to treatment in the early morning for about thirty to forty minutes then have weekends and much of each day for other pursuits including doing a lot of walking--often at the <a href="https://drayson.llu.edu/" target="_blank">Drayson Fitness Center</a> outdoor track (see below). I also participate in other fitness activities which are a part of the LLUH "<b>wholeness/wellness</b>" approach. The program has all gone very well and the prognosis for cure is excellent--thanks to caring and efficient support from LLUH staff and my family and friends. And I'm feeling stronger and even gained weight again.<br />
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<a href="https://protons.com/proton-advantage/about-proton-therapy" target="_blank"><br />Learn more</a> <a href="https://protons.com/proton-advantage/about-proton-therapy" target="_blank">HERE about the advantages of <b>proton beam technology</b></a>: </div>
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It's amazing to see the progress at <a href="https://home.llu.edu/" target="_blank">Loma Linda University Health</a> in technology, academics and infrastructure. The biggest change is the impressive new hospital going up right next door. I see progress everyday as I come in for treatment in the early morning. The new medical center to be finished by <b>2020 </b>and<b> </b>will be the tallest structure in San Bernardino County--17 stories.<br />
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<a href="https://home.llu.edu/">LLUH</a> has much to be proud of in what they have accomplished over the 100+ years since it started as a small Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium first known as Mound City (see more about <a href="https://home.llu.edu/about-llu/history" target="_blank"><b>Loma Linda History</b></a> <a href="https://home.llu.edu/sites/home.llu.edu/files/docs/centennial/centennialmoments021005.pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a>). And read about it's<b> <a href="https://lluhvision2020.org/stories/vision-2020-79-seconds" target="_blank">2020 vision</a></b> and about the new construction.<br />
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<b>What I do in Off-times while in Treatment?</b><br />
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In many ways my cancer proton beam treatment has been what some call a "<i><b>radiation vacation"</b></i>. So on weekends and during much of each day I've had time to take many photos in Southern California and get re-acquainted with old friends as well as continue my remote work as a geoscience and travel photographer and consultant (see my website at <b><a href="http://geobobford.com/index.html">GeoBob's Photography and Consulting</a></b>). Timing has also been good as most of my farm work was done for the season--see photos of "our place" near <b><a href="https://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm">Zion National Park</a> </b>below.<br />
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Karen stayed home some of the time to hold down the fort around our small ranch and continue her volunteer work at <b><a href="https://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm">Zion National Park</a></b> as its librarian. And she has been assisted by <b>Kayla and Colby</b> (our newly married younger boy and wife) who both work at nearby <b><a href="https://dixie.edu/">Dixie State University</a></b> in St George. More later about them as well as our other kids--<b>Bryan & Anna</b> (and <b>Celeste </b>our granddaughter) who live and work in Lausanne, Switzerland now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bryan and Celeste on their visit in October at the time of Colby & Kayla's wedding</td></tr>
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It has been particularly nice to enjoy the sunny days and warmth that comes with fall and winter here in Southern California. I've been out at least twice a day walking my sister's dog--Abbie. See some sights below from my walks. </div>
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Where else would you have brilliant fall colors of sugar maple and orange trees side-by-side. And I was able to enjoy some of my favorite local food haunts such as <a href="http://www.elburritoredlands.com/we-cook-like-a-mother/"><b>El Burrito</b></a>--the best Mexican "fast food" in the Inland Empire, as well as new places such as <a href="http://www.dhatisland.com/"><b>Dhat Island</b></a>--a Caribbean themed restaurant in Redlands! But most of the time I ate at the <a href="https://myllu.llu.edu/cafeterias/?cafeteriaId=8#dailyMenu">LLUH Community Hospital (East Campus) cafeteria</a> which offers Seniors 55+ discounts for great healthy food at a good price.</div>
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Thankfully, I did got off for both Thanksgiving and Christmas to travel back home and attend my home church--<a href="http://redcliffs22.adventistchurchconnect.org/">Red Cliffs SDA Church in St George Utah</a>--for a lovely Christmas program. And we had some great family time with visits from family in Washington, California and Oregon, as well as a visit by Bryan and Celeste from Switzerland (I discussed that more in the <a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/2017/12/update-on-family-and-business-end-of.html">last past post of Mid-December</a>). Below are some pictures from this memorable family time together over the last three to four months at Christmas and Thanksgiving as well as New Year's--and Colby's wedding.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Children's Story Hour at Red Cliffs SDA Church and visiting family and friends from Oregon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friends, family and colleagues at Red Cliffs Church--Giffords and Bryants</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Campfire down by the Virgin River at Thanksgiving with family and friends from Washington (Seattle) <br />
as well as Chicago, Germany, Loma Linda and St George--my younger brother Dan is standing</td></tr>
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my sister (left) and younger son Colby (right)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My brother's wife (Barbara) from Seattle with their former live-in <br />
German exchange study-abroad student--Cora Bay--(front) who now works in <br />
Washington DC--she has become like family </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanksgiving day hike in Zion</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel and his daughter Willa exploring rusty farm equipment in Grafton Ghost Town</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tourists viewing sunset at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley--seen on our trip to Colby's wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old 20-mule team wagon Death Valley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste with us on a pumpkin farm before Halloween</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karen and Celeste on the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz CA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karen and Celeste in Big Basin Redwoods state park near Santa Cruz CA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My younger sister Pat (left) and her older sister Kathy (right) from Bend Oregon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colby and Kayla at their wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ford siblings--from left to right: Dan, Kathy, Pat and Bob</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste as flower girl at K&C's wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ford's at park day before K&C's wedding in Livermore CA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tour with an old friend at ESRI in Redlands--the Mapping/GIS people</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of many old sights I visited while here in Redlands/Loma Linda--<br />
San Bernardino Assistencia Mission</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Bernardino Assistencia--once on the Camino Real</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful fountain at the Redlands SDA Church</td></tr>
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<br />In sum, it has been an eventful end-of-year but I finish my treatment regime this week--tomorrow-- January 5, 2018 and look forward to some travel to Europe soon for both photography and visiting my son <b>Bryan Ford</b> and his wife <b>Anna Lachowska</b> as well as our lovely granddaughter <b>Celeste</b>--who now live in Lausanne, Switzerland. Anna (a mathematics professor at <a href="https://www.epfl.ch/">EPFL</a>--École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne--along with Bryan who is a professor of computer science) were not able to travel for either the Thanksgiving or Christmas and events; Bryan and Celeste were able to make K&C's wedding though. But Karen and I will be visiting them soon in Europe--and we'll share pictures on Facebook and my <a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/">BLOG</a>.</div>
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I wish you all a <b>Happy New Year</b> and do keep in touch via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geobobford">Facebook</a> where I have many more photos and current updates on my work, travel, family time as well as service to the town of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Rockvillians/?timeline_context_item_type=intro_card_work&timeline_context_item_source=1151689949&pnref=lhc">Rockville Utah</a>.</div>
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<br />Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-42950819769381972432017-12-12T14:49:00.002-07:002018-01-02T18:11:19.712-07:00Update on family and business--Mid-December 2017<b>Family News</b>:<br />
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During the last Christmas season (2016) Karen and I traveled to Europe where we spent about two months with our older son (Bryan Ford) and our daughter-in-law (Anna Lachowska) and grand-daughter (Celeste). They now live in Lausanne, Switzerland where both Bryan and Anna are professors at the <a href="https://www.epfl.ch/" target="_blank">EPFL</a> (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne); Bryan teaches computer science and Anna, mathemathics. Karen and I also spent time being a tourist in Paris, France--see one of our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10209642021224620.1073741868.1151689949&type=1&l=24ee9b872a" target="_blank">FB albums</a>. Here is another <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10207668315883220.1073741865.1151689949&type=1&l=6b5d2331ad" target="_blank">FB album</a> of our travels around Switzerland.<br />
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After school was out for Celeste we all spent a lovely Christmas and New Year's time in Spain and Portugal--most of the time on the Algarve Coast, Portugal and Seville, Spain, e.g. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/geobobford/posts/10209551252555460" target="_blank">post on FB</a>. See some favorite photos below:<br />
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Algar Seco on the Algarve Coast Portugal</div>
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We then spent more time in Paris and back to Lausanne, Switzerland. I stayed and extra two weeks to babysit our granddaughter Celeste. I had a wonderful time! See some pics below:</div>
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Upon our return to the US we had a good spring and summer growing our hay and selling hay bales. The 2017 crop year was the best we ever had--four cuttings and over 250 bales each cutting and we had a huge crop of apples and peaches to deal with. In addition we had Karen's sister from Loveland Colorado visit for two months. See below:</div>
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In September I had a month-long photography show at the Arrowhead Gallery in Set George Utah. See below including some of the photos that were for sale:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset through smoke of dry season smoke of fires on the savannas of Kundelungu National Park DRC</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">End of dry season in Kundelungu National Park DRC</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Desert Bighorn Sheep in Zion National Park Utah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter storm clearing above red rocks of Zion National Park Utah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Virgin River and golden fall colors in Zion National Park Utah</td></tr>
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October and November's highlights included Colby Ford's wedding in Livermore and a visit from Switzerland by Celeste and Bryan with lovely trips to Death Valley, Santa Cruz, and Big Basin Redwood State park etc. Then the family all got together again for Thanksgiving (except Bryan and Celeste). Some photos below:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zabriskie Point sunset in Death Valley with smoke from California fires in early October 2017</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harmony Borax Works mule-team wagon in Death Valley Utah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fall colors below Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Halloween pumpkins and Celeste south of San Francisco/San Mateo California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste at coastal marine park west of San Mateo California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste and Karen Ford at the Santa Cruz beach California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste and Karen in Big Basin Redwood state park California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fun at the park with Ford's at time of Colby's wedding in Livermore California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bryan and Celeste Ford--our older son and granddaughter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste (right) and Willa Ford (Left)--later is nephew and Celeste's only cousin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colby and Kayla at their wedding--October 2017</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bryan, Celeste and Karen Ford at Colby wedding</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanksgiving campfire at our place in Rockville with Ford's</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanksgiving food--with Matt and Barbara Ford</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daniel and Willa at Grafton Ghost Town near Rockville Utah</td></tr>
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From October to December 2017 I spent some time in Loma Linda California with my sister Patricia Ford while I undertook treatments for a health issue at Loma Linda University Health Medical Center (more on that later)--things are going well healthwise--thanks to good doctors and great medical technology. Being in Southern California did give me time to re-acquaint with friends and the region (more in the next blog post). We had some nice tours to the beach and other sites including San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point, the Gamble House in Pasadena and the Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn in Riverside. Christmas this year will be a quiet time at home in Rockville (more later); we may be traveling back to Europe in January (more later).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entrance to the Gamble House in Pasadena California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">25th Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn in Riverside California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mission Inn Riverside California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Ford's reflection in Christmas ornament at Citrus Plaza Redlands California</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset over Doheny State Beach in Dana Point California</td></tr>
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Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-42407993622381353272016-01-23T10:44:00.001-07:002016-01-23T10:44:47.534-07:00Saving Nature and People: The Geotourism Approach<b>Next Monday (January 25, 2016) I will be making an illustrated presentation at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/colorcountrycameraclub/" target="_blank">Color Country Camera Club of St George Utah</a>. Here is the announcement:</b><br />
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<span style="color: #ff2500;"><b>COLOR </b></span><b>COUNTRY </b><span style="color: #e36c0b;"><b>CAMERA</b></span><span style="color: #0433ff;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #31849b;"><b>CLUB</b></span></div>
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<b>All meetings take place at the St. George Library and begin at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_720523627" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">6 p.m.</span></span></b></div>
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Bob is going to show us his world of helping to save nature and people using the geotourism approach. He will share his photography and information from numerous overseas adventures in helping to make the earth a better place to live.<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px;"> </span></div>
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Robert Ford has over 35 years experience as a photographer, professor, administrator, field researcher, development consultant, and conservation scientist. While doing field research on the Sahelian drought and famine of West Africa in the mid-1970s, he discovered that the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) linked to good photography were crucial in the task of documenting, understanding, and interpreting short and long-term change and the interactions between human society and the broader environment. He has become proficient in the use of social media for promoting positive change and policy development on a wide range of global sustainability issues. </div>
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To learn more, come to the meeting or see his BLOG at: <a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://geobobford.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/</a>. </div>
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I will focus particularly on work over the last five years in the Democratic Republic of Congo doing park rehabilitation and planning, as well as explaining my view of what "geotourism" is and how I use it in my work as a conservation scientist as well as fine art geotourism photographer. Here are a few select photos I will show that give a perspective on my talk:</div>
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<b>SOME LOCAL PHOTOS FROM WHERE I LIVE IN SOUTHERN UTAH</b></div>
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Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-73240198328505253122014-04-23T19:34:00.000-06:002014-04-23T19:51:44.323-06:0050th High School Reunion at Rio Lindo Adventist Academy April 4-6, 2014In early April Karen and I drove to northern California for my 50th high school reunion (1964 > 2014) at <a href="http://riolindo.org/" target="_blank">Rio Lindo Adventist Academy</a> located near Healdsburg California. You can see a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10202503210358810.1073741846.1151689949&type=1&l=0b0ffbbcc2" target="_blank">Facebook ALBUM</a> for some photos. Seeing old friends was bitter sweet--I found out my first roommate had died several years ago (so sad), while others seemed just the same...we found we could pick up just where we left off 50 years ago! That was nice. With Facebook we were able to share photos--some we had never seen before (see below one friends shared with me)--I'm the guy on far skyline with big ears! Next to me on the left is Tom Larson and others I know and some not. <br />
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Pastor Carl Becker drives some of us around campus (circa 1963-64)</div>
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Our class was the second class ever at Rio Lindo and we had more than half of the graduating class turnout....very nice! This coming weekend (Karen Storz Ford) my wife--will attend her 50th reunion at Monterey Bay Academy near Watsonville California. We are looking forward to another beautiful spring drive this time to Central California.</div>
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On our earlier trip to Rio we also took a day to bury Karen's parents ashes next to other family members in the community cemetery of St Helena, Napa Valley--these included some grand aunts and grandparents. And we spent a 1/2 day visiting Pacific Union College where we both went to after high school. The weather was beautiful and spring flowers out everywhere! We both graduated in 1968 and look forward to our 50th reunion there in four years. See the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10202503210358810.1073741846.1151689949&type=1&l=0b0ffbbcc2" target="_blank">Facebook Album noted above for some photos from our trip to PUC</a> and St Helena.</div>
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After our visit to Rio and PUC Karen flew from Oakland to spend a week with her sister back in Lincoln Nebraska and I spent an extra day doing photography along the Sonoma County coast and I gave a lecture at Sonoma State University near Santa Rosa (Rohnert Park) where I will be teaching in the Fall. And I visited my long time photography broker based near San Francisco. See <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10202515379623034.1073741847.1151689949&type=1&l=92b5698a52" target="_blank">SONOMA COAST FACEBOOK ALBUM</a> - below is one of my favorite photos from the Sonoma coast.</div>
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Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-83389732361410756692014-03-23T16:41:00.001-06:002014-03-23T16:53:18.118-06:00Spring has Really come to "our place" in Rockville Utah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, spring has finally arrived! The shrubs along our fenceline are in full bloom and the apple trees are also starting to burst out. A couple weeks ago the Globe Willows came out but they are always early. Today I had a great spring walk around our neighborhood and on "our place" (<a href="http://geobobford.com/myplace.html" target="_blank">http://geobobford.com/myplace.html</a>). During the last week I've been working around the yard planting some more plants in our "rock garden" and getting fields ready for the first irrigation of the season which begins a week from tomorrow.<br />
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Then we take off on a spring trip through the Great Basin of Nevada and onto California (Napa-Sonoma) and Healdsburg area for a 50th anniversary of my high school graduation and to visit colleagues at a local university--and of course to TAKE PICTURES. Here are a few photos from the last few days around Rockville and our place in Rockville Utah. Some of them were with old high school friends who were visiting from Oregon. Enjoy!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View to the South Mesa and our rock garden in Rockville Utah</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The road to Grafton Ghost town where we took our friends from Oregon.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mt Kinesava in the background and Grafton Ghost Town across the fields.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old Log Barn in Grafton Ghost Town.</td></tr>
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Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-20580128144333841492014-03-02T16:49:00.002-07:002014-03-02T16:49:18.831-07:00Our Year-End Trip to Central Mexico in 2013-14<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Over the last few years our immediate family (Bob & Karen Ford and our two sons Colby and Bryan and his wife Anya and our granddaughter Celeste) have made it a practice to "go somewhere WARM" for the Christmas and New Year's Holidays. We've gone in the past to Baja California/Cabo San Lucas in 2010 and to Palm Springs/Las Vegas and Southern California in 2009, 2011 and 2012. Now, here are a few pictures recapping our most recent trip to Central Mexico and Acapulco (2013-2014). <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">To our friends, followers and family--my apologies for being late on posting about our last "warm weather" trip. My excuse is our being very busy over the last six weeks on major events that kept us super busy: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.artstozion.com/" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Arts to Zion Studio Tour</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">and the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.whatsupsouthernutah.com/calendar/events/" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">St George Utah</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">monthly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sgartonmain" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Art on Main Gallery Stroll</a> which </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">both occurred in January 2014</span> in St George where I opened a new permanent exhibit of my photography at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bestsouthernutahartgallery">Split Rock Gallery in Ancestor Square</a> St George Utah and other family and business business such as getting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://geobobford.com/myphotography.html" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">photo business</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">launched more seriously, including joining </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.xanadugallery.com/2013/Artists/ArtistPage.php?ArtistID=4670" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Xanadu Gallery</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">online artists (based in Scottsdale Arizona) and, finally posting over 650+ photo images on</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/7733953/?facets=%7B%2225%22%3A%226%22%7D#56749b5" style="color: #992211; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">iStock photos by Getty Images</a> over the last few months. We'e also been very busy in our local community (me as a Rockville Town Commissioner and other activities that I can discuss later).</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste with Grandma in Southern California<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celeste & Grandad (Bob) at our Christmas time<br />
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<b>The Mexico Trip--Dec. 24, 2013 - Jan. 11, 2014</b>:<br />
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<b>Colby</b> (our son who is doing graduate study in geology in Southern California) joined <b>Karen</b> and I (<b>Bob</b>) in Las Vegas on December 24, 2013 from where we flew to Mexico City arriving early afternoon. A few hours later <b>Bryan</b> and <b>Anya</b> (our older son and daughter-in-law who are professors at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut) arrived just leaving Hartford in time to miss a huge snowstorm! They arrived with their daughter--<b>Celeste</b>--in time for a lovely Christmas Eve dinner. Over the next week (until after New Year's Day) we explored some of the great "colonial cities" of central Mexico, e.g. Mexico City, Puebla, Taxco, and Cuernavaca. There were large crowds for sure because schools are out, but there was also a lot of excitement, color, fun, and beauty in the events, museums, and cities we visited. See some of the photos below showing some highlights! <br />
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<b>MEXICO CITY</b>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mexico Stock Exchange--Paseo Reforma</td></tr>
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Mexico City</td></tr>
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I had forgotten how wonderful these major festival and holiday events can be in Hispanic America--all the shopping for "end-of-year" gift giving which is traditional in much of Latin America, and the many family and community events, lights, color and fun! Though the highland cities of central Mexico were a little "chilly" (in weather) and there were occasional rainy days--when we saw the snow up north in the USA (on the news) it felt very WARM in Mexico! The flowers were still out, i.e. in Xochimilco's floating gardens or in the Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, and the bright colors and sublime "spring-like weather" and SUN in Taxco, Puebla and Cuernavaca. For Mexicans this is the "cold season" but to us--who had just come from the coldest winter in 40 years in southern Utah--found it warm indeed.<br />
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<b>PUEBLA--CITY OF CHURCHES</b>:<br />
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You can see more of these pictures on <b>FACEBOOK--on our ALBUM</b>: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10201826537722417.1073741844.1151689949&type=1&l=2be85211ab<br />
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I do hope you enjoy the photos and come back to see more from an upcoming Spring trip to northern California, e.g. Napa Valley, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, and the Monterey Bay Area.<br />
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My best (Geobob)<br />
<br />Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-44212423322742576672014-02-28T16:49:00.001-07:002014-03-01T20:14:34.956-07:00Resuming my BLOG after a long Hiatus!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Over the last six months I've taken a "leave" from blogging--my apologies to my followers--but let me bring you up to date with my life and try to do better from now on. <br />
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I've been working hard at getting my <a href="http://geobobford.com/myphotography.html" target="_blank">photo business</a> launched more seriously including becoming an active artist on <a href="http://2-robert-ford.artistwebsites.com/" target="_blank">FAA (Fine Art America</a>) as well as on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/geobobford/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/geogbobford" target="_blank">Twitter</a> (please visit my pages and give feedback and spread the word). From the photos above you see that I've been involved in some art shows including the <a href="http://www.artstozion.com/" target="_blank">Arts to Zion Studio Tour</a> and the <a href="http://www.whatsupsouthernutah.com/calendar/events/" target="_blank">St George Utah</a> monthly <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sgartonmain" target="_blank">Art on Main Gallery Stroll</a> (both occurred in January 2014 just after a trip to Mexico over the holidays (more on the Mexico trip in my next post). <br />
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So what's happening in my "art life"? In late January 2014 put on a show of some of my local "southwest Utah" art (and some others) at the prestigious <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bestsouthernutahartgallery" target="_blank">Split Rock Gallery in Ancestor Square</a> in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Downtown-St-George-Utah-Historic-District/413046708760101" target="_blank">historic downtown district of St George Utah</a>. I now have a permanent collection there for all to see. Please visit it when you come to southern Utah and support the other galleries there as well as great restaurants and boutiques. In the last few days, I've been added to the <a href="http://www.xanadugallery.com/2013/Artists/ArtistPage.php?ArtistID=4670" target="_blank">Xanadu Gallery</a> online artists (based in Scottsdale Arizona) and, finally, I now post photography on <a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/7733953/?facets=%7B%2225%22%3A%226%22%7D#56749b5" target="_blank">iStock photos by Getty Images</a>. There you can see over 650+ photos I've uploaded into my portfolio for "royalty-free" use at affordable prices (more will be added soon). Of course if you want premium quality prints that are matted and framed to gallery standards please contact <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bestsouthernutahartgallery" target="_blank">Split Rock Gallery in Ancestor Square</a>.<br />
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Below are a few of the photos that have brought the most attention from viewers online and in the gallery. Tell me what you think about them as well and spread the word.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Virunga Mountains and volcanic landscape near Mudende, Rwanda where we<br />
worked for four years in the 1980s. I put this photo online and got many wonderful comments<br />
from former colleagues and children of colleagues with whom we worked there. It brought back so<br />
many warm (and sad) memories related to terrible road accidents and the Genocide of 1994!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The most spectacular sunset we'e seen at our place (from our back porch)<br />
in Rockville Utah--looking east toward Zion National Park as the sun (behind us)<br />
was setting and shining below storm clouds and illuminating the red rocks like a a<br />
heavenly light! Note also the blue sky shining through dramatic dark clouds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cattle grazing peacefully on a local ranch in our hometown of Rockville Utah in the fall.<br />
Note the yellow leaves of autumn of the cottonwood trees along the Virgin River in the<br />
lower background and the silhouetteof Smithsonian Butte in the upper right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hiking (in winter) to "The Wave" at Coyote Buttes along the Arizona/Utah border<br />
near the Vermilion Cliffs Conservation area between Kanab, Utah and Page Arizona. </td></tr>
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I plan to be more consistent now with the BLOG--trying to post something biweekly and more frequently when I travel--which I will be doing again in April when I travel to my 50th high school graduation celebration near Santa Rosa California. Oh how time flies!<br />
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My best,<br />
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Bob (GeoBob) Ford<br />
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<br />Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-13100535341513486972013-09-19T09:08:00.001-06:002013-09-19T09:08:14.333-06:00AFRICAN ART: Africa by Jag<a href="http://african-theme-artwork.blogspot.com/2013/09/africa-by-jag.html?spref=bl">AFRICAN ART: Africa by Jag</a>: Africa After Valdimir Trechikoff by JagRobert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-42229799756658245252013-06-02T10:01:00.001-06:002013-06-02T10:01:30.982-06:00In Memoriam for my Mother Venessa Standish Ford<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/249036_10200286608745155_294967499_n.jpg" /><br />
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Since April 19 I've been grieving on the passing of my mother--Venessa Standish Ford. As part of the process of remembering I've created several FACEBOOK ALBUMS and posted many messages about her (and my father's) lives as missionaries and teachers for over 48 years in Latin America. In the process I heard from hundred's of people who knew her, studied piano or sang with her in choirs she directed, or were taught by her and my father in the various schools they helped found in Central America--and they many Latinos who knew her at the Spanish SDA Church In Loma Linda CA where she spent her retirement years. <br />
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Below I list links to some of those albums online and reprint a copy of the BIO that was created and shared at her Memorial Service. She was a great lady--positive, always smiling, loyal, hardworking, and every hopeful! We will miss her and I will be eternally grateful to have had her as a mother!<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200293098667399.1073741831.1151689949&type=1&l=0af4499071">Ford's in El Salvador</a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200282199354923.1073741830.1151689949&type=1&l=1306f75159">Frisco SDA School and later CEA in Pena Blanca, Yojoa Honduras</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200272616755364.1073741828.1151689949&type=1&l=1e7b76af69">Roatan Photos: French Harbor, Paya Bay, Jonesville, West End</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200272001459982.1073741827.1151689949&type=1&l=0641f519fb">Remembering Bonacca (Guanaja)--the Bay Islands</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200256184464567.1073741826.1151689949&type=1&l=a3a72b025d">Fords, Standishes, Larsons, & Moors--A Century in Latin America</a></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">VENESSA STANDISH FORD</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">10/22/1920 – 4/19/2013</span></b></div>
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maternal and paternal ancestors were descendants of strong New England stock
going back to the Mayflower. She was
born October 22, 1920 in Loma Linda California to Horace Edward Standish and
Edith Violet Standish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sometime in 1922, the great
Adventist pioneer educator E. A. Sutherland was visiting the White Memorial
Hospital and came to know Venessa’s parents.
He invited them to join him in the founding of Madison College, located
about ten miles east of Nashville. Horace
Standish became the chief builder, and Edith served as a nurse in the
Sanitarium. In 1923 their second daughter Juanita was born. It is in
Madison that “Nessa” and “Nita” have fond memories of life on the Cumberland River,
and had childhood friends that included Neal Wilson, who was a couple of years
older than Venessa. Neal would later
become the President of the General Conference of SDA. In 1937 the Standish family returned to Loma
Linda, CA. During this second time in Loma Linda, Venessa went to La Sierra
(then a Junior College) and then on to Walla Walla College in 1940; Juanita
graduated from Loma Linda Academy the same year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Venessa graduated from the
teacher training course at Walla Walla College on June 6, 1943, and that same
afternoon she married Robert Elden Ford. Elden was the eldest remaining child of the
SDA missionary pioneers to South America--Orley and Lillian Ford--of whom the
book “These Fords Still Run” was written.
That summer for their honeymoon, they lived in a fire lookout tower in
the Blue Mountains of Washington, and were planning to go back to Walla Walla
for Elden’s final school year. But in
late 1943 the Inter-American Division heard that Elden was now married, so they
sent a call for them both to work in the Bay Islands of Honduras. So off they
went to Central America and set up their first home in Guanaja, in the Bay
Islands of Honduras. In Guanaja, Elden
and Venessa started a 10-grade day school with the help of two Honduran
Adventist teachers (1943-1945). Soon
after, they were asked to establish a boarding school in the mountains of Guanaja,
but it became clear that it would be much better to have the boarding school on
the mainland of Honduras where it could serve all three islands, as well as others
in the region. During those two years in the islands, their eldest son Bob was
born on the mainland in Puerto Castilla, at a US Lend-Lease Navy base located
there during World War II. The new
boarding academy was started on a large farm, and eventually grew to 2,000
acres of the very best lowland tropical farmland near the present town of Frisco
II, in Atlantida, Honduras. The first year Elden was both the Principal
and Business Manager. <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">During these years in Frisco, during
Venessa's second pregnancy with Kathleen, she went to stay with Orley and
Lillian Ford in El Salvador, in order to be closer to medical care at the time
of delivery</span>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">After four years in Frisco,
in 1951, they took their first furlough and Elden finished his college degree
at what is now La Sierra University in Riverside, CA. After graduation in 1952 Elden and Venessa
were called to the Adventist College in Alajuela, Costa Rica, where their third
child Pat was born. In 1955 they were called back to the Bay Islands where this
time Elden served as Pastor of eleven churches scattered across the three main islands.
All the churches had to be reached by water, so they purchased a 24-foot
inboard motor launch, which they named the Herald-II. During those years they had another furlough
to the US where their fourth child, Dan, was born in Glendale, CA. In 1960, after five years in the Islands, they
went to British Honduras where Elden served as Mission President. There they experienced Hurricane Hattie which
destroyed nine of their churches. In 1962 they were called to Nicaragua where
they spent two years pastoring districts along the Caribbean coast. They also spent a year pastoring in Jinotepe
on the western side of the country, and then several years in the capital,
Managua, where Venessa directed the Voice of Prophecy office and Elden served
as Mission President. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">After several years of
working in Nicaragua, they were asked to return to their original careers in
educational work. They returned to study at Pacific Union College in Angwin,
CA, where they both earned their Master’s degrees in Education. Upon their
return to Latin America, they first helped expand the new boarding school CEA
(Centro Educacional Adventista), in Peña Blanca, Honduras (1970-1974). At CEA,
Venessa founded and directed a teacher training school (called a Normal School
in those days). In addition to running the Normal School, she led the choir,
taught piano lessons, and was a mentor to hundreds of youth. During those
years, Elden was the Pastor and Bible teacher at CEA. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1974, they were called to
move once again to Belize (previously known as British Honduras) to build up
the Adventist Vocational College (AVC) that had been severely damaged by another
Hurricane. After five years in Belize,
Elden was called to be the director of Education for the El Salvador Mission, with
the specific goal of establishing a secondary school for Salvadoran Adventist
youth. He secured funding in part through USAID, and in a couple of years,
founded ECAS (Escuela de Capacitacion Adventista Salvadoreña) as an
agricultural-vocational school. The location
in El Salvador allowed them to also care for Elden’s aging mother, Lillian Ford,
who still lived in her home in San Salvador.
In July, 1983, the 12-grade boarding academy ECAS was opened, and
functioned right through the height of the 1980s Civil War. In July, 2013, ECAS will celebrate 30 years
of service. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">When Elden and Venessa officially
retired in 1987 they came to Loma Linda for six months to visit their children,
and establish a residence in Loma Linda. After a short stay, they returned as
“volunteers” at ECAS until 1992, when they retired for the last time and
returned to Loma Linda California. In
all, Elden and Venessa Ford had worked 48 years in Central America. Even in
retirement they continued to solicit donations to help worthy students and meet
other needs of the school in El Salvador.
They became founding members of the Loma Linda Spanish Church where
Venessa continued her life-long custom of serving as music and Dorcas leader,
and mentor to many youth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">During all of the moves, and
living in the various countries in Central America, Venessa filled in wherever
she was needed at each post: as a Sabbath School teacher for children,
working with the Dorcas Society, often serving as Voice of
Prophecy Secretary, frequently as choir leader, and almost always the
one who played the piano (or her accordion when a piano was unavailable).
In the home she was a loving and caring mother and teacher for those of
us who did Home Study, and a loving and supportive wife to our father. Venessa
passed away April 19, 2013. She is
survived by her four children, Robert Elden Ford, Jr. (of Rockville UT), Kathleen
Ford (of Bend, OR), Patricia Ford (of Loma Linda, CA), Daniel Ford (of Seattle,
WA), four grandsons, a great granddaughter, and her dear sister <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Juanita Gosse McGann</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thanks for all the well wishes from everyone in the USA as well as hundreds of contacts over the years in Central America!</div>
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Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-47651820636632760722013-04-18T06:35:00.003-06:002013-04-18T06:35:30.095-06:00The Golden Hour for Photographers - Some of my Favorite Photos<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taking pictures during the "Golden Hour"--that time within one hour of sunrise and sunset--is precious for us photographers. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">No matter where in the world we see it the experience is always glorious!</span></span><br />
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<br />Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-28357998086752943132013-04-01T18:16:00.001-06:002013-04-07T14:32:39.597-06:00Spring has Sprung in Rockville Utah<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: start;">We have now been in our place for OVER A YEAR--</span><a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/2012/01/house-is-almost-done.html" style="text-align: start;">see post on "moving-in" on January 15, 2012</a><span style="text-align: start;">--though our actual physical move-in date was February 22, 2012. It took about a month to move things in until we "slept here overnight". We have now seen a full cycle of seasons from our back-porch and love it! </span></div>
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What have we been up to? Well, January 19-23 was my participation (along with my sister <a href="http://www.patriciaroseford.com/">Patricia Rose the pastel artist</a> and some of her friends) in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ArtstoZionGalleriesandMuseums?group_id=0">ARTS TO ZION STUDIO TOUR</a>; you can see some of my photos at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.303211816462948.70605.227272004056930&type=1&l=d51cb73979">EXHIBIT ALBUM</a>. Then February and into early March was a difficult time fighting THE FLU! Karen had it particularly bad this year.But, while we stayed at home a lot, I've been busy setting up my <a href="http://2-robert-ford.fineartamerica.com/">ARTIST WEBSITE ON FINE ART AMERICA</a>... Please visit and spread the word. There you can <a href="http://2-robert-ford.fineartamerica.com/">ORDER ALL KINDS OF PRINTS, even CARDS</a> or other formats....and see reviews of photos and see my best--<a href="http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/2-robert-ford.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=272030">FEATURED PHOTOS</a>. In mid to late March we were able to visit Celeste (our grandchild) and our son and daughter-in-law--Bryan and Anya back at Yale in New Haven. Unfortunately, there WINTER WAS IN FULL SWING--Spring is late there this year! I also visited friends and attended a conference in Washington DC--where it was also COLD and the SPRING BLOSSOMS WERE LATE....it's been that kind of year!<br />
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Back here in Utah the weather has been dry and beautiful! <b> </b>During the<b> </b>last couple weeks everything is turning green and flowers budding out! Unfortunately, not much rain yet--it all went East and to the mid-west--we're still in DROUGHT...ugh!!<br />
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April 1, 2013 was our first day of irrigation, and there is water in the river, so we're blessed! No April Fools joke yet--thanks to "runoff from the mountains! Below are a few more photos from our Spring around Rockville and Virgin Utah in the Zion National Park corridor as taken over the last weekend--Easter--and over the next week! Enjoy! The photos show our view from <b><i>each season over the last year</i></b> since we've moved in--from <b><i>Summer, Fall, Winter, and now SPRING!</i></b> Click on them to ENLARGE.<br />
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Christmas has passed as well as the shortest day of the year--the solstice! And, now we're definitely in the coldest part of winter--though for most people the winters we have here in <a href="http://www.rockvilleutah.org/">Rockville Utah</a> are quite tame. We get a few storms that dust the mountains and maybe our fields for a few days--but generally <b>NO DIGGING OUT of drifts</b>! And on most days the sun shines bright and nice hikes are still possible. You can see more winter scenes around Rockville and <a href="http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm">Zion National Park</a> on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.300198443430952.69768.227272004056930&type=1&l=617d4b2b6f">FACEBOOK ALBUM</a>. <br />
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We're now past the <b>Holidays</b> and all the family <b>Christmas and New Year's events</b> (see some more photos from my "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4456438446364.168374.1151689949&type=1&l=ed61a8d519">Celeste" Album--HERE</a>--she's my granddaughter, and of course Christmas revolves around the kids--we adults come along for the ride. That was fun, but it is nice to look forward to a great new 2013 and all it may bring in the rest of the year--including looking forward to a great Spring!<br />
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Many of us in <a href="http://www.washco.utah.gov/"><b>Washington County Utah</b></a> (including cities and towns such as <a href="http://www.sgcity.org/">St George</a>, Santa Clara, Ivins, Virgin, Leeds and others) who live near <b><a href="http://www.nps.gov/zion/index.htm">Zion National Park</a></b> and its entry-gate community--<a href="http://www.springdaletown.com/"><b>Springdale</b></a>--find this period to be the quietest time of the year! Some business do close, but in a few weeks tourism will start up again...some locals leave, but for many of us this is a glorious season! <br />
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Many of us who are <b>artists</b> (part time or full time) are looking forward to a county-wide event J<b>anuary 19-21 (the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend)</b> called the <a href="http://www.artstozion.com/"><b>ARTS TO ZION STUDIO TOUR</b></a> (see Facebook site <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arts-to-Zion-Artists-Galleries-Museums-Washington-County-Utah/480835958601735">HERE</a>). . The photo below is one I took from one of the participating galleries--<a href="http://www.worthingtongallery.com/"><b>Worthington Gallery</b></a>--in Springdale. You can see links to other galleries <a href="http://www.artstozion.com/vacations.html">HERE</a>. Many of the individual artists will open their home studios for a <b>"parade of homes" </b>tour<b> </b>as well that weekend. Go <b><a href="http://www.artstozion.com/about.html">HERE</a> </b>for a partial<b> list </b>of some of the<b> individual artists </b>participating<b>:</b><br />
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<b>The Watman Peak as seen from Worthington Gallery in Springdale Utah</b><br />
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My sister (<a href="http://patriciaroseford.com/"><b>Patricia Rose Ford</b></a>) who is a pastel<b> <i>plein aire</i> painter</b>, and myself a semi-professional <b><a href="http://geobobford.com/geotourism.html"><i>geotourism</i></a></b> <b>photographer </b>(of <b><a href="http://geobobford.com/myphotography.html">GeoBob's Photography and Consulting</a>)</b> will also be participating. Patricia's work can be seen on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/patriciaroseford?fref=ts">Facebook HERE</a> and you can see more of what I do at my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GeoBobsPhotographyAndConsulting?ref=hl">FACEBOOK BIZ PAGE HERE</a>. </div>
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My last <b>BLOG post</b> of 2012--<i style="color: #cc4411; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration: initial;"><b><a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-glory-of-fall-color-comes-to-zion.html">The Glory of Fall Color comes to Zion and the Markagunt Plateau</a>--</b></i><span style="text-align: center;">has links to several <b>ALBUMS</b> of photos from around Zion and the surrounding towns showing some of the typical sights, events, culture, and communities around here (Summer and Fall)--enjoy!</span></div>
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<b>The Wave in Coyote Buttes Utah</b></div>
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<b>Wildlife and people in the parks and Savannas of Uganda and DRC-Congo</b></div>
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<b>Storm clouds over the Zion Peaks as seen from my house in Rockville and brief sunset!</b></div>
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<b>Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Zion National Park</b></div>
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(left) Some riders/cowboys during the 150th anniversary Celebration in Rockville Utah in October 2012 (Right) One of the classic views in Zion National Park of The Watchman peak from bridge over route 9 down the Virgin River in late fall 2012.<br />
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Remember to download a <b>MAP</b> and buy a <b><a href="http://artstozion-efbevent.eventbrite.com/">TICKET</a></b> online before you come (if you can) or you can buy one and get brochures and see the <b>SILENT AUCTION</b> in the <a href="http://www.sgcity.org/"><b>City of</b> </a><b><a href="http://www.sgcity.org/">St George</a> <a href="http://www.upspring.com/city-of-st-george-community-art-center-saint-george-ut.html">Community Arts Center</a></b> when you come. Get all instructions at the website: <b><a href="http://www.artstozion.com/">ArtsToZion.com</a>. </b>And do plan to come visit beautiful <b>Washington County January 19-21</b> and enjoy some winter sun and art--away from the cold of farther north! </div>
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Robert Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04824443043210990774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4822559059605602571.post-78952328308164911422012-11-12T14:23:00.000-07:002012-11-12T15:38:17.486-07:00The Glory of Fall Color comes to Zion and the Markagunt PlateauOver the last few weeks we've experienced the wonder of fall coming in all its glory--first starting in mid-October at higher elevations around <a href="http://www.nps.gov/cebr/index.htm">Cedar Breaks National Monument</a> on the <a href="http://www.go-utah.com/Markagunt-Plateau/">Markagunt Plateau</a>--then working down-slope to the valleys and canyons around <a href="http://www.utah.com/nationalparks/zion.htm">Zion National Park</a> in mid-November and even around our home in Rockville. I never tire of photographing of this spectacle of Nature at its best! <br />
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Below are a sample of some of the photos I took and farther below are links to <b>ALBUMS</b> on <b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/GeoBobsPhotographyAndConsulting?ref=hl">FACEBOOK</a></b> that your are welcome to explore and share. If you or your friends would like framed/matted prints to purchase or digital copies at higher resolutions please contact me through my business and academic website--<a href="http://geobobford.com/">GeoBob's Photography and Consulting (GPC)</a>. <b>Email: geobobford@gmail.com</b><br />
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Looking east across the Markagunt Plateau </div>
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toward Cedar Breaks and Bryan Head</div>
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Fall colors on the high Markagunt Plateau above <br />
Kolob Reservoir and Cedar City</div>
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Cottonwoods ablaze at the Temple of Sinawava <br />
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Cottonwoods turning color along the lower valleys <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LINKS TO FACEBOOK ALBUMS</span></b>:</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4198274592429.158022.1151689949&type=1&l=b951e236dd">Zion Canyon in all its Fall Glory</a> (Zion NP lower elevations)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4052950199410.154941.1151689949&type=1&l=a10777d69e">Fall Comes to Zouthern Utah</a> (Markagunt Plateau--higher elevations)</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4207537944007.158251.1151689949&type=1&l=b2aae075cb">Rockville and Virgin Utah in the Fal</a>l (lower river valleys)</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4124211180890.156546.1151689949&type=1&l=d183267dfd"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Kolob Terrace--Forgotten Part of Zion</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;">NP</span></a> (higher elevations)</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4170611020857.157391.1151689949&type=1&l=afd28d1410">Zion Park's Eastern Platea</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4170611020857.157391.1151689949&type=1&l=afd28d1410">u at Peak Color in the Fall</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">(higher elevations)</span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4134528078806.156748.1151689949&type=1&l=78b502adda">Eagle Crags Hike--an Unknown Gem</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;">(southern mesas)</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">You may also find interesting two other albums on special fall events which occurred during the last month--<a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/2012/10/rockvilles-150th-birthday-celebration.html">see previous BLOG post</a>: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">a) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.4096855097005.155952.1151689949&type=1&l=476fbb8f90">The Wagon Trek to Rockville</a> and the</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please let people know of my work and invite them to my <a href="http://geobobford.com/myphotography.html">Photography website</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/GeoBobsPhotographyAndConsulting">Business Facebook</a> page which not only focuses on my photography but my <a href="http://geobobford.com/consulting.html">environmental and geoscience/mapping consulting work</a> around the world. I'm open for business (see about my <a href="http://geobobford.blogspot.com/2012/09/consulting-in-kundelungu-and-upemba.html">recent international consulting in the DRC/Congo HERE</a>--helping to rehabilitate two parks--I also took some beautiful pictures there you may enjoy! Thanks.</span></span></div>
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Temple of Sinawava after an early snowfall at the head of Zion Canyon.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Bob (Geobob) Ford, Rockville Utah November 12, 2012.</span></div>
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