It has been another interesting week without much time to get out to do anything and today, the middle of my work week, brought out first major snow of the season. The plows won't be getting out until the morning, so I ended up parking a short distance away from my trailer and trudge through about 4 or 5 inches of snow to make it home since my truck couldn't get up the hill. Earlier in the week I hit my goal of having 3,000 images in the gallery on my website (3,002 to be precise) by the end of the month. I hope to be a little more efficient with that task and keep the number growing - there's plenty of space on the server so I may as well use it, right?

Once the website goal was achieved I decided to tackle putting a "store" on the site also and made a lot of progress in that regard. While prints of my images could already be ordered through the gallery I decided it would be cool to offer sets of notecards via the web plus DVD's and screensavers, too. There's still a lot of setup to do though I have been making some progress and I plan to stay focused on that for the near term. I also felt I could use it to improve the process for clients to register for my workshops and will be integrating that in the store as well.

It that wasn't enough I've had a couple of people suggest I do a book and have been tossing around some ideas about that, working on concepts and the bes way to attack the project, mainly - as if I have nothing else to do with my time . . .

The photo above isn't exactly a striking, jaw dropping photo but is kind of interesting when you know the story. The subject is the west side of Red Canyon about 15 miles drive from Bryce. The red rock on the right is Claron Formation limestone - the same stuff that makes Bryce Canyon so beautiful. Mixed in with the trees on the left is a lot of dark rock: basalt - the kind of rock that comes from volcanoes. The Sevier Fault runs right down the edge of the two formations and separates the Paunsaugunt Plateau from Long Valley. The Claron limestones are on the order of 40-60 million years old; the basalt less than 25 million years. The red rock was once covered by the younger lava but water running off the plateau has eroded it away and left the older red rock in the canyon exposed (a large wash runs right through the canyon; a portion is visible at lower left). And with time more water created the hoodoos, arches, and other formations found in Red Canyon. This geology stuff is really kind of fun.