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CapnSteve's JournalGrand Canyon and Star Party 2025 - Side Trips Edition!
During our eight days on the South Rim we took some epic side trips as well:
1) My wife sprung for a mule ride down into the canyon on Bright Angel trail. Here is Paco (foreground) my capable mule, and Joey, her mount next to him. The drivers reffered to us as our mule's name for the day, so I was Paco!
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2) Sore from the time in the saddle, we drove down to Wupatki Pueblo National Monument the next day.
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3) We then went to Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Here is the ash volcano itself. Last eruption was about 10k years ago. This appealed to the geologist in me. I geeked out!
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4) On the other side of the volcano was the Bonito lava flow, where Apollo astronauts trained, tested lunar rover prototypes, and refined moon experiments. A'a lava flow. Geeking out continues...
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5) Another shot of Sunset Crater Volcano area. Looks like another planet.
Nikkor AE 50mm-300mm:
6) The Milky Way.
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Grand Canyon and Star Party 2025 - Now with embeded images! Yay! Thanks CaliPeggy and George!
First time posting photos, so be gentle!
An epic eight days on the South Rim - here are my favorite six pictures out of the 500+ I captured:
1) Mather Point view at "golden hour." 14mm Rokinon lens, my new favorite:
2) Scorpius and the Great Rift at Star Party 2025. 14mm Rokinon:
3) El Tovar View. 14mm Rokinon:
4) Yavapai Point. You can see the North Rim lodge in this one (upper right). 14mm Rokinon:
5) Trailview Overlook. 70-300mm Nikon Nikkor AF:
6) Female Bighorn Sheep with Baby. 70-300mm Nikon Nikkor AF:
7) BONUS! Moon 16% Waxing Crescent (marking the end of Star Party 2025!). 70-300mm Nikon Nikkor AF
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Really, Stephen Colbert? Leading with a Biden old-age joke?
I may have to stop watching. Dammit!
My early voting story...
I am an elementary school teacher (SPED) in Fort Bend County Texas, just outside of Houston; one of the bright blue counties in Texas.
At the beginning of the month, my wife and I took some vacation and visited my family in the Seattle area. Then, things went sideways: I was hospitalized for 16 days with "severe sepsis, diabetic wet gangrene of the foot, decreased circulation with gangrene due to blocked arteries, gangrene of toe(s) of left foot, gangrene of left foot, bleeding diathesis, anemia, and foot infection." I had five surgeries, including three to remove all the toes on my left foot, and received seven units of blood.
I was discharged and was able to return home Sunday. I have lots of follow-up care and will be in a cast for the next six weeks, using a knee scooter to get around. With all of that, there was never any question about me voting. I wheeled myself (well, with help. of course!) to my polling place and voted early on Tuesday.
If I can overcome my obstacles to vote YOU CAN TOO!
Please share your early voting stories!
CapnSteve
Everything that criminal does, everything, is to do one thing:
1) Stay in the headlines. 2) Stay in the headlines. 3) Stay in the headlines!
Celebrity via outrage is his only trick. The best way to defeat him is to give him no oxygen. Don't click on the clickbait, turn off the tv when they talk about him, etc. If enough of us do this, then the media will see a correlation - when we report on Donnie, we lose viewers and revenue - and he will fade. Convicted, disgraced, ignored and then, finally, invisible.
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