If we ever sell Mary Holste Design to Amazon.com, you can bet that this is how we’ll announce it.
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I’ve been asked to chair Tacoma Reads Together!
Last Friday, Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland announced she selected Erik Hanberg as the new chair of Tacoma Reads Together, a community reading initiative. via weeklyvolcano.com I’m so excited to start. This is pretty much a dream job. Thanks Mayor Strickland for the appointment!
Today’s awesome hike: the slot canyon at Wire Pass (Paria Wilderness, UT)
See the full gallery on Posterous Can’t tell you how crazy this hike was. It was the most off the beaten path, hardest hike to get to. But still. Slot canyons are awesome! Hard to believe this was formed by nature.
iPhone as travel camera. Not bad! (with clear skies)
The iPhone was made to take pictures at Arches. Look at the colors in the photos. Every one I’ve posted so far has come from my iPhone. And autostitch, a paid program I spent $1.99 on, has done a fabulous job on the panoramas (see Landscape Arch and Delicate Arch panoramas). I just take the pictures, tell Autostitch which ones to blend, and it does. So handy! As a Posterous blogger, I use their app to create galleries, which instantly tweets it, puts it on Facebook, and adds the pictures to Flickr. It’s incredibly easy. Where the iPhone doesn’t perform Read more…
A camping trip through the Utah (catch up post)
I realize that I’ve been posting pictures but not many stories about our travels. So here’s the scoop. Mary and I have been camping our way through Utah these past few days. Day 1: (Wednesday) Valley of Fire in Nevada on our way out of Vegas, with a campsite overnight at Zion Canyon. No real hiking. But a beautiful drive through Zion Park at sunset, including a long, curvy, and very dark tunnel on Highway 9. Day 2: (Thursday) Awake at 4:20 a.m. Brutal, considering too Utah is an hour ahead of body time. We got a very early start, Read more…
The Delicate Arch. Panorama stiched together using AutoStitch on my iPhone.
This came at the end of a long, hot, uphill hike. But man it was worth it. More photos of Arches pending.
Arches National Park (UT) is jawdropping!
See the full gallery on Posterous A long drive yesterday from Zion Canyon across Utah, but it was worth it.
The Valley of Fire — still in NV
See the full gallery on Posterous Red red rock. Such a cool state park! And we’re just beginning …
In Vegas for the night. But definitely more excited to see some National Parks! The SW adventure starts tomorrow!
(View from our room at NY, NY)
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