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My World Tuesday – More Grand Canyon Blooms

I was out on the Walhalla Plateau today where the lightning started Roosevelt Fire burned 5,000 acres in 2007.

Bark after fire
Ponderosa Pines are fire resistant trees. Often when the lower trunk looks charred and dead, the crown is alive and green.

Wild Onion
Nature’s remarkable recovery from fire provides a brilliant display of wildflowers.

Larkspur

Lupine
The colors will change throughout the summer.

Sandwort
And I found more New Mexico Locust in bloom. So, because there weren’t any visitors around I ate a flower.

New Mexico Locust
Tastes like peas. Well it is from the legume, or pea, family.
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My World Tuesday – Memorial Day to my Dad

Ray Marvin Olmsted
A WWII verteran, Dad never talked much about the war when I was a younger. Maybe it was partly my attitude about the then Vietnam War.

A few years ago during a visit I asked if he still had his old Ike jacket. I used to sneak it out of the house and wear it to high school.

He told me then he’d served in Algeria, North Africa and was in Oran when Rommel was there to stop Germans from entering.

He was a Corporal 5th Grade Mortorpool Technician attached to Yankee Division.

And served 5 years. Each gold bar equals 6 months and the blue slash equals 3 years.

He learned to be a mechanic which served him well when returning home. He worked for his father-in-law at first in a small local service station then moved to a Cadillac dealer and went from mechanic to Service Manager before retiring about 45 years later.

Dad at my birthday party in S Texas in 2005
My Dad had a couple strokes starting about two years ago. He currently lives in a nursing home in South Texas, and isn’t very happy about it.

I don’t usually support wars because they don’t resolve much. Yet I wasn’t alive for WWII, so I thank my Dad and all the other people who went to war to protect our country.

Happy Memorial Dad!

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My World Tuesday – Echo Cliffs Arizona

Sunrise at Bright Angel Point – North Rim Grand Canyon National Park
When I finished last year’s summer season as a Park Ranger at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park (click here for that story) I drove past Echo Cliffs on Highway 89 south back to Yarnell for this last winter. Well, guess what?

Painted Desert & Echo Cliffs
After yesterday’s post about the Painted Desert I also drove past Echo Cliffs just the opposite direction. Funny how life comes full circle sometimes.

Echo Cliffs lies on top of the Painted Desert as deposits of sand from the Early and Middle Jurassic about 175 to 200 million years ago.

This reddish-orange, cliff-forming sandstone is oftentimes veneered with black or gunmetal-blue desert varnish formed in part by the metabolic process of bacteria on the rock.

I continued on to Page, Arizona where I finally saw the Colorado River and Glen Canyon Dam, which I’ll post about tomorrow.


This series I’ve written over the winter for My World Tuesday is over. I’ve brought you to where I’ve spent the winter blogging, Yarnell, Arizona. To find out where I’m heading for the 2009 summer season, just keep checkin in. I promise to reveal where with a week.
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