Tag: 2022 calendar

The second, and last, round of photo choices for the 2022 Geogypsy calendar.  Because many of you are the people buying my calendar I ask for your help with the selections you’d like to see on your wall.  The first round went great, thank you.  Please choose 5-6 of your favorites out of the 14 more in the final selection.  Also, let me know if you’re interested in purchasing a 2022 Geogypsy calendar and I’ll start that list and get back to you with more info when I have it.

#12   –   Rise of the February Snow moon lights the desert land. Peaking over the New Water Mountains, Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona.

#13   –   A game of peekaboo for February’s Snow moon with Saguaro frame. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona.

#14   –   March arrived like a lion blowing in isolated patches of light on the Sonoran Desert and Kofa Mountains, Arizona.

#15   –   After a storm filled day, late light accentuated the rugged Kofa Mountains, Arizona.

#16   –   A Turkey Vulture may have been chasing March’s Full Worm Moon where friends also flew in to celebrate my birthday. Wickenburg, Arizona.

#17   –   March flew out gently like this Vermilion Flycatcher brilliantly catching attention. Vulture Mine Road Wickenburg, Arizona.

#18   –   An early April sunset lead me northward across the Bradshaw Mountains in Prescott National Forest, Arizona.

#19   –   Summer light on the Pink Cliffs define the top of the geologic Grand Staircase where weathering and erosion over millions of years left behind the current landscape. Yovimpa Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.

#20   –   Like it’s trying to avoid the busy June crowd, a Limber Pine hangs on along the rim of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.

#21   –   July brought monsoon storms moving across the land, providing a dark and dramatic backdrop from Marble View on the edge of the Kaibab Plateau and National Forest, Arizona.

#22   –   Called a rainbow patch, like a sail of colors, highlights a side-canyon cutting into the Marble Plateau below camp on the Kaibab, Arizona.

#23   –   An ancient Cottonwood provides shade in an otherwise hot sandstone environment. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

#24   –   Tree and rock, shaped by the forces of water in a shaded alcove of towering sandstone cliffs. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

#25   –   Forest provides a quiet haven for the busy mind to rest and recover. Dixie National Forest, Utah.

Thank you again for helping out with the photo selections for the 2022 Geogypsy calendar.  I really appreciate you all following along my life’s journey, commenting—or not—along the way.  Hope you will comment—my ego loves that—and choose 5-6 of your favorites.  Maybe you’ll even buy a 2022 Geogypsy calendar.

Must be time to make choices for the 2022 Geogypsy calendar.  As Autumn approaches I feel the tug of looking through what I consider the “Best of” photos taken since last September 2020 to present.  Always more than the 13 needed even after being as discriminant as possible, they are my favorites after all.  I need help making choices for the 2022 Geogypsy calendar and because you are typically the folks buying my calendar, thank you very much, I offer you options.  I’m going to try and break this into two or three posts, linked together.  Pick 5-6 out of this group by leaving their numbers in your comment.   Also, let me know if you’re interested in purchasing a calendar and I’ll start that list and get back to you with more info when I have it.

Starting with oldest to newest:

#1 – A drive over the Markagunt Plateau during early October more than met expectations for striking Autumn colors of Quaking Aspen.  Duck Creek Lake, Dixie National Forest, Utah.

#2 – The tenacity of this tree reflects how I felt at the end of the 2020 Bryce Canyon season, deserving respect for surviving, not quite ready to jump, but certainly ready to move to warmer climate.

#3 – I have a love of trees, all colors and shapes! Returning to the desert and welcomed by a shadow dancing Kokopelli under a Palo Verde tree.  Ghost Town Road, Congress, Arizona

#4 – Autumn comes late to the Sonoran desert yet still displays golden colors under daytime sunshine to match.  Ghost Town Road, Congress, Arizona

#5 – Mesquite framed sunset.  The shape of trees captures my attention with a simple silhouette. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona

#6 – When sunset clouds take on the shape of the land it’s time to pay attention. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona

#7 – Drama of the storm.  Like a furled cloth flowing over the Kofa Mountains. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona

#8 – Socializing in the desert often includes neighbors of flight. Ghost Town Road Congress Arizona

#9 – Mountains make their own weather including matching patterns of clouds. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona

#10 – There be dragons guarding the desert near the Kofa Mountains, Arizona.

#11 – A crown of morning light rises to the Castle like formation on the Kofa Mountains, Arizona.

Thank you, I REALLY appreciate your help making these decisions for the 2022 Geogypsy calendar, so please pick 5-6 of the above choices to get this started.