I finally had a chance to get the newest photo gallery started – with a lot of help from David. It covers the epic trip to Colorado and Utah, with the inevitable (and intervening) Nebraska thrown in at the end. There are a LOT of photos in there. Some of them I tinkered with – resized, cropped and so on. Most I didn’t mess with. I haven’t decided which ones I’d like to print out and frame. This photo got Photoshopped a little – it looked good except for one of those &*#!@ roadside reflector wands right in the middle. So I, well, took it out. Now I can’t remember where it was. I guess that’s not too bad.

I can’t really explain why I left the Crash Test Goofy photos in, except that I thought they were funny. I didn’t do as much with CTG as I might have, especially in the stultifying boredom driving out and back across Nebraska (sorry, Cornhuskers).

I’ll be going through and hiding duplicate or near-duplicate images. The Road Trip! gallery is here, the Rocky Mountain National Park part of the trip is here, and there’s also Mesa Verde and Moab (and Nebraska, too).

I thought I took photos in Salt Lake, but maybe I took a break from suffering for my art – I crawled around a lot and kneeled a lot in Mesa Verde and Moab trying to get closeups of desert flowers.

I only took a couple of photos after leaving Salt Lake – southeastern Wyoming was gorgeous in an empty way, but we didn’t stop and mess around much. David took some photos of a dramatic wind farm, and I documented gas prices in Perkins with the help of this double-ended “pushme-pullyou” Caddy. I kept a trip log with GPS coordinates and funny things that happened along the way. More bog for the flodder, I always say.