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| CANYON |
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| or as Millie put it,"that's one big crack!". Quite. |
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| In my experience it is only the very spcial places that are immortalised as beer.. |
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| Beautiful days ended with chilly nights [minus 15 or so] but thankfully no snow fell while we were there. |
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| It's easy to take too many pictures... |
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| Tom adding essential scale - you can see it's wider than his outstreched arms. |
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| Beautiful Western Bluebird |
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| male Western Bluebird - one of my favourites |
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| Snow highlighting the sedimentary layers |
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| down towards the Colorado river a mile below |
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| Juniper Titmouse |
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| Juniper Titmouse in profile |
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| Megan and myself - [I'm on the right] |
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| Cliff Chipmunk - the name of the species, not this particular individual |
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| dawn views near the village |
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| The canyon under a rising sun |
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| Cassin's Finch |
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| Cassins Finch |
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| East of th eGrand Canyon... |
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| Cloud Streets criss crossing above a largely deserted Navajo handicraft centre |
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| a smaller but still grand [but not Grand] canyon east of the GRand Canyon on Navajo land |
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| Wood Duck drake |
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| Wood Duck drake |
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| Red Rock state Park, Arizona - the variety continues |
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| This would be a little more beautiful in spring or summer with a bit more green added |
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| Matthew continues climbing with Millie as an apprentice |
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| The fam |
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| A posing portrait in a state park - Red Rock |
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| Tom and Matt near Sedona |
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| Red rock crossing the river near Sedona |
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| An expression of the power of peer group pressure - hundreds of hundreds of little stone towers - it took us ages to knock them all down, |
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| A small lake in Dead Horse Ranch State Park where we stayed a night enjoying great generosity and friendship of some Arizona locals |
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| Canvasback |
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| Ring-necked Duck drake - I still insist on calling it ring billed [which is a better name] |
Wow!
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