telepathic stuntman

Telepathic Stuntman is five years old! This is the 445th post, and image number 1381! Thanks to everyone who supports my efforts to keep this going and all the critical feedback on the images.

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Drove to Cameron Trading Post, Grand Canyon, Flagstaff and Sedona all in one day!

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Finished a pretty large piece to day, this one is inspired by the nights spent in the Superstition Wilderness east of Phoenix. This was painted over a painting that was given to me by my neighbor, so it’s really good quality, with a white wooden frame. “Superstition Moonlight” Acrylic, 36″ X 48″

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Finished! Acrylic 24″ X 24″

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Wow! What a great adventure! We’ve just finished a four-day trip that took us 400’ underground in the Cave of the Bells and then 8000’ above sea level toward the summit of Mt. Wrightston in southern Arizona. The Cave of the Bells is a very cool, but dangerous underground wilderness, known for its unique and [...]

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Getting very close to calling it good with this one – just some touch ups and smoothing to go!

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On Friday we rented a couple kayaks and headed to Goat Mountain, located in the Tonto National Forest on the north shore of Apache Lake. We were able to fit both of the twelve foot kayaks inside Big Blue! We arrived at the lake in the late afternoon, strapped our packs to the kayaks and [...]

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There’s a popular story around here about a man named Jacob Waltz, better known as “the Lost Dutchman”, who in 1891, while lying on his death bed, told a story of a gold mine that held untold riches. He had said that it laid deep within the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Treasure hunters have [...]

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The Botanical Garden opened its Luminaire festival last night – music and beautiful lights galore!

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Sycamore Canyon drains a large area of the western Mogollon Rim and often floods during the spring snow melt. Our plan was to descend down to Sycamore Creek and follow it to Parsons Spring, about four  miles from the trailhead. The autumn colors were still stubbornly hanging on to their branches and provided a gorgeous [...]

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This weekend we explored Aravaipa Canyon, cutting through the Galiuro Mountains near Winkleman, Arizona. This is a classic desert riparian habitat for a wide variety of animals and plants and wow did we see them! As we entered the area, a family of Coatimundi marched across the road in front of us – members of [...]

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A couple of years ago, I walked across the Grand Canyon from rim to rim in 16 hours. We began on the South Rim at night and made our way across under a full moon, carrying only food and water and stopping only for a brief rest from time to time. It was an epic [...]

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We arrive at the Horton Creek trailhead at dusk. The plan is to hike up the side of the Mogollon Rim toward the mouth of Horton Spring, finding a suitable place to camp along the way. Conor and three of his friends are with me and Zach, one of the boy’s fathers, joins us as [...]

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great name!

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The cactus flowers have been blooming like crazy! More to come…

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“It’s going to be below freezing tonight, the trails are muddy, you need to pack out all waste including toilet paper and human waste and it’s supposed to rain today.” The Park Ranger looked across at me as though that should be sufficient to send me away. No way! This trip has been in the [...]

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I arrived at Bryce Canyon National Park late in the day after negotiating through a wild winter storm in Flagstaff and sandstorms throughout northern Arizona. It was bitter cold and icy snow flurries pelted Big Blue as I entered Red Canyon, about thirty minutes outside the park and the first view of the region’s colorful [...]

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Our latest adventure took us to Bell Canyon, just south of Sedona. The plan was to mountain bike the White Mesa Trail as far as we could go, stash the bikes in the brush and then travel on foot along Beaver Creek until we find a good spot to camp for the night. Riding a [...]

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Just messing about with Photoshop today…

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