The Sawtooths

We finally made it to the coast and are hanging out relaxing in Seattle after a week in the Sawtooth Mountains in Idaho. Had a few storms roll through...



Climbed Snowyside Peak...



Swam in some Alpine Lakes...



Caught some trout...



Smelled some wildflowers...



Eaten alive by horrible mosquitoes...maybe worse than Alaska...




More to come...

The Tetons

We just arrived in Idaho after spending the last few days in Wyoming. While there we climbed Teewinot (the peak on the far right in the above image, the "Grand" Teton is just to the left of Teewinot). It was an amazing climb with about 1000 feet of snow climbing followed by some 4th and 5th Class rock climbing. 5th class only because we got off route! Below is an image of Dianna pulling off her first mantle at about 13000 feet.



We also caught a few rainbow trout at our camp outside the park in the National Forest. The Park system was hatin' on Smoke.



After the Tetons we headed to Yellowstone, which was way overcrowded, so we bailed after a day of driving around to see all the weird geothermal activity.





More to come...

On The Road Again

On our way to the Grand Tetons to kick off our summer road trip. Many updates to come...

Also, here are a few images from the past month. Puzzle Day tournament for the Clinton School, some wedding work and a story about the Border Patrol for the New York Times.

Demolition Derby

So the past few weeks I've transferred my house into a full-on construction zone. I completely gutted my kitchen all the way to the floor joists, and even removed half of them in order to re-level the back half of the floor. So I've been a bit preoccupied, which hasn't left much time for blogging. But now I've passed the demo phase and have moved into construction!

More updates to come!

Oh yeah, and that is my downstairs basement toilet you see in the second photo.

Track Star

The current issue of Runner's World (June 2008) has a story about Arkansas track coach John McDonnell with some portraits I shot awhile back.

Work Pays

Talia Greenwood is a mother of four and is participating in Arkansas' Welfare to Work program called Work Pays.

All-USA Team

A portrait of Morrilton basketball player Shekinna Stricklen for USA Today.

Old Man McCain

John McCain's Straight Talk Express (I love that name) came to town and stopped by the Whole Hog Cafe with the Huckster.

Memphis Rain

Last Friday I stood in the rain for over 4 hours to cover John McCain and Hillary Clinton's visit to the Lorraine Motel to mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King. But it was well worth it when I saw the front page of the New York Times the next morning.

Hillary didn't seem too happy to be there, which is ironic since we're the ones that stood in the rain while she was two hours late.

White Lightning

I shot this on my front porch last night before a tornado came through about a mile away. I love thunderstorms, but tornadoes can be a bit freaky. We saw a bunch of green lightning. And when I say green, I don't mean just a little green. But the sky lit up like night vision goggles!