Thanks, Catlin. Stefano: three times through? You chear my heart. Really. I mean, I re-read Jane Austen and A.S. Byatt and all, but it's nice to be on the other end of that. Speaking of getting out and observing the great outdoors, I was riding shotgun in a car traveling from Las Vegas home to LA area with laptop. The basin-and-ranges of the Mohave are an inspiration, and I finally got a round tuit and worked on a basin-range image. I was highly inspired by all the alluvial fans in Death Valley, and considered how to Bryce them. There was an amazing place called Titus Canyon, a slot canyon which you can glimpse here and here. I hiked into it and took dozens of reference fotos (alas for gray overcast skies, resulting in lower contrast images). Also took pix of tons of dried mudcracks with Bryce reference material in mind. Will I Bryce from memories of my trip? I'd like to... but who knows when that will happen?