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Palo Duro Canyon is the second biggest in the United States after the Grand, and yet I didn't know about it until I went to visit my friends at the Academy of Advanced Imagery in Canyon, Texas . "Yes, there is a canyon," I kept telling everybody, because I'd Googled . And then we went there. I'd almost not brought my camera on this trip, because I knew Maz had hers and she's a talented photographer. We have different perspectives, though, so it's a good thing I did. We often took different trails; also, she's got the better telephoto lens. There were times I bade her take the long-distance shots I knew would fail with my camera. This cute yellow flower tried to kill me. I really wanted that shot, so I crouched low and finally lay prone to find my angle, and then I realised how close I was to the edge of the cliff. It was at least twelve feet away, but I was frozen in terror. You see, when I was a teenager my friends thought it was funny to thr...

trees show wisdom in the bends, branches, fractures they do not discard. that which falls in the forest is susceptible to transformation - a free for all, up for grabs - a mere piece of wood retrieved by a boy is whittled by a pocket-knife lent by his grandfather and reborn into a measuring stick. *inspired by Peter Kidd, my best guru