Ed Mell Eyes New (Nude) Model

[Bob Boze Bell]

May 25, 2010
As I mentioned Ed Mell and I got caught in a nasty sandstorm on the way back from Utah on Sunday. Here we are on the way up, stopping near Page for gas:

The ride is a Toyota Venza, and it got sand blasted near Tuba City on the way home. Ironically, he was on the Coppersate 500, a car tour, several months ago in his classic Corvette (1963?) and got sand blasted
in almost the same spot.

Northwest of Page we took the Cottonwood Canyon cutoff, a dirt road and about ten minutes into it we ran across a herd of cattle (we later ran into longhorns and stopped again). Here's Ed lusting after one of them:

Ed liked the markings and took several photos. His longhorn cattle paintings are quite popular, so this was a lucky moment for Edmundo.

"You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that's a matter of education and preparation, and character, and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at."

—James Michener

[Melvin Graf]

Well, the title of this thread is certainly an attention getter! I've seen the desert sand blasts. Saw my first sand storm in El Paso, TX. The thing rolled through even creating it's own lightning and visibility went down to mere feet.

Beautiful long horn there! A guy with the name of Mell has got to be a good guy!

[flboots]

Which taste better a long horn steak or a angus steat? lol