About
Flameskimmers.com is owned and operated by Don and Mary Ecsedy, at Circuit Riders, LLC, a business website consulting and development company located in Pittsburgh, PA.
Flameskimmers.com is a personal website devoted to the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, and the American Frontier. We've loved the west all our lives (Mary is descended from pioneers, cowboys, and railroad engineers), and our favorite corner is the Colorado Plateau. We camped in Arches National Park on our honeymoon, and we go back there as often as we can.
The Flameskimmers Store
We've just added a small shop (March, 2010), which carries products from the Colorado Plateau, including the entire Canyon Country Publications series of natural history books, trail guides, and maps. This is the only store, online or off, that carries the entire series.
We also offer fine art notecards (paintings coming soon!) by the Colorado Plateau painter, Serena Supplee. We'll be adding more products as time goes on.
Background Info
We started Circuit Riders in 2003, when we were living in Moab, Utah. We taught ourselves how to develop and update e-Commerce websites by creating and operating our own online store. We sold local products such as guidebooks, desert paintings, desert landscape photography, etc.
Moab is located between Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park, in the heart of the Canyon Country – the most beautiful place on earth.
We lived there for 5 years, until our business outgrew it and we returned to Pittsburgh, Don's hometown. However, we maintain close ties with the friends and business associates we made, and we plan to head out west to the high desert as often as possible.
Walk in Beauty
We miss the desert and we know that millions of other people all over the world miss it too. Our main goal for Flameskimmers is to provide a place that will take us all there for a few minutes during our busy, stressful days. We hope you enjoy your hit of sunshine, wide-open spaces, and the distant shimmering horizon...
– Mary and Don Ecsedy, Pittsburgh, PA
3/29/2010
From the Navajo Nightway Ceremony:
In beauty may I walk
All day long may I walk
Through the returning seasons may I walk
Beautifully I will possess again
Beautifully birds
Beautifully joyful birds
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk
With dew about my feet may I walk
With beauty may I walk
With beauty before me may I walk
With beauty behind me may I walk
With beauty above me may I walk
With beauty all around me may I walk
In old age, wandering on a trail of beauty,
lively, may I walk
In old age, wandering on a trail of beauty,
living again, may I walk
It is finished in beauty
It is finished in beauty
Monitor and Merrimac Buttes