Timing is everything

It was lucky we were slow enough that the group of scouts and their leaders carrying a ladder passed us. It's not everyday you see people hiking with ladders, but lucky for us, it happened this particular day. The ladder they carried was placed near (in) one of the taller waterfalls in Kanarra Canyon, enabling us to continue even farther, after a somewhat refreshing dousing. Yeah for people who make the world a better place. Below are a few more sights beyond the ladder:

A first time for everything

Slot canyon!! More coming ... check back!! (Just read a photography magazine -- everyone's getting into the stuff I'd always rejected -- like fuzzy, with solar flares and washed out -- like last pic. What do you think?

Worse before it gets better

Yesterday the refrigerator was in the family room and my shoes were in the bathtub.

Today the couch is in the kitchen and the dresser is in the bathroom.

Tomorrow I'm hoping the furniture will be back where it belongs so I can start putting food and clothes and accessories back where they belong.

If I can find them.

'Glad that seven months of upheaval because of home damage from an ice dam are almost over.

And 'glad that someone could fix the air conditioner that went out last week.

Now, for the doorbell.

Cousins and sibs, aunts, uncles and grandparents. Family

Never bored

OK so I rode an elephant last night. It's just one of the things you get to do when you're running around town reporting on things like elephants. And last week I got to shoot a .22 at targets and did so well with my first rounds that the guy next to me said I would qualify to pass the hunter safety test but not to worry, I'll never in a million billion years be a hunter but it just goes to show how much fun you can have in the right job.

Also this past month, I've talked with people from Taiwan who asked me as many questions as I asked them (and videotaped my answers), men from Finland and Chile and teens with limited sight. I've talked to people who've lost family to cancer and people whose loved ones are fighting it. I talked with people who were taking needy kids shopping and the parents of needy kids who were being taken shopping. I've talked with mayors and city managers, cyclists and immigrants from Peru.

I've asked questions of dieticians and people posing as mountain men and children going back to school already because of the year-round schedule necessary for crowded schools, plus the parents who accompanied them on their first day back and the teachers who welcomed them.

Did I say I got to shoot pictures of Huey Lewis in concert close up? And parades? And street dances? And a demolition derby?

Yes, there is pressure. But would you believe I'm never bored? 

Fun in the sun

 

 

Does this make you wish you were two again or what?

Or maybe make you wish you were a dad of a two-year-old?

Two reasons to celebrate

 

In Utah, we celebrate Independence Day on the Fourth of July

and three weeks later, we celebrate some more.

 

After fireworks and parades to start the month, we end with more of the same: fireworks and parades to celebrate the 24th of July, the day the Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 and their leader, Brigham Young, announced it was the right place for them to make their home.

 

Yeah for freedom, yeah for independence, yeah for religious freedom, yeah for fireworks and parades!