jim owens
Ahhhh. Spring has sprung here in Southern Nevada. Ain’t life grand. The backyard critters are doing their Disney-cartoon-themed thing. Desert cottontails, jackrabbits, antelope ground squirrels, small lizards and gambel’s quail are darting in and out and hurriedly criss-crossing the yard. The chipmunk-like squirrels are particularly active munching on petunias, then climbing the ephedra and stripping […]
I am down in southern Nevada again, sitting out the waves of snow that are piling up in Park City this month and over the tail-end of last month as well. The weather here isn’t ideal either, alternating between something approaching glum and, in almost equal measure, other days that are bright and crisp though […]
Back in Park City again where winter has begun in earnest. I’ve taken a small respite from my crazy regime of walking, four to six miles a day and usually in flipflops and carrying a camera, using the sudden abundant snow here as an excuse. Why flipflops? I have no idea. My nurse practitioner has […]
What began as a great summer ended up being precisely that. I am hoping that the Summer months of extreme heat and smoke are a thing of the past for the Intermountain west, although I highly doubt it. At the very least this Summer proved to be a reprieve from what had become my expectation […]
In retrospect it has been a pretty sweet summer so far. I’ve spent more time than normal in the mountains of northern Utah which has been nice. The prior two summers of extreme heat and smoke just never materialized this year, and hopefully won’t in the next couple of months. Living in a place like […]