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Ah. Sigh. What a fun long weekend. We spent Memorial Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Not my idea. I was just tagging along. But a grand idea regardless. We were lucky with the weather and the layout of the town suits our desire to walk everywhere very well. We had a rental car which we didn’t […]
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 […]
Back in Park City, Utah. Snow. More snow. Still more snow. Supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow and snow every day and night for the next two weeks. This was the sort of winter we had back in the early and mid-nineties. Back when some years it snowed on the fourth of July. I had […]
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 […]