Death-by-Bison Island

Joseph from seattle came to visit! He took me, cindy, his brother and his sister-in-law to lunch yesterday at a Thai place on state street, then cindy had to go back to work and the others went shopping, so I took him out to Death-by-Bison Island (formerly known as Antelope Island). It was so nice out there, silent, stealthy, so seemingly innocent. For some reason my phonecamera pictures came out all different sizes, most of them tiny, so I understand if you can't feel the menace, or the beauty, of the island through the pictures.
After a stop by the visitor's center (did you guys know it costs $9 to visit now?? crazy), we drove out to find some antelope. But before we even got in the car, there were three huge Bison just chewing away a little bit past the parking lot of the visitors center. We spent the rest of our time driving, looking at the beautiful colors, not seeing antelope, and careening around giant death-Bison in the road (I had to switch places and let Joseph drive for the fear of them, then he almost killed the car by heading straight towards an oncoming Bison fresh from a big Bison fight in the prarie and with fire in it's dark eyes and a hankering to stomp green nissans of a certain age. Scary stuff.)
After the island we went to ward's house, then to the SLC library where we met back up with Joseph's family and said goodbye to him again until he returns sometime, maybe in the spring. It was good to see you Joseph! ward and I then 'rented' some videos from the library and had a nice time unwinding, watching shakespeare, and eating mini-muffins.

beautiful...! I wish this was larger..


Joseph: "uh, that antelope just ain't right..."


liiiittle tiny death Bison


uh-oh, closer


not so scary!


Joseph conquered that mountain


after we regained senses enough to take a picture immediately following the near escape

Thanksgiving

*edit* - my camera ran out of room after only 12 shots! and that was before dinner was served, hopefully there will be more photos on emily's blog! sorry I am so lame with the technology. sigh.
but, on the plus side, john cooked thanksgiving dinner complete with 5 pies, everything from scratch, and it was completely delicious. a total success. :) even the appetizers were completely delicious. thanks emily and john for having us over! afterward we went to grandma's and worked on a puzzle. rich and jeanine were there, as were bob and julia and ned. the puzzle was of Nauvoo, and I think the hardest one aunt corliss has ever brought to the table. needless to say, we felt triumphant whenever a piece actually fit. which is nice, feeling triumphant, so it was very pleasant.



will took this one





Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

Art show

Emily and John had an opening reception friday for a small art show. there was very delicious cheese involved. more blurry cameraphone photos on her blog soon!

Fancy lunch

Mom, Emily and I went out to lunch today at Bambara in the Hotel Monaco. It was delicious, and not too spendy! Katie, we were planning when we can go next when you're here. my plate of food was extremely tall, doesn't the tallness of the dish correspond to the deliciousness of the food? I'm sure there's a graph proving that somewhere.



then we went back to Emily and John's house. Mom went to do battle with the social security office and Emily cut my hair.

Emily's fridge has three ice options- crushed, cubed, and stamped-


first she went to get William from school. here's how this played out-

me: "ok William, pose!"
W: "ok!"

W: "let me see!"
Me: (show him the picture)
Me: "ok, pose!"
("pose" apparently means "lean non-chalantly against the wall. where did he pick that up?)
W: "let me see!"


W: "let me see! let me see!"
"aaagghh!" (goes running off down the hall)


me after-haircut. I know I know, it looks the same, but it feels so much better! thank you Emily!


I can't help it.


he's just cute.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

my friend Vanya had a rare day off today and was looking for someone to go hiking, so I told him I'd go and I promptly put off working and hit the road. we went to Wasatch-Cache National Forest (i.e. just up Big Cottonwood canyon), after wandering around Brighton watching them make snow and getting sorta lost looking for a trail. the national forest was a much better find, the weather was completely blue-skied, but we seemed to hit all extremes- warm, cold, dry, snow- repeatedly. all in all it was a nice afternoon to be walking around!

Vanya
tunnel of light (i.e. "dying")



touch moist lake!















tree popsicles

more yard leaf photos for those who are away!


hmmm, where does the neighbor's yard start?? I just can't seem to make it out...


yesterday we were invaded by a sleek collie dog and a mid-sized black lab, they were running joyously around the yard for a good 30 minutes. both had tags, and when I went out to see if I could call them over, they stopped, looked at me, then jogged off down the street. they knew they were busted. hopefully they went straight home after taking the afternoon off to do leaf doughnuts. sheesh. teenagers.


it's become pretty much like quicksand



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some of you are curious about what I'm doing now so I thought I'd post a photo. this is where I go to work during the day. it's got a much better view than my cubicle at KPFF had, but I do miss the people.

ooooo.... I am the Night Sky....oooooooo...


Halloween was a little odd this year, I'm kinda glad it's over. An example of the oddness, Sarah Ward's party ended with her kicking everyone out with an emphatic "ok! party's over, I'm sorry!" after some party crashers tracked in dog doo doo and danced it around the house liberally. Technically my dress was supposed to glow but there was light everywhere, so it just sorta faintly shimmered, but people liked it anyway!

Tagged by Hyo

Ok, seven random things, here we go-

1. I'm more into clothes and shopping since I moved to Seattle and got annoyed with all the preppy-looking people there. It may have been grunge everywhere else, but on Queen Anne Hill it was preppy. I tried to stand out by finding interesting things to wear.
2. I love ketchup.
3. My thumbs are double-jointed.
4. I have a scar over my eyebrow that is very noticeable but people don't generally notice when they look at me to talk to me. It's from pretending to be a ghost when I was three or so, and stepping on the edge of the blanket, falling, and cracking my head on the corner of the brick fireplace. my mom says all I said when they were stitching me up was "down? down?"
5. I grew up in a historic house in Centerville in my early years. Boy Scout groups used to come read the plaq attached to the corner of the house, and we'd make faces at them through the window.
6. My car is called "The Muffin Car" by some of my friends.
and
7. There are photos of me in the LDS Family Home Evening handbook from the early eighties. my mom was friends with one of the photographers and they used us kids as models to illustrate the stories. In one I'm doing dishes with my sister at the sink in our old house.

- thanks Hyo, that was kinda fun!!

Bliss

you know, sometimes things align and there's suddenly, out of nowhere, bliss. this morning, seeing the glowing yellow leaves surrounding the house in a carpet, being inside, holding a fried egg on wheat toast sandwich and italian amaretto hot chocolate, is somehow blissful. these moments are everywhere. what a blessing. I can't get over it.

A trip to the Mountains

Dennis is briefly a man of leisure now sometimes, as am I (woman of leisure), so we decided to go to the mountains today to document some of the beautifulness. Lots of the trees had already lost their leaves, but it smelled wonderful and felt so different from being in the city, it was just a really good idea. Before we got out to take photos, we hit the snow and kept going up up up. Here it is, in October, snow-

here's Dennis-


I'm 'Photographer of Light'. Dennis was more 'Photographer of Color'. But we both earned titles.



Here's my dynamic waterfall picture-


Dennis setting up for his dynamic waterfall shot-


gnarled-


I call this one 'The Long Trousers'-