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Garden - 2012 : Year in, year out, we fortified "the garden" with bags of crap (chicken, steer, cow, unicorn). The garden is in the upper back third of our lot, about 30' above our driveway. We hauled, tilled, weeded, and planted. Planted plants grew for a month. Summer hit. Planted plants died. Or lingered. Weeds thrived. Gophers dined. In year 20, on Mother's Day, we built two above ground planter boxes, complete with hardware cloth bottom to foil gophers. We filled the two 6'x5'x11" boxes with "garden soil" from a local sod farm. We're getting results. Tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, cucumber, and pumpkins. I would rather grow burritos and lemon-lime shave ice, but this year, vegetables. We won't recoup this investment for years, but drought & infinitely deep sand haven't killed this garden. No weeds in year one (and plastic over the boxes after harvest). No gophers, easy maintenance, pictures. The morning glory photos on page 3 are from a flower garden growing on the 8' chain-link fence behind our relo at school. N.B. Holding down [option] when using Develop::Detail->Sharpening->Masking in LR4 "tells" me what to leave in/out when cropping.

Garden - 2012

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Year in, year out, we fortified "the garden" with bags of crap (chicke ...

Updated: Oct 13, 2012 3:50pm PST

Sunset Peak : We hiked to Catherine's Pass from the Albion basin side (Alta, UT). That was 1.4mi. We then hiked to Sunset Pass, another 0.3mi. We finished off at Sunset Peak, UT, elev 10,648'. Nice place. When heading back down we found moose prints in the sand on the trail crossing the bowl between Sunset and Catherine's pass. We saw no moose. Once back at Catherine's pass we met a couple with 4 young girls. The mom offered us home made zucchini bread and peanut butter cookies. Nice. We spent about 3 1/2 hours wandering about this afternoon. It was perfect, about 47 degrees, clear, with a moderate wind. It was pretty quiet on the peak. I carried the 5d3, 300/2.8 w 1.4tc, a 16-35/2.8, tripod, cable release, and Wimberley Sidekick for good measure. Two mountain blue birds almost obliged, but then didn't. Ethan said carrying all the extra weight was good conditioning...

Sunset Peak

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We hiked to Catherine's Pass from the Albion basin side (Alta, UT). Th ...

Updated: Oct 07, 2012 8:21pm PST

Park City XC Invitational : The 3rd annual Park City (elev. 6,900') Cross Country Invitational held at the Park City Ice Arena & Sports Complex. I found a good spot, about 3/4 mile from the start, in the sage brush, where pics could be taken w/o power lines, buildings, cars, etc. It was the 1st race that was actually "cross country". I thought Chase would run JV. While waiting for him I practiced shooting the Girls JV race. I watched for Chase in the boys JV race, but didn't spot him among the 400+ runners. I ran back down to the park and checked in with Tammy. She said he was running with the varsity! I ran back to my nice spot out on the desert. When the Varsity Boys arrived, the sun had just set behind a peak to the west. Chase was way back in the pack, running with one shoe. I gave up shooting and ran back looking for his missing shoe. I hoped I could find it and give it to him, maybe preventing him from running w/o it for the last mile. No such luck. It was peeled from his foot by another runner at the start. "It wouldn't have mattered: I could have put it on but I would have had to run through the whole pack again." I had a good time talking with the photographer for Taylorsville. It turns out his son is good friends with a girl I had in my Geometry class 3 years ago. Elvira's got spunk. I have two half decent shots of her running with a nice desert backdrop.

Park City XC Invitational

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The 3rd annual Park City (elev. 6,900') Cross Country Invitational hel ...

Updated: Oct 06, 2012 9:26am PST

Championship Rev v Stealth : Saturday, 30-June-12, 6:50-11:15pm.. RIGHT-CLICK TO SAVE ANY IMAGE YOU WANT. I'LL BE TAKING THESE DOWN IN A MONTH OR SO. ACT SOON.. ENJOY. Fifty seconds before the end of the regular game the score read Stealth 20, Rev 12. Thirty five seconds before the end of the regular game the score was tied at 20. The regular game ended at about 9:50pm tied, 20-20. The 1st overtime left the score at 27-27. The 2nd overtime left the score at 27-27. The 3rd overtime almost left the score at 27-27. But the Rev field-goal attempt fell short. Stealth player #1 (the fast guy) happened to be by the ball. He over-ran it. Then acted like he didn't know what to do with it. Rev players drew closer. Then he picked it up, and trotted off, all the way into the other end zone, ending the game at 33-27 (I guess, because the score board was hosed all night). It was quite the championship game. Here are a few hundred pics... Shot w EOS5d3 and 300/2.8L, Tv, 1/350s, iso=auto, spot and center metering

Championship Rev v Stealth

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Saturday, 30-June-12, 6:50-11:15pm.. RIGHT-CLICK TO SAVE ANY IMAGE ...

Updated: Sep 24, 2012 2:54pm PST

Alta at Salem UT : This was Chase's 4th xc meet. Salem, UT (elev. 4,610) is a few miles north of Payson, UT, a town at the south end of Utah Valley. It was supposed to be a 5K but turned out to be a 5.06K.. We took SR-65 around the west side of Utah Lake to avoid the debacle they call highway travel through Utah County. It's about a 70mi drive from where we are in Salt Lake County. We got there 10 minutes before Chase's race, but the race was postponed because the girls running before them were still out on the track. Chase's group got going around 4:10am. The first runner across the line came in at 4:27:41. Chase finished at 4:29:29, in 16th place. There were about 150 boys in his race, 9th and 10th graders. As you can see below he and another fellow from Alta led the group for the 1st 1.5mi. The other Alta runner finished 10th. American Fork, ranked 2nd in the nation (I'm told) took the top 8 places. 9th place went to a kid from Salem Hills, the high school where the meet was held. We drove back north, again along SR-65, after Chase's race. He got home around 8:15pm.

Alta at Salem UT

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This was Chase's 4th xc meet. Salem, UT (elev. 4,610) is a few miles n ...

Updated: Sep 23, 2012 1:38pm PST

Alta at Murray Inv. : Largest HS meet in Utah, first for Chase, attending a Jr High but running with the Alta High School Hawks. He joined the team last week and had 5 practices before this. Morning practice, today, Saturday 8Sep12. The folks w the "Run for Tourette's" 5k let the Alta XC guys run "for free". They bested the others by 2min. Then they ran an 8mi loop from Draper Park to a temple in the foothills.

Alta at Murray Inv.

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Largest HS meet in Utah, first for Chase, attending a Jr High but runn ...

Updated: Sep 21, 2012 10:07pm PST

Dimple Dell Pk : The juveniles were practicing/playing today. Well before the sunshine could reach the valley. They chased each other. They took on a rival band of shrub jay. Hand to hand battles, air battles, air to land, etc. They initially left as I approached. I sat and waited. The hawks returned, chasing each other. Then they engaged the jays. It was a draw. The shots aren't perfect, but was fun to watch. 15-Sept-2012

Dimple Dell Pk

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The juveniles were practicing/playing today. Well before the sunshine ...

Updated: Sep 16, 2012 5:45pm PST

Peaks 10410 and 10420 : Ethan & I, looking for subjects, drove the loop at Brighton. Near the end of the loop we found a cow and moose calf strolling down the road. Ethan got a few shots as the headed off the road and up the hill. We then drove up to Guardsman's Pass and hiked from there over to peaks 10,410 and 10,420. They lie between the pass and Clayton peak. August 19, 2012. I gave the telephoto a rest, switching to my 16-35/2.8. These peaks are at the east end of Hidden Canyon, the site of most of the Trail Crew work for a few weeks back. For general reference, Guardsman's Pass is south of Park City and just outside the town of Brighton, Utah.

Peaks 10410 and 10420

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Ethan & I, looking for subjects, drove the loop at Brighton. Near the ...

Updated: Sep 03, 2012 7:50pm PST

Bywater Park : Everyone wanted to know what bird this is: the guys working in the yard next to the park, two young girls passing by, the grounds keepers, everyone in their vicinity. "Accipiter cooperii": A secretive and inconspicuous bird, Cooper's Hawk, was named by Charles Bonaparte, nephew of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, for William C. Cooper, a noted New Your naturalist. It is a typical woodland hawk, capable of quickly maneuvering through dense vegetation. Although it prefers to stay close to cover, it will venture out in search of food. Should a human approach the nest of a Cooper's Hawk, the brooding adult will quietly glide down and away from the nest tree rather than attack the intruder." Birds of North America, p171 Adults have a ruby red iris. Juveniles have yellowish eyes. These are all juveniles. Wyatt's Wildlife Biology instructor told him "they hunt with reckless abandon". 20Aug12: Young Cooper's Hawks in a Maple tree across from the pavilion at Bywater park: J.Curran drew a map for me. I rode there after work, parked, and started looking for the nest. It wasn't in the trees north of the pavilion. The hawk's calls gave their location away: in a large maple across the drive from the pavilion. They were difficult to spot in the tree, let alone photograph. That and I left the Wimberley Sidekick at home, making the lens/tripod combo unmanageable. 21Aug12: I checked the hawks at 7:15am, on the way to school. It was great. They weren't in the dense maple. They zipped around, pausing long enough for me to get a few shots of one in a dead pine, and a few more of one eating a small bird it flew in with. The meal was eaten on a limb in the R.Olive nest tree (north of the pavilion).

Bywater Park

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Everyone wanted to know what bird this is: the guys working in the yar ...

Updated: Sep 02, 2012 7:42am PST

Rocky Shore Canning Co. : Two years in coming, the Hogle Zoo opened its newest exhibit today, and we stopped in after work to look it over. It mimics the "northwest", showing harbor seals and sea lions, otter, grizzly bear (Kodiak seem more northwest to me), a polar bear (more north than west), and the two bald eagles that used to be stashed over by the mountain gorilla area. It's a nice bright exhibit. The polar bear is a bit edgy, but that beats seeing it sleeping, bored, in a corner. The underwater views made Chase wish they included a people pool. I shot these with the 5d3 and my 70-200 f/4L lens or 300/2.8 w or w/o a 1.4x or 2.0x TC.

Rocky Shore Canning Co.

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Two years in coming, the Hogle Zoo opened its newest exhibit today, an ...

Updated: Jul 29, 2012 7:54pm PST

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