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Last night we played a game of get the squirrel-tailed, feathered thing on a stick.  If you can come up with a better name, please do.  Anyhow here are some of their reactions - I wore me out and the boys were still rarin' to go.  Nosedive in a moment of inaction.  Emmy saying something like "Ye Gods, not again!"







Then there's King Voodoo with his new hat?  Finally, Milo waiting patiently for it to come a bit closer.
















                                                                               

posted by: mafidl at July 19, 2008 11:33 | link | comments (11) |
kitties

and again

posted by: mafidl at July 17, 2008 00:45 | link | comments |

In case you also missed this

Thanx to friend, R for emailing this to me. So what do you think?

posted by: mafidl at July 17, 2008 00:26 | link | comments (1) |

Beauty to counteract the sadness.

A friend, R, sent me this beautiful song/video from YouTube - hope you enjoy it:

posted by: mafidl at July 11, 2008 23:07 | link | comments (1) |

RIP Don S. Davis

posted by: mafidl at July 11, 2008 23:06 | link | comments (4) |

Home again jiggety-jig

Here are some more pictures from my trip.  On the left is a typical southern Utah landscape, with a red butte in the background, junipers and in the foreground, a pinyon pine.  To the right is a pair of old cottonwood trees in Capitol Reef National Park.






















Then there are birds' nests in the red rock, and, finally, daughter L's cat Wally peeking out of his new cube

posted by: mafidl at July 10, 2008 21:18 | link | comments (8) |

1 day to go

Thursday afternoon we drove down to Torrey, Utah, which is almost bordering Capitol Reef National Park, my favorite of Utah's group of national parks and other beautiful areas.  I doubt there is an area of Utah that isn't beautiful in it's own way.  We got to watch a small, but very nice, 4th of July parade this morning - why a day late, I'm not sure - but fun.  The last thing in the parade was a camel! A Bactrian, to be precise.  We had several lovely, mostly peaceful walks with daughter J's dog, Chewie Snapdog Demon Dog, whose lineage definitely includes Beagle, pointer of some sort, jackrabbit, goat and, possibly, lemur.  He's 1 year old - we celebrated his birthday with a party earlier this week - fun.  Daughter L went for a jog yesterday and saw a jackrabbit [large, muscular and definitely not your cuddly fluffy domestic bunny] and some interesting birds.  Today she took a walk along a creek and flushed a fawn - no doe apparent, and we're hoping it was OK.  Then we wound up in a combination bookstore and coffee shop in Torrey called Robber's Roost - very cool.  We sat outside, surrounded by large pines, fir trees, cottonwoods - lovely setting - and got to watch several humming birds at a feeder.  I'm going to try putting one out come late Fall in Miami, when they come down for the winter.  Then as we meandered back up to Salt Lake City, it rained! in the desert, yet.  Most often Mother Nature teases the desert with something called Virga [Sp?] which is rain that never reaches the ground.  As in the picture below - later I'll probably find some pics that I like better - but I took a total of some 200+ on this trip, so have to week through them and edit/discard a lot.

Here is Hidden Falls, after which our motel in Torrey was named.  To get to where we could view it,  we had to circumvent a locked gate in a fence with a sign saying no trespassing, then go over a beaten down barbed wire fence and down a somewhat dicey path - which had, thank goodness, a very solid hand rail.

posted by: mafidl at July 06, 2008 01:09 | link | comments (3) |

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