Two Years Of Posts as of Feb 4 2010

Four of my past favorite images"My" Wellsville Mountains

Cache Valley, Utah

(google them)

Mountain Goats

on Willard Peak, Utah
Grizzly Bear
Teton National Park, Wyoming
Pronghorn
Antelope Island, Utah
(Google it)
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"You may never know what

results come of your action,

but if you do nothing there

will be no result."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Sorry, no new images to post today.

Thanks to all who have and will read

and look at my blog.

When I started blogging,

it was to let family members know

what I was up to and where we as a family were.

Then comments came in from people I did not know.

Once a missed a few days and got a

couple of emails asking where I was.

Since the beginning,

I have come to be long distance acquaintances with

some of you. Getting advice on cameras, lenses and how to improve.

I still don't put much personal information down like feelings and such,

that is just not who I am.

Ask anyone who knows me :)

To the man over the pond...

watch that heart and no smoking;)

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On my wish list is:

Canon 40D or 50 D

Canon 28-300 f/3.5-5.6 EG IS USM lens

Nice road bike, some money for food and gas.

Two weeks of sun...

AND - This is really first

Good things for my family, all of them.

If the Tax Man is nice to me this year

I may get the camera.

I will keep working towards the rest.

Its the little things you know. It's Time To Live

Here is to the next year

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What I do today is important because
I am paying a day of my life or it.
What I accomplish, must worthwhile
because the price is high.
-unknown

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AMAZINGLY SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES:

1. AVOID CUTTING YOURSELF WHEN SLICING VEGETABLES BY

GETTING SOMEONE ELSE TO HOLD THE VEGETABLES WHILE YOU CHOP.

2. AVOID ARGUMENTS WITH THE FEMALES censored by me ;) might keep

me out of a little trouble.

3. FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE SUFFERERS ~

SIMPLY CUT YOURSELF AND BLEED FOR A FEW MINUTES,

THUS REDUCING THE PRESSURE ON YOUR VEINS. REMEMBER TO USE A TIMER.

4. A MOUSE TRAP PLACED ON TOP OF YOUR ALARM CLOCK WILL

PREVENT YOU FROM ROLLING OVER AND GOING BACK TO SLEEP

AFTER YOU HI T THE SNOOZE BUTTON.

5. IF YOU HAVE A BAD COUGH, TAKE A LARGE DOSE OF LAXATIVES.

THEN YOU'LL BE AFRAID TO COUGH.

6. YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE.

IF IT DOESN'T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40.

IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE DUCT TAPE.

7. IF YOU CAN'T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU'VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.

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DAILY THOUGHT:

SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES -

NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT

THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE

WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS.

Antelope Island In Winter

Northern Harrier

Raven

Bison

North American Porcupine

Now that's a face...
Coyote hunting in the snow.

"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee
should not be able to fly,
but the bumble bee doesn't know
so it goes on flying anyway."
-unknown

Mule Deer in the yard

These two mountain scenes are just a little east of

our house. Wanted something more.

So, my son and I drive 30 or so miles up a canyon

looking for wildlife. I was hoping to find a moose,

or some deer or elk along the way.

We did not see any wildlife to speak of until we

came back home.Then there in the back yard, 20 feet from the back door

is a small Buck Mule deer with four Doe.


There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes.

By the deep sea, and music in its roars;

I love not man the less,

but nature more.

-George Gordon

It's still

"Time To Live"

A Winters Day

Last years nest,

a sign that it was once warm...

A Winters Day With A Snipe and Frost.

"Around here however we don't look

backwards for very long,

we keep moving forward,

opening up new doors and

doing new things,

because we're curious and curiosity

keeps leading us down new paths."

-Walt Disney

5 degrees F OR -15 degrees C

Merry CHRISTmas

Merry Christmas

Remember what it's all really about

Have a great season.

Several different views of... The Wellsville Mountains

protruding out of a winter inversion.

"Born in a stable, cradled in a manger,

He came forth from heaven to live on earth

as mortal man and to establish the kingdom of God.

During His earthly ministry, He taught men the higher law.

His glorious gospel reshaped the thinking of the world.

He blessed the sick. He caused the lame to walk,

the blind to see, the deaf to hear.

He even raised the dead to life. To us He has said,

'Come, follow me.'

"As we seek Christ, as we find Him,

as we follow Him, we shall have the Christmas spirit,

not for one fleeting day each year,

but as a companion always.

We shall learn to forget ourselves.

We shall turn our thoughts to the greater benefit of others"

(Thomas S. Monson, "In Search of the Christmas Spirit," Ensign, Dec 1987, 3)

More Snow

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

-Albert Einstein

" Everywhere there is life,
and everywhere there are
warm human hearts."
-Ivan Pavin (Siberia)

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"If you can dream it,

you can achieve it."

-Walt Disney

Short Wyoming Trip and Mule Deer

A trip out looking for Mule Deer Bucks.

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This is our Jeep parked along the roadway.

In the following images you will see several

different buck (male ) Mule Deer.

This guy was a long way away,

he is only a two point but

notice how high and wide

his antlers are.

They come with big antlers

and

they come with small antlers.

Above

I think this is my area to look for women.

Below

Get off of my turf and leave.

Had to tuck in a photo of an old barn

"If a fellow isn't thankful

for what hes got,

he isn't likely to be thankful

for what he's going to get."
-unknown

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"When asked if my cup is half-full
or half-empty, my only reply

is that I am thankful I have a cup!"

-unknown

Old buildings, old trucks

These images were taken about thirty miles

west of our home.

It looks a little like one of

the plains states and not so much like

Northern Utah.

Lots of tall grass and rolling hills.

The difference is the mountains a few miles in

the background.

(above)An old Chevy truck, someday I will own one

of these. It will look much better, paint, glass and restored.

And it will run!

(below)

An old Ford truck, I would take one of these also ;)

Look Mom, No Neighbors!

(PS. I like my neighbors)

... and no grocery stores? No doctor?

No Dr Pepper?

No flushing toilet and no morning "HOT" showers?

Guess I will take what I have!

More wandering in the Mountains.

Not much green left anywhere but,

the snow is mostly gone for now.

Morning Cloak Butterfly

soaking the last bit of

warm out of the sun.

Snowshoe Hare all dressed in

white for the winter.

We were looking for Elk on this trip.

We found quite a few but not

long enough to get a photograph.

Just quick glimpses through the trees and brush.

Just a long enough look to go 'uha' and then they

were gone, running through the heavy timber.

Easy to hear, track and follow but tough to photograph.

elk, moose, cougar, snow, mountains, deer.

We just spent a couple of days

'wandering' in the woods.

We saw lots of animals and tracks.

We were looking for a spike bull elk -

never found him but tracked a couple.

We did see Moose, Elk, Mule Deer, Ruffed Grouse

various squirrels and birds.

We also found Cougar and Bobcat tracks in the snow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson,

'Life is a succession of lessons which

must be lived to be understood.'

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I've learned that the greater a person's sense of guilt,

the greater his need to cast blame on others.

Misc images, leaves, trees, mountains

"To look is one thing.

To see what you look at is another.

To understand what you see is a third.

To learn from what you understand is still something else.

But, to act on what you learn is all that really matters."

-Malcolm P. McNair

I missed most of the best fall colors this year.

It's not that I did not see them.

I just never got around to taking photos of them.

The Old...

I will do it tomorrow.

"But oh! may there never come the day,

When a child shall go to his dad and say,

What was a trolley car?"

-Robert S Wilson

Antelope Island - Great Salt Lake

This is from an August 1959 Reader's Digest

At the peak of its economy drive this spring,

the House of Representatives suddenly found

itself voting another $2,200.00 to hire an

extra House postal clerk.

The reason, according to Representative Wayne Hays

of Ohio, was that additional help was needed to handle

"all the mail coming in asking us to cut the

national budget."

Old barns, rain and fall

"The greatest discovery of my generation

is that human beings can alter their lives

by altering their attitudes of mind."
— William James

"Success is often achieved by moving

enthusiastically from failure to failure."
— James Arthur Ray

Return to Willard Peak

We had the first snow of the season the other day.

"Where the Wild Goats Live."

We only found two goats while we were there this time.
The wind was blowing and it was cold.
VERY COLD!
This old man choose not to hike far down the mountain
to get a closer photo and to find the rest of the group.

Wild Bonsai Tree

A short study in butterfly

Probably the last one of the season.

Just hatched in our trailer.

Had to warm in the sun before being able to fly away.

just think....

a birth certificate shows we were born,

a death certificate shows we died,

but photographs show we lived!

Mountain Goats - Willard Peak

"What lies behind us,
and what lies before us,
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Went on a short trip, not that far from home.

Drove up Willard Peak, stopped and looked around.

Low and behold, there were mountain goats.

Lost track of time for a while - Post -

Sorry, no thought this time... River Otter Elk

Elk

Elk

Female Elk

Elk

Elk

Elk

Elk

Madison River

Great Blue Heron

Osprey

Tetons - a different view

Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel

"A rocky moon"

Week Seventy Five - Pioneer Trek

Took and went with 300 or so youth

on a Pioneer Trek pulling handcarts.

Got just a small taste of what the real

Pioneers faced.

It was a life changing experience - beyond words...