We had a couple of pretty snowfalls this month:
It melted fast. Here the camera caught snow falling from the power line:
Our backyard is remarkably private. This is one of the few places in town I found where you can see it, about 3 miles away. You need a high res monitor, middle, 1/3 from the left:
Power lines do have one nice feature (other than delivering power I suppose) … birds like them:
California Quail is pretty common all around Salt Lake:
This bird is admiring a jet landing at the SLC airport, upper right:
We setup a motion activated night camera to inventory our various nighttime visitors. Helen posted a 2 minute picture video here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mollybloom756
The raccoon keeps stealing the cat food … he is insatiable! We switched to daytime only cat food, to discourage hoards of midnight masked bandits.
Aya came for a weekend visit:
She brought her friend Aria. They made me delete the music video I took of their drum/ukulele concert:
This is Helen’s office … note the cactus garden … they are everywhere!
Aria only brought thin/low shoes, so I gave her a tour of some nice snowbanks:
Se was happy to get back to dry land:
This morning the sunrise was really pretty on the Kennecott open pit copper mine across the valley (2002 Olympic Speed skating oval in the lower right):
In 100+ years, it (the mine, not the oval) has produced more copper than any other mine (over $1 billion a year of various metals), is also the deepest open pit mine in the world at 3/4 mile deep.
Here are a few more scenic photos from our backyard:
I’m having fun hiking up nearby trails. I coaxed Helen up one last weekend:
I’ll close with a challenge and a mystery photo. The challenge is to beat this 8 foot Muenster cheese string (I’m standing on the kitchen counter):
The mystery photo:
Bruce
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Photo mystery:
Actually, I’m not sure what it is either. I found it in our backyard, rotated 90 degrees, hanging on a spider web. My best guess is it was made by a dog loving, ice saw wielding, artistically gifted, ice sculpting spider.
