Monday, April 25, 2011

8 foot Muenster cheese

We had a couple of pretty snowfalls this month:

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It melted fast.   Here the camera caught snow falling from the power line:

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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:

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Power lines do have one nice feature (other than delivering power I suppose) … birds like them:

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California Quail is pretty common all around Salt Lake:

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This bird is admiring a jet landing at the SLC airport, upper right:

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We setup a motion activated night camera to inventory our various nighttime visitors.   Helen posted a 2 minute picture video here:

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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:

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She brought her friend Aria.  They made me delete the music video I took of their drum/ukulele concert:

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This is Helen’s office … note the cactus garden … they are everywhere!

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Aria only brought thin/low shoes, so I gave her a tour of some nice snowbanks:

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Se was happy to get back to dry land:

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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):

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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:

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I’m having fun hiking up nearby trails.  I coaxed Helen up one last weekend:

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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):

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The mystery photo:

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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.

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