I believe in the sun even when I can't see it..

above snowbird ski area

Yes, as the weather cools a little the hiking is great. Here, on a hike, its normal to run into some eighty year old mountain bikers in perfect physical condition. Fascinating.
This picture was taken above the snowbird ski area, where I spent my fiftieth birthday.

Glenn Harcourt speaks of friendship

"This big old tree-North of Steeprock
must have been burned in a wildfire a long time ago- likely, before man lived there wildflowers bloomed It's life's foundation leaving it strong-even after it's last breath.
Plumb, tall, leading the forrest for unknown years- as the fellows next to him grew- strong enough to lose one's own footing and rest on the neighbors strength, still standing
leaning on friends
after unknown years"

As most of you know, Glenn left us in a tragic plane crash this spring, nothing that couldn't have happened to me any day. I find his words and messages on my computer and they remind me to stop and appreciate the people who come through our lives. 

and the working waterfront

Took this picture as I pulled into Spruce Head on one of those nights I mention below. 

Thinking of Maine in August

Around August 14 I always think about the years I spent working on Islands, how this time of year the perseid meteor showers come and the fog lifts. I used to say the Milky way came out and sagitarius cowboy coffe pot ( It looks like one) brews steam ( The milky way) on the hot summer fields. I don't know where this picture comes from but lots of times in the evening, working my way back across the bay from Dix island, I would see beautiful sailboats gliding down the channel. While I was never fish nor fowl to the coast, a carpenter is neither a tourist sport or a working waterman, I still can close my eyes and smell the sea and feel the rock of the waves when I look at this. Mouette 1933Ingomar, built in 1903, was a 127' Herreshoff designed and built schooner whose first captain, Charles Barr, was one of the early professional America's Cup racing captains to defend the trophy for America. Elmina was a 125' A. Cary Smith design built in 1905 by Lawley and Son Corp. of Neponset, MA.

Las Vegas

A few weeks ago I went to Las Vegas where my company has a lot of work going on. It was 110 degrees but there were many touirists running around. Its a totally synthetic world, but booming. Amazing and decadent and strange.
The architecture is fascinating, however.

Do you know where this is?

Most anyone who had lived in Telluride would recognize this landmark where the road from Paradox Valley ( see Thelma and Louise) meets the road into Moab. Its a fragment from the heyday of mprosspecting for Uranium, and at one time there was a little village there...not to far from La Sal. In the two creeks cafe there is a painting of an old truck under a slanted roof like this. I feel the building style has an eery modernist feel to it, and the desolation of its envirronment just contributes to it. Contrast this to the emptiness of the las Vegas strip, as seen from the wall of the Aladdin Casino Hotel. 

Near Alta Lakes

 

Steep Rock Barn Project

 

storm clouds near soldier summit on the road from Price

 

Musicians at the farmers market

 

HOWA Construction

HOWA Construction

The web site of my new employer.

Brunch in the back yard

Woke up late and went out to get bread from the Avenues bakery. Orange cranberry pecan, made some French toast and brought out the rasperries I got yesterday at the Farmers market. Soaaked in the little backyard pool and ate brunch. It gets really hot during the day but its very dry heat

birds of Utah

My friend Des Fitzgerald, just back from a year in Spain, told me to look into the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, apparently this area gets an amazing number and variety of migratory birds throughout the year. 

Our local ice cream parlor

 

McGrath Barbecue

This is out at Bill Mcgrath and Darcy's house, a celebration of duelly day, half Canada day and half Independence day. Great party, lots of kids, we later played soccer until all the adults were exhausted.

Good time

 

South temple street

Avenues houses

Most of the old homes are pretty well restored

More third avenue

 

Two Creeks coffe shop

This is the cafe across the street