If you take Utah Route 95 from Hanksville southwest to Blanding, you get to take in a lot of sights- which explains its designation as a Scenic Byway. For 125 miles, you pass through no towns, and wander from elevated plain to desert wilderness as you enter the Glen Canyon/Lake Powell region. Towards Blanding,...
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Last Sunday, the Trinity Site in White Sands Missile Range had one of its two semi-annual open houses, and I had a desire to visit it for some time, so I left in the morning to spend a few hours there. Not certain what I would experience there, once I got to there, I...
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A second view out a south window in the McDonald Ranch House, which includes more of the room detail.
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McDonald Ranch House Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, NM The world’s first nuclear weapon was assembled in an adobe and wood house, two miles from where it would detonate, in a remote New Mexico desert. Remarkably, the McDonald Ranch House stood up decently to the bomb’s terrifying blast on July 16, 1945, and...
Read more →I’ve never had much of a tongue. Just giant eyes that could look in the dark and see a blow, a bruise, a tear. I struggle not knowing where those came from, or where they want. But I could see them and be at a loss for words.
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While out walking at North Domingo Baca Park after work, I saw light on the north Sandias between some treetops. I took a photo and then thought nothing of it and finished my walk. But then later, when you process a photo, sometimes you see something in it that you did not see when...
Read more →I have been posting single photos from the Utah trip the last week and some as an easy out, I reckon. It’s been easier than sitting down and trying to string words together, which is really more of the right reason to have a blog- to convey insights and information about one’s life and...
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When the Latter-Day Saints settled in this valley in southern central Utah, the nearby Fremont River provided irrigation for one of their first agricultural ventures- fruit trees. This field is a living remnant of those orchards around the once small community of Fruita, which was established in the 1880’s.
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