Greetings from a couple of snowy people We had a fun snowstorm that included some low flying clouds that, when parked over the university, combined with the university lights, made it look like they was a massive fire! We just marked our 1 year anniversary here. Seems that was a long enough penance of…
The LDS Salt Lake Temple is pretty amazing. 40 years to build, 210 feet (120 cubits) tall, 9 feet thick walls of hand hewn granite. Care to guess the difference between these two photos? Same wall, same night, one is backwards: I’m guessing you’ve guessed it. The first one is upside down, taken by looking…
The bizarre plant of the month is called Buddha’s Hand: Also know as fingered citron, it looks like a lemon that met a creative chief with amazing carving skills. But reality is stranger, it actually grows this way. They couldn’t fix my camera, so they gave me a new one to replace it! Coolpix S8200. …
2 unrelated mystery photos this week. This first one is NOT an electron microscope photo of flower pollen (I don’t have an electron microscope … yet): The challenge on this photo is not what is in the middle of it, but rather how it was composed: My camera is in the shop again (the 2…
In this month’s mystery photo, you get to guess the purpose of this mini devils tower (end of post answer): We celebrated Rosh Hashanah a few weeks ago, the Jewish New Year, with two other couples. There was a lot of good food, even after our ovens ate much of it in impressive smoke belching…
Today’s mystery photo is brought to you by cholera: We had the last of our summer visitors, Ina and family from New York. The standard protocol for entertaining guests in Salt Lake City is to throw them into the Great Salt Lake: If you look closely (click to enlarge), you can see Helen way off…