Dinosaurs

You know how little kids (and cats) are known for walking across fresh concrete, leaving footprints for all eternity? Turns out dinosaurs did it too. Although, to be fair, it was just wet sand at that point; it took several million years for it to harden into stone. (Plus, the dad dinosaur probably didn’t just …

Christmas Snow

Since you poor deprived people in the rest of the world have to struggle through the winter without snow, here are some pictures to keep you going. The cats are interested in these things falling from the sky, and how things look different; we haven’t subjected them to walking outside in it. Not quite enough …

Tree Lighting

Moab does a nice Christmas thing every December – mainly for residents, since all the tourists have gone away by now. On Friday night, they have a tree lighting ceremony in a park a few blocks away. The high school band plays Christmas carols; they’re a high school band, so not perfect, although the teacher/conductor …

Snow

So this is about as much snow as we get. (Had to run outside in my pajamas to get the photo, though, before it all melted). The sun melts the snow pretty quickly – where the sun falls. On north facing cliffs, or in the shade of trees/rocks, it can stay for a while.

New View

Trees are all down; here’s the new view out the front: The trees they cut down were all elms; apparently several of them were diseased, and were going to be coming down one way or another. So I was looking at the view Friday, and wondered – there’s a bike trail up on the top …