The good doctora and I are celebrating our 10th Anniversary… the Opening Ceremony of which took place last night in Tlaquepaque and was nigh on perfect. As we ordered our tequila and dinner the heavens opened; the cloudburst stopped just as the sun was setting and with the view down towards the city being pretty much due west, it made for a gorgeous sight. Back home v. soon. It’s been magical as always.

It’s not easy to capture the sheer scale of the geological goings-on in Zion National Park in a single pic. I tried fisheyes, stitching half a dozen shots into a panorama, then 40 odd shots into a panorama on me iTouch, zooming while shooting and trying to include teeny tiny humans somewhere in the image but I think the only answer is to start saving up for yet another lens… 18mm or thereabouts. Anyroad, hope you like this pic aimed down the valley from a relatively safe vantage point, unlike the ones where I feared for life, limb and camera on the icy stretch 20 feet from the top…

(lots more Zion pics here)

Dear jeebus, SLC and its surroundings doesn’t half look pretty in the snow. Just going to the local supermarket to pick up dog food is a joy if you time the sun/weather right… Here’s some trees in a rare second post in the same week. Amazing what can be achieved with an extra hour.

ps. Thanks for the comments at Flickr. I’ll be answering them properly v. soon. Honest

First proper snowfall in Sugar House, just a few inches overnight, but enough to make for a lovely walk through the neighbourhood with young Atticus snapping the frozen remains of autumn. Clocks go back tonight in North’merica, y’all, and my snowshoes should be arriving from ebay any moment…

Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Trials 2011. The weather’s taken a turn for the perfect round here of late. Still practising with the time lapse camera, hopefully should be capturing the horse chestnut tree outside’s transition.

Just got back from another fantastic trip back home to the UK. I think I managed to miss the worst excesses of the Utahn summer though it’s still hitting 90°F+, whatever that is in real money, on a regular basis.

Of course, Atticus is pretty resilient to whatever temperatures come our way but our walks tend to be around sunset now. These here fisheye shots are from a brief walk round the neighbourhood yesterday evening.

The next post might well be a timelapse video. I just ordered this gadget and can’t wait to test drive it… Hasta pronto y’all!

Haven’t had a portrait-orientation pic for a while… I still can’t quite get over the countryside round these parts. I expected desert, and more desert, and maybe the occasional cactus, but it’s lush- tons of springs, waterfalls, greenery. Very happy with this turn of events. And then after we got back home it started raining, proper thunder-and-lightning, Guadalajara-style rain. This is what Sundays should be like. Did I mention the complete absence of traffic too? Starting to understand why lots of people have told us not to tell the world about SLC…

Icy stream flowing through Salt Lake City’s Sugar House park

Well it happened again- we moved. Subscribers to this blog can stay for free at the drop of a hat’s notice at our new place in Utah. We’ll stock up from the State Liquor Store well in advance. After nearly a month of not getting out much, we’re gradually expanding our explorations from IKEA and Home Depot to Salt Lake’s more natural surroundings. Baby steps though… Today our (gorgeous) local park, tomorrow, Zion… well, not literally. The 4th of July weekend’s not the best time to travel…

Sounds like some kind of online multiplayer roleplaying game that title…
Anyhoo, barring a radical change the number of times I upload pix, this’ll be one of the last photos from NYC in this blog that has been variously:

Mostly Mexico
From Mexico to (Ala)meda
From Mexico to Multnomah
From Mexico to Maine
From Mexico to Manhattan

and soon to be ‘From Mexico to Salt Lake City, Utah’ or a variation thereof. Thank you for your continued patronage, looking forward to sharing the Utah landscape with y’all

DrSita and Martin’s little slice of the Chilean Andes. Not much good for agriculture (possibly walnuts…) but a presently uncontaminated source of water for the rest of the valley.

In the event of an apocalypse, it’s where we’re heading.