The launch site for Snake River canoe/kayak float trips is a prime fishing spot.
Met this shy little princess as we were gearing up for a float to Deadman's Bar, about 15 miles downstream. No bears, one coyote, three otters and lots of osprey and pink tulle.
Study in Blue and white
While they don't want the salt in the car, the racers are really concerned about the salt flats themselves. No one may set up pit crew without first laying down a tarp on the salt. With hundreds of cars, we didn't see a single oil spot, nor even an empty soda can. No dogs either. Very clean, very civilized, but very loud.
Salted rims at Bonneville Speedway
Thanks to Bryan for the invitation, I have been to the speedway and seen fast cars up close and personal.
SCTA organized the event, maybe they organize all of them. Cars, up close and personal, hobbyists and the very terribly serious, most people happy to talk while they waited in line for a couple of hours for a very short ride.
Don't fall in now
There is one last chance eddy, but you don't want to try it, and the vantage point here is well past it.
Now that the obsession to get up to Albion is lessening, I'm making lots of progress on editing my Nahanni files for a slideshow and some portfolio pieces. At 6 seconds a slide, it takes 200 slides to be entertaining and not wear out one's welcome. My NZ show was 218. I'm up to about 50 so far. But I did 30 today. Progress
6:55 a.m.
The first benefit of my new lifestyle is that we can go camping on a Thursday night. I went up early and secured a site, and my guy met up with me later that evening for some chili and pan-cooked biscuits. The next morning he fell asleep in the field behind me while I exclaimed over the sunrise.
Albion Basin roadside attraction
I in fact kept a car and several other people at all times between me and this moose. I stopped behind another car to see what was the matter on the first curve after the road turns to dirt. What scared me more than this guy were the other two that drifted alongside the road and out of sight.
Spectators included the usual clueless who allow their children to risk personal carnage. While his mother blithely stood there taking photos, one 10 year boy was gawking about a car length away. A complete stranger had to tell him to get back - she seemed to wake up then as if she had momentarily forgotten she wasn't at a zoo or watching tv. Disaster momentarily averted.
Chief Pontiac, I presume
Driving over to Pictureline to pick up my new light meter, the one that does it all, and I took a slightly different path than usual. When I do these things for no reason and pay attention, good things can happen.
In this case, the Loveless MC classic car competition on State Street, next to Sears. Lots of Chevys from R's youth, and some metal flake paint. I have an affinity for chrome, that's for sure. Hadn't seen a true Pontiac emblem before yesterday - asked R if it was after-market, but he said, no, original factory equipment.
Ft. Simpson community tipi decorating project
The youth center of Ft. Simpson, NWT, created this community activity as part of their Open Sky Festival. The event itself happened while we were on the river. Here the kids are drawing whatever they want to include on the tipi canvas, and the artist-in-residence helps them paint it on the canvas. Whatever the kids want goes on the canvas: Smaug from the LOTR, a heron, cartoon characters and the bank swallows that flew along the MacKenzie river.
Nahanni white-water, class "scary for canoe, fun for rafts"
I've been self-employed since Monday, officially, during which time I have clocked 9 hours at my old job, and about the same at my desk at home. Tomorrow I plan to recon a location for a shoot later this week, if tonight's thunderstorms didn't flatten every wildflower to Idaho.
This transition is what it is, and if I had an idea of how it would be, it was just a guess anyway. I have plenty to do; I will learn to appreciate my progress in my own way and pace. In the meantime, I've been to Costco and cooked ahead some chili and spaghetti. Learning to use IChat and MSN messenger and count it as work. No great photos have been made or finished in the first 48 hours, but it will happen, if I give it a chance. Wait for the miracle, that's what I've heard. Plenty to do in the meantime.
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