Monthly Archives: April 2009

Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone NP

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Lower Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone NP

This image needs a home, because there’s only room for one Lower Yellowstone Falls image in the U.
S. 89 book
. This isn’t the one, but calling it a reject just…

Union Pacific Steam Engine Visits Ogden, UT

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Union Pacific’s historic engine 844 visited Ogden, Utah this weekend

Yesterday, I had time to read only a dozen Twitter updates. Luckily, Scott Smith’s tweet about Union Pacific’s steam locomotive 844 arriving in Ogden was…

Sweet Sixteen

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My oldest niece

I spent last weekend with my matriarchal family, gathered in Phoenix. My mother had only girls; three of four (and their children) met up at my mother’s palace. And the missing sister had an…

Monet-style spring flowers

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Spring flower remix

Today felt like a real spring day, after weeks and heaps of snow. A good day to run around doing errands for our Colorado River rafting adventure. Eleven days on the river, and a…

Cathedral of the Madeleine

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Ceiling detail, Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City

Since December, I have been shooting for another book project. The Cathedral of the Madeleine will celebrate its centennial, and my friend Gary Topping, the diocesan archivist,…