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…
Limited it to places I’ve lived for 6 months or more, which rules out France frinstance
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Greetings from our little house in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bet no one else has a blog with an entire category for ‘Moving’…
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.
I mentioned this on the facebooks, but there’s no harm in putting it here too…
My mate Stu only went and wrote a novel. As anyone who knows him would expect, it’s a gem of a read, a real page-turner, that keeps you guessing and wondering where the devil the inspiration for something as otherworldly and darkly funny came from right to the end.
Join the campaign to make it a christmas number 1, order your copy now:
but still no snow. Can’t be far away now.
I like the reflection of the Manhattanery in the bauble and the reflection of Radio City on the water. I don’t like the blurred bit where the xmas tree is in the background; it’s ‘cos of a scratched patch on my kit lens, which any day now will cease to be a problem thanks to amazon.com 🙂
From Wikipedia: “The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, and is considered to be one of the first skyscrapers ever built. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in New York City.”
And now I have captured its soul… mua hahaha, etc.
Me and the good doctor finally left Manhattan island for a bit on Sunday. Turns out we’re in the middle of “fall”. I can understand why people would live in Brooklyn. Sunlight gets to the street at times other than midday and they’ve got a lovely park. This here one has had a fair bit of post-processing, I was aiming for a watercoloury, vintage look and am happy with the result.
Having a video on the homepage is more hassle than it’s worth, so here’s one to replace it from Sunday’s early morning walkabout in Soho (which stands for South of Houston, as I’m sure you already knew).
Today’s pic (or, rather at my current publication rate… this month’s pic) is one that moves. Unless you’re viewing it in your email inbox… in which case please click here. I stopped at every road crossing and took a quick snap, along the route above, on the way to meet a friend I hadn’t seen since about 1990. Music’s the ever-wonderful Catatonia…
On Sunday evening we thought 8pm would be a good time to hit Trader Joe’s and beat the crowds before going to the cinema to catch The Social Network… Nope. TJ’s had two queues for the tills starting at the entrance. Then the the 8.15 showing was sold out. Union Square is not like Cooks Corner, Brunswick, ME… Anyway, we had a pair of pints instead. I had my camera with me so it wasn’t an entirely wasted trip and as you might have heard Atticus is holidaying at his grandparents’ for the forseeable future so there was no rush to get back home.
Matey here’s organisin’ his sauces. Not on Flickr yet… this is a sneak preview for you, dear email subscriber.
From another photo meet-up in Chinatown, this time a lot more low-key, just 10 or so people, which wasn’t quite so overwhelming for the locals. My new technique is sitting at the side of the road and just taking shots as they occur. Which has about a 5% success rate, but I’m a lot more comfortable with that than rushing up to victims and stealing their souls… One day there’ll be a meet up that isn’t in Chinatown.
Back to Maine for this one. Someone added it as a favourite on Flickr and it reminded me I hadn’t uploaded it here before and it’s one I’m well fond of. The sunset looks like a watercolour wash. Taken on the way back from the dog sled event way back when.