flu

the latest round of h1n1 vaccines. i bet many children would rather be down with the flu than being pricked with a needle or sprayed up the nose.
down: fall turns into winter and the waiting times are long.

ogdenite

love.hate.love.hate.love.hate.this city.
last night i thought maybe it isn't so bad.

sun and rocks

moab

by night

by day

footsies

bison by the lake

the annual pre-bison round-up at antelope island where the sum of dust and salt and open land make these huge animals look surreal, somehow.

reverse bull centaur

fire

covered a fire this morning and this boy was huddled on the stairs of his house, watching.

kelie

away

cabin fever at flaming gorge and a midnight shooting session of the first snow. so quiet and people-less, it was just the mice in the kitchen and us...

with muscle

xterra 3-athlon from pineview to snowbird. beautiful day. one of those moments when i remember why i love living in the mountains.

to be or not to be (a mom)

studio shot for a story on how some women leave their career to raise children. these kids took over that table (and phone and note pad and paper clips) in no time. i don't know how parents calmly navigate through life with multiple offspringies, this mom definitely had it figured out, or so it seemed.

red suckers and blue spruce.

looking at their masterpiece after planting the tree out on the school grounds.

in-camou

training for the real deal. as of right now, once they graduate, most of these rotc cadets will be deployed within a year. kind of crazy...

bike yoga

not only do we have a shiny new bike collective in zee ogden town, they also have a yoga class for bicyclists. anyone of you co-workers wanna trade the wednesday late shift so i can go?

chilli cooking contest

at the ballpark. indeed.

in high spirits

dedication ceremony for our new di thrift store. right around the corner from work. you know where to find me during lunch break...

left behind

these are the parents of a runner who died near the finish of a pretty short race during the peach days in brigham. he was traveling the world a lot and the fact that they got to spend the last hours with him gave them a lot of comfort, i think.

di likes katz

halfway through the interview di decided to trade notebook and pen for a kitty that ended up falling asleep in her lap. it was so cute i was slowly disintegrating inside.

this is at a buddhist temple in layton - which i didn't even know existed. they had a house warming celebration for the monks' living quarters. this cambodian dance group got ready for their performance and i decided to hang out with them for a while.
i spent some time at a buddhist center in new zealand a couple of years ago and have been keen to learn some more about it since. never really got around to but it was nice to hang out there and meet these incredibly open and friendly people.