tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9988687740743531542024-02-20T11:32:03.035-07:00Kerry's TravelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-76772506171488008102013-09-25T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-07T14:06:16.642-07:00September 25, 2013<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Lehi</span>
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Lehi, Utah, USA, September 25, 2013. f/5.6, 1/50 second, ISO 800.</div>
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I am so lucky! This is my view from the deck of my home many mornings as the sun is about to come up. We were pretty adamant that the tree in the left foreground "had" to come out. We will probably still remove the dead portion, but it does make for a great composition. Lehi, Utah, USA, September 25, 2013. f/5.6, 1/60 second, ISO 500.</div>
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Lehi, Utah, USA, September 25, 2013. f/5.6, 1/125 second, ISO 400.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Lehi, UT, USA40.3916172 -111.8507662000000140.1981807 -112.1734897 40.585053699999996 -111.52804270000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-382283241226353052013-08-16T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T16:00:31.389-07:00August 16, 2013<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Lehi</span>
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If you spend a lot of time photographing sunsets, you know that more often than not, they arrive and fade into oblivion without there ever being that "ahah" moment you are looking for. Once in a while, you manage to capture that moment. Once in a very long time, the moment lasts for minutes and you can capture several at one time. This is the first in a series of 4 shots of such an evening made possible by the smoke from another wildfire! Lehi, Utah, USA, August 16, 2013. f/18, 1/200 second, ISO 200.</div>
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This is the second in a series of 4 shots of such an evening made possible by the smoke from another wildfire! Lehi, Utah, USA, August 16, 2013. f/11, 1/1600 second, ISO 200.</div>
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This is the third in a series of 4 shots of such an evening made possible by the smoke from another wildfire! Lehi, Utah, USA, August 16, 2013. f/11, 1/500 second, ISO 200.</div>
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This is the fourth in a series of 4 shots of such an evening made possible by the smoke from another wildfire! Lehi, Utah, USA, August 16, 2013. f/4.5, 1/1600 second, ISO 220.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Lehi, UT, USA40.3916172 -111.8507662000000140.1981807 -112.1734897 40.585053699999996 -111.52804270000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-69837004748984859282013-07-22T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T15:40:05.959-07:00July 22, 2013<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Tibble Fork</span>
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Took the grandkids fishing for the evening. It was a fun trip, but the sunset was unusual. There was a normal sunset up in the canyon, nothing spectacular or unusual. It then got quite dark before the sky suddenly took on this rosy glow and for a while it got light enough to stay and continue fishing for a while longer. It cast a rosy hue on the ground and everything around. Interesting! Tibble Fork Reservoir, American Fork Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah County, Utah, USA, July 22, 2013. f/2.4, 1/20 second, ISO 100.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Tibble Fork, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA40.479952399999988 -111.6454777999999814.957917899999988 -152.95407179999998 66.001986899999991 -70.336883799999981tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-34765630457751738772013-06-22T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T15:39:52.875-07:00June 22, 2013<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Saratoga Springs</span>
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A little group has hung out all summer right by the road. I have been tempted to stop to photograph them several times. Every time I do, they take off. This was no exception. Shortly after this shot was taken, they headed out. Saratoga Springs, Utah County, Utah, USA, June 22, 2013. f/6.3, 1/640 second, ISO 200.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Saratoga Springs, NY, USA43.0831301 -73.78456510000000942.9903201 -73.9459266 43.1759401 -73.623203600000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-72334824715618657002013-01-12T23:30:00.000-07:002013-12-03T16:27:45.856-07:00January 12, 2013<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Airplane Ledge</span>
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Horned Helmet, Sea Snails, Molluscs, Invertibrates, Family Cassididae, Cassis cornuta, (Hawaiian Name: hāwa‘e po‘o hina), 81 feet deep. Common in Hawai'i on sand bottoms at scuba depths. Spines much smaller or mostly missing on females. Grows to at least 12 inches. Hawai'i & Indo-Pacific. Airplane Ledge, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/5.5, 1/60 second, ISO 200.</div>
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Pebble Collector Urchin, Echinoderms, Invertibrates, Family Toxopneustidae, Peudoboletia indiana, (Hawaiian Name: hāwa‘e po‘o hina), 65 feet deep. Common in Hawai'i on rubble bottoms at scuba depths. Spines range from white to purple. Collects rubble to "adorn" itself. Test is white and compressed. Grows to diameter of 5 inches. Hawai'i & Indo-Pacific. Airplane Ledge, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/5.5, 1/200 second, ISO 200.</div>
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Selfie. 15 feet deep. Airplane Ledge, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/4.9, 1/35 second, ISO 71.</div>
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Shortnose Mantis Shrimp, Crustaceans, Decapods, Invertibrates, Family Odontodactylidae, Odontodactylus brevirostris, 49 feet deep. Smasher-type mantis shrimp that inhabits burrows in sandy rubble at scuba depths. Not common in Hawai'i. Grows to 3 inches. Hawaii & Indo-Pacific. Kea'au Corners, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/4.4, 1/200 second, ISO 80.</div>
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Purple Velvet Star, Echinoderms, Invertibrates, Family Ophidiasteridae, Leiaster leachi, 48 feet deep. Rare in Hawai'i at scuba depths. Appears fluorescent blue underwater. Slippery surface. May grow to 15 inches. Hawai'i & Indo-Pacific. Kea'au Corners, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/7.8, 1/60 second, ISO 200.</div>
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Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle, Family Cheloniidae, Chelonia mydas, (Hawaiian Name: honu), 21 feet deep. The only common sea turtle in Hawai'i, occurs in warm and temperate seas worldwide. Green turtles belonging to the distinct Hawaiian subpopulation nest at the protected French Frigate Shoals some 800 kilometers (500 mi) west of the Hawaiian Islands. Feeds upon sea grasses and seaweed and rests on beaches or in underwater caverns where it can remain submerged for several hours on a single breath. Lives to a maximum age of about 80 years, and carapace length of 3 feet. Listed as endangered by the IUCN and CITES and is protected from exploitation in most countries. It is illegal to collect, harm or kill them. In the USA, that prohibition also includes intentionally touching one. I was swimming quietly along at 21 feet in depth when this individual decided he needed company and joined me for a while. Kea'au Corners, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/3.1, 1/100 second, ISO 80.</div>
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Rusty Guard Crab in Cauliflower Coral, Crustaceans, Decapods, Invertibrates, Family Trapeziidae, Trapezia bidentata, 22 feet deep. Lives within the branches of Cauliflower and occasionally, Antler corals. Carapace width to 0.5 inch. Hawaii, Tropical Eastern Pacific & Indo-Pacific. Kea'au Corners, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, January 12, 2013. f/2.9, 1/60 second, ISO 50.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Wainae, Honolulu, HI, USA21.442697955934275 -158.2010036826171121.383580955934274 -158.28168468261711 21.501814955934275 -158.12032268261711tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-42013716820744926632012-10-13T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T09:29:39.286-07:00October 13, 2012<h3>
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One of our family's favorite places on the earth. We love to spend time there in the Spring and in the Fall, and are learning to love Winter as well. Still not crazy about the heat of Summer, but have spent some time then as well. For years, we have hiked up to some hoodoos near Checkerboard Mesa and played on what the kids always called the "pancake rocks." This view is from that area and now hangs on the wall in a place of prominence in our Family Room. Zion National Park, Mt. Carmel Junction, Kane County, Utah, USA, October 13, 2012. f/7.1, 1/200 second, ISO 200.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Checkerboard Mesa, Zion National Park, Utah 84755, USA37.2245672 -112.8801687999999811.702532700000003 -154.18876279999998 62.7466017 -71.571574799999979tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-23799146202131082132012-09-18T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T10:01:49.111-07:00September 18, 2012<h3>
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Bridal Veil Falls, Provo Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, September 18, 2012. f/7.1, 1/200 second, ISO 200.</div>
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South Fork, Provo Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, September 18, 2012. f/10, 1/250 second, ISO 220.</div>
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South Fork, Provo Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, September 18, 2012. f/10, 1/250 second, ISO 250.</div>
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South Fork, Provo Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, September 18, 2012. f/10, 1/250 second, ISO 250.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Provo Canyon, UT 84604, USA40.3723458 -111.592477114.850311299999998 -152.9010711 65.8943803 -70.2838831tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-70040054639571968162012-08-04T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T08:42:29.435-07:00August 4, 2012<h3>
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White-Spotted Sea Cucumber, Echinoderms, Invertibrates, Family Holothuriidae, Actinopyga varians, 5 feet deep. Common in areas exposed to wave action. Strongly attached to the reef. Hard skin with white spots. Grows to 8 inches. Hawaii & Tropical Pacific. Hanauma Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, August 4, 2012. f/5.5, 1/320 second, ISO 80.</div>
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Convict Tangs, Damselfish, Family Acanthuridae, Acanthurus triostegus, (Hawaiian Name: manini), 5 feet deep. Frequently found on shallow reefs forming large feeding aggregations mixed with other species. Grows to 11 inches. Hawai‘i, Indo-Pacific, & Tropical Eastern Pacific. Hanauma Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, August 4, 2012. f/5.5, 1/800 second, ISO 80.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Hanauma Bay, Honolulu, HI 96825, USA21.2690358 -157.693791921.2616373 -157.7038769 21.276434300000002 -157.6837069tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-80965591528859499192012-07-03T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T08:27:26.838-07:00July 3, 2012<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Orem</span>
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Every summer we run the risk here in the western US of wildfires. It seems recently, that we get them more and more frequently right near the cities where we live. This plume of smoke appeared within just a very few minutes of this fire starting. Almost immediately, the fire consumed 500 acres, damaged two homes, consumed a barn, and quickly spread to 2,000 acres. This began from some construction equipment in the town of Alpine, and spread up Willow Canyon from there. Scary, but impressive display of what can go horribly wrong in a few moments when conditions are right. Alpine, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, July 3, 2012. f/10, 1/400 second, ISO 200.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Orem, UT, USA40.2968979 -111.6946474999999740.2000099 -111.85600899999997 40.3937859 -111.53328599999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-41486018461350691692012-05-05T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-03T08:22:26.895-07:00May 5, 2012<h3>
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Full Moon, Orem, Utah, USA, May 5, 2012. f/11, 1/1000 second, ISO 400.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Orem, UT, USA40.2968979 -111.6946474999999740.2000099 -111.85600899999997 40.3937859 -111.53328599999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-10255131759651885682012-02-12T23:28:00.003-07:002012-02-12T23:38:47.504-07:00Sacrament Meeting Talk - February 12, 2012 Makiki Ward<div align="left">OBEDIENCE AND REPENTANCE<br /><br />Bishop Zakimi suggested that I speak on Obedience and the Blessings in my life of being obedient. That is what I set out to do, however, the impressions of the Spirit also led me to Repentance and the Atonement and so I will also touch on all those subjects in this talk on Obedience.<br /><br />“In speaking of these wondrous things I shall use my own words, though you may think they are the words of scripture, words spoken by other Apostles and prophets.<br />“True it is they were first proclaimed by others, but they are now mine, for the Holy Spirit of God has borne witness to me that they are true, and it is now as though the Lord had revealed them to me in the first instance. I have thereby heard his voice and know his word.”<br /><br />(Bruce R. McConkie, “The Purifying Power of Gethsemane,” Ensign, May 1985, p. 9.)<br /><br />Alma and the Sons of Mosiah<br /><br />Let’s go to the Book of Mormon to the story of Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah for a few minutes.<br /><br />You all know the story—Alma the Younger and the Sons of Mosiah were numbered among the unbelievers, and they went about seeking to destroy the Church and lead the people astray. They became a great hinderment to the prosperity of the church.<br /><br />While they were going about to destroy the church of God, an angel of the Lord appeared unto them; and he spake as it were with a voice of thunder, which caused the earth to shake;<br /><br />So great was their astonishment, that they fell to the earth, and didn’t understand the words which he spoke unto them. He cried again, and told Alma: “And now I say unto thee, Alma, go thy way, and seek to destroy the church no more, that their prayers may be answered, and this even if thou wilt of thyself be cast off.” Mosiah 27:16<br /><br />Later in life Alma recalled the story in Alma 36 when he was speaking to his son, Helaman:<br /><br />10 And it came to pass that I fell to the earth; and it was for the space of three days and three nights that I could not open my mouth, neither had I the use of my limbs.<br />11 And the angel spake more things unto me, which were heard by my brethren, but I did not hear them; for when I heard the words—If thou wilt be destroyed of thyself, seek no more to destroy the church of God—I was struck with such great fear and amazement lest perhaps I should be destroyed, that I fell to the earth and I did hear no more.<br />12 But I was racked with eternal torment, for my soul was harrowed up to the greatest degree and racked with all my sins.<br />13 Yea, I did remember all my sins and iniquities, for which I was tormented with the pains of hell; yea, I saw that I had rebelled against my God, and that I had not kept his holy commandments.<br />14 Yea, and I had murdered many of his children, or rather led them away unto destruction; yea, and in fine so great had been my iniquities, that the very thought of coming into the presence of my God did rack my soul with inexpressible horror.<br />15 Oh, thought I, that I could be banished and become extinct both soul and body, that I might not be brought to stand in the presence of my God, to be judged of my deeds.<br />16 And now, for three days and for three nights was I racked, even with the pains of a damned soul.<br />17 And it came to pass that as I was thus racked with torment, while I was harrowed up by the memory of my many sins, behold, I remembered also to have heard my father prophesy unto the people concerning the coming of one Jesus Christ, a Son of God, to atone for the sins of the world.<br />18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death.<br />19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more.<br />20 And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!<br />Alma 36:10-20<br /><br />We will talk more about this suffering and this joy and relief a little bit later.<br /><br />From that time forward, Alma and the Sons of Mosiah changed, and spent the rest of their lives in the service of the Lord. They worked diligently to repair the damage they had done, and they were instruments in the hands of God in bringing many to the knowledge of the truth, and to the knowledge of their Redeemer.<br /><br />3 Now they were desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble.<br />4 And thus did the Spirit of the Lord work upon them, for they were the very vilest of sinners. And the Lord saw fit in his infinite mercy to spare them; nevertheless they suffered much anguish of soul because of their iniquities, suffering much and fearing that they should be cast off forever.<br />Mosiah 28:3-4<br /><br />Have you ever wondered why Paul and Alma and the Sons of Mosiah were given special attention by an angel, when so many of the rest of us are left alone, as it were, to try and find our way without that special guidance and the nudging with a club—some of us may even miss the opportunity because we do not receive it more forcefully.<br /><br />I have. I have come to know that we are loved just as much and are guided just as much as were Paul and Alma and the Sons of Mosiah. They got what was required to get their attention. That is how the Lord works—just enough to get our attention.<br /><br />My own life is illustrative. I spent the first couple of years after high school pretending to be one of the Sons of Mosiah. I was never really very malignant, and I did not actually fight against the Church, but I did rebel and attempted to be bad—I just wasn’t very good at it. After a time, I had a very interesting experience.<br /><br />It occurred one evening during a party where the music was load and inappropriate and most of the refreshments and everything else was equally inappropriate. Suddenly, everything around me seemed to slow down and I became very aware of feelings I had not felt for some time and thoughts that I had no control over. As hard as it is to imagine considering the situation, I suddenly was under the influence of the Spirit and from that moment, I knew some things I had known my whole life were true and I also knew some new things that I had never before supposed.<br /><br />Some of the realizations I had, were:<br />1. I was being protected. That was the main message. I was astonished!<br />2. The Church is true. I had never doubted it, but I suddenly knew it!<br />3. I needed to change.<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">That is the first step for any of us who desire to be Obedient and reap the blessings of Obedience. Unless we come to truly understand the position we are in, our true relationship to God, and what it will take to be reconciled to God, we simply will not be motivated to make the changes necessary.<br /><br />The parallels in this experience of mine with the Sons of Mosiah were not clear to me then, in fact, I never even considered it, and it was many years later before I came to see that while my experience was not as spectacular, it was nevertheless, just as noteworthy. Just as they were rescued by their experience with the Spirit, so I too was rescued by mine.<br /><br />Sometime after that experience, when I was living more in tune, I received my Patriarchal Blessing. In that blessing, it states that it will be my privilege to know many of the leaders of the Church and that I will be taught many things about the Gospel by them.<br /><br />I have often wondered over the years, how that was going to happen. I have, on occasion, been taught directly by some of these leaders, but far more often, the teaching I have received is through opportunities I have sought out to listen to them as they speak—to sit at their feet as it were, while they instructed me, even if it was through an internet connection on an isle of the sea during a worldwide broadcast.<br /><br />It has become apparent to me that the fulfillment of that prophecy in my Blessing was available to me all along—it only required effort on my part.<br /><br />So, in that spirit, I will teach today some concepts and principles that I learned several years ago as I was taught by President Henry B. Eyring. They were not original to him, as he was taught them by Elder Theodore M. Tuttle in a devotional at Ricks college, now known as BYU Idaho.<br /><br />President Eyring said:<br />"In my memory, the room that afternoon was almost as light as the sunshine, and just as warm. But the brightness was in more than what I saw. It was inside me that day. And for me that day it was irresistible; I was in the right place with the right preparation.<br />"I had been trying hard, and yet I wanted to know, "Isn't there something more I can do?" And Elder Tuttle told me there was and that I would need the atonement of Jesus Christ working in my life to go where I wanted to go. And so that afternoon lives on the pages of my scriptures, and in my life.<br />"Elder Tuttle began by talking about how someone had passed this understanding on to him. He said he had taken a trip to South America on assignment with Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, then a member of the Council of the Twelve. That was in the days when you went to South America by ship. Elder Smith could have used the time to rest, and he could have let Elder Tuttle rest. But he didn't. He organized daily scripture study, sitting on the deck in wooden slat chairs. They read their scriptures together, and they discussed them, and they marked them."<br /><br />And so what President Eyring wrote in his scriptures, in the margins, and what I wrote in mine when I was taught this, was written by Elder Tuttle in his Doctrine and Covenants on the ship's deck as Elder Smith taught it to him. We can only imagine who passed it to Elder Smith. President Eyring did not know. And now I'm passing it on to you.<br /><br />We all have moments when we want to be better than we have ever been. That is what Obedience really is—being better than we have ever been<br /><br />That pull upward is far beyond what you would call a desire for self-improvement. We feel an urging to rise above our natural selves. What we have felt is an urging from our Heavenly Father to accept this invitation:<br /><br />32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.<br />33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot."<br />Moroni 10:32-33<br /><br />"The greatest tragedy of life is that having paid that awful price of suffering 'according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion' and now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up." (Truman Madsen, quoted in Ardeth Greene Kapp, "Drifting, Dreaming, Directing," in Woman to Woman, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1986], p. 60.)<br /><br />That urge to rise above ourselves is a recognition of our need for the Atonement to work in our lives, and our need to be sure that it is working. After all you can do, after all your effort, you need confidence that the Atonement is working for you and on you.<br /><br />Getting back to what President Eyring taught me, on the second page in section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants, on the bottom of the page, in capital letters, I wrote the word <span style="color:#ff0000;">REPENTANCE</span>. And then an arrow leads to a notation that reads: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Greek word. To have a new mind.</span>"<br /><br />Around the margins of that second page of section 19, I wrote nine scriptural references I got with his brief description of why they matter.<br /><br />The first is not in the margin but is from the section itself. I heard it that day with new meaning. It begins with the fifteenth verse: "Therefore I command you to repent—repent, lest I smite you by the rod of my mouth, and by my wrath, and by my anger, and your sufferings be sore—how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not. For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; but if they would not repent they must suffer even as I." (D&C 19:15-17.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#1</span><br /><br />As I read those words that day, I felt the overwhelming suffering of the Savior. And then two things dawned on me. First, if I could not repent to qualify for his atonement for my sins, I must suffer to the limit of my power to suffer. Remember what Alma said earlier about the pains he experienced before he repented. And, second, with all the requisite suffering of my own, with all I could bear, it would still not be enough. I would still be forever shut out of the only place where there will be the warmth of family, the family of my Heavenly Father, and that of my family here. Somehow I had gotten the idea that the choice was between repenting or not.<br /><br />"Let us grasp the proffered gift of eternal life! We will end up either choosing Christ's manner of living or His manner of suffering! It is either 'suffer even as I' (D&C 19:16-17), or overcome 'even as [He] . . . overcame' (Revelation 3:21)." (Neal A. Maxwell, "'Overcome . . . Even As I Also Overcame'," Ensign, May 1987, p. 72.)<br /><br />The choice is not about whether to repent or not, it is about whether to suffer or not!<br /><br />That caused a determination in me, both to stay as far as I could from sin and to gain a confidence that my sins were being remitted. I wanted to know what I could do to gain assurance that I was on the path home.<br /><br />Specific steps to assure that the Atonement is at work in our lives will not always be the same. Every circumstance is different. But for everyone, at every stage of purification, there are constants. One is this: reception of the Holy Ghost is the cleansing agent as the Atonement purifies you.<br /><br />President Marion G. Romney taught: "Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul." ("The Holy Ghost," Ensign, May 1974, p. 92.) And the Savior said, "Now this is the commandment: Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day." (3 Nephi 27:20.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#2</span> Moroni also spoke of being wrought upon and cleansed by the power of the Holy Ghost after baptism.<br /><br />That is a fact we can act on with confidence. We can invite the Holy Ghost's companionship into our lives. And we can know when he is there, and when he withdraws. And when he is our companion, we can have confidence that the Atonement is working in our lives.<br /><br />We know that the mission of the Holy Ghost is to bear testimony of the Savior. When in faith and under assignment we go forth to do that, the Holy Ghost is our ally. The Savior said, "When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me." (John 15:26.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#3</span><br /><br />If we do something today and make some attempt to help some person come unto Christ, we will feel the influence of the Holy Ghost helping us, and we will feel approval. We will know that, for at least those moments, the power of the Holy Ghost was with us. And we will know that some healing came into our soul, for the Spirit will not dwell in an unclean tabernacle. His influence cleanses.<br /><br />The effects of the Atonement—the lack of pride, of envy, of malice—are also a shield against temptation. The Savior taught this in D&C 95:1 "Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you whom I love, and whom I love I also chasten that their sins may be forgiven, for with the chastisement I prepare a way for their deliverance in all things out of temptation, and I have loved you." (D&C 95:1.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#4</span><br /><br />The broken heart and contrite spirit that are the requirements for forgiveness are also its fruits. The very humility that is the sign of having been forgiven is protection against future sin. And it is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.<br /><br />We may not know when we have been fully baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, but we can know we are inviting his presence. And we know when we are making his presence impossible. You may be determined right now to serve the Savior, and thus invite the Spirit, or you might be tempted by some thought like this: "Look, as long as you don't commit great sin, repentance isn't that hard. You just confess, take a little embarrassment, and you are clean again."<br /><br />That is a lie in at least two ways. <span style="color:#ff0000;">1st great lie, 2 Ne 28:8.</span> First, consider this description of suffering for sin from section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants: "Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink." (D&C 19:18.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#5</span><br /><br />I also wrote these words: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Teach the people repentance hurts.</span>" We must never believe the lie that there is no pain from sin. We can be forgiven; the Atonement is real. But President Kimball taught that "if a person hasn't suffered, he hasn't repented." (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982], p. 99.)<br /><br />So true faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ, rather than leading us to try a little sin, will lead us to stay as far away from it as we can.<br /><br />That brings me to the second great falsehood. <span style="color:#ff0000;">2nd great lie</span>, It is this: as the world grows more wicked, it is only reasonable to expect to be overcome by temptation. That is not true either. We do not face so bleak a prospect. President George Albert Smith taught (he said it many years ago, but it is still true in our time and will be in the future, however dark the world becomes):<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">"There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. If we live on the Lord's side of the line Lucifer cannot come there to influence us, but if we cross the line into his territory we are in his power. By keeping the commandments of the Lord we are safe on His side of the line, but if we disobey His teachings we voluntarily cross into the zone of temptation and invite the destruction that is ever present there. Knowing this, how anxious we should always be to live on the Lord's side of the line." ("Our M.I.A.," Improvement Era, May 1935, p. 278.)<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">The increasing wickedness in the world should not make us more inclined to take chances but less. By our choice of what we will do and what we won't do, we can place ourselves in that territory where the Holy Ghost can be our companion.<br /><br />Now, you may feel that I have given you only modest hope. You want to know, to be sure—if possible, by some clear sign—that your sins are remitted. So do I. But you and I know that President Ezra Taft Benson was telling the truth when he said: "For every Paul, for every Enos, and for every King Lamoni, there are hundreds and thousands of people who find the process of repentance much more subtle, much more imperceptible. Day by day they move closer to the Lord, little realizing they are building a godlike life. They live quiet lives of goodness, service, and commitment. They are like the Lamanites, who the Lord said 'were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not' (3 Nephi 9:20)." ("A Mighty Change of Heart," Ensign, October 1989, p. 5.)<br /><br />"Alma 5:14, 15, 26-31. <span style="color:#ff0000;">#6 </span>" And then these words, written very small: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">Born again and retaining remission. How do you know?</span>"<br /><br />"How do you know?" Alma the high priest raised that very question, and he answered it as he taught the people in Zarahemla: "And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts? Do ye exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you? Do you look forward with an eye of faith, and view this mortal body raised in immortality, and this corruption raised in incorruption, to stand before God to be judged according to the deeds which have been done in the mortal body?" (Alma 5:14-15.)<br /><br />And then comes the answer of how we would know that the Atonement was working in our life and how to retain a remission of our sins. Alma continues: </div><br /><br /><div align="left"><br />26 And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?<br />27 Have ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?<br />28 Behold, are ye stripped of pride?<br />29 Behold, I say, is there one among you who is not stripped of envy?<br />30 And again I say unto you, is there one among you that doth make a mock of his brother, or that heapeth upon him persecutions? (Alma 5:26-31.)<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">Think of those words: humble, stripped of pride, stripped of envy, not making a mock of my brother, garments cleansed. Have we experienced the change of heart?<br /><br />I learned a long time ago that it is hard to know how we are doing in being born again, and why it is not easy. Here are some questions to ask yourselves:<br /><br />"Do you come to priesthood meetings/Relief Society?"<br />"Do you come early?"<br />"Do you sit toward the front?"<br />"Do you home teach/visit teach?"<br />"Do you go early in the month?"<br />"Do you go more than once?"<br /><br />There are many other questions. But they are all like that—little things, simple acts of obedience, of submission. And for each question if we can answer “yes”, then we have the answer we want.<br /><br />Yes, we are at all meetings: we are early; we are smiling; we are there not only with our whole heart, but with the broken heart of a little child, as we should be every time the Lord asks anything of us.<br /><br />Sufficiently humble. Stripped of pride. Stripped of envy. Never making a mock of our brother.<br /><br />When that change of heart comes to me and to you, when we are cleansed and blameless before God, it will be because we have been made pure by the blood of Christ. And I know what I can and must do. I must be baptized by a servant of God holding the true priesthood, I must have received the gift of the Holy Ghost by that same power, and then I must have exercised faith in the Savior long enough and carefully enough that his grace will be sufficient for me.<br /><br />And I know at least one way to know that is happening in my life—or in yours. You will have put yourself so often in the Master's service, bringing the cleansing companionship of the Holy Ghost, that you will be on the front row, early, whenever and wherever the Master calls. It will be gradual enough that you may not notice. You will be humble enough that you may be reluctant to believe it is happening. But those with spiritual discernment who love you will know. And the Savior and our Heavenly Father will know. And that is enough.<br /><br />Here is another of those scriptures marked in the margin: "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." (Mosiah 3:19.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#7</span><br /><br />Don't ignore the impulses that come to you to rise above yourself into a higher and more beautiful world. Growing up, getting educated, seeing the world, and almost everything that happens to you will push you toward saying to yourself: "Oh, that was just a dream. That's not possible. I could never change that much."<br /><br />You can. The Savior promised, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#8</span><br /><br />He can and he will.<br /><br />“Perhaps the greatest discovery of my life, without question the greatest commitment, came when finally I had the confidence in God that I would loan or yield my agency to him—without compulsion or pressure, without any duress, as a single individual alone, by myself, no counterfeiting, nothing expected other than the privilege. In a sense, speaking figuratively, to take one’s agency, that precious gift which scriptures make plain is essential to life itself, and say, ‘I will do as you direct,’ is afterward to learn that in so doing you possess it all the more.<br />“We should put ourselves in a position before our Father in heaven and say, individually, ‘I do not want to do what I want to do. I want to do what thou wouldst have me do.’” Boyd K. Packer, Obedience, Brigham Young University Speeches of the Year, 7 December 1971, p. 4.<br /><br />I bear you my testimony that you can invite the Holy Ghost into your life, and because you have been promised that gift by authorized servants of God, he will come. I bear testimony that you can be cleansed by the power of the Atonement. The yearning you've felt for something better is a yearning to come unto Christ. This promise in section 19 of the Doctrine and Covenants is true: "Learn of me, and listen to my words; walk in the meekness of my Spirit, and you shall have peace in me." (D&C 19:23.) <span style="color:#ff0000;">#9</span><br /><br />Of these things I testify— </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-16131433111912683052012-01-01T16:04:00.003-07:002012-02-11T20:21:23.022-07:00Are you better today than you were last year?A couple of weeks ago in Sacrament Meeting one of the speakers told of an experience he had when meeting with one of the former Stake Presidency to get his temple recommend renewed. President Bott asked all the normal questions, but also threw in another one: "Are you better today than you were last year?"<br /><br />That question has caused my some introspection. He did not ask if we are better off, but rather, are we better?<br /><br />The world teaches, in its own way, the first question that President Bott did not ask, "Are we better off?" a few examples of this are:<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">“A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.”</span> ~Author Unknown<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”</span> ~Bill Vaughan<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">“Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.”</span> ~Author Unknown<br /><br />But a few wise people also see the more important second question, "Are we better?":<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”</span> ~Benjamin Franklin<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”</span> ~Hal Borland<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.”</span> ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.”</span> ~Ellen Goodman<br /><br />This past year has been an enlightening one for me. Perhaps, for the first time, I have experienced real physical challenges. In saying that, I do not mean that I have never been injured before, nor gone through surgery. Rather, for the first time in my life, I experienced physical challenges that are simply the result of age and a lifetime of activity, rather than a single event.<br /><br />Thankfully, the two surgeries are done and I have recovered well. I have learned a thing or two from it all. First, I really did not suffer much. Second, it has become obvious to me that our responses to adversity and suffering may be the real test of life.<br /><br />I have seen within my own life this past year an increased feeling of compassion and a softening of my heart toward what others are experiencing. I doubt others have noticed it in me, because it is easier to have feelings than to translate them into actions, but the experiences of the past year have left me with more feelings of gentleness and empathy towards others. My heart aches for some of my family members that are experiencing challenges that seem unfair or excessive.<br /><br />Sister Patricia T. Holland said this:<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">"If we seem to lack something found in the homes of our prophets, maybe what we've suffered is not too much affliction but too little. Could it be that the answers are only to be found on our knees as our prophets were required to do while waiting patiently on the Lord?"</span> (Patricia T. Holland, "Within Whispering Distance of Heaven," in Woman to Woman, [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1986], p. 120.)<br /><br />And Elder Neal A. Maxwell said:<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">"In fact, adequacy in the first estate may have merely insured a stern second estate with many duties and no immunities. Additional schooling by suffering appears to be the pattern for the Lord's most apt pupils."</span> (Neal A. Maxwell, "But for a Small Moment", [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1986], p. 89.)<br /><br />Which brings me back to the original question, am I better today than I was a year ago?<br /><br />My observations of others has shown that suffering and adversity always results in either the person becoming hardened, bitter, and more callous, or in becoming more pliant and bending their will to that of the Lord's.<br /><br />Anita Canfield said:<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">"Enduring well is not a passive 'hanging on' until our suffering is over. Enduring well, enduring patiently, submitting patiently has nothing to do with strain, tension, misery, or repression. It has everything to do with meekness, gratitude, desire, and love."</span> (Anita Canfield, A Woman For All Seasons, [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1986], p. 125.)<br /><br />Lauri and I just read again King Benjamin's address to his people. It means more to me today than any other time I have read it! Perhaps that is the answer to the question. Adversity can make us saints if we do not fend it off so successfully that we never really experience it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-27142557547474665352011-12-18T12:16:00.007-07:002011-12-19T08:21:49.381-07:00Contrasting PerspectivesTwo very public and noted individuals have recently passed away. Their lives were in stark contrast to each other in so many ways. Yet, both were facing an uncertain future that neither could know for certain, though both knew they were dying. Their approach to death , like their lives, was a stark contrast.<br /><br />Steve Jobs was a visionary entrepreneur. He was the genius behind Apple, although, he was a ruthless and merciless businessman. He was credited with more of the success of Apple than he probably deserved, however, he is responsible for the environment that allowed others to be creative and bless the world with devices that make it so much more enjoyable.<br /><br />For eight years, he battled pancreatic cancer, eventually succumbing to it. As his disease progressed, he became more introspective and more concerned that his family, whom he neglected for most of his life, knew that he really did care for and loved them.<br /><br />His lifelong perspective was to look for things that most others had never even considered and approach them with he attitude of, "Why not?" Consequently, he enriched this world in so many ways. His last words, spoken on his death bed were: "Oh, Wow! Oh, Wow! Oh, Wow!" In death, he obviously saw what even he could never have imagined.<br /><br />Contrast that with the life and accomplishments of the renowned atheist, Christopher Hitchens. He spent his life as a columnist and literary critic. That really does little to describe his life or his life's work. He was in sum total, just a critic. Not in the sense of critiquing people or things, but simply in criticizing them - publicly if possible.<br /><br />Most recently, his most vitriolic criticism was of God and of anyone "foolish enough to believe in such nonsense." In his 2007 book, <em>God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything</em>, he contends that organised religion is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism, tribalism, and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children."<br /><br />Interestingly, in 2010 he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which recently took his life. Many wondered if a terminal illness would soften his views. It did not. Shortly be fore he died, he said this as he discussed the possibility of a deathbed conversion, insisting that the odds were slim that he would admit the existence of God:<br /><br />“The entity making such a remark might be a raving, terrified person whose cancer has spread to the brain. I can’t guarantee that such an entity wouldn’t make such a ridiculous remark, but no one recognizable as myself would ever make such a remark.”<br /><br />Benjamin Franklin once remarked, "He who has had a bull by the tail knows two or three things more than he who has not." So now do both of these men. I can't help but wonder how different their perceptions are now!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-75712051459988427352011-10-09T20:57:00.002-06:002011-10-11T00:09:22.479-06:00For LauriForever And For Always<br /><br />In your arms I can still feel the way you<br />want me when you hold me<br />I can still hear the words you whispered<br />when you told me<br />I can stay right here forever in your arms<br /><br />And there ain't no way--<br />I'm lettin' you go now<br />And there ain't no way--<br />and there ain't no how<br />I'll never see that day....<br /><br />'Cause I'm keeping you<br />forever and for always<br />We will be together all of our days<br />Wanna wake up every<br />morning to your sweet face--always<br /><br />Mmmm, baby<br />In your heart--I can still hear<br />a beat for every time you kiss me<br />And when we're apart,<br />I know how much you miss me<br />I can feel your love for me in your heart<br /><br />And there ain't no way--<br />I'm lettin' you go now<br />And there ain't now way--<br />and there ain't no how<br />I'll never see that day....<br /><br />'Cause I'm keeping you<br />forever and for always<br />We will be together all of our days<br />Wanna wake up every<br />morning to your sweet face--always<br /><br />(I wanna wake up every morning)<br /><br />In your eyes--(I can still see<br />the look of the one) I can still see<br />the look of the one who really loves me<br />(I can still feel the way that you want)<br />The one who wouldn't put anything<br />else in the world above me<br />(I can still see love for me) I can<br />still see love for me in your eyes<br />(I still see the love)<br /><br />And there ain't no way--<br />I'm lettin' you go now<br />And there ain't no way--<br />and there ain't no how<br />I'll never see that day....<br /><br />'Cause I'm keeping you<br />forever and for always<br />We will be together all of our days<br />Wanna wake up every<br />morning to your sweet face--always<br /><br />'Cause I'm keeping you<br />forever and for always<br />We will be together all of our days<br />Wanna wake up every<br />morning to your sweet face--always<br /><br />I'm keeping you forever and for always<br />I'm in your arms (at least I would be!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-70359213838461786722011-09-30T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-02T21:44:03.901-07:00September 30, 2011<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Deer Valley</span>
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Come winter, these hills will be covered with "the greatest snow on earth," a trademark for Utah and there will be skiers everywhere. For now, nights are cold, mornings are crisp and invigorating, and days are warm and heavenly beneath that deep blue sky. Deer Valley, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Park City, Utah, USA, September 30, 2011. f/8, 1/250 second, ISO 200.</div>
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Fall is my favorite time of year! Too bad this only lasts for a brief two to three weeks here. The air is crisp and clean, nights are cool or cold, and days are warm and inviting in the sunshine and brisk in the shade. It always takes me back to my youth, fishing and hunting and camping with my father and brothers. I miss those times, but cherish those memories! Provo Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, September 30, 2011. f/6.3, 1/640 second, ISO 200.</div>
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Provo Canyon, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, September 30, 2011. f/9, 1/320 second, ISO 200.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Provo Canyon, UT 84604, USA40.3723458 -111.592477114.850311299999998 -152.9010711 65.8943803 -70.2838831tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-21129437225500880972011-09-05T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-07T13:58:39.587-07:00September 5, 2011<h3>
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Family Diadematidae, Astropyga radiata, 95 feet deep. First and only one I have ever seen! Unlike any other urchin. Very pretty. Mahi Shipwreck, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, September 5, 2011. f/5.5, 1/50 second, ISO 200.</div>
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Family Diadematidae, Astropyga radiata, 95 feet deep. This pretty reddish brown and white striped urchin is found through the Indo-Pacific and inhabits sand or rubble bottoms of at least 50 ft. or more. In other areas of the Indo-Pacific it can be found in shallow sea-grass beds. Uncommon in Hawai'i, it is rarely seen. The spineless areas of the test contain rows of iridescent blue dots that can expand and contract, sometimes disappearing altogether. Mahi Shipwreck, Wainae, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA, September 5, 2011. f/5.5, 1/60 second, ISO 80.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Wainae, Honolulu, HI, USA21.442058836126439 -158.2030636191405521.382941836126438 -158.28374461914055 21.501175836126439 -158.12238261914055tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-30751965825263568392011-06-05T20:38:00.006-06:002011-06-05T21:17:12.351-06:00Legal FireworksLast year the Honolulu City Council banned fireworks. Whether the recent bout of lightning storms is someone's way of sending them a message or not we'll have to leave to everyone to decide, but there have been some spectacular displays. <br /><br />Last night, I was watching yet another one and decided it was time to see if I could catch some on film. Unfortunately, like with most things, once I got the camera out and got ready, things pretty much died!<br /><br />Not that there wasn't still lightning, just that it was all behind the clouds so seeing the bolt was impossible, still it is pretty impressive! These were all taken about 10:00-10:30 at night when the sky was pitch-black.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6-D7AGdCHwy6l_1AWOUHAVATETvLF6in379IBxaKM388AwR1qx_LBXCZP5neHvUEhVL3OglqnsAYKcVks4d7BuSi4Px27oyQnxYM9rpgkWR6BeA4wl1xhe3_tcdYOjc7T1hALNKGHdVc/s1600/DSC_0004.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz6-D7AGdCHwy6l_1AWOUHAVATETvLF6in379IBxaKM388AwR1qx_LBXCZP5neHvUEhVL3OglqnsAYKcVks4d7BuSi4Px27oyQnxYM9rpgkWR6BeA4wl1xhe3_tcdYOjc7T1hALNKGHdVc/s400/DSC_0004.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614934942455753538" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTvpeyA6XxcBxeyeJIwXGT-iLeXESwbCprCx8Sdaean8m8ab_YTK2QALGBaKW5ud7D_ikSxW7rE_GS7IsWlXWGMnSs7e1j0xSNEOAuRlW3iAeIdWXiKFkvJHI_RTUgMWVdo2RxCSw9o9dT/s1600/DSC_0010.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTvpeyA6XxcBxeyeJIwXGT-iLeXESwbCprCx8Sdaean8m8ab_YTK2QALGBaKW5ud7D_ikSxW7rE_GS7IsWlXWGMnSs7e1j0xSNEOAuRlW3iAeIdWXiKFkvJHI_RTUgMWVdo2RxCSw9o9dT/s400/DSC_0010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614934935319455986" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJO2Zv6BjLNAl9aMb1tcnqjStGoS_yWt9mPpW61lKYpP5a9xXvABCvO0X9yltIQIjcmlra6aRelB6mdU6F-BnfD25fervhEezTfX4KlavXCNKDpzmprHcEDRr1wuHHUlGrV7K8jMQO02sp/s1600/DSC_0014.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJO2Zv6BjLNAl9aMb1tcnqjStGoS_yWt9mPpW61lKYpP5a9xXvABCvO0X9yltIQIjcmlra6aRelB6mdU6F-BnfD25fervhEezTfX4KlavXCNKDpzmprHcEDRr1wuHHUlGrV7K8jMQO02sp/s400/DSC_0014.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614934929238640018" /></a><br /><br />And I did mangae to catch a few lightning bolts but none of them are real impressive.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYiMFHES1ZSCPJoWH0do5tacDg_rU2lh8yv8KBrlzWE7K472gHlf1J68vKu_fy0i0SHnVOb0_oRKJWogT5sgebVGSA9zj2KrsWeCcEePXJPuMzoO1bkYdRs9oChGRjZGkyTwZ8NVmWucC-/s1600/DSC_0015_edited-2.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYiMFHES1ZSCPJoWH0do5tacDg_rU2lh8yv8KBrlzWE7K472gHlf1J68vKu_fy0i0SHnVOb0_oRKJWogT5sgebVGSA9zj2KrsWeCcEePXJPuMzoO1bkYdRs9oChGRjZGkyTwZ8NVmWucC-/s400/DSC_0015_edited-2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614936541900957394" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sunhgG36oKCsS761KArOaEzytiQ-n2alAo5Ts2DPo_4_-eo78bHJAylyE5nO177ctEz-j-0x2PdBGUSbCUsPTQQBa9Gi3IyJNdBNsm4xczSfpryiNXlLJkWO0lUm5Lefs5Gx1r9vHuDn/s1600/DSC_0017_edited-1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sunhgG36oKCsS761KArOaEzytiQ-n2alAo5Ts2DPo_4_-eo78bHJAylyE5nO177ctEz-j-0x2PdBGUSbCUsPTQQBa9Gi3IyJNdBNsm4xczSfpryiNXlLJkWO0lUm5Lefs5Gx1r9vHuDn/s400/DSC_0017_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614936537323342674" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XbTl0ReuVrtVpsDMd4raaeJh-XiW50tbcaUXLFoI8AH08UxNRx1d-DicAcdfDK372_yEs-fUNnyM6fcDNCo50IlKVZ3ruC8z_4PZ7wCS4ccyCAPHOjB4BKErDrFKTHHmNvWzyOIyhkuV/s1600/DSC_0019_edited-1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XbTl0ReuVrtVpsDMd4raaeJh-XiW50tbcaUXLFoI8AH08UxNRx1d-DicAcdfDK372_yEs-fUNnyM6fcDNCo50IlKVZ3ruC8z_4PZ7wCS4ccyCAPHOjB4BKErDrFKTHHmNvWzyOIyhkuV/s400/DSC_0019_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614936536181638466" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjboky0Mz0FAJ1eMMlB2U8e31KQ04U97IjBljBYghnSkc2O2Yn-XPOORLwyfQTOKCsHrE1vXFSasaLHcSKl2hTOGLzsIwVG4xH-2VEzSJ8JqDZ4yDlTzJ7LirTcKNb7Aq0jCyf-TtMjWFxP/s1600/DSC_0037_edited-1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjboky0Mz0FAJ1eMMlB2U8e31KQ04U97IjBljBYghnSkc2O2Yn-XPOORLwyfQTOKCsHrE1vXFSasaLHcSKl2hTOGLzsIwVG4xH-2VEzSJ8JqDZ4yDlTzJ7LirTcKNb7Aq0jCyf-TtMjWFxP/s400/DSC_0037_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614936530895779074" /></a><br /><br />This one is my favorite. Look closely at the top of the frame!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-H6lMam9GOS7PaISq8lbPmsPEDUPEcSGVL13kwFgyFbZUzW502cuzTKDO2lTMTnvYX6rPDOzkuYVebDQVcdQ29CWO8-9czoyZt72-gJJrLJM9LalpkLtHbuXscD2CzdNxMLgzqoKIKY-9/s1600/DSC_0042_edited-1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-H6lMam9GOS7PaISq8lbPmsPEDUPEcSGVL13kwFgyFbZUzW502cuzTKDO2lTMTnvYX6rPDOzkuYVebDQVcdQ29CWO8-9czoyZt72-gJJrLJM9LalpkLtHbuXscD2CzdNxMLgzqoKIKY-9/s400/DSC_0042_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614936521525724786" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgubGdbiEwXzumQ2Z9OoCc4LrU24ehC0K1K42yBCc1KbZ8IQRz-9k1hqasE60PiLMOy4ySZzgc-YAAvA4P68aOxPbtY4394dfW2scq7z66OMFPeKfspJcPja41pQzg69oo6vx5MfQnxppIc/s1600/DSC_0065_edited-1.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgubGdbiEwXzumQ2Z9OoCc4LrU24ehC0K1K42yBCc1KbZ8IQRz-9k1hqasE60PiLMOy4ySZzgc-YAAvA4P68aOxPbtY4394dfW2scq7z66OMFPeKfspJcPja41pQzg69oo6vx5MfQnxppIc/s400/DSC_0065_edited-1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614937308640110402" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-55115653503424962262011-04-19T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-02T21:18:32.809-07:00April 19. 2011<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Mt. Timpanogos</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Springtime in the Rockies</td></tr>
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As the sun sets on the top of Timp, still locked deeply in Winter's icy grasp, Spring has come to the valley floor. Mt. Timpanogos, Utah County, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, April 19, 2011. f/4.8, 1/125 second, ISO 400.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Orem, UT, USA40.2968979 -111.6946474999999740.2000099 -111.85600899999997 40.3937859 -111.53328599999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-5279751379902046242011-02-19T23:39:00.000-07:002011-10-13T20:10:30.090-06:00February 19, 2011 - Humpback WhalesIn January 2010, Lauri and I discovered Lana'i Lookout over on the Windward side of the island near Hanauma Bay. It is a great place to go during whale season to watch for whales. Today they put on a pretty good show, even though most of them were a little too far out to get really good photos.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA1y-70pr4uFtxWllWrRyyIT2f9ZGVaGbGF1cgMr_dK0OX5Iw272ZF5y4KZ9RPJkFZdutfIU29cdHxW9A-qJwDNRI1PC6bGIeFgtKQ9vwdUdLTWag_2sYF_qbdHQeGkbUUHd-0It2QkpR/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0224_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648746503347391858" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA1y-70pr4uFtxWllWrRyyIT2f9ZGVaGbGF1cgMr_dK0OX5Iw272ZF5y4KZ9RPJkFZdutfIU29cdHxW9A-qJwDNRI1PC6bGIeFgtKQ9vwdUdLTWag_2sYF_qbdHQeGkbUUHd-0It2QkpR/s400/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0224_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_Qzvv5oPikWj51YqwrbZ5_Pmzdp7jTYsbP77lSkkel4wXuX9fsHOmTjW8JimjIKbVq8U9zTAby8_TXuCzK8GseGDFvZei4yMjVOMrvAYsRlIP3z1sv6xwbFpx6pQD0XTAJ3Ht6bNSQdh/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0226_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; 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I would have loved to have been in that boat!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVozFQUnvy9weg8BAlrLnRmKsb6-siC5iTSOgVs880b6mCp8bvL2XYN3hyphenhyphenZNeDdTSDZ6Blbh4zKTGLZhwNklLuWDyMImkjuaDtZV5nR8yHmaRL5zlM94XzupuOVCidcFRUS8qiLwXg5Jni/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0302_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648748163531820850" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVozFQUnvy9weg8BAlrLnRmKsb6-siC5iTSOgVs880b6mCp8bvL2XYN3hyphenhyphenZNeDdTSDZ6Blbh4zKTGLZhwNklLuWDyMImkjuaDtZV5nR8yHmaRL5zlM94XzupuOVCidcFRUS8qiLwXg5Jni/s400/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0302_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCYU-2MSuV7GFhc6LCH1q0wD0VkLsj6g57nKQomjOytBCLxFKAlESb4jZgX6wQdmf9Zarq_Oqx_3D3W4U4FdeZS26U1QD0LhJSmqr2uXCWiDQx3M-zMk6QnrWGKuX5mQEr4KtJZxSiCKy/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0305_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648748159549756290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCYU-2MSuV7GFhc6LCH1q0wD0VkLsj6g57nKQomjOytBCLxFKAlESb4jZgX6wQdmf9Zarq_Oqx_3D3W4U4FdeZS26U1QD0LhJSmqr2uXCWiDQx3M-zMk6QnrWGKuX5mQEr4KtJZxSiCKy/s400/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0305_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLNSwE8gZdlMsAT1TmBaw-iOCE63KnBfVzp1OI0HhM5lJSkTBio3S3yH4nNY8kW3-25m_AE0p4KYMNKa_SAY5qN1QOjFfqJELb0WnjexJ-PFSXghTZYAFF9tGodhWYxW0TR6EBDZgxFP2/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0310_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648748680289425794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLNSwE8gZdlMsAT1TmBaw-iOCE63KnBfVzp1OI0HhM5lJSkTBio3S3yH4nNY8kW3-25m_AE0p4KYMNKa_SAY5qN1QOjFfqJELb0WnjexJ-PFSXghTZYAFF9tGodhWYxW0TR6EBDZgxFP2/s400/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0310_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT1h2WiWep8imr_pxUsBhPjpn_05dReKzA43gMwJtFLlALTErWUR2m4MblwDRdWNLlLkV3MM1RRBKrhHnMo2c6XM8MpptxoCmR7VQ0KsJ6AKkZFmsRFXyUajivTyx7kCHsLSDhWL7xzOW/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0349_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648748676157790754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT1h2WiWep8imr_pxUsBhPjpn_05dReKzA43gMwJtFLlALTErWUR2m4MblwDRdWNLlLkV3MM1RRBKrhHnMo2c6XM8MpptxoCmR7VQ0KsJ6AKkZFmsRFXyUajivTyx7kCHsLSDhWL7xzOW/s400/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0349_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br />These two were waving goodbye as the sun set. What a way to end the day!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcxo5QJ9TquiQ-GT7MlDZCmOO2Hpli6sCdQPsNXDCIkn8jGPwpxKQYwb-EE-mducMAFBSNw74ZLbs4vjw8QmBoXBFU45x5SkmFCs5hi529v3OcVfXe6zv_4-R9pCffWerOU1iLSZx1KLv/s1600/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0420_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5648748679867880242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcxo5QJ9TquiQ-GT7MlDZCmOO2Hpli6sCdQPsNXDCIkn8jGPwpxKQYwb-EE-mducMAFBSNw74ZLbs4vjw8QmBoXBFU45x5SkmFCs5hi529v3OcVfXe6zv_4-R9pCffWerOU1iLSZx1KLv/s400/20110219_hmpbckwhale_ts_03_0420_edited-1.JPG" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-67899096620223726892011-01-08T22:20:00.000-07:002011-11-27T08:37:27.921-07:00January 8, 2011 Humpback Whales - Lanai Lookout or "A Whale's Tail"Whale watching is a lot like fly-fishing! Some days, no matter what you offer, the trout just ignore it and are simply not feeding. Other days, they are vigorously feeding and jump clear out of the water while capturing insects, both real and imaginary. And then there are days when they subtly sip insects from the surface film with hardly a ripple to give them away.<br /><br />At Lanai Lookout, we have experienced all three kinds of days. Our first, and a very few others have been the boisterous, jumping, frolicking kind. We have had a lot of the "not interested in anything" days.<br /><br />Today was the third type - quiet, but eventful. Lots of whales, even fairly close to land, but just quietly showing their backs and every-so-often a fluke to wave goodbye as they dove.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0macURtjW8gsCmtObBqVfB2cLlVEtOEwOEp692XEl96yBuojUqrZMCVX4co5b0421k0a-W9mtzf5a9crMiSzWnHcOFPS4uJ36C9Hq9e4BM7W-o1YDSXgnM434mhRWYlPTdc6yloHGcw9x/s1600/20110108_hmpbckwhale_ts_01_001_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649783906626514242" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0macURtjW8gsCmtObBqVfB2cLlVEtOEwOEp692XEl96yBuojUqrZMCVX4co5b0421k0a-W9mtzf5a9crMiSzWnHcOFPS4uJ36C9Hq9e4BM7W-o1YDSXgnM434mhRWYlPTdc6yloHGcw9x/s400/20110108_hmpbckwhale_ts_01_001_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKy91I6m-cmDLNKuDh9z0v4XE5bfbUwxEHAnaXP71OEq3-SJCu-lg0XOxUFynbD6OCe6pg5Nw0Fj-FqWk5c9lFJQcfWwLSgahQRDcvdEjpX1tuvkiOhPtIICZEGzYf6XnpeKCFM5jSUmvq/s1600/20110108_hmpbckwhale_ts_01_002_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; 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HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649786904749424322" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6N5R4c4UrpHh2ZbMrpuyrLWzowz7ohD0LTNMPSEYT2k5viLrwX6uB5sZQ5lbFEZAE7SsY9mPYB9A7kL8WLUf5lNxKx3yo_LSDuYWeXUONChyphenhyphenrTLV8n7TGBotdiul0nrKX8i7KCFxII3d_/s400/20110108_rd-crstdcardinal_ts_01_027_edited-1.JPG" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwp1lZa-Xf0fbDKzyKWOONLgIdoPOOrCQFv-ZOrM6vzQzk1IUApA3IdICV4jPoSORmkkxu4lE6ZPGayPiy4V1Wg9sX8JhGDPb5nzIEKvIvQH319yvcRZfAerKvVZQpxnFFVVZAfN46_HJJ/s1600/20110108_rd-crstdcardinal_ts_01_028_edited-1.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649786901681777202" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwp1lZa-Xf0fbDKzyKWOONLgIdoPOOrCQFv-ZOrM6vzQzk1IUApA3IdICV4jPoSORmkkxu4lE6ZPGayPiy4V1Wg9sX8JhGDPb5nzIEKvIvQH319yvcRZfAerKvVZQpxnFFVVZAfN46_HJJ/s400/20110108_rd-crstdcardinal_ts_01_028_edited-1.JPG" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-50494660300069172242010-12-25T23:30:00.000-07:002013-12-02T12:13:47.477-07:00December 25, 2010<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Mt. Timpanogos</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow Slides on Timp</td></tr>
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Christmas Day - checking out the fresh snowfall and snow slides on Timp with my new 300mm lens. Mt. Timpanogos, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, December 25, 2010. f/5.6, 1/2000 second, ISO 200.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, 800 West 100 North Street, Spanish Fork, UT 84660, USA40.391099358970429 -111.6397158593749740.294302858970426 -111.80107735937497 40.487895858970433 -111.47835435937498tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-60236749766082281512010-12-04T22:41:00.010-07:002010-12-06T23:15:49.224-07:00December 4, 2010 Dives - Mahi & Makaha CavernsOn Saturday, December 4, 2010, I dove with Aubrey Summerlin. We did two dives, the Mahi, a 95 foot deep dive on a ship that was intentionally sunk as an artificial reef and Makaha Caverns, a 50 foot deep dive on a shallow coral reef with lava tubes and swim-throughs.<br /><br />There were 29 divers and five "guides". This was my first time as "staff" on the boat since getting my Instructor rating. Ocean Concepts had 9 divers and 3 staff. Deep Ecology was sharing the boat and had the rest. I was with Aubrey, a PB guy who was on his first dive in 10 years so I was his private guide. We were always the third group in the water.<br /><br />Visibility was good - about 60 feet. Aubrey and I descended slowly down the mooring line. He did pretty well for not having dived in all that time. He had a little trouble with buoyancy, but otherwise did fairly well. He was trying to dump air from his BC when inverted. Once I righted him and helped him, he did OK.<br /><br />As soon as we got down to the bottom beside the wreck, we came upon a Devil Scorpionfish right out in the open. These are the best photos I have gotten so far of one of these guys. The second one is from the rear as he was "flashing" his pectoral fins.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAt1nT-4X5o-ibb4wQrpkCsWlVjJgkN78CC-3R23fmKej8xoh2zcGFchUG-flHixAnYlALaokwKY_-vZk-zI_Nb5R3eoi1QjUCVicHOM8uJ8orn96hbsvE4wLZq70tZu6D8jTkGRJfk7I/s1600/20101204++001_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547446659841925522" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAt1nT-4X5o-ibb4wQrpkCsWlVjJgkN78CC-3R23fmKej8xoh2zcGFchUG-flHixAnYlALaokwKY_-vZk-zI_Nb5R3eoi1QjUCVicHOM8uJ8orn96hbsvE4wLZq70tZu6D8jTkGRJfk7I/s400/20101204++001_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJwYPA-BHrsROrsfLXBYr8fPOabHDTgyku0rkoCWimov7FV_Z4VE6ZRe70WmbAQZQFhyBINf-9cGG8dsxlaOMOmqEQd4zyqTtsP8krOqepPVV5y_ldbLV6RWGg3jdveq_Au8lZr3ihASt/s1600/20101204++002_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547446654123853602" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJwYPA-BHrsROrsfLXBYr8fPOabHDTgyku0rkoCWimov7FV_Z4VE6ZRe70WmbAQZQFhyBINf-9cGG8dsxlaOMOmqEQd4zyqTtsP8krOqepPVV5y_ldbLV6RWGg3jdveq_Au8lZr3ihASt/s400/20101204++002_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Devil Scorpionfish</strong></div><br />Up on the stern of the wreck, the big Yellowmargin Moray Eel that normally hangs out there was in his normal place.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YK4DXRm0KNCDx0bFCVPgBRl57S-6czRMsQuuTTVVEmQidlXvguxThqNQvO8NbgfjV174Fe6c1qIeQ6nsgDLUtS4AxrACFrLnTPJ184F5_VRg7OioB0DJx6gSh3aaNaghOMegKhUFW2li/s1600/20101204++004_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547448379889293298" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YK4DXRm0KNCDx0bFCVPgBRl57S-6czRMsQuuTTVVEmQidlXvguxThqNQvO8NbgfjV174Fe6c1qIeQ6nsgDLUtS4AxrACFrLnTPJ184F5_VRg7OioB0DJx6gSh3aaNaghOMegKhUFW2li/s400/20101204++004_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Yellowmargin Moray Eel</strong></div><br />On closer examination of the photo, you can see a Hinge-Beak Shrimp (species undetermined) on the wall of the wreck behind the Eel. It looks like it is about to become a meal, but it is not.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUa58g-1h-Rs37Qwq20MAHzeQ3JrTYAElVjP9rEJI1wTJ-Xbj44QRfLyMGjCcexMs5bSyHNWf3wfC_W96uCTSBrdXedX_9i70tM9jiZtU3PWcHh6KAL7ydRFBkxxpj7QNuDbBT3imJ54c/s1600/20101204++004_edited-3.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547448373480881682" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 325px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUa58g-1h-Rs37Qwq20MAHzeQ3JrTYAElVjP9rEJI1wTJ-Xbj44QRfLyMGjCcexMs5bSyHNWf3wfC_W96uCTSBrdXedX_9i70tM9jiZtU3PWcHh6KAL7ydRFBkxxpj7QNuDbBT3imJ54c/s400/20101204++004_edited-3.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Hinge-Beak Shrimp</strong></div><br />I found a couple of little nudibranchs to show Aubrey. The first is a tiny Blue Dragon Nudibranch that was in the open end of a pipe.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVO1x1Q-2YgICTtQCq8xagKQEMvU9Um5XOGIQ_VRqFUCwu51FxJlPM4jkrCa2Es2sZqZTrWdyYOoF_R5XLhy7CWC2Wy04ER09eZRxNlB4vGuubxw4QnRCJv54-ZpcEeRgzJ1QmTg-Pcfg/s1600/20101204++007_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547453452622983698" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 325px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfVO1x1Q-2YgICTtQCq8xagKQEMvU9Um5XOGIQ_VRqFUCwu51FxJlPM4jkrCa2Es2sZqZTrWdyYOoF_R5XLhy7CWC2Wy04ER09eZRxNlB4vGuubxw4QnRCJv54-ZpcEeRgzJ1QmTg-Pcfg/s400/20101204++007_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Blue Dragon Nudibranch</strong></div><br />The second one is a Desirable Nudibranch. This is the best photo I have gotten of one of these.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVYK3K-tLi4MvZzj9YfmKmBiLU6bBBcGZYUpsLRh9auwL8Hv3nugGu_OtL1XOFQHH9wEtk_1oRQ2uNi0djcaA12-HJ6Vf7Kvu3y_pohItDRUnLhgMAyZvJJ2G7uvs8No1856oWMyL32aI/s1600/20101204++008_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547453449648352642" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 325px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVYK3K-tLi4MvZzj9YfmKmBiLU6bBBcGZYUpsLRh9auwL8Hv3nugGu_OtL1XOFQHH9wEtk_1oRQ2uNi0djcaA12-HJ6Vf7Kvu3y_pohItDRUnLhgMAyZvJJ2G7uvs8No1856oWMyL32aI/s400/20101204++008_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Desirable Nudibranch</strong></div><br />As we came up on the bow of the wreck on our way to the mooring line, a couple of Spotted Eagle Rays swam right over us. I was a little slow in reacting and only managed one photo and a short video.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8So6gS1ouFfifQkj26QLWHmrPYFZjYIi7MxNRZuIP9Uv6x2UBmMVjujhcr8AubB5YTFCnp2kF4CC_QHHgvK1FYwZMKWNfNM6Wifoo2Qha4pH8xgFXPgeiPZP4PwY-j6zNnSlMbOtTVozQ/s1600/20101204++009_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547457009116161586" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8So6gS1ouFfifQkj26QLWHmrPYFZjYIi7MxNRZuIP9Uv6x2UBmMVjujhcr8AubB5YTFCnp2kF4CC_QHHgvK1FYwZMKWNfNM6Wifoo2Qha4pH8xgFXPgeiPZP4PwY-j6zNnSlMbOtTVozQ/s400/20101204++009_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy83Hr9N7wQ-9w6RrQ30MeOwwN7s4Ip7cmybIODj-vIjlTaW-PTthPbWDnzN2-nORxINzLaSzdz25U9VEdJ-A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><div align="center"><strong>Spotted Eagle Ray</strong></div><br />Right on the bow of the wreck was a Whitemouth Moray Eel poking is head out of a hole.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxlara63Jp_rioEu3yXmLhKax7-yA8L6YZNJ6hnLYYdECAz8R4Tehf_-ZEPRiysaCYayciEx9g1NLieCxwMnc4Cjf490SMKgCPjs2eo-iWNZK8Z99Slg-VKPmzvfio4xHwbfe7irfM0sq/s1600/20101204++012_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547458733274813602" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNxlara63Jp_rioEu3yXmLhKax7-yA8L6YZNJ6hnLYYdECAz8R4Tehf_-ZEPRiysaCYayciEx9g1NLieCxwMnc4Cjf490SMKgCPjs2eo-iWNZK8Z99Slg-VKPmzvfio4xHwbfe7irfM0sq/s400/20101204++012_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Whitemouth Moray Eel</strong></div><br />We ascended slowly on the mooring line and did our safety stop, then swam up to the ladder and climbed out with 500 psi left for Aubrey and 1200 for me.<br /><br />On the second dive, we started out to make the normal tour through Makaha Caverns. About a third of the way through, I turned right instead of left after coming out of a swim through and we got off course. We ended up a long way from the boat and had to do quite a bit of swimming to get back to the boat. Aubrey got cramps in his calves twice during the dive and I was not completely sure we would not have to have the boat come and pick us up.<br /><br />Before the wrong turn, I saw a huge crab tucked up under a little overhang. It was the largest Sleepy Sponge Crab I have ever seen - its carapace (top shell) was probably 8 inches across.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKjuC4R3KTRNiCpaO4YX-vxUjW20UvuB9Rz_RK1qsh4ZwsLno3R_zxceWH0LrOdXY8VEjC5qfcVEft905dDrVTqRl5cud4vzZMWFhmK_R2hgjz1sNlqIC266xbRNERZTRyVR8zCTC3oG-/s1600/20101204++015_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547806972389546882" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKjuC4R3KTRNiCpaO4YX-vxUjW20UvuB9Rz_RK1qsh4ZwsLno3R_zxceWH0LrOdXY8VEjC5qfcVEft905dDrVTqRl5cud4vzZMWFhmK_R2hgjz1sNlqIC266xbRNERZTRyVR8zCTC3oG-/s400/20101204++015_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Sleepy Sponge Crab</strong></div><br />The top of the reef had quite a few Green Sea Turtles today.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMp-zOTM_2MDjekFGC918FIyCln-9d8grOiqq7jc8NWlohq97VSt00DENXWR1se-nNBis4R9osW6BsZz-qxhZ8FMZ-jknoqRg_Carl1NRrTp1EPPgm87b45uABJ02pvEkfHEcfG1eQg56V/s1600/20101204++016_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547806968231110146" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMp-zOTM_2MDjekFGC918FIyCln-9d8grOiqq7jc8NWlohq97VSt00DENXWR1se-nNBis4R9osW6BsZz-qxhZ8FMZ-jknoqRg_Carl1NRrTp1EPPgm87b45uABJ02pvEkfHEcfG1eQg56V/s400/20101204++016_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEtEzRm7bubJipJLKEnimh8XgscHoTEwnnob7RhqAr2U20XvSo0Cbmbhu6FFcXyF4XFK9dWfa5ZO0EnxCUOyF1CM-W3wcVqBDCGDFsUA2lidnOAuVVgmr1kUMgNg8HtQd2t7neb7EETU3/s1600/20101204++017_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547806962736385138" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYEtEzRm7bubJipJLKEnimh8XgscHoTEwnnob7RhqAr2U20XvSo0Cbmbhu6FFcXyF4XFK9dWfa5ZO0EnxCUOyF1CM-W3wcVqBDCGDFsUA2lidnOAuVVgmr1kUMgNg8HtQd2t7neb7EETU3/s400/20101204++017_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvb1ljgfgfv_jy3zRe2U1KjanZXF74VxY7_9C3XYSc3rwiBw-wtiSz3goQOq-SpFQF919v_Qhcs48E9PCaymjpCYy3_c9u4mAW06WpXs2UjBXrZponoI44yAoGlNRCzeD9Rp3Qf3wNad79/s1600/20101204++018_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547806959212284930" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvb1ljgfgfv_jy3zRe2U1KjanZXF74VxY7_9C3XYSc3rwiBw-wtiSz3goQOq-SpFQF919v_Qhcs48E9PCaymjpCYy3_c9u4mAW06WpXs2UjBXrZponoI44yAoGlNRCzeD9Rp3Qf3wNad79/s400/20101204++018_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Green Sea Turtle</strong></div><br />As we got back closer to the boat, we came across a Spanish Dancer Nudibranch Eggcase and a Spotted Linckia.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgus-LJadKz3g4B0g4GdeI3m4JB697KOp1bNLrmzCJ_Pp1VOKhNhjl2C_ny49gCjQas6j27gfKwrrH2JW0R5wkIJ3IfMmbBNTrvpzBIaCwDHFmJ0MGQK7Bq3dQokRbrRcxgF9y5C41LVhX6/s1600/20101204++020_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547811671207703522" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgus-LJadKz3g4B0g4GdeI3m4JB697KOp1bNLrmzCJ_Pp1VOKhNhjl2C_ny49gCjQas6j27gfKwrrH2JW0R5wkIJ3IfMmbBNTrvpzBIaCwDHFmJ0MGQK7Bq3dQokRbrRcxgF9y5C41LVhX6/s400/20101204++020_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Spanish Dancer Nudibranch (eggcase)</strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMHlqz1qvsjLIp994ia6iBzXhtTwF9t7H73ID9OH_z7TY8L94ICJYboLjBFBO88Yprb4Fyp2T00F7LRKhTOprNuQR1qoSwebN_6VY7arcXddAqdIUBon96UCpj4OTYmjfhwjj8x4KwLMS9/s1600/20101204++021_edited-1.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547811667360379666" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMHlqz1qvsjLIp994ia6iBzXhtTwF9t7H73ID9OH_z7TY8L94ICJYboLjBFBO88Yprb4Fyp2T00F7LRKhTOprNuQR1qoSwebN_6VY7arcXddAqdIUBon96UCpj4OTYmjfhwjj8x4KwLMS9/s400/20101204++021_edited-1.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><strong>Spotted Linckia</strong></div><br />We overshot the boat a little and ended up offshore of it. Just then Aubrey got his second cramp. I helped him stretch it out and then we beat it back to the boat and got out. He was low on air and I had 600 psi left.<br /><div style="width:480px; text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w330.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http%3A%2F%2Fw330.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl402%2Fkerrys50%2F10-12-04%2F454b4baf.pbw" height="360" width="480"><a href="http://photobucket.com/slideshows" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" ></a><a href="http://s330.photobucket.com/albums/l402/kerrys50/10-12-04/?action=view&current=454b4baf.pbw" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" ></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-89829132598364690112010-10-30T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-02T18:50:11.251-07:00October 30, 2010<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch</span>
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Bynum is about 10 miles out onto the plains. The Bob Marshall Wilderness is about the same distance behind where this photo was shot. When environmentalists prevailed in getting Grizzly Bears reintroduced to the Bob Marshall Wilderness, it was with their absolute assurance that the bears would never leave the Wilderness Area. Pretty funny, huh? Did they not know that Grizzlies were originally plains animals, or were they simply lying to accomplish their ends? Anyway, Grizzly visits are a nightly event in Bynum now! Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, Boone and Crocket Club, Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana, USA, October 30, 2010. f/5.5, 1/200 second, ISO 80.</div>
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The moon was visible all day and was just beckoning to me to shoot it! Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, Boone and Crocket Club, Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana, USA, October 30, 2010. f/5.3, 1/250 second, ISO 80.</div>
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Bob Marshall Wilderness Area from Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, Boone and Crocket Club, Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana, USA, October 30, 2010. f/5.5, 1/400 second, ISO 80.</div>
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Bob Marshall, Winderness Area, Lewis & Clark National Forest, The Rocky Mountains, Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana, USA, October 29, 2010. f/3.1, 1/160 second, ISO 80.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dupuyer, MT 59486, USA48.1916399 -112.499570248.1069464 -112.66093169999999 48.2763334 -112.3382087tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-53500508013855034612010-10-29T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-06T16:53:42.508-07:00October 29, 2010<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Mt. Timpanogos</span>
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The peaks of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area form the backdrop for the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, a 6,000 acre working cattle ranch that is a living laboratory for research, teaching, and demonstration of integrated livestock/wildlife conservation. The stark barrenness and colors of early morning in late Fall in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains contrast well with the snow that has already brought Winter's icy grip to the higher country. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, Boone and Crocket Club, Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana, USA, October 29, 2010. f/3.1, 1/160 second, ISO 80.</div>
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Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch, Boone and Crocket Club, Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana, USA, October 29, 2010. f/5.8, 1/320 second, ISO 80.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dupuyer, MT 59486, USA48.1916399 -112.499570248.1069464 -112.66093169999999 48.2763334 -112.3382087tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-998868774074353154.post-54335691290000860962010-10-18T23:30:00.000-06:002013-12-07T13:54:34.882-07:00October 18, 2010<h3>
<span style="color: black;">Mt. Timpanogos</span>
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The brilliant colors of Fall are starting to fade as the snows come to the highest peaks. Mt. Timpanogos, Utah County, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, October 18, 2010. f/5.3, 1/1000 second, ISO 640.</div>
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Winter comes to the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains. Fall is still in control, but the icy fingers of old man winter are about to wrest it away! Mt. Timpanogos, Utah County, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, October 18, 2010. f/5.6, 1/500 second, ISO 400.</div>
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And, within minutes, the clouds descend for another squall. Mt. Timpanogos, Utah County, Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah, USA, October 18, 2010. f/7.1, 1/200 second, ISO 200.</div>
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