Black and White

I am on a Black/White kick.  I LOVE color, but some photos lend themselves to black and white photography.  I was just going through a few files and found these beauties.

Biking through God's Country

I know I am only the support crew to a biking team of one, but I love my job and I love my biker.  LeGrand was pretty sad to leave the joys of St. George's biking opportunities when we moved to Monticello.  But he was thrilled to learn there are guys here who love to bike and are enthusiastic to share the routes they take.

One of our recent favorite biking routes is a lonely and beautiful road through the farmlands of Ucola to tiny LaSal.  We pass a huge copper mine but the traffic is so sparse it is hard to believe there is anybody home.

While LeGrand rides his bike, I hike, take pictures, read, listen to books on tape, and have a ball. These few pictures show the area we are enjoying this week.  Find the move-in ready real estate beckoning to us. . .

Natural Bridges with Jodi

Jodi came to visit for the weekend.  Her bucket list included a fun hike so we went to Natural Bridges.  We didn't want to do more than a 5.5 mile journey so I horrified my daughter and actually hitch-hiked from the first to the second bridge so we didn't have to do the overland hike.  Worked out great. We didn't get murdered and we didn't have to hike two or three miles after we were back out of the canyon just to get back to our car. 

Photobomb as only Jodi can (and regularly does):

Only one drawback to a perfect day: Jodi touched something she was very allergic to and really had some uncomfortable moments on the trail.  Her hands looked like red baseball mits. By the time we hiked out she was feeling fine but decided that in the future she ought to travel with Benedryl.

Photographer's note:  I love beautiful landscape photography, but unless a person is in the photo, it just isn't quite as interesting to me.  Guess that is why I love taking pictures of families.