The Park Avenue Fin

We landed in Salt Lake City around noon, gassed up our monster rental Nissan Armada and drove through the Utah desert down to Moab. We had just enough time to drive over to Arches for a look and this is what we first saw, Park Avenue.

Cafe Brauer 2006

I like this shot and thought I would put it in the photo blog today. Normally I would not put my work shots in my personal photo blog but this one is different. The glow of the light and my solitary perspective of a beautiful tradition, well that makes it a personal shot for me.

Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park, August 2007 near the Mammoth Hot Springs area.

Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina in April of 2007.

Hatteras to Ocracoke

The view from the ferry crossing from Hatteras to Ocracoke island.




Another view. It's interesting that the two unique areas that I've photographed this year are the ocean and the desert. Two different areas of beauty.

Outer Banks April 2007

Jockey's Ridge State Park, near Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Where the Wright Brothers became first in flight, for man. A desert landscape joining the Atlantic Ocean beyond the strip of homes. A lowered perspective would bring the horizon line before the homes, presenting the barren land and nothing else, save for the hang gliders at rest.

Duke Gardens

Sarah Duke Gardens in Duke University, April 2007. Our host in Raleigh, NC brought us on a tour of Duke, a most beautiful university. The Camellias were in bloom.

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides)

Magnolia Plantation, just north of Charleston on April 4 , 2007.

Gives me a taste for shrimp and grits. I should just figure out how to make it myself.

Delicate Arch in August

Delicate Arch, I love this big hunk of entrada sandstone.

Cake Pull

The cake pull, a tradition from somewhere in the South. Shot at Carnavale, great food and drinks, during Kim and Mark's wedding in August. The strings have little charms on the ends,which are pulled out by the single women before the cake cutting. Traditionally at times there would be a thimble on one, which would mean that the recipient would be a spinster. No old maids at this wedding though, just all good looking and fun people.