junk cars, a pet llama, & a runaway horse...

...are just a few of the interesting sights we saw last weekend,

while on a drive through the Utah outback. Over a high mountain pass behind the Wasatch mountains, we went - on through Indian Canyon to Duchesne, then down route 35 through the lush Tabby Valley.

We hadn't originally intended to make what became a 200 mile trek.

But each little town beckoned, and our curiosity led us further on...

Happy Birthday

Sir Thomas!

One becomes a knight at 40.

Hail to the day!

Libbie Linton

Saw Libbie Linton, a local Utah treasure, perform at a free concert in a little

hollow, not far from where I live, last night.

I am a big fan of her music.

Her debut album

(2009),

"Bird Wings in the Bleak",

has definitely been a music staple.

I particularly like

Dressing Up for Death

End Times

My family had an estate sale midsummer, and with summer coming to an end, it seems a good time to post these photos.

Saying goodbye, not only to a season, but to possessions, family property, an entire era -and sorting through the memories and emotions that get tangled up in the tangible.

Wish I had captured a photo of the old Story & Clark upright piano that I played (but mostly tortured) as a child, along with the rest of my siblings. I told a guy he could have it for a song. He said he really wanted to learn to play, so we ended up giving it to him for the mere promise of one. It was either that or catapulting it off a local mountain top.

Somewhere

over Hollywood...

a dear friend left this world, unexpectedly.

Hugh B. CrumDecember 4, 1951 - July 28, 2010

Your soul is as big as the sky.

photo credit: HBC 2/11/10