Thank you mickey_one...
After reading elsewhere that it was Forum Members that provided the monkey, I thought I'd also post the clearest shot I have of that as well, from up where we were:
So many blurry pictures. But it was worse when we had to pay to get them developed...
Today was a spectacular cloud day again, with huge cumulus ones all over the sky. This is taken where I go to think occassionally, on the hill under the Cinder Cone where that zombie develepment I told you about is:
Here is Panorama I took today from the same place, though it only covers about 140 degrees rather than 360 this time:
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We went out hunting around 3, but there was this issue about a Thanksgiving dinner the St. George Adventist Church was giving at 5:30 which E wanted to go to help with. The sun sets here now about 5:25, but I successfully resisted arguing about it and settled in my mind for whatever version of the sunset I could get in St. George.
Now first we drove up through Toquerville and around to the road that runs alongside I-15, but goes through Leeds and branches up to Silver Reef if you want to go that way (no relation to Silver the car).
On the way down this road I spotted a Red-Tailed Hawk sitting on a telephone pole. This was one amazing hawk because he stayed put as I moved Silver closer and closer to the pole until we were just about under him. I took a lot of pictures before he took off to land on another telephone pole two or three poles down the road - sort of like Bluebirds do on fence posts, they keep flying down a couple when you get too close, as if your vehicle would never reach that new post, and they do this again and again and again each time you get too close.
But on this second pole the Red-Tailed Hawk let us drive slowly all the way under him and turn around and come back, so E could take pictures of him with the sun full on him.
It was cool, anyway... Here are four of the photos...
This is E's picture after we'd turned around:
This is one of the hawk calling, doing that screeching thing they do. He did it several times, protesting our presence I guess. A hawk screech sounds VERY cool from such close range:
Here he was looking over his shoulder, with a twinkle in his eye:
Here he is flying off the first pole on the way to the second, where E took the first photo above. So this sequence is kind of a loop...
So after the Hawk flew off we continued down to Leeds and got on I-15 there and drove into St. George. All the while the sunset was just getting better and better, this wonderful pastel pink, and all the clouds were starting to glow with it as I dropped E off.
The building they use for the church is just up the street from the St. George Mormon Temple, so it (the Mormon Temple) being the most prominent thing nearby that wasn't affected by power lines, I decided to take a few photos of it in this very nice light from the sunset.
There are many Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) in Utah, Arizona and Nevada, of course. But people also come from all over the world to see the St. George Temple - kind of like others come to see Zion.
So... Here is the Temple on what might have been the day of the most beautiful sunset I've seen this year:
Finally, the following photos are actually from last night's (Friday) sunset, and it just occurred to me that they may be of 'Casey's Temple', since I spend so much time trying to get the perfect photograph there, even though I'm behaving riskily lately by avoiding the Bridge of Perfect Photography in order to seek out a better angle on my own.
Anyway, here are The Watchman and Virgin River as they appeared last night with my camera planted down closer to the water:
You'll notice the fall leaves are getting scarce... Next year it'll all come together... I just know it.
Casey
), but few paths have more heart (remember Castaneda's 'path with heart'?)
