Though March began with a promise of warmer weather, it quickly degraded into long days of cold rain, snow and wind. (Note: This continued even through the first two weeks of April.) I finally gave up. I loaded my wife and my oldest daughter into my Ford Explorer and headed south. [Remember the old adage […]

It looks like March has rolled in like a lamb with mild weather. This is suppose to mean that it will roar out like a lion. We will see if that works this year. Here in Utah Valley, all but the largest parking lot snow piles have melted. The last storm just dropped a little […]

Sunday afternoon was fairly sunny with a cool wind blowing out of the northwest. I decided to take a drive down around the south end of Utah Lake to see what the Utah Lake ice conditions looked like. Until recently, Utah Lake had been frozen over. As it begins to thaw in the Spring, an […]

When I found out that the Cannonville area of Utah had almost no snow left, and was in fact mostly dry, I knew that this is where I wanted to go on Saturday. David and I drove down the morning of February 12th and spent the day hiking the north edge of the Butler Valley, […]

While northern Utah was getting the normal winter storms, central Utah was still fairly dry. When I saw that projected daytime highs could be in the low 50’s, I figured that we had better head to the Cannonville Utah area for a day of hiking. My brother, David agreed. From Cannonville, we drove south on […]

Saturday’s weather forecast was for more winter clouds and gloom for northern Utah. Since that is where I live, that is NOT where I wanted to be on a Saturday. From my home in Utah Valley, I could actually see blue sky to the south. So my brother David and I jumped in my Explorer […]

Sunday afternoon on another cold and dark winter day, I decided to take a drive along the dikes on the east side of the Great Salt Lake. It was foggy and the light was flat. I wasted a few million digits taking pictures anyway. It was the kind of day that you wanted to remember […]

The first part of January is usually frigid and dreary in Utah Valley and this year was no exception. I had a chance to meet some people in Arches National Park near Moab about a possible photo shoot so David and I drove down for the day to discuss it. with them Nothing beneficial resulted […]