Patrick Swayze Sighting!

Downtown SLC, Ut.

What's Up Doc?

We loved our trip up to SLC on the Trax to visit the LDS Church History Museum. This little cutie was peeking out of the dirt in one of the flower beds by the genealogy library.

Road Trip: SLC's Tracy Aviary

Took a day-trip up to Salt Lake City on Saturday and stopped at Liberty Park to take a few pictures. We walked past the Tracy Aviary and saw these beauties out taking a cold bath.

The flamingos are a wonderful shot of color in the grey and white of winter.

Salt Lake has a rather famous flamingo, Pink Floyd. He escaped from the Aviary a while back and now lives at the Great Salt Lake on his own!

Road Trip: SLC for the first KFC

Colonal Sanders's suit. His ACTUAL suit. ACTUALLY.

Did you know that the first Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC (Kitchen Fresh Chicken??) was in Utah? Most people are surprised or incredulous when they here this interesting Utah factoid. Two years ago they tore down the original one (On State Street near 3900 S. in SLC) and built a new fangled one, and it is chock full of KFC memorabilia.

Does anyone remember the jingle, "KFC has an all you can eat buffet. What did you say?..."

Late Christmas Post

I can't believe I forgot to post this before Christmas. This is also a roadtrip picture, because I took it in the Deseret Book in downtown Salt Lake City. They had many interesting, beautiful, intricate and/or crazy Nativity sets and they were ALL fun to look at. This was the most different one there, an entire Nativity of snowmen.

One more picture from SLC

This doesn't even begin capture the beauty and excitement that we enjoyed last Saturday at Temple Square in Salt Lake!

My three favorite City Daily Photos for today are:
Pasco (This is her VERY first blog post ever, so stop by and check it out and leave her a message!)
New Orleans
Rabaul

Fountain on the South Side of the Salt Lake Temple

Another photo from our trip up to Salt Lake on Saturday.

Exciting News: I ordered a new camera! I REALLY hope it will be here before Christmas.

My favorite City Daily Photos for today are:

St. Louis

Belgrade

Petaling Jaya

Temple Square: The Assembly Hall

Another of our photos from last night. The lights were actually much more amazing than the photos can show and the feeling there was incredible!

My favorite daily photos today are:
St. Louis
Brighton
Mt. Hood to Portland

(I have seen some other daily photo bloggers do this and I think it is a GREAT idea. I don't know if I will do it daily, but I will try to do it now and again.)

Road Trip: Salt Lake City - The Lights on Temple Square

Tonight we drove up to Temple Square in Salt Lake City to see the Christmas lights. Like always, they were spectacular. We had a bear of a time trying to find parking because there was a musical production going on downtown, as well as a bomb scare that shut down several streets. The news helicopters were zooming everywhere, but we didn't know what was going on until we got home.

We about froze ourselves, but had a marvelous time! I will be sharing more photos that we took with you later this week. This is the Salt Lake Temple and one of the most recognizable landmarks in Utah (along with the delicate arch).

NOTE: I bought a Panasonic Lumix FZ18 last month and have been taking several photos with it, but returned it this week because it was taking lots and lots of blurry pictures between the fabulous ones. For now, I am shooting with my Kodak Easyshare, again.