What's up this week?

Tim and I are heading to Paria/ Buckskin Gulch/ Escalante Staircase this week. It's like a mini 4 day vacation, awesome! however, looking at the weather, it looks like it's going to rain the whole time... I'm hoping it's just going to drizzle, enough to keep the dust down, and make the colors a little more vibrant.

I did an experiment with pedicuring this week. Tried to make my toes look like slices of watermelon. They have these little nailpolish pens designed to let out just a little bit of polish at the tip. So I thought I'd give it a shot and see what happens. You know those paint pens where you depress the tip and it lets paint out into the tip? Well, I depressed the tip a little too firmly. Paint Everywhere. All over my toes, all over my bathroom counter, all over my hands. So yeah, not a super successful pedicure. I'm going to try again, because I still want cute toes for my sandals. It's almost sandal time dang it. Stupid snow. Stop snowing!

This little guy was on the trail

I took this picture with my cell, I'm still working on the whole mobile posting thing.

Antelope canyon

Can you see the heart in this one?

A bunch of French tourists died in this canyon- flash flood. They were warned, but they were fascinated and didn't want to leave, or they didn't understand. "It is okay, we are french."

We had to do a lot of elbowing in this slot canyon, it's got a ton of fancy photographers crammed in it with their tripods and big cameras. I still think I got some nice shots without a tripod or a fancy camera. A tripod woulda been nice though.

Antelope canyon was pretty sweet. I'm told Paria, Buckskin gulch are also supposed to be awesome, so I'm looking forward to comparing them.

Lake Powell

Can you tell which beach towel belongs to who? Btw Kim- that's the water bottle you got me- the white one, and the water proof case next to the cooler is also something that came from Texas.

This is Tim making breakfast on the awesome coleman max- it's a propane grill, stove, and gridle! Super convenient for car camping. Hashbrowns, eggs, and he's toasting some english muffins. You rock Tim!

I just wanted you to see how empty this beach was, we had the whole place to ourselves

almost.

no noisy speed boats on the water first thing in the morning, just calm. Aw shucks.

These were pictures I thought about sending out for Christmas...

This was a bicycle in front of a shop in Silverton that I thought would look better in b&w

yep, train for Dad.

This was in Canyonlands

Square tower house in MeVe

This one made me happy.

This is in Glacier

Also in Glacier

Yep, my backyard

Big Cypress, the swamp has it's own prettiness.

Down in Tucson- Sabino Canyon

Anyone can hug a tree. It takes balls to hug a cactus.

My indoor pets

My stupid Amaryllis that I planted in October decided to bloom in March. Stupid. But I've still got my shamrocks from last St. Patty's day, and Daffodils from the store, because the ones I planted guerilla style in Tim's back yard are under the 2 feet of snow leftover. And the orchid is still blooming since before Christmas! Who knew? I thought it'd go for a week, maybe two, but 4 months? Crazy.

GRCA in the snow!

Little adorable frozen Juniper Berries! (pronounced Y-uniper)

mmmm... snow. Thankfully it doesn't look like this anymore. Happy dance!