Touring the northlands...

Took a late afternoon jaunt north to the hot springs today. Enjoyed my 1/2 mile bikram swim (my name for lap swimming in 100 degree water). Enjoyed my soak and had few nice conversations. Thunder and lightning forced an early departure and as I was driving home a crazy storm dumped hail and sleet and snow. Who expects snow covered roads in April? As I approached the exit to the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge a bright spot opened in the sky to the west and beckoned me off of the highway... where I was greeted by a rainbow and beautiful skies for an impromptu photo safari!

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Moon Baby...

Last week I was able to experience a bucket list item... A lunar eclipse; the 'blood moon' lunar eclipse on April 15th. I watched from the warmth of my hot tub, while drinking a glass of wine... What an incredible experience! Of course being the photo ho I am I eventually felt the need to leave the comfort on my hot tub and round up my camera, tripod ans telephoto lens to try to get some sort of picture.

I have been wanting to see a lunar eclipse since I missed a big one in 1989. My son Matt, AKA my 'moon baby' was born, 5 weeks early, that night. I always blamed the moon for his early arrival, that is until my daughter was born 5.5 weeks early sans lunar event and I realized I must just have a microwave womb. But I love the moon and am jazzed about having had eclipse baby. Am super jazzed to have finally seen and taken a few pictures of an eclipse last night....

I wish my photo were a little better, a little crisper. Even with a tripod it was hard to get a good shot with a 5-10 second exposure and a long lens. I should have read up a little on how to get a good picture... But all in all, not too bad for a last minute idea at nearly 1:30 in the morning, dripping wet in my hot tub robe.. yes, I'm crazy like that. And for anyone who is curious.. this was my moon baby's eclipse... http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/15/science/lunar-eclipse-for-four-continents.html

End of the season blows...

Behind in my blogging again... now we are here at the end of the ski season, Sunday was likely my last ski day *sniff*. But it was a great day. Crazy weather day, blue skies one run, a blizzard the next, snow blowing like crazy. Hard to believe I needed to put on my face gaiter mid April. Face gaiter and freshies, what a great way to spend my last day. And just to end the season right, the skies cleared for my last run, so my I was treated to a blue bird run down to my car.

And then there was giggle for the day. Getting on the Crest lift I notice that a guy in front of me had a sticker on his ski.. a picture of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile that said "I saw it!". I had seen it too, lhe previous Sunday here at Brighton. The guy was still standing in front of the lift when I skied off, so I tapped him on the shoulder and asked him if he'd gotten the sticker from the Wienermobile at Brighton last week, which he did. I told him how the Wienermobile had given me lots of laughs last weekend, because when my girlfriend was late to meet us Saturday night she sent me a text with a picture of the Wienermobile saying she was late because she was stuck behind a big wiener. Being a bunch of old single gals of course that spurned a bunch of silly big wiener jokes, so I laughed and laughed when I found the Wienermobile at Brighton on Sunday.

I asked him if he had eaten a hot dog form the Weinermobile, but he told me they didn't have hot dogs, but were giving out all sorts of swag like the stickers, and he was into it because he had fond memories of the Wienermobile from his childhood in the '60s. He then said to me "Can I ask you a question?" I said "sure" and he rummaged in his pocket and pulled out an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile whistle and then asked me "Do you want blow my wienie?" Well now there was an offer I couldn't refuse!!!! So I blew his wienie and we had a great laugh before we both skied off. I giggled about it all day... It was the first time ever blew a guy's wiener while I was skiing.....