tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340496752024-03-18T21:21:26.602-06:00Bolimasa Blogarama...Let's ramble...
Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.comBlogger567125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-25057087104002744212022-06-12T10:13:00.013-06:002022-06-28T10:34:31.004-06:00Challis Hot Springs<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXt1_CkTqyrbyHH3a_DVtpB0VYHfDyA4JDTHYy0_GFTAteYqxONi8U29eT3JA7iA7k5ku8bJqNA8lweboPT3VqT5SKtMghaVB53xBTdtYzST9I5-H3Y3NRUYjRoHCVVkcwVmBxFCZNgcTSfv1UfX_LisaptiMEL5LXZb0wJO-nvMb8BgM7BQ/s4032/0E1AEA52-686D-4C7C-A3C0-8D361D13CA59.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXt1_CkTqyrbyHH3a_DVtpB0VYHfDyA4JDTHYy0_GFTAteYqxONi8U29eT3JA7iA7k5ku8bJqNA8lweboPT3VqT5SKtMghaVB53xBTdtYzST9I5-H3Y3NRUYjRoHCVVkcwVmBxFCZNgcTSfv1UfX_LisaptiMEL5LXZb0wJO-nvMb8BgM7BQ/s320/0E1AEA52-686D-4C7C-A3C0-8D361D13CA59.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Rainy day excursion to Challis Hot Springs. My kind of place - quaint, old fashioned, calm and uncrowded! Family owned for 5 generations, we were lucky to finally make it so far north this year, as the hot spring will soon change hands. The owners want it preserved and open to all and to that end it may become a state facility in the fall. I imagine there will be changes, so I am glad we got to visit while it is still such a quaint lovely place.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOo8ZzCEPVm7qURKowuiOfDeCX9MoNMjd_OIT5uxgw9dPkXJnYUzHOXYa7xjB-VnNJggX34FAy9FaUb_TswhkHR7bV8rA3ANOIJ5-kESUfGNB0EPd6SsJj--vFsjX_aZfCpO_XtIMrukwZPXmwc4x9j-gMm-frpoZuasxm5If1BHFKQX2S3A/s4032/0FD0E050-8E43-4829-BFAC-B68B8E7A1133.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOo8ZzCEPVm7qURKowuiOfDeCX9MoNMjd_OIT5uxgw9dPkXJnYUzHOXYa7xjB-VnNJggX34FAy9FaUb_TswhkHR7bV8rA3ANOIJ5-kESUfGNB0EPd6SsJj--vFsjX_aZfCpO_XtIMrukwZPXmwc4x9j-gMm-frpoZuasxm5If1BHFKQX2S3A/s320/0FD0E050-8E43-4829-BFAC-B68B8E7A1133.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3k2ufNRL7ahfkzVEaxpvGIsDEXg01NJDkMTPBkvdov4xza6aKrJlkfCQu-KwXb4QBz63r8yWksi3mvGJw_J8sTvcfMzJDiGmU5lsQ0dFDdITt5XhI8apTbpS3_gcdjTwOlS4wy79gHWSayBdfvF1MaKQMLZ2fhQUwE2F7PyiTH4VKE_M-HA/s4032/5A1955ED-97ED-422B-A49C-A4E295D06C4B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We buzzed up to Fossil Butte in hopes of catching a glimpse of some elk with our new spotting scope and the highroad was still closed. No luck with elk but a nice little hike and some burd watching. As we were leaving we spied a Red Tailed Hawk in the beautiful sunset light so we stopped to try out our scope and the camera system we bought to go with it.
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As we were watching the hawk on the pole have dinner this and fussed with the scope and camera a crazy big moon started peeking up over the horizon. That's when we remembered that there was to be an eclipse. Surprised I'd forgotten, as I'm kind of into eclipses because my son surprised us by coming into this world 5 weeks early during a lunar eclipse. (aside, I always wondered if the lunar event was the cause of his early birth... that is until I had my baby girl, who popped out 5 and a half weeks early, with no lunar involvment at all. Perhaps I have a microwave womb?)
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Lucky us to be in the right place at the right time to watch the moon rise! As we drove home we continued to have great views as the moon darkened, turned red and and became white again. It was so cool to watch, my best eclipse viewing ever! So thankful that the Red Tailed Hawk beckoned us to stop!
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Evolution of a ghost town. OK, not really a ghost town, but Carter, Wyoming sure seems like it's well on the way to becoming one. Apparently it was once a major agricultural shipping point on on the Union Pacific Rail Line, but now has just 3 or 4 occupied homes, population of about 10, and two very friendly dogs that accompanied us on my photowalk. I sure wonder about the history of these places, and what they were like during more prosperous times.
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A ghosttown out in the Uinta moutains, Black's Fork Commisary. A logging town founded n 1870, it became a ghost town in 1930. Likely supplying logs to the charcoal kilns at <a href="http://bolimasa.blogspot.com/2017/08/shooting-shot.html">Piedmont</a>, where they made fuel for the railroad steam engines. It's hard to image what a hard life it had to be living there back in the day, and I read somewhere the work was easier in the winter when you could pull logs on sleds. Brrrr!
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Another airplane arrow. Funny thing about this one is that we've ridden right by it many times and didn't even know it.
It's right along the road to Timpie Springs, a favorite birding spot of ours. There's actually a fence separating it from the road, but you'd never know it was there, unless you knew it was there to look for it.
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Evolution of a ghost town. Back in 2016 while out on a Northern Utah birding and ghost towning adventure with my friend April, Shin noticed the word "Ghost town" on the map just over the border in Idaho. Two ghost towns in a day sounded really rad so we after visiting Kelton headed up north to the once town of Strevell Idaho to check it out. Not much was left of Strevell, just a few foundations and the upright remains of a one building, which my research indicates was likely Mary's Cafe. Once a busy Idaho port of entry town, the construction of I-84 a few miles north essentially put Strevell out of business. This past Sunday's adventure took us by Strevell again, and now the ghost town had become even more of an apparitions left as that last building standing, stands no more. Sometime between the end of June and now the building toppled, I know this because my friend Judi, had posted a picture when she traveled past in June. Soon no one will ever have any idea this town ever existed...
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Another interesting thing about Strevell, Idaho. It is home to an airplane arrow. Back in the 1920's when "AirMail" began, the US created this system of giant arrows and beacons that could be seen from the sky to help the pre-navigation system postal aircraft find their way across the country. I was bummed when I found out, after visiting Strevell in 2016, that the town was host to one of these giants arrows and we missed. Well, this time we made it a point to find the arrow.
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Another coronocruise to check out a wild life refuge. <a href="https://www.fws.gov/refuge/grays_lake/">Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge</a> a wet land about 3 hours north of us up in Idaho. A beautiful day well worth the drive. We saw a wonderful assortment of birds, the sounds of the Sandhill Cranes were joyous. Our big treat was when we were heading down the west side of the marsh and we came across a great herd of elk!</p>
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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOfn53ESvBamuHrmBMOepW0XmdiXnwIIOSRwzQ87FX_gyuF1YMAic4wzcyupwdRsKGUFe3FVyOzaI71zXDIFbAq2rCHSWLzYwWxdx5ysvPgRKueXVPPkl4I_ySaayCkztE9Iwz/s320/sIMGP9707e.JPG" width="320" height="213" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1067" /></a>Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-91676715880749170482020-05-30T00:21:00.000-06:002020-06-17T00:27:22.569-06:00Art-o-mat Inspiration<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlB9UpyFq4voSLPAqBtZjJjX_YjxtI9qiE1x8Ef0ADxUZaghv0SCJcs9R1tpMx0uHEJY1jzacPPpJ0UNUS2N67Tu4lcAmc_LNJ7i7wBTMCw6yRY41xWsHj5pO1CbKaSMgxLBD7/s1600/sIMGP9625.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" 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Heading north for some bird watching I spied porch full of potential <a href="https://www.artomat.org/">Art-o-mats</a> sitting on the porch of dilapidated building in the tiny town of Bennington,ID. One has to wonder where they all came from and why they are there! What a great reminder that it is time to send in my latest submission. </p>
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And a second travel treat, spying the nest of a Red Tail Hawk, in very viewable spot!</p>
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Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-72358860553163030072020-05-16T00:12:00.000-06:002020-06-16T23:23:56.249-06:00Circumnavigating the Great Salt Lake<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPdzquQNq1VTBWGLHhlBFplCFoSmTR1CS8VTupW0lJRZsX1gi6bzilDyA54AGEuAOKi6LIlpvVnZF3D2BHe4L1jNirrAuE2CoskiMJOhcP0uwMlKehLh4_PQevQcq596br6cy/s1600/sIMGP9308.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPdzquQNq1VTBWGLHhlBFplCFoSmTR1CS8VTupW0lJRZsX1gi6bzilDyA54AGEuAOKi6LIlpvVnZF3D2BHe4L1jNirrAuE2CoskiMJOhcP0uwMlKehLh4_PQevQcq596br6cy/s320/sIMGP9308.JPG" width="320" height="212" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="795" /></a>
<p>This weeks coronacruise took us way out around the west side of the Great Salt Lake, where we got to hit a few places that have been on my list for quite some time, the Sun Tunnels and the ghost town of Lucin. The <a href="https://utah.com/wendover/sun-tunnels">Sun Tunnels</a> are a 1970's art installation by Nancy Holt, the wife of Robert Smithson, the creator of the Spiral Jetty. Constellation adorned concrete tunnels that line up with the sun during solstices. Way out in the middle of nowhere (and I mean middle of nowhere!), what a crazy, interesting and beautiful (and remote!) place for an art installation. It would be really cool to go see this during the solstice...
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<p>
Lucin was a bit surprising. I didn't expect to find a oasis in the deserts, but the ponds created by piping in water from the far off mountains were indeed an oasis. Lucin was a railroad stop, and back in the day they need the water to fill the steam engines. The train still runs by, but not much is left of the town, just a few root cellars and an odd concrete structure, which after doing some googling we discovered was actually a railroad company phone booth. The ponds make for a nice little wildlife sanctuary, ducks, lots of song birds ( I saw some beautiful warblers!) and a pair of red tailed hawks where living there.
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Somehow despite it being 175 miles (much on dirt roads) away from home our Corona Cruising took us to the ghost town of Gold Hill three times. Despite being described on the web as a ghost town there are number of people still living there, but the old decaying mercantile building is certainly ghost town-esque. We needed so many trips to Gold Hill because we were on a quest to find the remnants of the old charcoal kilns we had read were there, but they proved hard to find, so had to keep researching and returning back. On trip three we finally found the kilns!
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</p> <i>Despite that ar one time the town had a population of 3000, there are many homes. I read somewhere that this was because being a boom and bust mining town many minors lived in transient housing like, perhaps like this dugout. </i>
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<i>The ellusive kilns, apparently these were special kilns because they used ceramic in the instructions.</i>
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<i>The perfect ghost town graveyard, high up on hte hill overlooking the town.</i>Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-25677429513636545372020-04-18T22:00:00.004-06:002020-11-19T19:52:24.535-07:00Spiral Jetty Pandemic Style<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowK3fYOnNRdY1AmyAMIXj2UYNnjAXYX5RDN96ediivXYL8IcLH6p_Tcnk1Dfh6IoQMFoKx3VADgUAVodrx-IByr-QK8cwlO3nZD-nIXuiTtNENKNv7iHYBXRno7JlPK2LRIBZ/s1200/sIMGP9013.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowK3fYOnNRdY1AmyAMIXj2UYNnjAXYX5RDN96ediivXYL8IcLH6p_Tcnk1Dfh6IoQMFoKx3VADgUAVodrx-IByr-QK8cwlO3nZD-nIXuiTtNENKNv7iHYBXRno7JlPK2LRIBZ/s320/sIMGP9013.JPG"/></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
As Salt Lake was pretty shut down do to the pandemic, everyone must have decided to visit the remote outdoor place. I have never seen the Spiral Jetty so busy. Usually when we visit there's perhaps a couple of other cars in the parking lot, today the lot was full and cars line the road for quite a way. A crazy nunber of people for this remote, normally peaceful spot. The noise was crazy too. Even way up on the hill you could hear this cacaphohy on voices and screaming kids and it seemed decidely un-peaceful. But despite the crowds and sounds there was still plenty to see. The everchanging shoreline, mud, salt, water and foam scapes are alway so fascinating!
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<p>I wrote about <a href="https://bolimasa.blogspot.com/2016/06/art-business-and-culture.html">kintsugi</a> once before, and how I thought kintsugi is sometimes used in a manner a wee bit off from my interpretation of the traditional Japanese intention, and well, I think this may be another good example LOL. Kintsugi toilet... Found in a local, non Japanese, restaurant... It sure made me laugh though. Does this toilet tank really seem more beautiful for having once been broken? I kinda think not, how about you?Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-47933601858201670402019-10-26T00:14:00.000-06:002020-02-23T10:06:08.968-07:00Sol Duc Hot Spring<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9vLPY_mnoG2Yh6i7lb_ZyGvT4it-2szOjAwwmmDLiy8DkaUNdHta_JY6-lQ9wyzzyN_1-KvykWruO-Cyva99Z_VZKbDs3oF5pYMzMVjQs7uDp5Nug3wlts5UK8lvWdcewsTe/s1600/sIMGP8255.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9vLPY_mnoG2Yh6i7lb_ZyGvT4it-2szOjAwwmmDLiy8DkaUNdHta_JY6-lQ9wyzzyN_1-KvykWruO-Cyva99Z_VZKbDs3oF5pYMzMVjQs7uDp5Nug3wlts5UK8lvWdcewsTe/s320/sIMGP8255.JPG" width="320" height="212" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="795" /></a><p>
Now that was a treat. While visiting my son in Seattle he took us on an excursion... out to the Olympic Peninsula where he indulged his hot springs freak momma with a trip to Sol Duc Hot Springs in Olympic National Park. Yes, I'm a spoiled gal!<p>
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There's a little Salvadoran restaurant that I frequent, and have become quite friendly with one of the waitresses. She's a gal from Venezuela, a recent immigrant, who, when we first met, spoke little or no English. She was working hard at learning, and since we'd become regulars at the restaurant we would chat and she could to practice her English.
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We had a little start one day, when we went for dinner and found the restaurant shuttered and empty. We wondered how we would find our friend again. Lucky for us it turned out that the restaurant had not really closed, but had, quite suddenly, moved to a new location a few miles down the street.
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When we finally caught up with our waitress friend again, we told her that we had been sad when had thought the restaurant had closed and we'd not get to see her anymore, so with the idea that someday we would meet for coffee or desserts we exchanged numbers. Unfortunately, I work days and she works most every night, so despite our good intentions, we never managed to make that happen, but we we've continued our friendship at the restaurant.
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One night as we finished dining, she came over to the table, three deserts in hand, sat down at the table across from us and told us that since we never are able to coordinate schedules to have our coffee and dessert date, we would just do it now. She went on to say that her father had a saying... "The special moment is now" and explained that he thought it was silly how people are always saving things, like that nice bottle of wine, or the pretty new dress, or the special dinnerware, or whatever, for an off in the future special occasion, when the reality is that life is short and we should enjoy it now. So that night, even though she was working, she declared that "the special moment is now" and we all had a nice dessert together.
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As a person who has always been guilty of saving things for the special occasion, I thought that really was an excellent sentiment, one that I really needed to take to heart. I decided that I would put that quote on few coffee mugs as a reminder, and make one for my waitress friend as a thank you for sharing her father's words of wisdom with us.
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I threw some mugs and sprigged on little placard on which I stamped "The special moment is now", and a few weeks later, after they had gone through all the drying, glazing and firing steps brought them to my friend at the restaurant. She was thrilled with the surprise, and quite touched that I had remembered her fathers quote. She even cried a little. I always enjoy it when I can make a piece and share it with the perfect person and make them smile! I also enjoy getting new art inspiration. I can see a series of quote mugs in my future!
Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-46530754838232573412019-10-06T00:00:00.000-06:002020-02-23T00:10:13.600-07:00Heart Mountain... a Sad Ghost Town<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwW-qM2BisoW1zZkPX1YqV8p0UV_sUcRof_WR2q93loohUU5XA_xvp8cO4wzpmiIMY0J1nPiBAf3KIfvTQaQS4PdbvfvacQCJXh8NpMZ1I_QitqNNU7N8tStIxmvTrXWJjYfpM/s1600/sIMGP7949.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwW-qM2BisoW1zZkPX1YqV8p0UV_sUcRof_WR2q93loohUU5XA_xvp8cO4wzpmiIMY0J1nPiBAf3KIfvTQaQS4PdbvfvacQCJXh8NpMZ1I_QitqNNU7N8tStIxmvTrXWJjYfpM/s320/sIMGP7949.JPG" width="320" height="212" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="795" /></a>
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Another ghost town.... This one has a sad story; the time the United States ran concentration camps where American citizens were incarcerated. Now a ghost town, Heart Mountain, Wyoming was home to some 14,000 Japanese Americans over the course of 3 years during WWII. I won't repeat history here, but you can raise all about it on the on the Heart Mountain <a href="http://www.heartmountain.org/index.html">site</a>
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Not much of town is left, part of the hospital, some old foundations and bits of pipes and wires. We were able to peek in some windows and and try to imagine what life was like in this forsaken place. This is one ghost town I'm glad is gone!/p
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Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-68405120125913020602019-10-05T00:50:00.001-06:002019-10-05T08:53:22.210-06:00Beader's Paradise<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgik1aXia5S3yYzAu7g0uVsz4UskwA1pZ48WB9L51H8GWgqbOno_Zt3qhfrF3oNp08_r5lxO4ScR-8Gf_PWeEUc2NG4-1v5UjbeZOV4bXYIMDCzANHY6ALbfRLpbzqC3flop04z/s1600/0EC7ACDE-5F1B-49A5-B965-CA7E88429E5B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgik1aXia5S3yYzAu7g0uVsz4UskwA1pZ48WB9L51H8GWgqbOno_Zt3qhfrF3oNp08_r5lxO4ScR-8Gf_PWeEUc2NG4-1v5UjbeZOV4bXYIMDCzANHY6ALbfRLpbzqC3flop04z/s320/0EC7ACDE-5F1B-49A5-B965-CA7E88429E5B.jpeg" width="240" height="320" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1600" /></a></p>
Heading up to Yellowstone this weekend a road sign enticed us to detour through Blackfoot, Idaho to check out the Idaho Potato Museum. From the museum, instead of hopping back on the highway, we continued our way north on the road less traveled. Driving up this country road through potato farmland I spied this great big cowgirl sign. I though the sign was cool, but it was the words
that really caught my eye. "Beader's Paradise" Whoa cowgirl! This glass bead maker had to stop and turn around to see what that was all about. It was a bead store, all by itself in the middle of potato country. Truly a beader's paradise; the crowded space was brimming with beads: gallon jars full of brightly colored seed beads, bags of color coordinated bead mixes, trade beads, vintage glass beads, teeny tiny micro beads and some beads in styles I’d not seen before. Stringing supplies. Cases and cases and racks of beads! Quite the interesting find on country road in rural southeast Idaho.<p>
I was pretty interested in how, in a day and age where most of the stand alone bead shops I have known have long been shuttered, this gem of a shop, smack dab in the in the middle of nowhere, actually exists. So I asked the proprietor what the backstory was. </p>
She told us that the shop has been in business for 56 years. Way back then her parents were in a square dance group that needed costumes. Problem was that Blackfoot was small, so none of the shops carried enough of the same apparel to outfit the group in matching outfits. So they started ordering western wear for the group. Problem with that was that the needed to order the clothing in multiples of twelves, so they decided to open a western wear shop to sell the extras. They also began embellishing the western wear with beads. The beads were a hit with their Native American friends, who at the time in 1960's Idaho, were, by law, not permitted to try on clothes or boots in the Blackfoot stores. The store owners became weary of selling clothing, and switched their inventory all over to beads, and the Beaders Paradise was born. </P>
Sadly, this last hold out in a world of disappearing bead shops won't be around forever, the owner is ready to retire. As it is they are only open one day a week. I'll have to find an excuse to go back, sometime when I have more time shop, I'm sure I missed treasures. I did however, find some glass crow beads I've been searching for for a project I've been wanting to do! Lucky me. It's always nice to be so pleasantly reminded of why I enjoy taking the road less travelled!
</P> addendum ... After typing up the story of origins of the shop as it was told to me, I went a googling and found an even more complete history <a href="https://www.postregister.com/chronicle/news/beaders-paradise-is-changing-hands/article_ee3b7964-c14e-5c2b-b2a6-4d366cc98437.html">here!</a>Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-30356439636665341552019-09-14T23:30:00.001-06:002019-10-13T09:36:30.336-06:00Alfred Lambourne Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6zI9rmvJM8Ej4x7Ov0PvCwlwNU6jwAru_InrttPu5BWrHwRdQAsDQkB8saLdgjiZj1G_uX-euMU_zj-n-vWw5pSEotP-iuAkesHyoARupY3KhmS8NuEDOjKGaNqdO6ef1gipa/s1600/IMG_2446.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6zI9rmvJM8Ej4x7Ov0PvCwlwNU6jwAru_InrttPu5BWrHwRdQAsDQkB8saLdgjiZj1G_uX-euMU_zj-n-vWw5pSEotP-iuAkesHyoARupY3KhmS8NuEDOjKGaNqdO6ef1gipa/s320/IMG_2446.JPG" width="240" height="320" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div>
So I did a show Friday night... The Alfred Lambourne Prize. It's a show all about art inspired by the Great Salt Lake... I did this show last year, and since I am such a fan of the lake and the cause I made a repeat performance.
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This year I did a weird(?-compared to to the standard 2-D sort of fare) I made a ceramic bowl glazed with clay from the lake bed, and in it I placed marbles that I made to represent beautiful things about the lake experience; tinted waters, salt sculptures, rocky landforms, sunset skies, moonlit nights, diverse wildlife.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1plK_uyli_WcAcrUBlzcVSECf4zHKh4pHAQ8KlESousfeDQaBdtHaikcnWxKhlS2GxNSQaF7zWBn0P07h1uM5o-kIiCLpYG5GGBLVlSpeKtjT5Db9Y-WpC4dda6CH-iJwumLw/s1600/LindaMorrisonGSL.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1plK_uyli_WcAcrUBlzcVSECf4zHKh4pHAQ8KlESousfeDQaBdtHaikcnWxKhlS2GxNSQaF7zWBn0P07h1uM5o-kIiCLpYG5GGBLVlSpeKtjT5Db9Y-WpC4dda6CH-iJwumLw/s320/LindaMorrisonGSL.jpg" width="320" height="213" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="1065" /></a>
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I didn't win, (of course there are lots of visual arts entries, as opposed to the literary, musical and movement categories, so I never expect to win, I just like to participate!) to) but I was totally shocked when during the program the announcer singled out my piece and gave it gave it a glowing description of as an example of the visual arts category. The program had two slides introducing the visual artist who's work was displayed in the gallery like mine, followed by videos, readings and music performed my those in the other categories.
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The interesting thing for my lampwork friends...My other thrill for the night came after the program when a fellow approached me making a funny movement with his thumbs... the traditional marble shooting movement. (Which at first I did not get, because we played marbles in a different manner as kids) He was thrilled about my piece because he really liked the marbles, and my piece took him back to his childhood love of marbles. He really liked how I used them to represent the lake.
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I was pretty thrilled to find a marble lover at the show, it is always so exciting when my art lets me make connections with strangers. I wish I'd gotten his name, as I would love to send him a marble.<p>
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Labor day weekend I got to cross an item off of my hot springs list; a trip to Thermopolis Wyoming. I've wanted to go there for quire some time, but it's a little out of day trip range. The spring is large and impressive, cascading over 'waterfalls' of mineral deposits into the Bighorn River. It was very reminiscent of Yellowstone. The spring is located in a state park, and the state operates a bath house with a large indoor tub and outdoor pool where you can soak for free... for 20 minutes (and they say nothing in life is free!). There are also two private resorts with pool and slides.It was super hot that weekend so we just did the short free soak, which was long enough to tarnish all my silver. We also walked the boardwalks and swinging bridge and drove up high in the park where the views are lovely.
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Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-29456929070645311962019-04-27T23:45:00.000-06:002019-09-11T23:45:56.036-06:00CityscapesInteresting architecture, street scenes from Kobe and Ashiya...
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<p>I was surprised by the flowers blooming in January
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<p> There doesn't seem to be much greenspace in Japanese cities, but little gardens pop up in what seems to be the most unlikley spots
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<p> And then there are trains... not having much in the way of passenger trains in the US I enjoyed the train stations and travel.<p>
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Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-25475103360430755132019-03-24T23:41:00.000-06:002019-03-29T10:07:49.838-06:00Kinosaki Onsen
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<p>
Kinosaki Onsen! A train ride through the rural countryside up to the Japan Sea. A Japanese hot spring town with 7 bath houses. What is not to love? (Especially when you are a hot springs fanatic!) We stayed a quaint, traditional Japanese inn where we were given yukatas (japanese casual kimonos), yukata coats (it was winter!), getas (wooden sandals) to wear as we wandered through town to soak at the seven bath houses. Japanese hot springs are run differently than those in the US. They are segregated, every one soaks in the nude, and you bathe before you soak. A typical bath house has a soaking pool surrounded by bathing stations where you sit on a stool and bathe with a hand held shower head and a basin of water prior to entering the bath. It was fun to check out all the different baths, yes, we soaked at all seven, 6 on one day and the seventh, which was closed that day, the next morning. All had their unique style, some rustically traditional, some more modern, some had both indoor and outdoor baths, some had bubbling pools, waterfalls, gardens, one was actually in a cave of sorts. I wish I could have taken pictures to share! It was a lovely, relaxing day, dressed in out yukatas, wandering town from bath to bath, stopping for the occasional snack, checking out the public foot baths, spring water drinking stations, the straw craft museum, watching people cook hard boiled eggs in street side springs and just taking in the sites. Even the rain didn't dampen our fun... we were damp anyway!
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<P> There were lots of ice cream shops along the streets, a nice treat after soaking in hot water!</p>
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<p>And crab! November - March is crab season on the Japan Sea. We didn't have crab here, but the next night at Kotohikihama Beach we had he most amazing crab feast!</p>
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<p> Eggs cooking in the springs.</p>
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<p>Our quaint inn, with the most amazing hospitality. Even the room key was adorable..and the siphon coffee was delicious!</p>
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<p> Our innkeeper was really nice, he offered to drive us up the coast to see the Japan Sea. It was a spectacular drive. </P>
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Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-3247804235238929022019-03-14T00:26:00.001-06:002019-03-24T20:52:58.239-06:00Kyoto, Japan<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWo8XE2n5cH0tOp7KYbSSU6KULoc_Y04y9atymh8fsCIZJU6CG8g6DKJO_XNxWZhKz9P-cIv83zP-mqfImqhdusRYdoiqwGfCCluhqSyAVz7lW7OsGPy2qVxsRXPschgSRleB/s1600/sIMGP4638.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWo8XE2n5cH0tOp7KYbSSU6KULoc_Y04y9atymh8fsCIZJU6CG8g6DKJO_XNxWZhKz9P-cIv83zP-mqfImqhdusRYdoiqwGfCCluhqSyAVz7lW7OsGPy2qVxsRXPschgSRleB/s320/sIMGP4638.JPG" width="320" height="212" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="795" /></a><p>
We spent a day in Kyoto, where Shin went to college. Having been there once before, I'd seen many of the tourist attractions, so it was nice to visit just a few things at leisurely pace. First stop was <a href="https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3907.html">Ginkaku-ji</a>, the Silver Pavilion; a Zen temple built in the 1400's. Thought to be the place where the Japanese concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi">Wabi-Sabi</a> originated, I was completely enamored with the temple's rustic style and peaceful, simplistic, yet perfectly manicured gardens.
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<P> From the Silver Pavilion we took a leisurely stroll along the <a href="https://www.insidekyoto.com/the-path-of-philosophy-northern-higashiyama">Philosopher's Walk</a>, a beautiful path along a canal nestled alongside the mountains.
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<p>
I was lucky to get to take a wonderful trip to Japan in January.
Our first tourist venture was a trip to Nara, a city that was at one time the capital of Japan, and is home to many museums and shrines, most notably the Todaiji Temple houses the world largest bronze Buddha... Nara is also famous for it's deer, which freely roam through Nara park and down the tourist crowded streets, soliciting deer crackers from friendly tourists.<p>
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... to build a snowman.
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2016 was a crappy year... fraught with very unexpected health issues, which wore on my psyche and spirit. Nothing like catching a glimpse of your mortality to make your feel old. But What better way to keep from feeling old than to act like a kid and play on the snow, so when the first big storm hit I released my inner 12 year old! Heart problems be damned!
Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-55609743740844783102018-10-21T10:37:00.000-06:002018-10-21T10:40:23.632-06:00Tactilis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3ZCds2ey2RoZ8mpZhlE2n5LTzj1o3vV_9rqnFj3JsvvbIDupfFD2IFCq-rrpTXwBecgjEx5-SmGXXuXb1uSaBQnSmAxjO0P8iHRPcfw7XeT9UwZz52CxH6wIZffIUVFnrflB/s1600/IMG_0883r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh3ZCds2ey2RoZ8mpZhlE2n5LTzj1o3vV_9rqnFj3JsvvbIDupfFD2IFCq-rrpTXwBecgjEx5-SmGXXuXb1uSaBQnSmAxjO0P8iHRPcfw7XeT9UwZz52CxH6wIZffIUVFnrflB/s400/IMG_0883r.jpg" width="300" height="400" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div>
<p>Juried show number two for the year... Tactilis.
This show was at the community college, in conjunction with Art Access, an organization that provides creative opportunities for the disabled and disadvantaged. Tactilis had an interesting theme, showcasing art that was meant to be touched, so that it could be appreciated by those who are visually impaired.
<p>I was excited when I received the email with the call for entries, as I had recently gone on a bender creating ceramic pieces that were intended to be picked up an touched, so Tactilis was right up my alley. I decided I wanted to create a new work, a multimedia sculpture covered with texture and moveable pieces made with my glass beads.
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<p>Judging from the reactions of the visitors to the show, I think my foray into touchable art was a success. Even though I couldn't 'read it' thought it was really cool to have my label for the piece printed in braille!
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Linda Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032280822595682797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34049675.post-38221288927931886512018-09-08T23:53:00.000-06:002018-10-20T08:44:17.008-06:00The Alfred Lambourne Prize<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPib3GFRAOs1VO43v4LyBjCU3XCkH4DZrZCgqbTiFgR60jIlMq_KLV-wq4uSVPq9_aCaA6N9zeroxp4McX7DVUt_5RR_EY_9oJlY0wdChj-FKPCpccQ3GMQmSUuRbieShn8MQf/s1600/Experiential.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPib3GFRAOs1VO43v4LyBjCU3XCkH4DZrZCgqbTiFgR60jIlMq_KLV-wq4uSVPq9_aCaA6N9zeroxp4McX7DVUt_5RR_EY_9oJlY0wdChj-FKPCpccQ3GMQmSUuRbieShn8MQf/s400/Experiential.JPG" width="266" height="400" data-original-width="1065" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div>
I entered an art piece to a show, <a href="https://www.fogsl.org/programs/alfred-lambourne-prize">The Alfred Lambourne Prize</a>. This is a show dear to my heart as is all about celebrating our relationship to the Great Salt Lake, a place I love. THis show is extra interesting in that it showcases many genres; visual art, literary art, movement and sound. The piece I made was a fun experiment, I used clay from the Great Salt Lake Lake bed as a glaze on my ceramic pieces. Many pieces representing the diversity of experiences at the lake. I was pleased with how they turned out.
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My asty fartsy description of my piece and it's inspiraton...<p>
Salty <p>
Dead sea<p>
Oddly industrial<p>
An artist's canvas<p>
Fluctuating water levels<p>
Clouds reflecting on water<p>
Sunset skies paint horizons<p>
Wind whipped sea foam<p>
Remnants of the past<p>
Pink microbial waters<p>
Patterned salt crust<p>
Vibrant wildflowers<p>
Swarming insects<p>
Essential habitat<p>
Birds overhead<p>
Rocky shores<p>
Moonshine<p>
Snowfall<p>
Solitude<p>
Wind<p>
Rain<p>
Sun<p>
Every day, every season, every visit is new experience.<p>
Always intriguing<p>
Breathtaking<p>
Inspiring<p>
My submission for the Alfred Lambourne Prize embodies the diversity and uniqueness of each Great Salt Lake experience<p>.
Each ceramic piece is glazed with slurry of Salt Lake clay, allowed to run and puddle randomly when fired in a cone 10 kiln where the clay glaze freely reacts with it's own inherent impurities, the reducing atmosphere in the kiln, and colored slips applied below the glaze. <p>
Just like every visit to the Great Salt Lake offers a nature lover an unpredictable, unique and interesting experience, each ceramic piece glazed with lake clay emerges from the kiln as a surprise to the artist; unique, organic, different than the other. <p>
Mounted on weathered "Salty Fir" lumber that was commercially reclaimed from the waters of the Great Salt Lake.<p>
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