warm, bright windows contrasting with the white landscape, people enjoying old fashioned good things- sledding, apple cider, baking, spending time with family and caroling. Can it get any better than December?Today I wish I had a season pass, however. I know it must be snowing like crazy up in the mountains and some of the resorts are opening for the first time today. This is the first year I haven't gone skiing on or next to on the first day of the season opening (it opened with Solitude about 3 weeks ago- two runs on man made snow for $43- YIKES...).
I wanted to post up a few pictures that have sort of gotten lost in the mix of things. First of all, I'm pretty lucky to go to school out here. School might be a drudgery if I wasn't surrounded by spectacular scenery when I walk between classes or happen to stare out a window during a boring lecture and daydream. Here is a picture taken while I realized how lucky I was to be in such a great setting:
(And I'd like you all to know that it is still snowing... even harder now then when I first woke up!)
Here are some pictures of one of the cutest little girls I have ever known. I love this little one! She's my good friend "Spandi"'s kid and she is adorable- unless she's screaming. We decided one night that we wanted to play Dance, Dance Revolution, and she wanted to play as well. So here's her moves:
I just realized they are a little blurry.
There is a beautiful mountain range that has captured my imagination since the first time I saw it eight years ago, shortly after I had first moved to Utah. It is craggy and juts way up into the sky, barely has any vegetation on it. The thing I really love about it is the definition of its stratification and they way the colors of those layers capture light- or snow- or rain- each season it takes on a different personality and even throughout the day as the light changes. I am lucky to be able to have this as part of my three-time-a-week commute up to Logan. I love to get to the point where it is in view because I know from then on I am out of the construction and congestion and grime of the city of Ogden and into the beautiful scenery that comes with northern Utah (for more pictures of what I am talking about, see my first post with the fall colors and all the pictures from my "tour of Cache Valley"). This mountain marks the beginning of all that spectacular beauty. It's what makes half of my 1.5 hour commute seem like only a second. (And I apologize for the power line in it- all these pictures on here were taken with my camera phone. This one and the one after this were taken while driving! No lectures, please.)
This next one was this amazing sight I saw as I was leaving Logan, going through a canyon nicknamed "Sardine Canyon", which is exactly where all the Fall color pictures were taken. The particular area which I took the next picture is by a little town in the middle of the canyon called Mantua (Man-way... weird, eh?). Anyway, it's always beautiful there. The sun was setting on the west side of the canyon and the light hit the clouds just so that they lit up. There is actually a rather large mountain that is hidden by that yellow cloud. The cloud is placed between two mountains, the ones you see in the foreground and the hidden one in back- it was so bright that you can't see any part of it. It was taken through my car windshield, sorry about any imperfections.
Finally, here is the current progress of our winter storm today. It is still snowing and the trees have accumulated quite a load. Everything is white and I can't see past the block around me. I feel like I am in the middle of some little country town, as I am in a historic neighborhood and there is a little wooden barn-looking house with a bright brick red home behind it, all covered in snow. The pictures are blurry only because of the amount of snow coming down and my camera phone couldn't really handle it too well. Perfect beginning to December!!!
Happy Holidays to Everyone!
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