Sunday, June 19, 2011

Out and About



We made an unexpected trip to Utah for a funeral.  A sad and a happy occasion, an opportunity to express love and remember a dear soul.  On the way home we decided that we needed to take a couple more days.  We realized that anything resembling "time off" was going to be hard to come by this year so we dawdled on the way home.  It was a beautiful dawdle.




Our first dawdling stop was Shoshone Falls in Idaho.  We had stopped there for the first time about a year ago and were chagrined that we had never stopped here before.   The top two pictures are from this year, showing the snow melt of a record year finding its way downstream along the Snake River.  This is one of the stops for the same water that flooded the Hancock cabin.
This picture was from mid-July in 2010, Quite a difference.  Last year there were kayaks down below the falls.  This year you couldn't see the bottom of the falls for the mist.  Last year many rocks were bare; this year water covered the extent of the roaring falls.

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