"Pretty nice"? Well... photographs never do sunsets justice. It was pretty spectacular if you were there. At one point after dark the "butterscotch" part got really bright, but it doesn't show that.
Trust me, it was a spectacular birthday present to present if present.
Here's a little better idea (but not much because you can't see all the sky), a three-shot panorama:
Today was the same, cloudwise, but started a little earlier after I drove E to church and had to kill time until she was released. I drove out of St. George towards Santa Clara where I saw quite a few Turkey Vultures, one very close up when it took off from dining by the side of the road.
It turned out to be a horse day: This scene as affected by the camera zoom through the heat reminded me of those tilting at windmills prints you used to see all over:
Around 4:30 we drove up to Kolob (where we saw the Condors) to see if the trees were turning yellow yet (though without clouds even yellow trees aren't the greatest subjects I think).
As an aside, while E was walking Mr. Darcy I caught some Mountain Bluebirds with the camera, one came out pretty cool because I happened to snap when they were arguing over something.
A little later, and to go with that photo of I.F.'s cake (I've never understood the difference between Angels/Devils Food to begin with), there was a pretty Strawberry Roan grazing up there:
On the way back down we happened on this little drama... There was a colt whose mother had slipped into the next pasture. The colt was frantically trying to reach her. It kept running up to the fence but I guess instinct told it not to jump because the fence was too high and barbed.
I took a video of the colt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTFJPM6zRYw
I could see that the mother had crossed the fence closer to the road, where a section was down and she just had to walk over it. But the colt, racing back and forth away from the road, and doing this squeaky whinnying thing, didn't see the downed part of the fence in the corner. The white gelding in the video didn't seem to see it either.
I don't know how it all came out, it was getting dark so we left. The mother was happily eating the grass "on the other side of the fence" (didn't necessarily look any greener to me), so whether she eventually led the colt to the hole in the fence or not will have to remain unanswered until we go up again and see if colt & mother are still together, or if the colt is hanging on that fence.
So it's a continuing drama... :-)
Casey
