Looking For The Joy

2015 went by without a post. So did 2014. My mother always said, "If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all." So I haven't.

In an effort to turn the tide, I will attempt to find something nice to say each day of 2016.
So far I am about two hours late with my first post but here goes:

I truly enjoy photography. I take pictures as well as video. Tonight I was organizing digital videos and photos. I revisited my 2011 road trip to Arches National Park in Moab, Utah  with my sister.

Utah is beautiful. I wouldn't have thought so as a child, but as an adult I can appreciate the great forces at work in creating the enormous landscape of rock and sky. I can appreciate the skill and knowledge of people who make a living in such a land. I can wonder at the lives of the dinosaurs whose remains can be found throughout the state.

I am fascinated by the human urge to leave a note behind in what today we call graffiti, while those left by prehistoric peoples we call petroglyphs. You can see a lot of both in Utah.

We enjoyed Utah so much we went back the next year to see Zion National Park.
Calendar of my photographs