Wow, what a vacation! Over the past 3 weeks, my husband and I dove with reckless abandon into shale quarries, hiked until we were the only tourists around, and saw the most beautiful of sights. This is a gardening blog so I'm not going to bore you with too many details here, but there were so many fantastic photos (including details of fossils and several flowers) that I will eventually share more on the sister-blog Leaves In My Cup.
Trilobites! So many trilobites. We spent 2 hours splitting shale and putting fossils in our buckets, and came out with so much loot. The vast majority of what we took home will end up scattered amongst the garden plants, back on the earth where they belong.
Hunting for trilobites
We saw some of the most gorgeous sunsets I've ever seen, and on a 7-mile hike in Arches we saw several, well, arches.
People were pulling off to the side of the freeway just to watch this one.
Delicate Arch is the one seen on Utah's license plates... it is much more impressive in person.
Making a few arches of my own!
Though it was a grand adventure, I'm very glad to be home... the vast openness and rock formations of Utah may be gorgeous, but I was raised in an oak forest with shade and moist air, and my spirit is glad to be back. In my head I had started to refer to California as the Land of the Plants.
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There was a pause. Then Twoflower said, "You see, last night it occurred to me, I thought, well, the thing is, all this traveling and seeing things is fine but there's also a lot of fun to be had from having been. You know, sticking all your pictures in a book and remembering things."
"There is?"
"Oh, yes. The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've to go somewhere afterward where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home. I think that's what I mean."
Hi Jack Astro,
Yep, it's pretty much exactly like that! The return home is glorious, and necessary for full enjoyment of the trip. :D
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