May you have sunny skies in 2009!

This was taken a few days ago.  The clouds look like they are exploding across the sky.

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My World Tuesday

Perfection in the form of an apple pie.

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The sun tried to come out

SkyWatch - Part 2

The sun is setting over the duck pen around 3:15 p.m. today.  A bird flew into the picture and even though it's blurry, I left it in.

Gray skies today

Even the dog wishes it would stop snowing!  We got another foot last night.

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Christmas Morning

Notice how dark it is outside!

Amber

Alyson

Where's mine?

Got it!

Hey, that's not yours!

My World Tuesday

Prayer flags we bought in Bhutan grace our property and send out good wishes to all sentient beings.  

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Dazzled by a brilliant act of civil disobedience

An amazing 27 year old University of Utah student did something incredible on Friday and we should be shouting from the rooftops.  

Tim DeChristopher single-handedly stopped some major BLM oil and gas leases from being sold by outbidding serious buyers.  He admits he doesn't have any money but he wanted to stop the process and it is stopped until February.  You can read about it here and here.   He won bids on 10 parcels around Canyonlands and Arches.

He explains why he did it in his own words here.  He's going to need a lot of support in the future for taking a huge risk to protect the lands we love.  

I just love creative audacity.