Oops! Uploaded the wrong image. This is a new wildflower I had never seen up on the mountain, NOT the picture of the Lions Club Breakfast we attended after watching the balloon show!
Not to be outdone by son Nathan and his family (who have attended every community event anywhere near Boise over the last several weeks), Victor, Adele, Becky and Audrey rose with the dawn at Mammoth Creek and drove into Panguitch, Utah so we could witness the Hot Air Balloon rise. What an amazing event to see the ever-changing kalaidescope of color as the balloons rise and lower and shift positions! I took an insane number of pictures but just couldn't satisfy the feeling that I should take more!
We found the Wilsons!! Because Victor is still recuperating from the heart surgery we have been better at the recreation part of our cabin visit. Decided to finally drive the old Hatch Road that cuts off of Mammoth Creek road, and decided to try to find Richard and Carolyn Wilson - good friends from our Chile Mission. It took some sleuthing and a lot of driving, but we finally arrived at what others we asked called Wilson Canyon. Drove right through the "Private Property" gate and asked at one of the cluster of cabins back in the shelter of the red cliffs. Sure enough, they were out baling hay! What hardy folk to have cleared off extra acreage and BEGUN farming in earnest at the age the rest of us want to just lie around! They are great people and live in a beautiful valley. We wish them well with this first crop and are glad we got to visit again.
Spring is glorious up on Cedar Mountain. We really needed this getaway time. It was pure inspiration to place the hummingbird feeder right outside my kitchen window. Although keeping the little critters fed is seriously reducing the sugar in our food storage, watching them has given me such joy! They are totally unimpressed by the sounds I make on the other side of the glass and just go about the business of drinking their own body weight throughout the day and diving around like little kamekazee pilots!
Oops! Uploaded the wrong image. This is a new wildflower I had never seen up on the mountain, NOT the picture of the Lions Club Breakfast we attended after watching the balloon show!
Not to be outdone by son Nathan and his family (who have attended every community event anywhere near Boise over the last several weeks), Victor, Adele, Becky and Audrey rose with the dawn at Mammoth Creek and drove into Panguitch, Utah so we could witness the Hot Air Balloon rise. What an amazing event to see the ever-changing kalaidescope of color as the balloons rise and lower and shift positions! I took an insane number of pictures but just couldn't satisfy the feeling that I should take more!
We found the Wilsons!! Because Victor is still recuperating from the heart surgery we have been better at the recreation part of our cabin visit. Decided to finally drive the old Hatch Road that cuts off of Mammoth Creek road, and decided to try to find Richard and Carolyn Wilson - good friends from our Chile Mission. It took some sleuthing and a lot of driving, but we finally arrived at what others we asked called Wilson Canyon. Drove right through the "Private Property" gate and asked at one of the cluster of cabins back in the shelter of the red cliffs. Sure enough, they were out baling hay! What hardy folk to have cleared off extra acreage and BEGUN farming in earnest at the age the rest of us want to just lie around! They are great people and live in a beautiful valley. We wish them well with this first crop and are glad we got to visit again.
Spring is glorious up on Cedar Mountain. We really needed this getaway time. It was pure inspiration to place the hummingbird feeder right outside my kitchen window. Although keeping the little critters fed is seriously reducing the sugar in our food storage, watching them has given me such joy! They are totally unimpressed by the sounds I make on the other side of the glass and just go about the business of drinking their own body weight throughout the day and diving around like little kamekazee pilots! 
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We haven't been so lucky as to find the Wilsons. We found their home in St George. But they are never home. Maybe we will have to go up into hatch and find them that way. I love your pictures. I love my humming birds too. I also love the hot air balloons. and of course the grandbabies.
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