Arches

Last blog post from the Moab trip I promise :o) Today - the best of the arches.

Delicate Arch

Delicate Arch from within a nameless arch a bit up the trail

Landscape arch

Private arch

Double O arch

Pine Tree arch

And Double arch

Notice Alex trudging away from the camera - he was pretty done with me pausing to take pictures by this point :o)

Three sisters

Well technically they're called the three gossips, but my favorite formation by far within Arches national park were these guys:

The pictures don't do a great job of capturing just how big they were, yet you can still very clearly see where they get their name.

The sky in these shots also gives you a feel for the conditions we were hiking in on the second day...

needless to say the camera stayed safe in the bag during most of the hike :o)

Ute rock art

So much of the west is so new - it's very cool to get to see some very old up close. Very near the trail head for delicate arch we stumbled upon this...

In which Sarah wishes she knew more about photography...

So I'm starting to go through my pictures from Moab. There are the ones that I got lucky

And then there are a large batch where I wish I knew how to work my camera.  Like how to change aperture so I have near focus instead of far

Or far instead of near

Luckily, the landscape is amazing enough that you can still capture some neat things.

Like a batch of color in the very brown landscape hiding in the shade

or in front of a rock that seems too cool to be bothered by gravity.

The cutest little dementors you've ever seen

It's still very much sweatshirt weather here, so we have piles of them all over the house. And why on earth would the girls choose to wear their own when they could instead have fun with dadas?

Rainy day fun

The wet spring weather continues. We find our own fun.

Mom - I see a little of my early tennis career in c in this one :)

First of the good shots

After a fantastic weekend in Chicago (more on that to come), I came home to the hardware needed to both transfer the pictures off of my camera and start to restore the files from the backup of the dead PC. While those things are humming, here's the first of the good pictures of moab to hold you over :o)