One of the reasons I moved back to Utah
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Heather talks about public tantrums (from kids) on today's Momversation.
- Bedtime, Leta lingering defiantly in the hallway. Jon: "If you want fart stories, you better get in bed RIGHT NOW."
- RIP Louis Mortimer Armstrong: http://bit.ly/1R4tv6
- Hugs and kisses to you, too! RT: @Monkey_Tree: @dooce he probably committed suicide because he was tired of LISTENING TO YOU WHINE.
1. shellibells said:
OMG the yellows....and look at those clouds...PRRRRRTeeee!!
2. Allison said:
Stunning picture!
3. Laurel825 said:
Postcard perfect.
4. Angie said:
It looks stunning there - I'm feeling the pull of Utah myself just looking at those colours!
5. jen said:
Wow, I can almost smell the fresh air!
6. Susie said:
Oh, my. GLORIOUS. Thank you for that.
7. psyche said:
perect hue of blue. can't wait to see the rest of your pics :)
8. sclark said:
This is my first comment here. I usually just enjoy the posts and photos and keep my comments to myself....but this picture really took my breath away. It's nice to be reminded that places that beautiful do exist.
9. RandyRambunctious said:
Beautiful. That's all there is to say about it....
10. Eleni said:
yet again, breathtaking, dooce!!!
11. Emily said:
That is fucking gorgeous!
12. Lori said:
Oh my that IS beautiful!
13. Michele R said:
Amazing colors, it looks so bright!
14. Michael said:
It's funny, I think it looks foreboding, with those dark clouds. It also makes me think of the "yellow" scene in Hero.
15. trudie said:
oh, wow. i love the yellow of the trees with that shade of blue in the sky behind the clouds. we don't have a fall in sc really. at least spring is awesome, though! just out of curiousity, do they have any trees that turn red in the fall in utah?
16. Chanelbaby said:
I once saw a tree this yellow against a sky this blue in upstate Vermont and it was so beautiful I wrote this little poem that I cannot now fully recall. But it had the phrases "burns bright and gold against my eye/it strikes so hard/my soul bursts open like the doors of trains"
Anyway, this picture made me remember that moment of transcendent beauty. Thank you!
17. Alan said:
Wow... One of the reasons I still miss Utah, a lot.
18. Lindsey said:
Really Amazing :)
19. Ellewiz said:
Gosh, what a wonderful series of pics this has been! Thanks!
20. storm said:
beautiful pic!!!!! can't wait til i move back "home" southern idaho that is:)
21. Tim said:
Wow, that is gorgeous. I love fall...how awesome is that new Interpol album...Is that riff on "slow hands?"
22. Jazzy said:
WOW! Can you send me some yellow leaves? We only get brown or green here in Texas.
23. flora said:
it's not true fall yet here in new york. i'm afraid it's going to skip right into winter.
but that is gorgeous. i love this dooce-posts-a-photo-everyday thing. although, it makes me want to learn to use my d70 better and i just don't have time! perhaps someday...
24. swimp said:
Beautiful!
25. Manda said:
Beautiful picture! So talented.
Aren't doggies great? I never have to clean off my daughter after giving her a zwieback. I just put her on the floor, and my dog goes to town. What a time saver!
26. parnissia said:
Zwiebacks are fantastic.
27. sarcastic journalist said:
so we punished the mormons by moving them there??? how?
28. Rabooka94 said:
Even though I have never met Leta, she brings so much joy to my life. You can feel her happiness in this picture. Kids are great!
29. Michelle said:
OMGosh Leta is sitting up! All by her self...with a spiffy tee shirt on. Wow time flies.
30. kara said:
oooooooooooh my. (sigh)
what a gorgeous gorgeous photo. Incidently, sarcastic journalist, the Mormons moved to Utah of their own accord. I think if we had known that it was pretty, we mayn't have let them.
It's another day of the monsoon season here in southern Oklahoma...
31. Peggasus said:
Our dog died 3 months ago. (Whoa, nice opening!) Besides the void it's left in the house, I now have to sweep and pick up food from the floor.
And the last time I peed in the woods, I got poison ivy on my ass. That was fun.
32. Amanda said:
You are so cool and talented! Can I be your friend?
33. Antonia said:
Thanks a million for the reminder of how important it is for my sanity to SOMEHOW get out of Texas. I have been homesick for Ireland all week, and now you have plunged me into hellish depression with the realization that there is supreme natural beauty everywhere, except here.
34. Courtney said:
Your pictures are always really interesting. I'm enjoying the yellows this week very much.
35. Erin said:
Sooooo beautiful. I wish you lived inside my brain and could help me take pictures like that.
36. Sue from Ohio said:
I'm pretty sure, no wait, I'm POSITIVE the trees don't turn that gorgeous shade of yellow around here...must be the Mormon air....
37. Julie said:
That's gorgeous. Thanks from those of us living in places where there is no fall folliage to admire yet...
38. Chloe said:
Wow, that is so beautiful. I would love to have leaves that go straight to brown and crunchy. Leta looks adorable in that tee-shirt! Also, that same amendment passed here. I was really upset, but there are a lot of old people in Missouri. Hopefully, the mormons are a little more progressive.
39. Hank said:
Progressive.
Mormons.
Progressive Mormons. Snort. hehehe. HAHAHAHAHA!! Woooooooo! Tell me another one.
40. Antonia said:
Just out of curiosity, I wonder how, in learning US history, sarcastic journalist and Kara were led to believe such differing accounts of the Mormon migration to Utah. I don't mean any offense, I just find it interesting. So which is actually true?
41. arielle said:
your proposition 3 is proposition 2 here in michigan. i'm worried because a lot of people aren't informed as to what it is here, and will therefore simply not vote on it. thus, all the crazy religious voters will vote yes, and we'll have no way of countering.
so, thanks for the visability. everyone should know and care!
42. Michael said:
Holy crizzap... we're psychic! I was just at electoral-vote.com, because i am a government dork, and I looked at Utahs stats RIGHT BEFORE I CAME HERE, thinking "I wonder what dooce has to say about this".
God bless you Massachusetts--all i have to do it buy some land now, and marriage is mine.
And im totally buying that shirt for my godson if, god forbid, november sucks.
43. Natasha said:
Another "amen" for voting no on Proposition 3...thankfully I live in Massachusetts!
Beautiful pictures.
44. Cate said:
It's been a while since my good girl days, so I'm a little rusty on my Church History. (Yay for recovering Mormons!)
The Mormons were forced (yes, forced - violently - Extinction Orders, general outright persecution) out of every place they tried to settle - Missouri, Illinois (others, I don't remember them all). So they made the trek west, and found Utah - a desert nobody else would want, where they wouldn't be bothered by a country that didn't want them (but got bothered anyway, different story), and made it their home and made it beautiful.
45. eco2geek said:
Here in Oregon, it's Measure 36. It probably has a much better chance of failing in Oregon than it does in Utah.
Regarding the Mormon migration, Jon Krakauer writes in *Under the Banner of Heaven* (not recommended -- I only made it to page 39) that Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in Illinois in 1844, at which point Brigham Young led the Mormons to Utah. So you might say they got run out of town.
(My favorite Mormon personality is that entertainer, Ethyl -- Ethyl Mormon. Ba-dum ching!)
46. andre said:
How your country can achieve so much with such a high proportion of wingnuts is still beyond me.
Think of the intelligence of the average American. Now realize that half of them are even dummer.
;-)
47. ksea said:
Yay the t-shirt!! :) And the baby grin.
48. The Mighty Jimbo said:
andre, i'm hoping that "dummer" was your attempt at ironic humor.
49. Antonia said:
Is there really any need for intellectual stimulation and cultural growth when there's just so much television watching and shopping to be done? I have learned to be very sceptical about what historical information to believe, since it often seems contorted to make all the achieving possible.
50. Emily said:
Thanks for posting that about voting, dooce. I kinda teared up a little at your threat of violence.
Rock on.
51. Kaycee said:
That was one of the best things about living in Utah (I, too, am a BYU grad-turned sinner-in-the-eyes-of-my-mother).
Sunday drives up the canyon in fall were the best thing ever!
52. wix said:
so lovely. we don't get much in the way of seasons in texas, so i'm living vicariously through the lens of your camera.
53. New Kid on the Hallway said:
Lord, I'm jealous...am currently living in a seasonless land of warm weather. I'm told it will get cold, but I think all the leaves are just going to fade away without ever changing color.
Just gorgeous.
54. Karen said:
Beautiful photograph. And beautiful daughter.
And, by the way, because of your link, I have a similar photograph on my blog as well...
...see?
http://chookooloonks.typepad.com/chookooloonks/2004/10/the_only_politi.html
55. Christine said:
Have you ever considered selling prints of some of your photos? (just the landscapes, not the personal ones, of course). They're so lovely,and clearly many of your readers admire them/have amazing taste in art :). Might have a different feel to it than selling t-shirts with Dooce plastered across the chest from Cafe Press, might make a few bucks and let some readers have incredible art in their homes and be able to see some lovely scenes shot from your perspective. Hope this isn't creepy.
56. Soylent Red said:
Your pictures are so beautiful, I would actually pay money to have them in a larger resolution to use as my desktop wallpaper or screen saver. Also, have you ever thought about making them into specialty note cards? I see these type of photo-pasted-on-nice-heavyweight-paper cards (which are sold individually) in most of the smaller local shops here in rural NH, usually selling for 3-5 bucks a pop. Not a huge money maker, but I suppose the profit could be enough to buy a couple of bottles of bourbon. ;-)
57. teach said:
I can't believe you didn't like Under The Banner Of Heaven, eco2geek. I found it absolutely riveting. I grew up in Wyoming with Mormon friends up the wazoo and I am astonished at how little I actually knew about the religion. I highly recommend it.
58. jennifer said:
Wow
59. trudie said:
today's photo of leta just screams 'lil stinker'
60. Shortbus said:
Dooce, love the picture as always.
Also, even if the Mormon state votes in the amendment, you could get lucky and have something like this happen.
61. Shortbus said:
Oops. Tag didn't work. Here's the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/05/gay.marriage.ap/index.html
62. meilaan said:
You people are nuts. There's absolutely nothing wrong with mermaids and their way of life.
63. Michele said:
Beautiful shot. I swear when we drove my stepchildren home last year to Santaquin Utah, all I saw was red dirt and thought--this place is ugly the Mormons can keep it. I take that back.
Love the shrit on Leta, Hunter's on on the way.
64. Jessica said:
Sometimes I am just so proud to live in Massachusetts.
Leta is adorable as always, the yellow trees have me looking around New England going, "What gives, foliage?"
65. di said:
everytime i visit the photo page, i keep thinking, "man, someone needs to set up a dooce discussion board...."
great photo! i love the contrast between the trees and the sky.
66. CursingMama said:
Breathtaking!
67. Aaron said:
Wow - those colours are extraordinar. I'm supposed to moving to the US early next year for work but I get nervous whenever your politicians open their mouths. That picture, and the intelligence of a lot of the people I read here, is enough to make me calm down and look forward to it. Thanks
68. Lindsey said:
I've always been a proud New Englander, the Massachusetts drivers may be a bit scary, but when they went legal last year I wanted to shout it from the rooftops :)
P.S. please tell your folliage to kick our folliage's ass into gear!
69. Jason said:
wow. It's been so long since I have seen something like that in person, it nearly gave me chills. Lucky for me I'm far too jaded for actual chills.
70. King Poop said:
Does all of Utah look like mustard?
71. Bianca said:
You could make a beautiful photo-book with these photos!
Stunning!!!!
BBB
72. Bianca said:
You could make a beautiful photo-book with these photos!
Stunning!!!!
BBB
73. Cate said:
Ah, yes. The Whiteness that is Utah.
My mother loves to tell how my Army-brat self came home from my first day of school in Utah and declared with much distress that everyone was blond! I don't remember that particular conversation, but I did spend much of my time high school thoroughly disgusted by and sorry for the majority of my fellow students, who had never even travelled outside the state, much less the country! Such an insular existence was beyond my comprehension.
74. Tim said:
A dooce discussion board would be awesome! As for voting...in the words of one Eddie Vedder at the vote for change concert....."don't let me down."
75. log-cabin-it said:
Damn it! Why didn't I just move to Utah?
76. Wingnut said:
Krakauers of Oregon? There was a Sarah Krakauer in my high school ca 1970. It's funny how names pop up after 30 years... But let's not get started on that. Eesh.
77. McD said:
Hmm... no tip jar?
There's an evil part of me that wants to import the photo into Photoshop and change the yellow to green just to see if the composition holds up.
mcd
78. Abigail said:
Utah is so unbelievably gorgeous! So is this photograph!
79. Brooke said:
Leta wants a new president!
80. Amber said:
You have amazingly beautiful pictures of Utah. How gorgeous. I admire what you do.
I will be voting this year, too, but probably not for the same person as you. However, in my state there is something similar to your "Proposition 3", in which I will be voting on with the same political view.
Anyway, beautiful pictures. And I love the picture of Leta with the new t-shirt on.
I'm oxymoronic. I love those shirts, I really do. I might just buy one.
Love in Christ,
Amber <><
81. tyra said:
i swear those clouds are moving.
i went out with my dig camera & took pix around my little neighborhood pond this morning in the sun, but the results were... let's just say not comparable!
i think you should add selling postcards of your fantastic photography to the money-making effort. the one last week of the yellow trees on y'all's hike was also phenomenal!
82. Hannah said:
The first thing I thought when I opened your site this morning was "WOW! Leta's so BIG!" And she's still adorable.
Just read Amendment 3. What a load of crap.
Our Australian election is tomorrow and I am SHITTING myself!
83. Gia on Guam said:
That yellow colour is amazing!
You're interviewer is it pronounced Lay Pay or Layah Payah, Lee-Uh Pee-Uh ? Interesting name.
84. Suzy said:
Although you may like to punch me in the face [and I'm glad you won't get the opportunity] if I lived in Utah, I must say your daughter is precious and you take wonderful pictures. =]
85. Krystal said:
that is one of the most beautiful pictures I have seen in a long while.
86. Kim said:
Your "blog birthday" is my actual birthday! Except in 1979. :o) I am so honored!
87. Karry said:
I miss those kinds of trees - wanna swap a few always green palm trees for some of your gorgeous yellows?
88. DeAnn said:
Seriously, that is gorgeous. No wonder the U.S. wouldn't let the Mormons keep it all to themselves!!
89. DeAnn said:
Also, do you think that Proposition will pass? It seems like, in Idaho, it probably will. I hope Oregon's Measure 36 does not, however. I'm definitely voting "no." And those T-shirts are seriously awesome. What makes them the best is that they aren't saying it's what Leta thinks. It's her telling people what her mommy thinks, which is just very much cooler than putting a message of it being your child's voice. I sent the link to my most liberal mother friend after following it from your sidebar the other day!!
90. Jessica said:
My mother wants a new president, too.
91. Fran said:
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Signed,
A Former Brick Layer
92. Peter Hentges said:
For a third time I say, "Fall rocks."
Oh, dear, you're in one of those states? Best of luck in defeating Prop. 3. There's something about this sort of direct involvment in law-making that makes me both excited about the ideal and nauseous about the reality.
Here's something that seemed, to my limited viewpoint (given that, hey, I don't know you and have only been reading your blog for a couple of months), to be up your alley in the political action area: http://freewayblogger.com/
93. kim said:
that "my mommy wants.."-shirt picture is one of the cutest ones of leta *ever*. awesome. i love that t-shirt and it makes me wish i had a baby..
94. sab said:
Please post more pictures of Leta and her chunky feet! My nephew had chunky feet at that age and I miss eating them up!
95. stella said:
what are you feeding leta? hehe. she is so cute. and is she sitting on a table? where are the table nazis?! hehe