Saturday, October 23, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Mom, Grandma, Greatgrandma
23 October 2010
(Doesn't she look great for 84?)

I fixed one of Mom's favorite dishes...spaghetti with grilled italian sausage and chicken....and garlic bread.

Cheesecake with fresh raspberry sauce for the birthday cake.




Beautiful birthday flowers from Brian & Debbie


And more beautiful flowers from Nephew Jeff Kipp.


Happy Birthday Grandma!

We love you so much. We hope you have a wonderful birthday.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Copenhagen, Denmark
21 October 2010

Yes, autumn has arrived in Denmark. The day was sunny but it was only in the high 40's.
I was a bit chilly, but enjoyed exploring this cool city.


I didn't have to look too hard for my "guy on a horse."
I think I counted a total of 4 other statues around the city.

City Hall.


The Royal Arsenal.They had this medevil festival going on today with live music, people in costumes, and local music.More cannons at the Royal Arsenal.This is the Royal Garden at Rosenborg Castle. I didn't take a picture of the castle because it was ugly. It is under renovations and covered with a tarp...not worth seeing. But the garden was lovely. Similar to Hyde Park and Central Park. It appears all cities have a big park like this. This is Christiansborg Palace.This is a guard hut at the palace. I didn't see any guards, so I climbed in for a photo. Don't think that was kosher, as I saw a sign in another hut that read, "Do Not Enter." Oh well, I didn't get caught and dragged off to some Danish prison, so all is good.Beautiful doorway (this door is about 15 feet high) in the palace that opens onto a courtyard pictured below with another "guy on a horse." The gateway to the palace.
A canal runs through and around the city. On a pier on the canal were these
cool sculptures.


Stained glass house. (No stone throwing please.)


And some wild, modern art job.This is St. Alban's church. It was just so beautiful how it was pertched ontop this grassy knoll in the middle of the city.Beautifully colorful shops along the canal throughout the city.Just a picture I caputred as I walked down a street of shops. Flowers everywhere and more bikes in this city than I noticed in any other city I visited this summer.Not only tons of bikes, but sculptures like this one, on every street corner. Manhole cover. Debbie suggested that I capture the image of the manwhole covers in all the cities I visit. I started in Stockholm because I thought it was so cool and detailed for a manhole cover, so here it is. Not as cool as Stockholm's, but neat idea. (Thanks Debbie.)I heart CPH (which is actually the airpot/airline code for Copenhagen)I had a great time here today. Although it was very chilly, I really enjoyed myself. There were so many other pictures to take, but my battery on my iphone went dead.
So I came back to the hotel and ate kippers and cheese.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Debbie came to Florida to visit Mom.
Having a wonderful time, wished you were here.



Monday, October 18, 2010

Park City, Utah
(plus other surrounding locations)

15-17 October 2010

Maria and I took a little trip back home to Utah to visit family and see the fall season in full swing. We had such a great time and the weather was perfect.


Fall crocus in full bloom at Maria's family home in Sandy.
And I love pretending to be a photographer with
my cool different camera's on my iphone.



And Maria makes for a cute model for all my shots.



We spent Saturday up in Park City. It was a lot of fun to walk through all the shops and enjoyed being together. (You will notice, Adam is not pictured at all...because he was not there. In fact, we didn't even see him on the trip. He was too busy.)



Whitney, Josh (Where's Waldo) Me, and Maria.

The Egyptian Theater. Tons of potted Impatient plants hung on every street pole.

This is where we had lunch. This is the oldest restuarant in Park City....so the sign says.

Only the finest swiss time piece is used in Park City.
More pretty flowers with my pretty model.

This is the Purple Sage store. One of many shops run and operated by some
tree hugger who is selling some knick-knack-paddy-wacks for lots of money. (we did not
buy any, just loved the sculpture.)
This is Maria's favorite shop....as she is a lover and collector of all books.
"I'll take one of each, thank you."


A sculpture of the Olympic Torch that was made around the time
the Olympics were hosted in Salt Lake City.


After we left Park City, we drove back on the east side of Mt. Timp through Sundance, Utah. We drove over the Alpine Loop and then through American Fork Canyon.

As you can tell, it was beautiful.

The Quaking Aspen everywhere were bright yellow. They have had such a long summer, we missed the bright reds...I would guess they will pop next week or so.



Don't these look like engagement photos? Anyway, we had the greatest time and it was fun to get away for a little 186th second honeymoon.