Saturday, October 20, 2007

Pine Valleys and Pomegranates

Living in the desert, we miss trees. So my first weekend here we headed for the Pine Valley Mountains, where there were aspens, pines, and even oaks! Here's me with Neil and Laura, my roomies.
One stream we worked at a few weeks ago had a pomegranate orchard nearby... here are the 33 pomegranates that Laura and I managed to obtain and are still trying to eat. They are sitting on our lovely ten dollar thrift store coffee table.

There are some very neat rock formations right outside of St. George. Although these views of red rocks also include views of housing developments, its very neat having slot canyons and climbing right in city parks.

Sacred datura, or moonflower. Apparently this flower is hallucinogenic, and can also kill people.

But, the best part of where I live is not the town itself - it is the short distance to amazing national parks like Zion, where we spend our weekends.

Unfortunately, Kiira and i fell into a cave while hiking up Hidden Canyon on our Zion trip.

1 comment:

Jewels said...

It looks like you're floating in space.