University of Utah Natural History Museum

Since Kacy's family has become basement dwellers in our home we have increased our size by two adults two screaming-giggly girls and a dog, so on her days off we try to take some kind of adventure and AJ my other grandson decided he would tag along and herd the little ones for us.
So we thought of what we should do and decided to go up to see the new museum.

What a wonderful place if you ever visit Utah please check this place out I could probably spend at least three days there looking at all the wonderful displays they have.

From the fossils to Native American exhibits, to fun interactive things for the kids to do, the see through floors you can walk on, I could go on and on but since I really hate to write. The four story high display it breathtaking.

http://nhmu.utah.edu/museum

Hadley says she liked the long necked dinosaurs the best. And she told her mom while driving in the car a few days later, "Mom! That was so cool when we went to that dinosaur museum! Remember we saw real-live paleontologists!"

Wesley loved this display, you turn he crank and it rains on a model of the  Salt Lake Valley you can see how the rains water
drains and spreads across the valley.

Just look at the beautiful facility this even from the observation deck
you see the valley below.

Garden roof top to solar panels the design of this building is awesome .

Wesley said she liked the little moccasins.

T'was The Night Before

It would be our last night in Escalante.
  We knew the eclipse was going to take place but since we were not a ground zero  (so to speak) to get the ring of fire.  
We also had not gotten any of the special glasses to which to view it,  
so I figured we were out of luck.  
We had spent the day hiking Peek-Boo Canyon and were pretty tired.
  We were back at camp when I asked Kyle what is the chance you have your welders hood in your tool box?
  Wahoo, he did ! 
I figured we were awhile out from it starting but when he looked through his hood he yelled at me told me to get the camera because it had started. 

What a neat thing to see.
 The kids all got turns looking at it even the old kids ( 77) got a kick out of seeing it. 

JD and his boys had left earlier and were on the road and missed out on it but did notice all the people pulled off the roads with their cameras. 

When I texted Kacy she said  they had cloud cover and  missed out on seeing it.  So I was felling pretty lucky that  we got to see it.

Taken at 7:oo PM

Taken at 7:32

A annular solar eclipse took place on May 20, 2012 (May 21, 2012 in local time in the Eastern Hemisphere), with a magnitude of 0.9439. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun, causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring), blocking most of the Sun's light. An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region thousands of kilometres wide. This is also known as Ring of Fire.^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_May_20,_2012

 

Taken at 7:39

Taken at 7:34

The rest of the pictures are scenes shot from on the way home

some shot thru the  window of the truck and on the move.







*Dear Photograph*

This is the book *Dear Photograph* that was released May *8th of this year, in side on page 178 is a picture of Ruth Spencer she was my Dad's oldest sister . I re-took her original picture when she stood in front of the old  Bountiful Tabernacle.
http://whitey-skunkhollow.blogspot.com/2010/03/ruth-spencer.html link back to Ruth.

Dear Photograph,

I want the world to know you, Ruth, because you made a difference in my Dad's Life. He missed you greatly when you died at age nineteen. Life wasn't easy and yet you gave my Dad many fond memories, like going to the zoo and art classes. I know you're an angle now, because I believe you were one here on earth, I wish I could've known you.

Clydene

The Chevrolet FleetMaster