Saturday August 11 2007

Ruth

Kay Contemplating a Masterpiece

Saint Kay, Ruth and Melita

Melita - All the Other Photos I have of Her are Just a Blur - Joe always says she doesn't let any grass grow under her feet.

Lois doing Watercolor

Ruth, Kay Lynn, Melita

Saint Kay

Ruth Setting up a Time Lapse to Get us All In Together

Whether it looks like it from the photos or not we painted hard all day. I got about 6 new small pieces done or nearly finished, a medium one, and worked on the large aspen painting. I have quite a bit to take to Ruth S. for framing, and will make good additions for the Art Show in the Barn. The weather was mountain cool and wonderful. There's always lots of wildlife around, and we saw mostly deer and cranes. They let us sneak up on them for photos. Actually they are quite tame and used to being around the family all the time. More good meals, especially dinner for which Melita cooked a baked fish with a crusty topping.

I had to leave soon after dinner because the kids were supposed to arrive from Vegas/St. George this evening. Beverly and Debbie went as far as St. George and stayed overnight. Then they had picked Clayton up after his week at Scout Camp up at Kolob above Zion Park at about 11 a.m. in St. George and drove on from there. I told them I was staying at Round Hill for dinner so to have their dinner on the way. We calculated they would get there about the same time as I did. They called me in the late afternoon while in an hour's wait for road construction outside of Evanston where they were going to eat. My drive home that evening was wonderful. I got lots of photos of that area on the drive out and will show a few in future blogs. As I got out of the trees and looked back to the west there was more smoke from another forest fire, in fact it looked like two different fires merging into one plume of smoke. Found out later it was over the mountains near Afton.

I got home about 9:30 and instantly was worried because everyone wasn't here yet, but the kids drove in about 10 minutes later as I was unloading. I scared Joe because he didn't see or hear me come in, neither did the dogs until I opened the door and then they set up barking. We got everyone settled in their rooms and then visited for a while. It was wonderful to see my family again.