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Spent the evening with a super fun couple: Allow me to introduce Donny (the Don) and Krista to you all. We met up in Boise’s North End. After a little neighborhood time and a walk with the dogs through Camel’s Back Park and the foot hills we migrated to the Hyde Park Pub for a quick photo (where they had their first date) and a cold one. Talk about an evening well spent.
Donny and Krista, thank you for the wonderful evening (and for introducing us to buffalo chips). We had such a great time. The photos from this evening are going to be fantastic, but you don’t have to take my word for it because here’s your sneak peek…. P.S. that last photo is MY favorite (I think it needs to be your Christmas card). Congratulations, we are excited for you two.
There are few things in life that can be as healing and as nurturing as spending time with nature. In just a few short days I have the good fortune to be spending a week on the Main Salmon River. We will float 84miles from Corn Creek (near Salmon Idaho) to Vinegar Creek (near Riggins, Idaho). On the river, time moves slower. The river has no place to be and it can not be rushed, pushed, scheduled, or put on any agenda. Camera will be in tow and I can not wait… And because no post is complete without a photos:
This photo was made on the Snake River in the summer of 2007. The river burned on both sides for most of the 40 mile stretch of river that is typically floated (Battle Creek Complex and Poe Cabin fires). We ended up having to take a jet boat back to the dam because of the take out was on fire and access had been restricted to fire crew only.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau
Boise has been my home now for a little over 10 years. I moved here after a 5 year stint in Montana in 2000. There are a number of things that are quintessentially “Boise” in my mind. Very few of those “thing” are as strong of a representation of what Boise is to me like the Twilight Criterium. The Boise Twilight Criterium is in it’s 23rd year of goodness. The heart of downtown is closed and a race course is erected consisting of four hard right hand turns (some more than a full 90°). Think NASCAR, but with actual athletes and no stink of gasoline. That means “rubbing is racing” and the action and excitement is high. Riders in the pro categories average 33mph for 1.5 hours. When the peloton passes it creates it’s own breeze that roars past with a rush of cow bells, clickers, and screams of “allez” (essentially meaning “go” in french). If you’ve never been, it’s highly recommended. It’s good fun for the whole family.
It was another excellent year for the Twilight Criterium. Here are a few photos of the fun. I hope you enjoy.
Yep it’s finally happened – I’ve gone full on birdy! Ok, maybe not, but since the Western Tanagers came through I’ve been having a good time finding, identifying, and photographing birds that are traveling past/near the feeder in my yard. The birds are fun because they are really shy and I’m using a manual focus lens. Not only do you have to be fast enough at the focus and still enough that you don’t scare them, but you have to be willing to wait for them to come to you…
We’ve been invaded here in Boise by the migrating Western Tanager. What’s a Western Tanager you ask? It’s this:
Pretty bird hu?
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