Chips, ARt, Butterflies and Trickster...

Chip-seal in one shot...                                                                   June 18 2013

 Monday June 24... total overcast grey windy day... and its my turn to run the secondary water... only one way to water on a day like this place the sprinkler on the south end of the property and water the whole lot in one shot.
Well here's what the red canyon parking lot looked like last Tuesday... the crazy part of this day was people still tried to drive into the parking lot. If you have any kind of earth friendly concern you might be appalled at watching this process... but some how i think you might enjoy the lot when its done on Thursday of this week! But your going to have to put your earth friendly concerns away when you consider what it takes to make this happen. Lots of Dino's made this all possible, and i am sure the Clarion Formation will try to cover it over as it continues to erode away on its way back to sea level.

Oil/Tar Abstract...                                                       June 2013

Pinch pot pottery/w beads...                                               1995

The silly part of all this stuff going on in and around in our lives is that we need to slow down the hectic-ness of our lives and notice the things that come before us each day... i think it's called smell the roses or something like that... or better yet keep your eyes open to the world about you. Even most of the visitors that come on vacation are only windshield tourists, they only come to see the BC or Z place and not all the other letter places in between, unless a place like Red Canyon knocks their socks off, and some times they leave them in the restrooms or leave a bag full of games and clothes on top of the car and drive off. Or maybe they stop to get the "i been there" rubber date stamp and are then on the road again to the next letter place. Most everything they leave goes into our lost Box, never to see home again. Slow down folks... pick the little butterflies out of the automobile grill and take time to pin them to a white pearl eraser for the scrapbook at home. Art is all about us, we just need to look out for it. We need to quit stopping the car jumping out and start walking out across the landscape to get that picture of those two hoodoos behind the VC in red canyon, look down as you tromp across the landscape and don't smash the little flowers, better yet find and take a trail to make those images, and along the way you might just find something else to fill that media card in the camera!

Coyote/Fox Window                       June 2013

And if you look hard and high enough you might see old coyote (trickster) laying on top of a window looking at that stack of pancakes on the table above him. That's all at post #13 by the old Podunk Guard Station at the end of the now chip-sealed parking lot, but ya got to be lookin with your imagination turned on, remember that art i was talkin about?

So buttons on your underwear... spend some time among us... hang out, walk about... let the air out of your shoes... be on vacation and don't go home tired and warn out from vacationing.

In the mean time we are going to shut the place, red canyon visitor center and parking lot, down again this week, June 26 & 27, to finish the parking lot to make life better and easer for all of us. They got to sweep it clean of the chips they put down last week, then seal it with a flush coat, let it sit over night, then paint it with direction and parking stripes and install car bumpers and new signs.

While they finish the parking lot i got a deck at home to get painted on Wednesday and Thursday,  back to work on Friday the 28th. Then watch some balloons go up in Panguitch in the morning and walk the evening glow up and down Main street Saturday night this coming weekend.
Maybe stop in the Gem theater for a movie and ice cream... we just might hit 90 degrees this weekend, that's hot for Panguitch, but we got to get the wind turned off.
Cheers...   till we meet again.