2015 Road Trip

Two years of planning, eight days, three states, 1,246 road miles, one mechanical rooster, one zipline, and 129,432 footsteps later, B and I completed our epic southwest road trip.

Stop #1: Las Vegas, NV

Stop #2: Sedona, AZ

Stop #3: Grand Canyon National Park

Stop #4: Lake Powell and Antelope Canyon

Stop #4: Zion National Park

Stop #5: Bryce Canyon National Park

Stop #5: Salt Lake City, UT

Favorite picture of the trip

Horseshoe Bend: probably my best picture of trip

Most disgusting moment captured.  
The texture of the 'sand' and the smell is indescribable.

Springtime gardening

Tall scallions survived the winter.
The shorter ones are from this year.

I'm trying my hand at a garden at the new house again.  Last year, I had very limited success with "big box store" tomatoes and basil in a container garden, and one of my grandmother's tomato seedlings planted in the old hosta patch.  I also threw some scallions in for good measure.

This year, I'm trying again but working from seeds.  A few weeks ago, I germinated some beets, carrots and mint, and promptly let them dry out and die.  I also threw in some scallion bottoms for good measure.  

Tomatoes and basil.

Taking advantage of the good weather this weekend, I bought a few tomato and basil plants from Whole Foods and set out to plant whatever beet, scallion and carrot seedlings I could salvage. I also planted a few okra and jalapeno seeds.  Fingers crossed!

Carrots. Where?  Yikes.