Have a Monsterous Easter

 

Some Local Musicians

 Thought I'd post a few pics of local musicians from gigs I've attended in the last year or so...

Subconscious 3 at Caputo's

A trio at a local coffee shop (a former church)

Better Off With the Blues at Mary Amanda's house concert

UofU Professors at the Gallivan Center

Tully and Willis playing for the Alta Lodge Sunday brunch

Better Off With the Blues at Pat's BBQ

Dave and Esther's current trio at the Senior Center

John Flanders, Willis Clow, and others jam one Sunday afternoon

Museum Modern

If you are ever in Palm Springs, CA, I highly recommend a visit to their art museum.  Great special exhibits as well as an extensive permanent collection.  They are also associated with the local mid century architecture.  In fact, the aluminaire house was moved to the museum property.

 Too many wonderful art works to show here, but I did like this "sculpture".

Again, try to visit the museum if you are ever in the area.

Season's Greetings

 

Dead In Paris

I recently returned from a few days in Paris.  While walking around in the Montmarte area, I discovered this cemetery.  While not as famous as the one with Jim Morrison's grave, it was fascinating just the same.

There were zillions of grave, crypts, etc.,  going back centuries.  Here's a sampling.

If you look closely at the pic above, you may notice an almost holographic presentation of the head.

Below is the grave site of Ampere, who was important in the discovery of electricity.

And the graves of a couple famous composters, Offenbach and Hector Berlioz.

This one surprised me, since I had never heard of Dalida.  Obviously she was important to the French, since it is quite the grave site and well maintained.  Turns out she was a very popular singer in the 50's, 60's and 70's, selling millions of records.

Missed Francoise Truffaut's grave, and I suspect many the graves of many other famous people.  Click on the link at the top of this post for more info.

Me and Alonzo

 Here I am in France preparing to drive Alonzo's F1 car.   See you in Vegas in a week or so (if I qualify...).

Road Tripping to Bears Ears Pt.5

 It was finally time to return home.  For this final post, I will include a few misc. things we did and saw.  The Bears Ears visitor center was finally open, so we checked it out and bought t-shirs.

We drove up to the Bluff cemetery, on a bluff in Bluff!.  Fascinating checking out the grave stones and how neat the grave sites were defined by small rocks, as well as fences.  Here's a view of one section...

A scenic place to be buried!  And a cool gravestone...

The cemetery overlooked the town and the bluff in the distance.  Cool old house as well.

We also stopped at the Twin Rocks Trading Post.  Some great Native American art, but kinda expensive.  Well, the artists deserve the dough, the products are beautiful.  Just outside...

Across the street was a Cow Canyon Trading Post... coffee house, gallery, and shop.  Wonderful people and good coffee (the blue corn muffins were to die for!).  And a couple nice old trucks outside.

I should also give a shout out to Max, Terry's dog who did a great job hanging with us without a whimper.  Here he is with Jane.

Driving back through Blanding, we decided to stop at the Edge of the Cedars museum.  A great place and definitely a place to enjoy.  Tons of info on the archeology of the area and history of ancient occupation of the area.  We bought more t-shirts.

Our final stop was for lunch at the Moab Brewery (Moab now seems like a big city, it's grown so much, kinda crazy...).  Fantastic burgers...

The drive home brought us rain and cold and traffic accidents.  But we persevered, made it back in one piece (including Rodney, who we finally rescued out of guilt).  All in all, a wonderful trip.  Already planning another one next year...