tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post2505371102807856002..comments2023-10-20T09:40:49.579-04:00Comments on On Location With Rick Lee: Antelope IslandRick Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03701456793164649060noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-74842107588946710302007-05-07T06:18:00.000-04:002007-05-07T06:18:00.000-04:00Really beautiful! I was there in the early Ninetie...Really beautiful! <BR/><BR/>I was there in the early Nineties. Briefly. The photographs bring back some memories, though.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09985199735578059509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-21279265283918864982007-05-06T21:58:00.000-04:002007-05-06T21:58:00.000-04:00I just Googled Chukkar, and that certainly is it. ...I just Googled Chukkar, and that certainly is it. That little bit of red around the eye is really cool. I assumed that it was like a sort of quail or pheasant because they ran along the ground like our local bob-whites.Rick Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03701456793164649060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-20454832299226537822007-05-06T20:23:00.000-04:002007-05-06T20:23:00.000-04:00The first bird is a Chukkar. You were right Rick, ...The first bird is a Chukkar. You were right Rick, it is a relative of the Pheasant.Page D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00515491666533099562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-62144067800614978752007-05-06T07:18:00.000-04:002007-05-06T07:18:00.000-04:00The arid West is beautiful country indeed, though ...The arid West is beautiful country indeed, though initially quite foreign in appearance and behavior, especially to a transplanted Easterner like myself. It took me years to learn how to garden here. Stegner was so right when he said that, to appreciate the West, first you have to get over the color green.<BR/><BR/>What a treat to see my own backyard (well, the far reaches of it) through Rick Lee's lens.Desert Dusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07129286722535007612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-70123676471329521632007-05-05T08:17:00.000-04:002007-05-05T08:17:00.000-04:00I have never been to that part of the country. It ...I have never been to that part of the country. It looks beautiful, at least through your lens.kenjuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342414519714356343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-12512295647126512562007-05-05T07:06:00.000-04:002007-05-05T07:06:00.000-04:00Wallace Stegner had an essay in his book "Where th...Wallace Stegner had an essay in his book "Where the Bluebird Sings by the Lemonade Springs" (or whatever the line is from The Big Rock Candy Mountain) about his youth in Salt Lake City. He mentions some kind of an amusement park by the lake that he later re-visits in ruins. I don't recall he mentioned the smell of the lake but I was amazed to learn people actually went there as a form of recreation. He described riding on the extra-salty water in a speedboat as like gliding across a bowl of gelatin. An odd feature, to be sure - and ugly from the air, too, as I recall when I flew there a few years back - but a beautiful city and beautiful country around it.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04210441627504923976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11934331.post-4282104783285901462007-05-05T00:38:00.000-04:002007-05-05T00:38:00.000-04:00Wow.Usually I download a photo or two, but I'm not...Wow.<BR/><BR/>Usually I download a photo or two, but I'm not certain I have enough disk space.Grumpy Old Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885003732996511989noreply@blogger.com