Picto Diary - 07 to 15 March 2024 - Sears Invitational Art Show and Sale
Above: Ivins, UT. 08 March 2024.
Good morning!
Above: LSDM Colloquium. Wasatch Bagel, Park City, UT. 08 March 2024.
Image: Peterbilt
Above: Sears Invitational Art Show and Sale. Utah Tech University. St. George, UT. 08 March 2024.
Above the Valley by Emelia Belo. My favorite in the exhibit.
Bob and Peggy Sears were good friends of Mom and Dad. Sears was an SVP of Phillips Oil, based in NYC and classmate of Dad's at Harvard Business School, 1936. He served on BYU Business School Advisory Board when Dad was dean.
Above: Beaver Dam, AZ bar. 09 March 2024.
Out and about on the Duc.
Above: Ivins, UT. 10 March 2024.
TIMDT and Freddie. AM walk.
Above: Ivins, UT. 10 March 2024.
Out and about on the 'Wing. Pillion rider IMDT poses. Loop to Taco Bell in Mesquite, NV. 75 miles counterclockwise loop via Old US 91 and I-15.
Above: El Mexicana Restaurant. Salina, UT. 11 March 2024.
Bishop, Dan Jr., TIMDT and The Monk. Agreement secured to visit Minerva Teichert's murals at the Manti Temple open house before the end of the month. Hells bells!! The Monk knew who Torleif Knaphus was. Sculptor of the Angel Moroni statue at the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York.
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Above: Deer Valley, UT. 13 March 2024.
Above: O'Shucks. Quarry Village. Summit County, UT. 13 March 2024.
Frippin' at the Frop.
Top: Good drummer, Chris Taylor's jazz ensemble.
Bottom, with Bishop, B1b and TIMDT is Chris Taylor, head of Park City High School Bands, one of many unsung hero schoolteachers.
Above: Deer Valley, UT. 14 March 2024.
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In my office at break. Still winter outside. Fog above 7600 feet. Flat lite conditions. Skied mostly moderate blues.
Above: LSDM Colloquium - Wasatch Bagel - 15 March 2024 - Wasatch Bagel, Park City, UT. 15 March 2024.
Topics:
Workforce housing proposal. 300 units near the Montage Hotel.
Park City annexation of Summit County infill property adjacent to Iron Canyon subdivision.
AI anecdotes.
Pileated woodpeckers.
Dagget scores sole Montana GOP US Senate candidate Tim Sheehey as LSDM speaker 27 March 2024.
Above: Deer Valley, UT. 15 March 2024.
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Looking ESE, from Sunrise Ski run. Crown Point lift and beyond, Jordanelle Reservoir.
Addendum:
"I [Carolyn Phippin] am the only true conservative on the ballot for Utah US Senate 2024."
Not true. Certainly not fair to her GOP opponent, Trent Staggs, and she knows it.
My wife Pat and I several days ago attended a meeting where Phippen and Staggs, mayor of Riverton, spoke to a group of about 100 people.
In terms of their basic beliefs, both are, in my assessment, solidly conservative. Both seem to have solid conservative records. Staggs was the first openly declared supporter of DJT - a critical qualifying factor.
Staggs is more polished and genteel, more diplomatic, while Phippen came across as shrill and strident. She repeatedly and aggressively attacked Staggs, to the point that she was called down by the audience, but he did not reciprocate - not once. I was impressed.
I believe either candidate would do a good job representing conservative values in the US Senate, but our choice would be Staggs, clearly the smoother of the two.
I encourage you to get Trent Staggs to speak to your group - then judge for yourselves.
Torquemada,
West Jordan, UT
Tork, You should tune in to LSDM AM talks.
Banker Steve:
Testing my possible diminishing mental capacity (politically correct term for my age group ?) as I advance into my Golden (Fool's Gold) Years, I used a Royal Enfield 650 Interceptor for a few days of researching the next Asian leg of the http://www.greataroundtheworldmotorcycleadventurerally.com
Some of my globe riding associates and critics vociferously questioned my choice of some motorcycle "Made Like A (1901) Gun."
I've been around for a while, but my memory is just fine. However to insure any self-doubt and send packing a few of my critics, I checked at the Chiang Mai Psychiatric Hospital (due to my Native top secret security Self Check-In/Out status). Seen below, I was walking away after having been told: "You are well within limits, for your age.
I did shuffle as you can see inn the above photo, due to long overdue knee and shoulder replacements and no handrail, while carefully eyeballing the changes in the pavement so as not to stumble or appear unstable (I had the bifocal sections of my glasses removed some years ago).
Having broken in your new 500 Royal Enfield Bullet some years ago, I can report the economy of the 650 purchase is perking along about the same, there's little I can do about the noise outside the border of my helmet and slowly sifting into my head and I'd probably make it on the unwieldy beast another 1/2 decade.
The downsides? It's d*** hot atop when in trying to move forward at average traffic speed, kind of classic versus "with it" in our rapidly advancing tik-toking of the clock....but it's far better than any crazed and untamed horse I might choose to ride in the coming years.
Best, as always,
Dr. Gregory Frazier, Ph.D on the motorcycling roads around the globe, currently 1/2 a world away from your cold and snowy skiing, but headed back to the Montana Res next week.
Dr. G.,
We need to rendezvous this summer. Come stay here. I'll meet you along the way for the ride in.
sdt