Picto Diary - 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 April 2018 - Tulip Festival
Above: Friendly neighborhood meese (sic). Iron Canyon Drive, Park City, UT. 26 April 2018.
Above: Viewed from Foundry Grill. Sundance, UT. 26 April 2018.
New menu. No straw unless requested.
Above: Cascade Peak (partial at left). Wasatch Back. Image taken from Wallsburg, Wasatch County, UT. 26 April 2018.
TIMDT and Mwah (sic). Out and about.
Above: Tulip. Tulip Festival. Thanksgiving Point, UT. 27 April 2018.
Above: TIMDT. Tulip Festival. Thanksgiving Point, UT. 27 April 2018.
TIMDT and Mwah (sic). Out and about.
My dad used to sing the above song to my mom all the time. Mom would have enjoyed this festival which only came on stream after she passed in 2011.
Image. TIMDT at Ashton Park Falls. Tulip Festival. Thanksgiving Point, UT. 27 April 2018.
Move over Red Butte Gardens.
Ashton Gardens, Lehi, UT, where TIMDT and Mwah (sic) attended the tulip festival today, dwarfs Red Butte Garden, Salt Lake City, in scale, infrastructure, design, and upkeep.
The two gardens seem as a metaphor for their respective counties/valleys...Salt Lake/Salt Lake....Utah/Utah.
In the former, development and growth stultify. The latter is bursting at the seams in economic progress and population growth.
A few months ago I attended a presentation by Utah economist, Kem Gardener. She noted that within 20 years, Utah County would surpass Salt Lake County in population and economic output.
She reassured the "sophisticated" Park City audience that by the time Utah County overtook Salt Lake County, the denizens of Utah County wouldn't be the rubes they are today. Ha ha ha. I wanted to say at the time, "Kem, you're the one whose a rube. You're an nobody economist in the middle of the desert. SLC may be a nice place, but in terms of economic and cultural impact in the world, SLC is not on the list."
Still, Kem was right about the diverging economic energy levels of the two "competing" counties
Salt Lake County is bedeviled with the Patagonia effect eg. growth is slow, stymied with legal barriers and red tape. Case in point is the high development potential Macys property on Highland Drive circa 50th South. It stands vacant, five years running now, mired in litigation driven by Patagonia nimbyism.
By contrast, Utah County is booming. Tech giants Intel and Adobe have big operations in Lehi. There are three or four start up unicorns, provenance BYU, in the valley. New office buildings, construction sites and cranes abound. And, unfortunately, a by product of growth, traffic snarls.
Where, in Salt Lake County, the Patagonia nimbies block progress, in Utah County, the aspirational Mormon rubes shoot for the moon.
Note: "Patagonia effect." Rock climbing types who want to cordon off public lands for their own, and no one else's use. More broadly the term can be applied as a parallel to "nimbyism" and no growth efforts.
Above: Mike Salisbury, standing on a corner in Winslow, AZ. Circa 2008. Image by Mwah (sic).
Friend, brand guru (501 Jeans, Michael Jackson, and many more) Mike Salisbury "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona..." image captured by...Mwah (sic)...circa 2008. Winslow stop part of duo motorcycle jaunt from Mesa, AZ across the rez to Monument Valley, UT.
I don't remember specifically Mike's bike, it was a some kind of crotch rocket, rice burner, but I was riding a Triumph Rocket III. The Rocket III had broken down near Tucson two or three months earlier. I returned to Tucson to pick up the repaired motorcycle and teamed up with Mike in Mesa on my return to Park City, UT via the rez and Monument Valley, where Mike broke off for his return to LA.
Addendum:
What no cattle guard! No aux lights! They are necessary safety items.
Chicago Ducati,
Chicago, IL
Watch out for those “meese”, they can kick you just as far with their front feet as they can with the back feet!
the monk,
Salina, UT
On "The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Its been quite a journey on K's, S's and my part.
"Understanding of people abled like Christopher."
Spook,
Reston, VA
On "The Quest."
Just finished "The Quest" per your recommendation. The reviews on line were tepid, but I really enjoyed the book and thank you for the suggestion.
John Galt,
Walla Walla, WA