All the Mod Cons

A Native American dancer, participates in the inter-tribal dance, with an iPod in one hand, and cell phone in the other, at the Liberty Park Pow wow on Pioneer Day.

Back to Salt Creek

A flattened Cat was the most interesting photo I took the entire day. We waited for hours in our fire gear, for the TV crews to do their stand up shots, miles from the actual fire. It seems each day that a wildfire fire continues to burn, the photo possibilities decrease drastically. The flat cat reminded me of a very beautiful Tim Kelly photo of a flattened Fox, he shot many years ago.
Mike Johnson trudges up a hill near the Big Hollow Road, where firefighters had been back burning. He is the PIO, so we didn't use the photo.

Poseidon or Pareidolia

Many years ago, Trent Nelson introduced me to the Weekly World News, and the fact that you can buy a subscription and have it mailed to your house. Being a past subscriber, I was always intrigued by the photos stories such as "Satan's face appears in a cloud." I always thought they were airbrushed or touched up in some way. Yesterday as I was covering the Salt Creek Fire, I shot several photos of a Helicopter dropping water on the flames.
As I was editing, I was amazed at what appeared to be the face or the Greek God Poseidon, or as the Romans called him, King Neptune, falling on the flames in Nephi Canyon.

Salt Creek Fire

Covering wildfires when the temperature is above 100 degrees, doesn't sound like fun, but the past few days haven't been too bad.
The Forest service escorted us up Nephi Canyon this afternoon to observe the some of the damage from the past few days, when the wind shifted and we were in just the right spot to see the firefighters retreat as a wall of flames followed them over the ledge.

Seasons at Pebble Creek

I returned to the apartment complex, formerly known as the Hartland Apartments yesterday. Since my last visit, more than 81 families, mostly from Somalia, have been forced to move since the new owners took control of the apartment complex, changed the name to "Seasons at Pebble Creek and increased its rents by more than $200 a month. Three brothers, Mustafa, Salat and Abdirahman, along with their other 4 siblings and their mom and dad are being forced out at the end of the month. Their family can no longer afford to live the apartment they have occupied for the past four years. Several more families are being forced out, with little hope of moving into a new apartment, since they do not have the $1,200 needed for the deposit required before they move in.