Aug. 3, 2010

Tell about going to summer camp.

The only summer camps that I went to were because of Scouting. They were all up in the granddaddy lakes area of the Uintah National Forest. I loved the five or six times I went into the Granddaddies as they were know and the different lakes that we camped at each time. We stayed at Palisade he most but also camped at Governor and Betsy lakes. I was always afraid of getting lost so I stuck to the trails unless with the leaders who knew the back country trails. Fishing was fun but I wasn’t good at it so it slowly lost its appeal and gave way to making rafts to cross the lakes and hikes into the closets meadows where we could watch the big fish in the stream and still not catch them.

I did go on one other summer camp just before my senior year. It was a summer biology camp with the class and of course Marie was one of the class members that made it worth being on for those couple of days. We saw the first and only flying squirrel that I have ever seen in the wild and had a great time. It was up in the Yellowstone drainage near Moon Lake.

Other than that it was just the weekend camps with the scouts and I always enjoyed them as well.

Aug. 2, 2010

Describe your childhood home and neighborhood.

I grew up in a home that had been moved from Duchesne onto blue bench and then added onto several times. There was a porch that was added, a basement set of rooms and siding. It was a two story home with a basement. We lived on a dead end road with the nearest neighbor a little over a half mile away and town was about two miles. It was a little more than a 40 acre farm and had plenty of work to always be done. Duchesne was a small town where everyone knew everyone and everything about them. There were several families that were the base of the community and they were all well known with my family as one of them. We were farmer’s for the most part and I loved growing up on the farm despite the lack of shopping malls and McDonalds. We didn’t have them and thus we didn’t miss them.

Aug 1, 2010

If you were to return to your youth what would you do differently?

Take more pictures of the things that I did everyday and the places that I loved and the camping trips I went on and the family outings that we had. I have memories but the way I saw things back then are so different from what they are now and even though I have taken some pictures now I can’t make it look like it did in my memory. Things like the Old Slaughter House will never stand again but thank goodness I do have pictures of it. I would probably do my stories about my youth while living it and keep a better journal.

WAIT that is what I should still be doing now. Maybe that is why I like my blog and the Treasured Photography Blog as well. I need to get on it more now too.