Utah barns and fathers

 Finishing up my barns from my trip to Colorado and Utah in April (here were more barns, as well as just last Sunday.)

Monticello UT

Soon we were seeing different structures on the side of the road...

These two outcrops were between Monticello and Moab UT, before getting to the Arches National Park!

Can you imagine being a farmer with that structure off in the distance above your fields?

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Sharing with Tom's Barn Collective.

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And a happy Fathers's Day to all the fathers who no longer receive ties for birthdays/Christmas and Father's Day. In my childhood we could even give white handkerchiefs to our father. Mmm, wonder if anyone sells them! At least the people on TV often wear ties. Now I wonder if any of my sons have any...perhaps a few for wearing to weddings and funerals.

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My father's life has been covered over on my Ancestry blog. So I'll add a post today about another father. Three Family Trees.

My ex in the middle with our two sons as fathers and my oldest granddaughter (way back when!)

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Today's quote:

When we endlessly ruminate over distant times, we miss extraordinary things in the present moment. These extraordinary things are, in actual fact, all we have: the here and now.

Katherine May

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Little gypsy vardo wagon, slab built with glaze colors and wire-hung lanterns...the roof comes off to an empty interior. 

Sunday means barn photos

 Barns on the way to Arches National Park UT, from Mesa Verde National Park CO

Pleasant View CO

Yes, I shared some barns before, from my trip in April to Colorado and Utah. 

Pleasant View CO

Yes, a very small shed in the middle of a field by the highway near Pleasant View CO.

Dove Creek, CO - there's a barn to the right behind the ROCK - maybe a tavern for tired farmers to wet their whistles?

Dove Creek CO. Last silo in Colorado, at least for today. Utah next week!

Sharing with Tom's Barns today! 

Today's quote:

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. -Brenda Ueland, writer (24 Oct 1891-1985)

A small lotus blossom sculpture (terrible photo!)

It's Sunday, so barn day, right?

 I have long enjoyed Tom's barns on each Sunday morning.

1 (Ignacio - Oxford CO)

So when I was traveling in the western part of Colorado, and the eastern part of Utah, going through many agricultural areas, I captured a few barns that are quite different from those Tom sees in New York state.

2 (Ignacio - Oxford CO)

Sorry that they aren't quite as "artistic" as Tom's, and many were taken through windows as we sped along the highways.

3 (Durango, CO)

4 (Delores CO)

5 (Lewis)

6 (Yellow Jacket)

The places are what my iPhone identified them as being...I had no idea! And thankfully I didn't drive anywhere the whole time I visited!

I'll be sharing this post with Tom's Barns on Sunday! Thanks Tom!

Today's quote:

Take your good fortune and lift your life to its highest calling. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.  Oprah Winfrey