Went to Nashville over Labor Day weekend and attended a PBR event, meeting up with some of our friends from Kentucky.  We  got to go behind the bucking chutes  before the event started and it was interesting to see the bulls close up and personal!


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Bellow is my review of the American Idol concert I recently attended in Salt Lake City. Also, I have a bunch of photos I took at the concert uploaded to flickr

I just got back from a trip to Salt Lake City for the Idol concert where I saw Utahans welcome home their favorite son, David Archuleta. Having gone to Utah's "Stadium Of Fire" 4th Of July ( Read more... )

June 21st, the longest day of the year, is one of my favorite days. I'm a daylight person, I'll take all of it I can get. Here's some photos I have taken the past couple days--


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I'm not trying to beat up the subject of Big Brown, but I still can't get over the travesty of Saturday's Belmont Stakes, (see my previous postings) and now people who's opinions are way more highly regarded than mine are speaking out about Kent Desormeaux's ride aboard Big Brown.


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There have been a few blog comments surface over the weekend criticizing Kent's ride on Big Brown. And some have defended Kent's act of pulling the horse up in the stretch as being "noble" and "protecting the horse". What people don't realize is it's not easy to pull a horse up during a race, and the act of stopping a horse in full stride is a huge ( Read more... )

Nerves got to jockey Kent Desormeaux in the first turn of the Belmont Stakes as he wrestled Big Brown to the outside instead of letting the horse settle early in the race. Kent knows Big Brown runs better when he's outside in the clear, but in racing, you don't always get to be where you want to be. A clear thinking jockey would have patiently ( Read more... )

Once again, we are on the edge of a Triple Crown winner, a feat not seen in 30 years. Thirty years! That was before I was born, wasn't it? No, I guess not, 'cause I witnessed Affirmed back in 1978, I was working at the Southern California racetracks and I still remember seeing him go by my barn at Santa Anita in the mornings, wearing the orange ( Read more... )

Here's a tiny bird I hadn't seen before. He was outside my window, and I was able to photograph him easily. In the first photo, he looks innocent enough:


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When the top 12 Idols were established, I wrote down my predictions of the final order of finish. As you can imagine, this is nearly impossible, but it's fun. I participate in an Idol blog on USA Today, I like it because it has mostly intelligent discussion of American Idol and not any name calling or childish rabid fans defending their favorites.

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Every year since about 1999, I have been taking photos of one of my rabbits on Easter Sunday. This is Traveler, and he has been part of the photo shoot from the beginning. He's ten years old and doing great. Usually I take him outside and photograph him next to daffodils, tulips or crocus, but since we moved to Colorado last year, there haven't ( Read more... )