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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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JenniferS
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Nemo14
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Nemo14
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It was free admission today at the gardens, so by noon time it was getting quite busy there. The place is set on a hillside, so there is a lot of walking uphill and downhill, and my knee apparently is still healing from my little gravity challenge in July, so we decided it was time to head out and go back to the hotel for a while. We went for a swim and sat in the hot tub for a while, which seemed to help. I'm not sure how much hiking we'll be doing in Yellowstone though, which really stinks.
Anyway, we drove over to Antelope Island State Park on the Great Salt Lake later this afternoon, which was a lot of fun. We soon learned where the name came from...
But it is also home to free roaming bison
and mule deer
Anyway, we drove over to Antelope Island State Park on the Great Salt Lake later this afternoon, which was a lot of fun. We soon learned where the name came from...
But it is also home to free roaming bison
and mule deer
MinnieM123
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Pretty flower pictures, and I know your favorite Lego character there was the eagle! 
(By thee way, the Lego snake was impressive.)
I think the bison were trespassing in the Antelope State Island Park.
They need to get their own state park. 
(By thee way, the Lego snake was impressive.) I think the bison were trespassing in the Antelope State Island Park.
They need to get their own state park. 
Songbird76
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Wow, how pretty!! I love the pink ones about halfway down...it doesn't really look like a rose, but it doesn't look quite like a carnation...not sure what it is, but it's pretty!!So this morning we went to Red Butte Gardens at the University of Utah. We didn't expect much since it's so late in the season, but it was actually very pretty, and many flowers were still in bloom.
Nemo14
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Thanks!
The Lego Snake was quite impressive, as was the hummingbird, but you're right about my favorite. The bison were pretty cool to watch - we drove that stretch of road twice. The first time they were all on the lae side of the road, just chillin'. An hour or so later we drove through there again, and tons of them (literally) were crossing the road. It was getting closer to sunset time so I guess they wanted to check it out. That was when we saw the mule deer too, but they weren't that close to the road.Pretty flower pictures, and I know your favorite Lego character there was the eagle!
I think the bison were trespassing in the Antelope State Island Park.
It is a rose, but I agree it looks almost like a carnation.
So today we're off to Wyoming - staying in Rock Springs for a couple of days, then Jackson Hole.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Anyone else singing “home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play ...” in their head?It was free admission today at the gardens, so by noon time it was getting quite busy there. The place is set on a hillside, so there is a lot of walking uphill and downhill, and my knee apparently is still healing from my little gravity challenge in July, so we decided it was time to head out and go back to the hotel for a while. We went for a swim and sat in the hot tub for a while, which seemed to help. I'm not sure how much hiking we'll be doing in Yellowstone though, which really stinks.
Anyway, we drove over to Antelope Island State Park on the Great Salt Lake later this afternoon, which was a lot of fun. We soon learned where the name came from...
But it is also home to free roaming bison
and mule deer
Songbird76
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One of my best friends is from Rock Springs. She doesn't live there anymore, but her parents are still there. She was my maid of honor in my wedding and I was a bridesmaid in hers. Good people in Rock Springs!! I'm sure you'll have a great time there!
I had to laugh about the bison. We grew up across the highway from one of the largest buffalo ranches in the world. I could literally look out my bedroom window and see the herd when they were out in the pastures, just like your pictures. So I never understood why tourists would stand along side the highway and take pictures until my mom explained to me that not everyone has that view! Some people have never seen one before! I was blown away that there were people who had never seen a bison before...to me, they were just as common as cows. (I was probably only 8 or 9) Your pictures reminded me of that and it gave me a giggle.
Nemo14
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We did - then we made up some lyrics for what the buffalo, deer, and antelope sing about the tourists.
Nemo14
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I grew up on a small farm with a few cows, chickens, sheep, and pigs. We would laugh our behinds off at the "city folk" who would stop and take pictures of our cows!
Lucky
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Songbird76
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One of my best friends in high school raised sheep for FFA. When state fair rolled around, she had to get them muscled up, so we would walk them. She lived in town, so she only had a small pen for them, no pastures or anything. She only had 3 I think, to start with....I remember helping her nurse a prolapsed ewe back to heath....yikes. And trying to hold a Ram in place so she could give it vaccinations. It took 3 of us to hold that thing up against a fence. But every night, we'd put harnesses on them and walk them around town and there was a family from California passing through who stopped to ask if they could take our pictures, because they had never seen sheep on a leash before, like they were dogs,
. We didn't ever have that at my dad's ranch with the cattle. He was 20 miles out of town, so there was no traffic out there. No paved roads or anything. We got hunters every year though for antelope and deer, but I don't remember any of them being new to cattle!
Goofyernmost
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This is close to the view that I got from my Grandparents front yard in a little town called Chazy, N.Y. Quick backstory, is that in that town was a man whose last name was Minor. He got rich by patenting the train coupler still in use today. The Pullman Coupler. Anyway, he remained in that little town and along with many other philanthropic things establish a place called The Minor Institute which was an agricultural college or what would probably now be considered more of a trade school then a college. He acquired a small herd of Buffalo and brought them to that location to try and save the species. That was sometime in the 1930's I think. Anyway, it was one of the only reserves at the time for the continuation of the species.
As a kid I had no appreciation of what I was looking at as I would look across that pasture. Big animals, other then that they held no significance at the time. I don't think they have them anymore, but, it has been years since I was last there so, who knows, maybe they do.
My Grandparents place didn't have that mountain view the background, just your basic farmers fields.