text: high altitude baby A trip to Colorado over the solstice, with nights in Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Rocky Mountain National Parks. IView full post » because who doesn't love kittens? We have a kitten room at work. Yes, an entire room full of kittens available for adoption. I always go hang out inView full post » Ceci visits the Big Ditch After a week working down in Kanab, we took a quick little getaway to the Grand Canyon. Spent a night camping at theView full post » Ceci meets the Black Hills The day we were driving out to visit my parents, and have Ceci finally meet Grandpa, I woke up with a sore throat.View full post » yurt baby When Jim and I stayed in a yurt south of Moab a few Decembers ago, we knew we'd be back. We wanted to go sometimeView full post » No-Kill Utah NKUT (No-Kill Utah), is our newest campaign at work to make Utah a no-kill state. It's modeled after our NKLAView full post » backcountry baby Before she was even born, Ceci was a pro at camping. She camped within the confines of my uterus under a starry desertView full post » the return to Zion (by Jim) Zion National Park will always hold a place as one of the most important and special places on the planet for me. ItView full post » some things never change Some things never change… and I don't expect them to change much once the baby comes either. Spent a weekend inView full post » Naomi Peak Six months pregnant and ON TOP… of Naomi Peak, the highest in Cache County! However, yesterday's hike made meView full post » more mountains A couple weeks back, the Chickpea summited three more mountains, this time in the Uintas. We were camping with friendsView full post » tent firsts While adventuring during the first trimester, I couldn't bring myself to sleep in a tent. I was waking up fiveView full post » grandeur on Grandeur A few days ago, on Memorial Day, Jim and I decided to hike Grandeur Peak (elevation 8,299 feet). We've hiked itView full post » latest sanctuary visit In honor of my next trip down to the sanctuary (in a couple weeks), here are some shots from last month's trip.View full post » Yurtcation Back in December, Jim finished his masters degree in environmental humanities. He processed a huge set of records atView full post » Molly and her horses Whenever I go back to Kanab, I stay with my incredibly talented fellow photog, Molly. She lives out in a remote canyonView full post » lifesaving in LA I'm headed back to Los Angeles this weekend, and in honor of that, as well as finally planning to post againView full post » the face of God (by Jim) I love the desert. I love the relentless light and stark relief that the sun throws across its limitless landscapes. IView full post » Dani and Annabelle It's the dead of winter here in Utah and I'm dreaming of sunshine and warmth. Let's flash back toView full post » Nevada is underrated Is that view what you think of when you think of Nevada? Okay, when you think of parts of Nevada that aren't inView full post » the Pacific Northwest If Jim and I are anything, it's adaptable. We are flexible and spontaneous, and that has come in very handy forView full post » Olive the Frenchie Matt and James and Ruby Erin and her pack Case in point from what I mentioned in that last post… these are photos I took in April… of 2011. Yes, forView full post » Black Hills I've been to the Black Hills about a zillion times. No lie. A zillion. My first trip there was when I was aboutView full post » sunsets, dogs, and wine I'm fairly certain no one checks this blog anymore, since I have been the worst blogger in the world the pastView full post » the incredibly great Great Basin It was loud. The wind raged, nearly picking me off my feet. It folded my eyelids back, suffocated me when I faced it,View full post » the Narrows A few months back, my friend Lauren pitched the idea of getting a group together to go hike the Zion Narrows. I'dView full post » Arizona tour de parks! Back in March, Jim and I took a mini vacation to Arizona with my mom. She has an aunt, Gen, who lives down there, isView full post » diptychs I love diptychs. Years back, I was going through my old newspaper files, and stumbled upon a hilarious one. Then a yearView full post » Radiolab week! There are few things in this world that I truly LOVE. Well, there's lots of stuff that I love, but things I LOVE,View full post » a new state of adventure (by Jim) (If you like to read, read the post below. If you just like pictures, watch the video above. Better yet, do both!View full post » Trail Tails episode 5: dog cam Strut Your Mutt! It's taken me a terribly long time to post these (what can I say, blogging doesn't top my priority listView full post » playtime at Cat World Another cute video I did for work. Playing with kittens? Never gets old. Never.View full post » Trail Tails episode 4: Spiral Jetty I shot this video way back in September, but have been lazy at video editing (it's really time consuming and IView full post » invisible dogs Over the past four years at this job, I've photographed a wide range of animal species. Cats, dogs, horses,View full post » Mr. Kitty This is Mr. Kitty and his family. They adopted him recently after he lost his home at the Provo airport. It's aView full post » mounting Ellen Back in September, as part of our Utah county peaks goal, Jim and I finally mounted Ellen… as in Mount Ellen. IView full post » Phoebe I first met Phoebe back in April at the Salt Lake City Super Adoption. I took a couple photos when she was leaving withView full post » an update from Aramis I've written about Aramis many times before, but not for years. About two and a half years ago, he was adopted byView full post » 26 hours in Vegas I've always hated Vegas. It truly is one of the most terrible places on Earth. Everyone thinks it is soView full post » Moabadishu (by Jim) Having grown up in Utah, there are an assortment of local customs, practices, and beliefs that have the feel ofView full post » Little Red goes home In January 2008, I officially started working at Best Friends. Two days later, the Michael Vick dogs arrived – 22View full post » return to the cat house Next week, I am going back down to Kanab for the first time since moving. I'll be filling in as Molly and GaryView full post » Trail Tails episode 3: Grandeur Peak Grandeur Peak was actually Pim and mine's first peak together, and we have a wonderful view of it from our streetView full post » Trail Tails episode 2: Gobbler's Knob If you think my not posting hiking photos anymore means I haven't been getting out, you would be mistaken. I amView full post » Trail Tails episode 1: Dog Lake I've been playing with video for a couple weeks now. Earlier this year, I had to start making slideshows in FinalView full post » pit bulls and perception I've been photographing a lot of pit bulls this year and put together this slideshow recently. Take a look! Also,View full post » more kittens! stuff I found on my phone Yes, I know I still suck at blogging. Yes, I am a lazy bastard. Yes, I will say again that I will remedy this. But no,View full post » Keeley and her crew Since Keeley and Jackie are on the cover of this month's magazine (newsstand edition), it seems fitting toView full post » the Kickass and Awesome wedding Well folks, it's official. Little Sarah is growing up. I done got married! Pim and I tied the knot about two andView full post » Paria Canyon can suck it Long-time readers may remember when I backpacked Paria Canyon three years ago. It was one of the most gloriousView full post » OMFG KITTENS! On my last day working at the sanctuary, I took these mind-explodingly cute photos of the ever-adorable Carrie SmithView full post » baby bunnies will right any wrong Terrah just reminded me that I still suck at blogging. Here are some baby bunnies in a lousy effort to remedy that. ButView full post » some things never change Last week, I dug up this baby photo of me for work. It's our all-staff week at Best Friends, and a videoView full post » inching closer My days in Kanab are numbered. I think officially it's like 10. Unofficially, it's feels lower becauseView full post » stuff I found on my camera I never understood how people could fill up their memory cards and not download the photos off their camera. But nowView full post » Austin and Wyatt Death Valley getaway! Death Valley is one of those places you grow up hearing about, but never give much thought to seeing yourself (atView full post » small wonders Small Wonders Love 'pocket pets'? Adopt from a shelter or rescue group Story and photos by Sarah Ause Best FriendsView full post » raddest cactus and other bits from Shaman's Gallery A few weeks back, I finally visited Shaman's Gallery. This ancient pictograph panel had been on my hike listView full post » personal > work Long time readers of this blog might remember how personal it used to be. Not like darkest secrets personal, but moreView full post » Sookie Anabelle worst blogger in the world award Goes to me! I promise it will not stay this way, but I am still so terribly busy. Work, and travel, and weddingView full post » sometimes inversions aren't so bad I took these shots of friends Burke and Magen up in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago during a grody inversion (when smogView full post » Jill and co. I also had a shoot with Jill for that semi thing (we wanted a cat shot too), but she's so photogenic and easyView full post » Toroweap! Let's take a short break from the critter posts today and post this epic sunset from last weekend at Toroweap.View full post » John and Zero I was recently tasked with taking some shots for the sides of a semi-truck. Think short and very wide. Nothing weView full post » back at it I've been a terrible blogger lately, but I just have SO MUCH going on right now that it's hard for me toView full post » I miss him I took this a week before he died, and I took it upside down. It only made sense to keep it that way.View full post » Mrs. Pim Yep, I'm getting married! Pim proposed a few weeks ago, on our anniversary in Zion, and I obviously said YES.View full post » James B still sucking at posting But here's a pretty picture of a cat!View full post » snow day Boston I can't believe it was almost a year ago when I was in Boston at the Animal Rescue League for a story aboutView full post » we are Siamese, if you please Some shots from the Siamese Cat Rescue Center in Virginia from this past May…View full post » bird banding I can't believe it's taken me this long to post this, but last, last July, I was staying with my friendView full post » fall in love Some shots from the Los Angeles fall super adoption back in November…View full post » back on track I know I have been SERIOUSLY slacking on posting lately. I had an art show last month (of non-photo work) and theView full post » all my cats love my dogs But Baby loves them most. She thinks she is one.View full post » dogs, in a nutshell lots of backs I did two epic hikes this past weekend, one of which was Observation Point. I've done this hike about a millionView full post » Brenda and Mandy skiing fail Went to Bryce to ski the other weekend, and even called ahead to make sure there was enough snow. They said yes…View full post » paper cutter extraordinaire I know I have been slacking on posting, but I've been immensely busy lately. To remedy the lack of posts before IView full post » cactus love The annual fall travel binge is in full swing right now. It always ends up happening at the same time every year, whenView full post » spotted in slc Haley meets llama The look on her face is priceless…View full post » getting back into photography That must sound odd coming from a photographer, but when you do it for a living, it's too easy to let theView full post » Signal Peak Last weekend, Pim and I hiked our tenth mountain together, and that makes me very happy. Not only is it a record yearView full post » Radar macaroni cat is stealin' ur cheez I fear I will never take another photo as awesome as this one. Total fluke, totally amazing.View full post » taste test Whitney rescued this "spitting angry little feral" last week, and within a day, he was a snugglyView full post » bushwhacked I need a machete. Really, it would have come in very handy on my hike the other night. Me, Molly, and Antony journeyedView full post » Strut Your Mutt I was in Los Angeles last weekend shooting Strut Your Mutt, a massive dog walk to raise money for our LA programs (overView full post » nap time on top of Arizona A couple weeks ago, Pim and I went to Flagstaff for the weekend. It's an awesome town that he'd never beenView full post » Liam Dell and Riley slacker That's me. I will try to get back to posting regularly soon, but in the meantime, expect some random posts…View full post » Junebug No, I didn't get another dog. I'm just pet-sitting one for the week. Junebug is one of Whitney'sView full post » goodbye birdies The reason my foster birds were in the car the other day is because they got adopted! Woohoo! After our zoo ride toView full post » mobile zoo I had two dogs, two birds, and a cat in my car yesterday. Needless to say, it was an interesting drive to work. TheView full post » salty dogs, ocean style As excited as I was for our epic coastal roadtrip, there was one thing missing: my dogs. We were flying out there, andView full post » magic coast I had never been to the Pacific Northwest before (unless you count as a baby, which I don't), so I was thrilledView full post » Nick and Kat Let me start by saying that this is not a foray into wedding photography, and that I have absolutely no plan or desireView full post » 'til I return It's monsoon season, and I'm not getting out hiking much right now. It's raining every stinkin'View full post » weekend adventure trip report Pim and I have been together for over six months now, and we decided to get out and do something special this weekend.View full post » a black and white affair It was a black and white affair last night as Molly and I hiked the Virgin River with five black and white dogs…View full post » juvenile delinquents I don't usually post much work stuff on here anymore, but sometimes I just have to. One of my new projects atView full post » salty dogs Last month, when I was out taking these photos at the north end of the great salty lake, I immediately regretted notView full post » staring at the sun I went hiking last night with 24 dogs. Yes, 24. I took along my long lens, but I didn't end up taking manyView full post » sooshi, plz! return to Moonshine Gulch It's been almost seven years since I last visited this dingy bar in the heart of the Black Hills, but it wasView full post » a birthday with the goblins Pim turned 30 last weekend, and big suprise, we celebrated outdoors. We rendezvoused under the full moon with Goblins,View full post » spontaneous win! I wanted to get out backpacking this weekend and decided on a very remote hike out at the Grand Canyon. Called theView full post » salty peakbagging pups Pim and I hiked Mount Olympus on Friday. I am still sore. It is by far the steepest mountain I have ever hiked…View full post » the land of awesome, starring Pim summer sun the wild parrots of… Brooklyn? The wild parrots of Brooklyn wild South American parrots escape the pet trade and take up residence in the urbanView full post » Mr. Carytown I found him in a jewelry shop while exploring Richmond, Virginia.View full post » puppy weekend When I started my big trip a few weeks ago, I had a few days in Salt Lake to relax before the jet-setting began. AlongView full post » a walk in the clouds I've been traveling the country the past couple weeks, and got back to Utah in the middle of the night last week.View full post » water and sky I've been suffocating lately, working in Chicago and Manhattan all week. The hectic chaos has actually left meView full post » a tired puppy is a happy puppy A few weeks ago, Whitney rescued a puppy. This is nothing new. She always seems to have a new dog that she finds, keepsView full post » macaroni and wine I only title this that because that is what we ate for dinner Friday night when Jim and I camped out in the MonumentView full post » flight of the condor Jim and I spotted a few condors flying above us last night as we hiked Angels Landing in Zion! What a treat!View full post » Terrah and her trailer: Ep. 3 domestic violence Lenore was beaten unconscious with a golf club, as she covered her dog Chico to save his life. Susan refused to leaveView full post » Terrah and her trailer: Ep. 2 how does your garden grow? I've been spending a lot of time in the greenhouse lately, tending to my seedlings (which except for my redView full post » in honor of Sunny D's toenail… Yesterday, Sundance ripped off an entire toenail while jumping out of Whitney's truck for an evening hike. SheView full post » Terrah and her trailer For the past six months, my personal project (to keep my working brain sane) has been photographing dogs outdoors. IView full post » Snake Gulch First backpack of the season this weekend! Woohoo!View full post » guess the seed I started planting seeds for my garden a few weeks ago. Can you guess which seed this is? Hint: it is extra deliciousView full post » Rolling Dog Ranch Point of View blind animals see a world of possibilities Story and photos by Sarah Ause Best Friends Magazine, Mar/AprView full post » the return of Jimmy Utah Some photos from our four-day weekend…View full post » hot to cold The day after returning home from Phoenix, I was heading to Boston. I'd never been before, but it seems like aView full post » orange you glad winter is almost over? 70-degree weather in Phoenix was amazing… and so were the fresh-picked oranges. I am so ready for summer.View full post » Sammy Sumo Miss you already… (last photo by Molly)View full post » sledding FAIL Molly and I attempted to go cardboard sledding last weekend. Attempted…View full post » Jimmy Utah blue sky and red rock life and lentils And so the clock strikes 12 and such a small, everyday occurrence brings an entire decade to a close. Suddenly, I feelView full post » birdscapes I got a macro! Hooray!View full post » Daryn and Darla snow day [[VIDEO!!]] While I shot photos the other day during our snow hike, Molly shot video and compiled it into this amazing piece. IView full post » more snow snow day! Winter has officially arrived. Down here, its arrival is marked by the day I get to work from home becauseView full post » introducing Trevor! Molly got a new foster dog. Unlike me, Molly is actually capable of actually fostering. Trevor is a massive black labView full post » sunday afternoon at home It always blows my mind that when traveling by air, you can be in one place in the morning, and on the other side ofView full post » mud party more more more Some friends and I have been hiking our dogs every day for the past month or so (with the exception of work travel andView full post » reach for the sky, Gabby! blooper reel Since Jeffrey let us put a frog on his head last year, surely a cat can't be much different… right? HereView full post » Carissa and Jack… and an Arizona sunset big news in book land I wrote a book! Well, wrote isn't exactly the right word… there's only one page of text. But,View full post » I has a leg The wonderful things dogs find while hiking… Click here if you're not up to date with internet popView full post » rocky mountain high The dogs and I spent the last three days of our trip exploring Colorado. I've never really been before (unlessView full post » how to pee ice, and other tales from the Black Hills I beat the weather this time. Well, sort of. Every year when I go visit my parents in the Black Hills, the weatherView full post » fall While it's still 90 degrees down in the desert, and the trees are maintaining their springtime hues, up here inView full post » dogs of Bark City A few days ago, I came across the website for Dogs of Bark City, a sort of community art project up in Bark, ahem, ParkView full post » Terrah and her dogs Terrah is leaving me. She's moving to Portland this weekend. I am so sad, but it's not the end. We willView full post » look ma, no snakes! Haley's nose behaved itself this weekend. We journeyed to Escalante for yet another snake-free weekend of campingView full post » decaf, my ass I drank a cup of decaf coffee today, which I think was not actually decaf. Now it's 1 a.m., I can't sleep,View full post » Tabasco I have to keep this short, because I'm starting to cry again, but tonight, we had to put Tabasco to sleep.View full post » 8 girls and 24 dogs I spent the weekend camping up on the Kaibab with some coworkers and our dogs. Actually, I spent the nights there, butView full post » super cute I haven't really been posting photos from work the past couple months, so here I will remedy that with a fewView full post » Jemma I got a foster dog. It came out of nowhere. Terrah called me about her a couple days ago, I met her this morning, andView full post » Tom and Brian fish the Provo Hanging out in Park City a couple weeks ago…View full post » how Sarah got her groove back Hiking has always been my zen. It's the only time everything makes sense, the only time I can really get my headView full post » almost epic A couple days before I left for Jackson, Becky posted a photo on her Facebook page. It was a photo of PaintbrushView full post » on the road It's been almost three years since I lived there, and two since I've been back to visit, but I finally gotView full post » wildflower festival I first found out about the Cedar Breaks Wildflower Festival last year about a week after it ended. I've beenView full post » more creek If there's one thing that's definitely worth bug bites and pond scum in your underwear, it's beatingView full post » Lake at the creek Since Annie left to her new home, Molly has been spending time with a dog named Lake. Lake came to Best Friends lastView full post » green My broccoli is ready for harvest! My bell peppers are getting huge! I have hundreds of grape tomatoes! But sadly,View full post » look ma, no pants!… and other tales from the fairy pools Yesterday afternoon, Molly and I headed to Zion to go hunting for frog photos. Hoping to find a place as equallyView full post » Elias and Co. Haley, in other mediums There is no question that I put photos of Haley's sweet face anywhere I can. I've lost count of how manyView full post » from the mills to Manhattan Last month, I went out on assignment and worked harder than I ever have before. Taking photos was not the hard part, IView full post » Hannah and her cat goodbye, Annie Molly's foster dog, Annie, is being adopted. Haley and I are happy for her, but sad too. It's always hardView full post » catch up I've had so many posts I've been trying to catch up on lately, but I get so busy with work and travel,View full post » the great chimpanzee migration The Great Chimpanzee Migration hope and joy at journey's end Story and photos by Sarah Ause Best FriendsView full post » Mickey Rourke loves birds When I went to Los Angeles the other week, it was to meet up with Mickey Rourke, the Wrestler himself, who was lookingView full post » homegrown Until now, the only food I have harvested for myself was a basil plant I had in college. Of course, I couldn'tView full post » introducing Pippi and Monkey Imagine spending 20 years of your life in a dank basement with no windows. No sunshine, ever, just fluorescent lightsView full post » small world While strolling along the shops of the Santa Monica promenade this weekend, I did a double-take. TEAGUE? Yes,View full post » notes from the road Well, I'm not on the road anymore, but I went to Los Angeles this past weekend for work. L.A. is a long way fromView full post » the cats of Ocean Reef Safe Haven Florida community protects its feral cat population Story and photos by Sarah Ause Best Friends Magazine,View full post » fall into the Gap busy I know I'm seriously slacking on posting lately, but fear not, posts will resume soon. I have been so busy withView full post » Calf Creek I finally got to see what everyone's talking about. Escalante really does rule, hard. The first time I wentView full post » 1800 acres bones a boy and his dog I figure I've been holding back long enough and it's due time to introduce everyone to Dylan (theView full post » some photos I know I have been seriously slacking on posting lately. I have plenty of stuff to post too… I just haven'tView full post » Operation Sally Help Sally walk! Terrah's dog Sally, rescued from death row in Los Angeles, has a luxating patella in both herView full post » Friday the 13th… … WAS SO DELICIOUS!View full post » southwest scenes Yeah, more of them.View full post » peek-a-boo The outdoor perks of living where I do seem to multiply every day that I'm here. Every day can be a newView full post » party animals … don't really like to party.View full post » strength It takes an incredible amount of strength to be able to say goodbye to someone you love. My dear friend Terrah foundView full post » skinny ski backyard boredom I didn't leave my house today. How lazy is that? In my defense, I was actually going to go for a hike today, butView full post » the freckles of Orderville A few months back, I somehow got suckered into agreeing to speak at Career Day at an elementary school a couple townsView full post » lentil soup, homemade and delicious For a while now, I couldn't wait for 2008 to end. It was a fabulous year, but its last couple weeks, and maybeView full post » a Best Friends Christmas snow, a dog's best friend Haley and I just returned from a long weekend in Park City, where it snowed a whole lot. This may or may not have beenView full post » the Esplanade With winter setting in, I didn't think I'd get a chance to hike below the Grand Canyon's rim untilView full post » if you haven't yet found yourself jealous of where I live, perhaps this will help It rained here over Thanksgiving. It didn't let up. It just rained, and rained, and rained some more. I woke upView full post » sick in the city Ah, Chicago. Thanks to the canceled flight, I got in really late, and as I sat outside on a bench waiting for Dangle toView full post » the hills are alive … with dogs, and horses, and cats, and every other sort of four-legged creature imaginable. I managed to take aView full post » 'stache bash First up on my trip was a stop in Park City for our second mustache gathering. It was not as bumpin' as lastView full post » home at last I've been meaning to post lately, especially stuff from my vacation, but it was so miserable, and is so hard forView full post » birds of Florida Florida was like a week or two ago, and I'm now en route to Chicago, but thanks to freezing rain in Denver andView full post » jet-setter Posting has been sparse, and will probably remain sparse for the next few weeks as I have been, and will continue toView full post » out to sea and back to me Several years ago, a couple friends and I befriended some tourists from Austria. They were in town for several weeksView full post » once bitten Molly and I ventured to Escalante yesterday for another glorious weekend of camping and hiking. After three hours ofView full post » Toroweaping Toroweap is the narrowest part of the Grand Canyon, and the place where the cliffs drop 3,000 feet straight down intoView full post » Nampaweap Just a few miles down the road from Mount Trumbull, we made a quick side trip to see some petroglyphs at the NampaweapView full post » 8,028′ I've wanted to climb Mount Trumbull on the Arizona Strip for a while now, but it is so far out there (about 60View full post » we rule We, as in the BF photo team. That would be me, Molly, Gary, and Terrah. Yeah, we rule. The end.View full post » how to kill yourself at the Grand Canyon… … in four simple steps: 1. hike several miles 2. go to saloon and drink one Arizona beer 3. proceed to getView full post » in the clouds gone fishin' I got up way too early and got home way too late yesterday. It was a very long, very wonderful day spent fishing withView full post » portal to nowhere and the magic tree After going to breakfast Saturday morning, Molly, Terrah, Haley, and I went hiking up north of town. We found a portalView full post » unleashed! I am so proud of my dog. Yesterday, for the first time, she went on a truly off-lead hike. Up until now, the closestView full post » praeing mantis needz to prae harder I saw my first praying mantis ever this weekend. It blew me away. They are so surreal and alien-like, it was almostView full post » bighorns I went hiking in Zion this weekend for the first time in a long time. Summer temperatures and tourist crowds have keptView full post » assorted Parker Parker came to us a few weeks ago from a puppy mill in West Virginia. He had spent his entire life (eight whole years)View full post » voyage to Narnia (and the Shire too) Friday evening after work, me, Molly, Terrah, Haley, and Jeffrey went for a hike to a magical world where frogs andView full post » quarantine SARS epidemic? No, just incontinent cats… really sick ones. (photos by Terrah)View full post » recipe for a wonderful evening 12 fake mustaches 1 black sharpie pen 1 Fat Kid Pizza add beer to taste MORE… yes, MOREView full post » 11,031′ Since I couldn't do King's Peak this weekend, I knew I would at least need to do another smaller peak as aView full post » best. weekend. ever. I've recently returned from the best weekend ever up in Park City. I was supposed to head up and do a three-dayView full post » Navajo Lake Posts have been sparse lately because first my internet died, and then my harddrive shortly thereafter. All is finallyView full post » baby arch and other tales from the Squaw trail Haley and I have been hiking Squaw a lot lately… as in five of the past six days. I'm planning on climbingView full post » the end and the beginning One of my cats died today. Sad, yes, but unexpected, no. Misty, one of the cats that came with my house, was old, goingView full post » walkin' the dogs Last night, Molly and I took Haley and her new best friend Jeffrey for a hike in Angel Canyon. Jeffrey is a big,View full post » what do you do when you have a tumbleweed the size of a small car growing in your driveway? If you're Molly, you run it over with your big car.View full post » relocation Sixteen feral cats from SLC were relocated down here to southern Utah this week and I tagged along to photograph. TheView full post » 12,173′ If you've noticed that I haven't posted any hiking photos in over a month, it's because IView full post » Haley's Comet I met Haley at work last week. I have never fallen for a dog, or even a cat here (at least not in the sense that IView full post » cat ladydom, episode two Just call me the Queen of Puke. It's very fitting. I clean up so much puke, it is ridiculous. Sometimes I wonderView full post » an open mouth collection … because I haven't posted much lately.View full post » I must have the captions My brain is dead. I just sat (and sat some more) at this here computer, re-computerizing the photos section of thisView full post » cat ladydom It's official. I'm a cat lady. I'm far too young for this, but as of yesterday afternoon, I have nineView full post » obligatory Fourth of July post Yee-haw.View full post » let's sit down and have a burrito Just another day at the office.View full post » five days and fifty miles I've just returned from Paria Canyon, one of the world's "premiere" backpacks. Only a fewView full post » oh, baby! Baby animals are the CUTEST!View full post » okay, seriously Does it get any cuter? No, I didn't think so.View full post » Zoe goes home Zoe's new home isn't new to her. She was fostered by Adele in Los Angeles before coming to Best FriendsView full post » Aristotle feline friends, oh how I love thee odd bunch We certainly have an interesting cast of characters here at Best Friends. We have fun.View full post » are you ready for a heart attack? Okay, now go take some aspirin! It's supposed to help. This is Sidney (and Pepito). Sidney was found on the sideView full post » a very happy birthday: a play-by-play of a very good day I woke up this morning to find a photo of mine on the National Geographic website. I screamed. This totally beats myView full post » rattlesnake! I saw my first rattlesnake ever today. I almost smooshed it with my car. It is probably a good thing that I know whatView full post » kitty disguised as black bear After taking this photo of the hidden kitty this morning, I peeked inside the bear box to meet the furry friend I hadView full post » had to happen sometime Today I got my first bite. Five months into the job, and I got bit. I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later, butView full post » hippie commune kitty and other tales from a day's work off work As I mentioned in the previous post, I took Friday off work to show Micah around Zion. 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Japan, France and Italy - Lunch or Dinner?
I'm off to WDW next week (w00t!) and have started trying to work out where I eat. I've got a day and a half in EPCOT and have narrowed down my Worldchoice dining choices to Monsieur Paul in France, Teppan Edo in Japan and Tutto d'Italia in Italy.
Menus for all of them look good to me but was wondering what the more experienced and discerning Disboarders thought re rating them on lunch and dinner - are any of these three better at one than the other or should I manage my Park hopping so I can sample all three?
Cheers in advance.
In general, Monsieur Paul is only open for dinner, so that might help the overall decision.
I haven't checked, but Teppan Edo is likely to have the same menu all day, given the type of restaurant (hibachi style). Tutto Italia has a few paninis at lunch that are not available at dinner, but otherwise (for the most part, at least) a lot of the same menu all day (but slightly cheaper at lunch).
Have you checked to see when you might be able to get reservations? All three would be very difficult to walk in and get a table without a reservation, whether for lunch or dinner. Available times (if any remain) might help you decide which one to do and when.
All three would be good choices, so if you can get into them, enjoy!
We have ADR for Monsieur Paul's next Monday
For us, that was the only realistic option - we have excellent Italian and Japanese restaurants here in Charlotte but sorely lacking in French food.
Hope you have a good time on Monday, Hernerd. :)
Teppan & Tutto are both great choices! Tough call! i'd pick based on what you like most, cause both are great. And i'd pick based on what you can get at this point, since your trip is next week! Lol.
I've always had great meals and experiences at both places. cant go wrong with either. :goodvibes
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To some degree every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.Wystan Hugh Auden
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another; they might also ask themselves how much poetry of any period they can honestly say that they understand.Wystan Hugh Auden
I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time. Wordsworth was sort of right when he said, "Poets in their youth begin in gladness/ But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness." Except that sometimes poets skip the gladness and go straight to the despondency. Why is that? Part of it is the conditions under which poets work giving all, receiving little in return from an age that by and large ignores them and part of it is cultural expectation "The lunatic, the lover and the poet," says Shakespeare, and notice which comes first. My own theory is that poetry is composed with the melancholy side of the brain, and that if you do nothing but, you may find yourself going slowly down a long dark tunnel with no exit. I have avoided this by being ambidextrous: I write novels too. But when I find myself writing poetry again, it always has the surprise of that first unexpected and anonymous gift.Margaret Eleanor Atwood
A lot of poets published their own work then; unlike novels, poetry was short, and therefore cheap to do. We had to print each poem separately, and then disassemble it, as there were not enough a's for the whole book; the cover was done with a lino-block. We printed 250 copies, and sold them through bookstores, for 50 cents each. They now go in the rare book trade for eighteen hundred dollars a pop. Wish I'd kept some.Margaret Eleanor Atwood
I will pass over my flirtation with journalism as a way of making a living, an idea I dropped when I discovered that in the fifties unlike now female journalists always ended up writing the obituaries and the ladies' page. But how was I to make a living? There was not a roaring market in poetry, there, then. I thought of running away and being a waitress, which I later tried, but got very tired and thin; there's nothing like clearing away other people's mushed-up dinners to make you lose your appetiteMargaret Eleanor Atwood
The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian. It would have been worse if I'd been a boy, though. Never mind the fact that all the really stirring poems I'd read at that time had been about slaughter, mayhem, sex and death poetry was thought of as existing in the pastel female realm, along with embroidery and flower arranging. If I'd been male I would probably have had to roll around in the mud, in some boring skirmish over whether or not I was a sissy.Margaret Eleanor Atwood
The day I became a poet was a sunny day of no particular ominousness. I was walking across the football field, not because I was sports-minded or had plans to smoke a cigarette behind the field house the only other reason for going there but because this was my normal way home from school. I was scuttling along in my usual furtive way, suspecting no ill, when a large invisible thumb descended from the sky and pressed down on the top of my head. A poem formed. It was quite a gloomy poem: the poems of the young usually are. It was a gift, this poem a gift from an anonymous donor, and, as such, both exciting and sinister at the same time. I suspect this is the way all poets begin writing poetry, only they don't want to admit it, so they make up more rational explanations. But this is the true explanation, and I defy anyone to disprove it.Margaret Eleanor Atwood
"Thinking is seeing," said he one day, carried away by some objection raised as to the first principles of our organisation."Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things."Honor de Balzac
Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prospertheres a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.James Graham Ballard
We may have an excellent Ear in Musick, without being able to perform in any kind. We may judg well of Poetry, without being Poets, or possessing the least of a Poetick Vein: But we can have no tolerable Notion of Goodness, without being tolerably good.Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings ones eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.Charles Baudelaire


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A new partnership between First Arkansas Bank & Trust and the University of Central Arkansas Alumni Association is expected to provide scholarships to UCA students.
Larry Wilson, chairman, president and CEO of First Arkansas Bank & Trust, and Karen Sullards, president of the UCA Alumni Association, announced plans Feb. 20 for an Alumni Association credit card affinity program. The entities hope the program will benefit the alumni and provide additional scholarships to university students in the process.
Through the partnership, First Arkansas Bank & Trust will provide credit card applications to UCA alumni. In return, the Alumni Association will receive an initial lump sum and royalties based on approved applications. A portion of the royalties will be designated for scholarships.
Wilson told Arkansas Business on Tuesday that the bank provided the Alumni Association $10,000 up front, in addition to $1,000 for scholarships.
In the future, for every approved application, the Alumni Association will receive $10, and for every 1,000 applications, $1,000 will go toward the Alumni Association scholarship program, according to UCA Director of Alumni Services Jan Newcomer.
For more than 20 years, UCA had an affinity program with MBNA and then Bank of America. In August 2012, Newcomer said Bank of America decided to drop all university affinity programs with less than an alumni database of 100,000, which meant the end of the partnership with UCA. Newcomer said UCA's alumni database was about 55,000.
The end of the affinity program with Bank of America became official last summer.
But since August 2012, UCA's alumni association has actively searched for another bank to partner with to continue with the program, and looked for one with a presence in Faulkner County. Each of the banks was invited to make a proposal to the Alumni Association, which was then reviewed by an alumni committee.
"First Arkansas Bank & Trust was selected because their proposal will bring the most benefit to the Association and UCA students," Sullards said in the release. "We were particularly pleased with the bank's commitment to student scholarships."
Newcomer said the "real selling point" was First Arkansas Bank & Trust's offer to help fund scholarships.
"We did not have that kind of program with Bank of America," she said. "Bank of America provided revenue, but it went directly to the Alumni Association. [First Arkansas Bank & Trust] was offering two opportunities: revenue for the Alumni Association and revenue for scholarships."
Currently, the Alumni Association provides 14 scholarships for UCA students.
With its previous affinity program, the Alumni Association received about $20,000 in revenue per year, Newcomer said.
"That is a lot of revenue for us," she said. "Hopefully, this [affinity program] will produce that much and more."
"We are confident that we can provide a very competitive credit card program that will benefit both the individual alumnus of UCA, and the Alumni Association itself," Wilson said in the news release.
Wilson added that the bank will work with the Alumni Association to encourage its members to apply for and use the credit cards.
Further than the initial agreement and announcment, Newcomer said the partnership is still in the infant stages. Design for the card is still in the works.
"We're in the process of getting everything set up," she said. "It's going to be an online application process, and we're working with First Arkansas Bank & Trust to get that set up, and get the little kinks worked out."
As far as launching the program, Newcomer said the groups are hoping it occurs soon.
"We're hoping to at least have everything set up and complete by April 1, so we can start to promote it," she said.


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