I have been told repeatedly that I write too much in my blogs. Unfortunately writing is part of the reason I even have a blog. Its a space to unload the various contents of my brain which I feel have some worth but that I haven’t found a use for yet. The hope is that in writing them I can go back and recover them when there is a need. Anyway, today I thought I would catch up a bit and just post some pictures of the activities of the last semester. Sorry if you are in any of these pictures I won’t use names and thus incriminate anyone.
Early on I managed to get some hiking in. I actually climbed to the top of Y mountain twice because the whole group couldn’t manage it at the same time. It is an amazing hike still.
A few weeks later I was able to return to the Mountains to participate in one of the honored traditions of the university. For home coming week I gathered a few friends and we met up with the blue-decked guards of tradition to climb the mountain and screw in a few light bulbs. It was a great deal of fun. For years now I have stared at the glowing Y and wished to get up there to see it.
As you would expect the Y is lit by regular 65 watt bulbs all stuck together in a long cable. They are spaced maybe 15 feet apart. To turn it on we all selected a spot along the line and gave our light bulb a few turns to unscrew it. When the moment was right, or when they were ready for us, we started in the center of the Y and turned in the light bulbs one at a time up to the top and then down the sides to the bottom. It mostly worked out. with only a few people slipping up.
Now that is a good idea.
It was a beautiful moment with all Utah Valley laid out below and the sun setting below. I took tons of pictures and wish I had a tripod so I could take more. I love taking pictures of interesting lighting.
A kind friend invited me to attend a football game. Thus I finally went to my first college football game as a spectator. I had worked at them before and volunteered to clean them up but never was I just one of the students cheering away. It was pretty exciting even though we lost horribly. Ah well you can’t win them all. Good thing I didn’t come here for the football games.
You can see these aren’t the most enthusiastic students, but its been a long season. At least they are still patriotic.
And that is life in Provo in the early fall, before life gets complicated and weather gets cold.
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