More than Words Can Say ...

“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” (Bill Waterson)

Our weekends in the cold months are quiet, boring affairs, when we don’t travel. We eat comfort food, we shop around our home city for things we mostly never need but always crave, we cook, we read, we take walks, weather permitting, we write, we shoot, occasionally, and we spend long hours snuggling kitties and waiting for the weather to warm up.

Here are some weekend moments frozen in recent pictures … You can almost hear the silence and laziness of these days ...

 

Very rarely do we go to the bagel shop. But when you're bored, it's the best start for the weekend.  However, Utah folks will NEVER hear the "bagel NOT toasted, please" in any shop we visit. I guess they figure, "if it's cold outside, who in the right mind would want their bagel not toasted, huh?!" 

We found a secret trail behind some farms in our area that took us to Utah Lake. And once there, outside a couple of fishermen, there was silence, sky and water ...  

 

What says "small town America" better than a beat-down pickup truck on a marsh, at the foot of the mighty Rockies, reflecting its rust in a quiet, fresh mountain lake?!  

 

Fishing aftermath: I'll never understand why people throw away the heads ... 

   

A visit at the local outdoors shop ... 

 

As you know, I am not keen on guns. But I am always fascinated by the workmanship and amount of gorgeous detail that goes into them. Especially the wooden ones, of course. 

 

The "super food" of the season are citrus fruits ... I have never seen oranges more weirdly shaped than this. They are as sweet as honey. 

    

Fields of blooms promise warmth soon ... I just hope these beauties didn't jump the gun and a huge snow is not around the corner ... Eager or not, they are beautiful and fresh, nonetheless ....

 

Not sure what this was, a tulip tree, maybe?! But it was so virginal and posh!

 

Comfort (and healthy) food: egg white crust-less quiche, with kale, onions, Canadian bacon and almond cheese. Spice it up with tabasco sauce and it's just what the doctor ordered for a chilly morning ... 

 

Our secret trail took us to one of the very best vantage points for shooting the perfect pictures of two Utah County natural staples: the Timpanogos Mountain, and the Utah Lake. 

 

The farmlands right around our house. There is something about barns and animals at the bottom of mountain peaks dressed in snow that does something bizarre to my brain ... Happiness, perhaps! 

 

Spring is eager to pop out everywhere - our bird feeder bred life.