A DAY OF PLAY... not Pickleball

Well, too much practice isn’t good either, so after about 1 hour today, Don and I headed off to the beautiful Snow Canyon State Park in NW St. George.  We’d been here before, but didn’t see all the sites so once again it was a  “revisit” tour.  The park opened in 1962 and has an elevation of 3200’ to 4100’ making it ideal for hiking and biking if you’re there on a beautiful day like today… only 75 degrees.

Navajo sandstone makes up the predominant rock in the park.  Between 1.4 million years ago, and as  recently as 27,000 years ago, nearby cinder cones erupted and capped sandstone ridges that were once canyon bottoms.  Fantastic…  A quick lunch “could be dinner” and we headed back to the Best Western. 

Beautiful sandstone formations guided us into the park...
check out those green trees!!!

And a relative of Casper guided us to

Jenny's Canyon

A narrow slot canyon where 

we posed and then took photos of
people who photographed us.

And a few wildflowers were still in bloom.
I don't know the name of this 

but this one is called Datura.  In 1980 Don
picked some for me one morning while

we were houseboating on n Lake Powell.  I wove a tapestry
that represented images from that trip,

and the 4' x 5' tapestry hangs in our new vacation home
in Gold Canyon AZ, next to a burnished copper and glass
mirror that I also created.

Then it was time for a little geocaching

as we wandered the wash

and Don located his first geocache that contained a travel
bug "flipper" so we took him with us...

Some famous movies were also filmed here.

This is a shot of a sandstone mountain covered with volcanic rock!!!

Once again, lots of "Kodak" moments invited us to
stop and visit.   And look at all those wildflowers
still in bloom and it's mid-Oct.

Don continued clamoring around on a variety of rock piles

and located a couple more geocaches.

This friendly fountain greets guests as they arrive
at Best Western - Abbey, St George UT, our
home away from home till Thursday Oct 16.