Farmington Canyon

I could just as easily call this post 'The flower show'. Today I went with mom and dad to see the wild flowers at the top of Farmington Canyon. We've planned on doing this since the mountains were full of snow. We just had to wait for summer to go up there.
We drove up a narrow and steep dirt road. Near the top of the mountains we began to see fields of flowers.

This is looking West. I was surprised to see a little town down there:

Me standing in front of a patch of snow that has made it to the middle of July:

My Dad:


This is looking East. We are so high up! I understand that my brother (Brad) has gone off this cliff with his hang glider. That sounds so amazing and fun (also a little frightening!).


I had to get some close up pictures of these pretty flowers. I'll go back and look at them this winter when I'm a shut in.



Mom taught me the names of some of the flowers. If I got it right; the purple ones are Lupine, the big yellow ones are Marsh mallow, and there were some little yellow flowers called Snow and Summer. I hope I got that right.

After our nice drive, Dad took us to Quans for lunch. That's a Chinese food place in Salt Lake City. I'd say this was a good summer day. It's the way summer should be spent. I felt sorry for everyone that was at work while I got to go see flowers.