Tibble Fork
Off American Fork canyon is Tibble Fork with a small reservoir that gets lots of stocked fish and plenty of fishing and recreation. From the front door to the lake takes only about a half hour. Early Friday afternoon there were lots of people heading up the road to the various campgrounds. This is really a nice place for photography if the Fall colors turn out just right. We'll find out in about six weeks.

Mutual Dell
At Church they know I'm retired so they asked me to spend a day at girls camp to help out. LDS girls camp is held around these parts at a large facility named Mutual Dell (The Mutual Improvement Association is an old name for the youth organizations), up American Fork canyon, owned since before the forest bacame national forest, as it is right in the middle of the national forest. Our local ward (congregation) is holding its own girls camp, 22 girls in a facility spread with campgrounds that hold 150 or more from many wards.

I didn't have a lot to do but I learned a few things; (a) the names and faces of more members of the ward, (b) that I could read 300 pages of Harry Potter on this trip, (c) that it can and does rain in the canyon in the summertime if there is a monsoon in from New Mexico, (d) that I need more padding if I am to be comfortable sleeping in back of the truck.

The campground is at the foot of the climb up the Alpine loop, so I drove up to the top for a picture or two, once my assignment was over

Raspberry Lass
We went up to the raspberry garden at the Mineer house this morning and brought away 28 cups of raspberries in about 2 hours of picking that ended with the temperatures in the 90s. Marolynn is in the kitchen getting them ready to freeze for jam and other purposes.

A day or two ago, Jonathan brought a friend over to the garden for a bit of picking and some photography. He does quite well with a camera.

A Real Eagle Court of Honor
On a very warm evening we went down to the church to attend an Eagle Scout Court of Honor, as being an Eagle Scout for fifty-five years now, and one of the boys being the son of some new-found friends, I wanted to get there.

Once the ceremony was done, they brought out a man from a wildlife refuge with a real golden eagle perched on his arm. Now this was getting interesting as the man gave a short lecture on eagles and their characteristics - really a phenonmenal display. I didn't bring a camera with me so these are taken with my iphone. Marolynn wondered if Eagle Courts of honor were a big deal like they were in Albuquerque. If this is an indication, they sure are.