Baked, Boiling & Bubbly

Recently the school project for the semester centered around a report on any county of the state. Summit county was chosen and the report involved making a shoebox float to display at least 3-5 important items from the chosen county. Summit county has lots of wildlife [deer, squirrels, even the occasional bear (even if the real ones are a bit bigger than the gummy ones on display)], lots of plant life (pine trees, flowers, berry bushes, etc -each side of the box has a picture of a different kind of plant/bush/tree from Summit county), the Sundance film festival is held every January in Park City (the roll of film with a "star" on it), there's recreational activities from hiking to skiing (skier) but Summit County started out with mining [the ring mounted in silver (not real silver!) and the stone to the side that's lodged in the box and is meant to represent gold mining (but it's really fool's gold!)] She considered some other items but just ran out of ro...

Sunday Randomness #426 : The stand-off and The chase

The stand-off... ...the chase

And now a break with a couple of cute, happy animals in an idyllic setting

With abandon, the golden creature and black/white creature raced through the greenery, reveling in the coolness of the April afternoon. I approached slowly, so as not to startle them as they foraged on the tender shoots of grass. On another day, earlier in the month of April, they were given a block of ice. Though they are of the same species, they approached the unexpected frozen treat in very different manners.

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