Zion National Park

Zion National Park is situated in Utah at the edge of the Colorado plateau. It is a magnificent and diverse park, well known for its canyons. Hiking possibilities are endless. Spring through fall, Zion Canyon scenic drive is open to shuttle buses only avoiding long queues of cars.

Grand Canyon

We didn't have time to do the Grand Canyon but, as I was arriving in Las Vegas several hours before Stephane, I took an helicopter tour to go there.
The airport is next to the strip so we had a nice view for take off and we flew over when we came back. That was a fantastic experience. We landed in the canyon and enjoyed a champagne picnic. It was full of flowers at that time of the year!

Las Vegas

I am now back in sunny Dundee! We tried hard to stay a few more days but despite the volcano and some strikes, we made it back as planned...
As usual, I took far too many pictures (about 3500) so it will take me some time to go through all of them. I've decided to show you pictures from Las Vegas first. It was very impressive. What a fun. It was mobbed with people. We didn't win much at the casino (Stephane won $11, but we spent $25) so we had to come back to work and earn some money for our next trip!I let you enjoy the pictures...

Colorado (part 2)

Here are some more pictures. From Friday I won't have internet access for a couple of weeks, so you'll have to wait for me to be in San Francisco or back home for more pictures...

Denver:

Mesa Verde National Park:

Carved wood:

Chipmunk:

Various pictures from the Rocky Mountains:

Colorado

Just a quick post to show you a little photo montage I put together quickly. I am in Colorado for a week. Today we were in Rocky Mountain National Park. We had some snow but the weather was nice. We saw some elk, mountain bluebirds and chipmunks.



Tomorrow we are going south for 3 days, to visit Mesa verde national park and Great Sand Dunes national park.
I am not sure I will have time to post anymore pictures before heading west, so you'll have to way till I come back in 3 weeks.
Cheerio.

Owl

I've knitted an owl for Rory who was born 2 weeks ago.

Pattern from this book: "knitted Toy Tales" from Laura Long.

For my mum

Oops, I forgot to show you the lamp I made for my mum...


Now, I am enjoying it at the moment because I have no clue as to how to bring it to her in France !

Chickadee

It's been a while since my last post...
Well, I've been traveling a lot lately so I don't have a lot to show you :o(
I now have all the equipment to do stained glass at home and my first piece was a birthday present for one of my colleague: a chickadee sun catcher.

I am now working on a butterfly sun catcher.

One more!

Today, I finished another pair of socks. Considering the weather, they will be put to good use straight away.

I used the lovely ball of Noro Camoun sent me three weeks ago and this free pattern: interlocking leaves. Fairly easy and well written.

Whisky... with ice

Winter is colder than usual this year but it is also sunnier. We had a lot of sunshine this month and this week I took a couple of days off to explore the countryside with my parents...
We went to the famous grouse experience at Glenturret distillery, just outside Crieff.

Then, we took the small roads to go to Aberfeldy (A822 and A 826) and then, the A924 from Pitlochry to come back to Dundee...

The next day, we went to St Andrews, Newburgh (to stop at Twist Fiber craft, of course!), Alloa (I needed some stained glass supply) and finally, Falkirk wheel, "the world's first and only rotating boat lift".