Provo

 Tis the season for red and green - who remembers tinsel?  I remember spending a lot of time putting tinsel on our trees and then taking them off again to reuse the next year.

Linking to Fridays My Town Shoot Out

 Lights on the windows of the Provo Mall.

I don't care if that bearded man is going to give me a treat, I want down.

Linking to Weekend Reflections 

This pathway reminded me of the "follow the yellow brick road" except it is a dark marble in the hospital path with lights reflecting from above. They keep those floors polished!

Misty Clouds

It amazes me that less than 10 minutes after I took this photo of a low lying cloud over our mountains that it dissipated and was totally gone. Got to get those shots when you see them for they do not last long.

Lights on Temple Square

Last weekend we drove into the city with hundreds of others to view the lighting of Temple Square in Salt Lake City. Remind me to never go again on the opening weekend!

I have not been for umpteen years but it was really lovely even being so crowded and it had not turned frigid cold yet.

Linking to my favorites:

Friday's Fences
Weekend Reflections 
Sunday Shadow Shot2

 Looking down at inside waterfall and decorated trees at City Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 Across the street from Temple Square are fountains at City Center.  They make wonderful reflections.

 At least two of my photos of the lights on Temple Square turned out really good for me.  They are my first attempt at night shots.

Shadows in the fountain.

Looking Down at the Pacific Ocean

These photos were taken south of Monterey just off highway 1, next to a ledge.  Linking to Travel with Intent.

Salt Lake City

LDS Church History Museum across from Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City.

Connecting to Shadow Shot Sunday 2. Toddle on over, they have some great shadow shots.

Long Beach

Linking to the following fun blogs:
My Town Shoot Out
Weekend Reflections
Oh, the Places I've Been
Friday's Fences
Random 5 Friday

From a visitors perspective 

and a great reflection of the Queen Mary.

Sunset over the Pacific

Christmas Tree in front of fence.

1. It's funny how my mind travels backward and my memories

float all around me thinking of the Mexican Riviera cruise from last November.  Thinking about the people I met and thought we would keep in touch but we didn't.

2. Chef Eddy made a quick and easy Beef Bourguignon using thinly slice roast beef simmered in a sauce. A Balsamic vinegar was boiled down until all that was left was a sweet wine which was then added to the sauce; each item was cooked separately - carrots, potatoes, caramelized onion and then combined when served with the beef - scrumptious!

3. Dance on the Water Cruise in 2014 is going to Slovenia, Croatia and the Adriatic Coast - oh, how I'd love to join them! I cruised with them one July going up the St. Lawrence River from Montreal to Quebec, to Prince Edward Island, to

Nova Scotia and down the Atlantic coast to Maine and New York.

4. Turned off the outside water, brought in the patio set, changed the furnace filter - guess I am ready for winter.  It snowed again today and is predicted to bluster tonight.

5. Been watching a fascinating series of a British program called Murdock Mysteries.  It is filmed in Canada with the era being the 1890s showing the development of electricity switching from DC to AC, with the common mode of transportation being a bicycle or a buggy.

Memories of Sedona, Arizona

Driving for hours through at least three torrential rain storms, I was getting driver weary and just wanted to get to Sedona. I finally found the right road from Flagstaff to Sedona Canyon. I would have been just as well off by taking the freeway toward Phoenix but how was I to know that two roads from the freeway both go into Sedona. The road on the southern end is much faster but not nearly as scenic.

I took the highway which drops down into a winding narrow canyon. Being one of the most spectacular trails that I have ever seen, not only was there not enough places to pull over to take photos, but I was literally also too tired to stop.

I wish I had stopped to take photos but since I didn't, it gives me a wonderful excuse to go again.

These are the last photos that I took while in Sedona.

After my helicopter ride that evening, a rain storm blew in but didn't stay long.

Linking to Travel Photo Monday.