SLC is About the Wild West

Here's a deer that allowed me to get close. Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front are in the background.

Proof enough that Salt Lake City is a metropolis in the middle of the Wild West?

This fawn allowed me to get pretty close. For those who live here, they know that we have deer here up the ying-yang.

When one thinks of Salt Lake City, one should think about the Rocky Mountains, wildlife and unbelievable scenery. I mean, you can't see temple square from this point of view, can you? And this point of view welcomes everyone who loves nature and the conveniences of a big city -- plays, art, film, shopping, etc. Salt Lake City -- the broadway, Sundance Film Festival, the New York City of the Rockies.

Salt Lake City, the Wild West

I took this photo yesterday on an afternoon excursion with visiting family. This is a herd of wild buffalo that roam freely, relaxing while watching the skyline of Salt Lake City, the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Front on a most beautiful summer day.

I've said it many times before. The nation takes this major metropolis for granted. It's a well kept secret.

The first association that comes to mind with Salt Lake City is usually a picture of Temple Square. But for those of us who live here, we know this is the wild west combined with the convenience of a big city. Want proof? Take a look at the photo. Skyscrapers, snow capped mountains in June, shopping, skiing, boating, a herd of 50 or so wild buffalo in one place, and the rugged Rocky Mountains. It's all here. It's a well kept secret that my out-of-state family are learning to love. (We come from generations of nature lovers.)

Shhh... we gotta keep telling everyone that there is nothing here but Mormons and Temple Square. After all, we don't want it to get too crowded here. The State is already one of the fastest growing in the Union.

Guantanamo Bay

This just in from the BBC:

"The adverse reaction to a claim by a senior US official that the suicides of three Guantanamo Bay detainees was a "good PR move" adds to the growing international pressure for the camp to be closed."

Describing the suicides of the Afghan prisoners as a "good PR move" was a really dumb and insensitive thing for our general to say -- in a string of a lot of bad moves. Our practices at Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay), and utterances by our leaders are really giving the mantel of liberty that we uphold a black eye around the world. DARN THOSE EUROPEAN BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS WHO CAN'T SEE THE MOTE IN THEIR OWN EYE. It's inflaming the Arab world as well.

Holding the prisoners until the end of the terrorist war isn't worth the tarnishing our own values are taking and that we are receiving among our world friends. Our own press didn't pick this up but the BBC knew the quote would be popular among its readership.