only in St. George…

The other day I decided to go over to my favorite place for my lunch hour.  It is a place I can go and sit and just relax and the day was so beautiful…

I went to the convenient store and got my lunch…

  yeah I know, very nutritious.  Well it is better than fattening ice cream!  Every other day they change the flavors, this day it was strawberry and vanilla. (frozen yogurt)

ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS

 

 

 

I was minding my own business, enjoying the music on the radio with my windows open, eating my lunch and I had planned on taking a walk afterwards when all of a sudden…..

A dove appeared on the hood of my car….

 

we started to have a staring  contest…

I rolled up my windows.

 

 

This bird didn’t budge

 

 

 

 

Even when I put my finger on the windshield and tapped….

 

 

WHAT!  this bird was not alone….it had a friend and they both decided they were going to just park themselves on the hood of my car…

 

 

 

Then the friend decided that he or she wanted to say something…I didn’t think it was very nice, but I laughed in spite of myself…

then there was one, because the other jumped to the roof of my car…at that point I decided to start up the engine and move to another spot, bird poop is hard to get off of your car…..and I felt like maybe I had offended them because I was laughing….anyway…I started up and moved to the play area…

and then much to my delight I came across a school field trip!

I just pretended that I was a part of the trip…and got my camera out.  There were a lot of people taking pictures so I didn’t look out of place LOL

 

Park Rangers were there and had probably been teaching the children about park “stuff” and then I saw it….

 

I have NO IDEA what it was…maybe an antelope, or a deer or something…but the kids were loving it! and so were the adults…I was smiling…

 

Because the teacher were smiling and the children were smiling and I thought is was funny no one questioned the strange lady taking pictures.  Maybe they thought I was just a grandma or with the local paper or something…that was making me laugh to myself.

The adults waved the children goodbye…and so did the animal with the antlers…LOL

 

 

Then….the animal jumped into the parks little park truck and off they went to where ever you go to take your head and fur off…

 

I decided at that point since my yummy frozen yogurt was eaten and I had my fill of the field trip I would get out and walk over to the river bank.  This is the one that was raging with flood water in January.

The waters were low but still enough of a flow and not a trickle like it normally is.   The river is still flowing…

 

 

 

The flood has left the banks with a lot of sand

like the beach….

 

YES LIKE A BEACH….this made my day….a family decided it was warm enough to pitch an umbrella and let there kiddies play in the water.

We live in the desert.  A community well known for it’s beautiful green golf courses and there are MANY of them…..

 

Only in St. George can you go to the beach on a sunny day, and have it all to yourself…and enjoy the sunshine and beautiful red rocks and green grass.  It might catch on..as long as the river is flowing…I just couldn’t help but smile. 

Hope you all have a weekend that makes you smile.  I didn’t have to go far and I wasn’t even looking for anything to take pictures of.

I guess that is just the beauty of it. Right?