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Sunday, April 3, 2011 - Boulder Beach Campground, Boulder City NV

Gathering, Great Blue Heron, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
Gathering, Great Blue Heron, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011

It's a short flight home

The herons are gathering nesting materials from plants and shrubs growing right on the craggy cliff face within a few hundred feet of the nest.

Night camp

Site 94 - Boulder Beach Campground, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Boulder City NV

Hobnobbing with Brigham Young

The day following my arrival in the flourishing City of the Saints, as they called it then and still call it, I very unexpectedly met and formed the acquaintance of Brigham Young. I was riding along at the head of my flock of sheep when a stoutly built, florid faced genteel-looking man, whose hair was just turning gray, walked down to the street from one of the most pretentious residences in the place and inquired whose sheep I had charge of.

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