Millhollow Canyon
Darren and I spent some time in the photolab last night. I need to get some scans done for an upcoming submission and Darren very considerately allowed me to use his scanner. So since I just did a bunch of scanning I figure I should post some of my new images.
By the way, I have never seen Darren giggle/chuckle/laugh as much as I did last night. He was watching "The Office" on his new ipod while I was busily scanning. He likes "The Office". He likes it a lot. And I will admit, he has kind of gotten me hooked on it also. I am also jealous of his new toy. Video ipods are sweet. I keep meaning to buy Apple stock. I should of 6 months ago when I was thinking about it. It has doubled since then.
Tonight's images come from a photoshoot this last summer. One night Darren had other obligations, I forget what, so I had nobody to hang out with. I thought to myself "Darren goes out and photographs by himself sometimes when I am busy, maybe I should too." So I did. I had been wanting to make these images for some time. It is an area near my childhood home that has undergone extensive development over the last 3 years. I wanted to photograph the canyon in its predevelopment state before it was developed. I grew up playing in this canyon. We would ride our bikes over in the summer. We would drag our sleds behind us in the winter. It has a killer sledding hill. There even is an old abandoned rope tow that somebody hooked up a long time ago for winter recreation.
As you can tell from the images, the canyon in its present state will be significantly altered once the roads continue. A little more time may pass before the 'progress' continues as the road ends on the property line of the current land owner/developer. The remaining canyon is owned by 3 different land owners.
By the way, I would love to see these canyons preserved as open space or a nature park. They are right on the edge of town. But unless I have a couple of million dollars to spare or somebody reading this blog wishes to donate said money . . . 'progress' will continue. What a loss.
Hidden Valley (West Millhollow Canyon), Summer 2005
Hidden Valley (East Millhollow Canyon), Summer 2005
By the way, I have never seen Darren giggle/chuckle/laugh as much as I did last night. He was watching "The Office" on his new ipod while I was busily scanning. He likes "The Office". He likes it a lot. And I will admit, he has kind of gotten me hooked on it also. I am also jealous of his new toy. Video ipods are sweet. I keep meaning to buy Apple stock. I should of 6 months ago when I was thinking about it. It has doubled since then.
Tonight's images come from a photoshoot this last summer. One night Darren had other obligations, I forget what, so I had nobody to hang out with. I thought to myself "Darren goes out and photographs by himself sometimes when I am busy, maybe I should too." So I did. I had been wanting to make these images for some time. It is an area near my childhood home that has undergone extensive development over the last 3 years. I wanted to photograph the canyon in its predevelopment state before it was developed. I grew up playing in this canyon. We would ride our bikes over in the summer. We would drag our sleds behind us in the winter. It has a killer sledding hill. There even is an old abandoned rope tow that somebody hooked up a long time ago for winter recreation.
As you can tell from the images, the canyon in its present state will be significantly altered once the roads continue. A little more time may pass before the 'progress' continues as the road ends on the property line of the current land owner/developer. The remaining canyon is owned by 3 different land owners.
By the way, I would love to see these canyons preserved as open space or a nature park. They are right on the edge of town. But unless I have a couple of million dollars to spare or somebody reading this blog wishes to donate said money . . . 'progress' will continue. What a loss.
Hidden Valley (West Millhollow Canyon), Summer 2005
Hidden Valley (East Millhollow Canyon), Summer 2005
posted by Jonathan at 11:44:00 PM
7 Comments:
I remember when there was nothing but the old farmhouse and buildings on the south side of Mill Hollow Road. It's weird to drive that way and see that subdivision. I'm not sure I'd want to live there, though, as isn't it a fault???
Sis
The entire town of Rexburg is on a fault. Basically the hill running through Smith Park all the way through campus is a fault. It continues all the way out to Archer and out toward the Sugar City cemetary. Basically where the bench begins from the valley floor is the fault line. I think Millhollow is simply a canyon that has erroded through the fault line.
You're right about the hill and the bench. The fault goes right under the Snow building. I now remember my HS Geology teacher, Mr. Ricks (AWESOME, WONDERFUL teacher, BTW), telling us that Mill Hollow is a fault, at least a branch of the main faultline that runs through Rexburg. It's a separating, spreading type faultline (compare to mid-Atlantic Ridge)...
(sigh) I would LOVE to study earthquakes and volcanoes but that darn MATH!!!!!
Sis
Math is easy.
Math rocks my world!! No pun intended. (with the geology bit and all)
Not for me. I think it's psychological, though...
Give me History over Math any day...
Sis
If it's psychological, then you should be able to convince yourself you like math.
Mom always did a really good job at that. She showed people math could be fun. She did this by thinking it was fun herself. She was excited to learn. You can't help learning from a teacher that loves the subject they teach. I can't count how many people have told me "your mother is the first person I could learn math from." A frequent visitor to my blog is one of those students.
I think it is often times a teacher teaching math that hate math themself that creates students that think "I can't learn math." I had a football coach teaching geometry. To this day I still have a bad taste in my mouth for geometry. All because some guy wanted to coach football and had to teach something on the side.
If you love geology and math is a fundemental part of studying geology, it seems like a small price to pay to do what you love. I had to take plenty of art history to get through school. I didn't totally enjoy it but I dealt with it. I tried to learn as much from it as I could and moved on. Did I enjoy it? Not totally. Does it help me now, you bet.
I have gone on long enough.
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