you may be interested in these cards from moo.

Choose your images, get them printed, share with friends*.

*well, that is the plan, at least. I need to upload some better-quality images of some of my favorites before i proceed with this.

last friday night, we went to the opening of The Face of Utah Sculpture exhibition Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. A variety of work with some truly good stuff in the mix. Here is a sampling of things i liked, as well as a couple i found, well, interesting.

spheres (i didn’t note the name) by Chris Coleman

Cradle of Life and Death by Shawn Porter

Custom Continental by B. Clark

Dream by Sylvia Davis
beautiful tones in the patina on this one

Fetal by Mark Degraffenried

Flame by Ryoichi Suzuki
i wish i could have had better light for this. The patina was fabulous. It looked like stone.

Gratitude by K. Miduch

Haute Coutre Torture by J. Lucius

Hybrid Seed by N. Johannsen

Jack Knife by D. Holz

La jeune Femme by J. Young

Michelle (something) by Dan Gerhart

Penguin by U. Brodauf

Gypsy Woman by P. Pobil

Recombinant Michelle by Dan Gerhart

The Standard Works by B. Fairbanks
Moses, St Peter, Nephi and Joseph Smith, Jr

Tree People by Greg Raglan
This is so beautiful in person.
The forms carry a real sense of the organic.
they turn their heads up to the sky,
their lips pursed,
waiting to kiss

The Better Man / Wrong End of a 45 by S. Rogers
some of the best western sculpture i’ve seen

If you happen to be in Utah before Aug. 24, 2006, try to check it out.

and i am so very happy!

As of Saturday evening, the Utah MS150 ride had earned $1,060,000 to help fight MS and support those with MS.

I ended up riding 100 miles on day one and the remainder on day two. Let me just say, that i really should have put slicks on for the 100 miles. I have a touring bike and the tires are wider and more nobbly than a regular road bike which gives you more resistance and i was definitely feeling that at the end of day one. Luckily, i hooked up with my friend Carol’s team, which i have ridden with a couple of times, and got to do some drafting. Thank you Janet and Beth for pulling the last 15 miles!

Sunday had an open start, so i headed out at 7:15 and hooked up with two other brighton team members, Zita and Jay, to do the last loop. The volunteers on both days were fantastic. The route was beautiful and the people were great. How cool to be riding along with someone who was grateful to be the 6th top fund raiser last year. His wife has MS and both he and his son were riding the 150. She was hoping to join them for a few miles at the end.

Sunday, when we got back to camp at 10:00, sop was waiting for me (he had not been able to come up with me because we had Dogie) with beer and sandwiches. I finished breaking down my camp and we headed out to a reservoir on the bike route to hang out for a while. Perfect wrap-up to a fantastic weekend!

Oh, yes, pictures:

Team Brighton - Lifts for Life

Joanne and J

on the route

Carol and Hugh

Blakemore riders (saved my butt)

even hand-huts deserve a name

the only blurry picture i ended up with!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the MS 150 ride! Thank you Spider Woman for spreading the word! I am heading up to Logan today, looking forward to riding 150 miles over the next two days. My butt may not be looking forward to it so much, but it’ll get over it.

I hate asking for money - even when it is for a good cause. But, today I need to ask anyone who can to help with a cause that is important to me - MS.

I am so very lucky. I am able to run, ski, bike, walk, see… and i have every reason to believe that i will be able to do these things tomorrow.

I have a friend who is not so lucky. Five years ago he was diagnosed with MS. It’s in remission now, but he never knows how it will manifest itself when it comes back. Will he still be able to backpack and bike? Will he be able to see so that he can work?

I had a friend whose father was not so lucky. He lost his business, his vocation, his motivation. There has been a lot of progress since he was diagnosed, but MS is still not curable.

This winter we started a bike team at my side job, Brighton Resort, to raise money for the National MS Society. We’re riding the Best Dam Bike Tour, which is 150 miles over two days. We’ve had bake sales (i bake a mean ginger snap), raffles and yard sales. We’ve raised a decent amount of money with a lot of hard work. And so today I decided I needed to overcome my fear of asking for money and ask any of you who are interested in helping to sponsor me in this ride. If you can pledge $10, that would be fabulous. It really makes a difference.

If you pledge more than $20, I’ll send you a dozen Gingersnap cookes, home made. Just make sure to include your email so that i can contact you to get your mailing address.

Links:
To Sponsor Me
To find out more about the event
To find out more about the National MS Society

And to show you how fast i am, here’s some pictures taken while on my ride this morning:

it’s all a blur!

can you see the runner?

apparently i ride in circles

um, where am i going now?