Porcupine Paradise

I had to go back to Logan *again* yesterday. Partly to get more prints made of a few more photos, but mostly to get two new tires. Front tires were just about bald, so it was time to swap ’em out. All in all an annoyingly expensive day.

After getting the required tasks done, I decided to wander. Drove into the sticks southwest of Logan and meandered through farm country, eventually finding a raptor on a fencepost. Managed to get a most remarkable shot of it…

I then took a turn towards the appropriately named town of Paradise, Utah:

I’ve been to Paradise a few times (no pun intended), and while it’s a terribly beautiful place, the back road to the place will damn near shake a car to bits. However, it survived, so I pressed on. I finally decided to take the road down to Porcupine Reservoir, a place I’ve not been to before. I figured it might be a nice little waterhole. Instead, there was a massive earthen dam, backed up by a *gorgeous* artificial lake. I was told be a fisherman that it has trout and salmon and others. The photos don’t really do it justice.