A Utah post, at long last

It seems I’m making up for early June’s dirth of posts all at once. A few weeks ago UMCOR West had a grand opening! We had tons of folks show up, including our staffs from Louisiana and New York. Several of us went out to the mountains for a little hike after the grand opening, and here are some favorite shots from the day.

The Aspens in Utah are GORGEOUS. They remind me of the Birches in Carolina.

Can’t resist it.

Don’t litter! And I love the sign that says ‘Drinking water may be obtained at: no water available’

Lisa Jackson and a flower

These are the mountains of Utah. We’re standing in the Wasatch mountains. The first and third photos are looking down into the valley and out towards the Oquirrhs, the second is looking up towards Park City. I love watching the storm roll in – you can see the rain starting in the third photo.

A little self portrait 🙂

There were these two adorable little girls walking in front of us on the trail – I managed to catch one of them skipping.

Melissa Hinnen takes photos of the mountains. Maybe my favorite thing about this photo? Melissa’s Church of the Village t-shirt. “A Progressive United Methodist Community” in Greenwich Village, NYC. This is where we worshiped on the first Sunday of Missionary training. During the offering, Lindsey leaned over to me and said that she’d rather tithe to her church (later my church, too) in DC, Dumbarton UMC, because she wasn’t sure this church was a reconciling church. (It is, btw.)

And one last photo from the day: Skip Strickland, Kathy Kraiza, Brian Diggs, Lisa Jackson, and Melissa Hinnen, our staff from Rocky Mountain Annual Conference, UMCOR Sager Brown in Louisiana, UMCOR West here in Salt Lake, and UMCOR in New York City. They’re showing you their elbows because we were hiking the “Elbow Fork Trail”.