Show Mini Vocation v STOUT and lit Stouts had a ML t not hav-M fork each l He is content to the house and we of his long then take j the hills for a End this kind of ay but best we could s And we la jr couple of been to he i them was U afternoon when Hie sky was un-rf there was barest but Old Sol down with a i Before I got M ground after the fluted Id thought of a heat 13 the desperate J Barbara Standi o on Big Val- I finally hollowed a de- around As I crawled under the boughs and lay the hot sand cradled me like eider I'D probably still be but I had visions of struggling over the dunes trying to find until he I resisted the delicious drowsiness that was stealing over and climbed to the top of the He was waiting at the I appreciated that he didn't 1 hope this taught you a Maybe next you will listen to Our next trip was through American Fork Canyon and over the Alpine Near the summit is a new surfaced with a sign that Cascade Springs 7 Don't pass it Cascade Springs is a miniature A place of pure WATER pushes up from the ground in a round spongy then narrows to a rushing stream which fans out to cascade over the rocks in numerous miniature They form a crystal clear where water plants Confident fish dart or swim lazily They know they are The sign no Foot bridges cross the stream and and paths lined with foliage and mountain flowers circle the Cascade Springs is one of nature's John says the new road is part of a long range plan to develop the From the a dirt road leads over the mountain to It is six miles Another climbs the side of the steep as a fire It is 18 miles long and runs top of the mountain and down to This is the one we AS THE road wound to the top and followed a narrow the view was To the west was in its blue granite still dotted with patches of To the east lay Heber Like a map in everything was in miniature We identified the tiny houses nestled in their clusters of trees as Heber and Roads like narrow ribbons criss-crossed the checkerboard Deer Creek reservoir was a deep blue On the east of the summit are the tallest aspen trees I have ever Some of them seem to rise from the canyon floor and grow straight to the tops of the are the towering Ferns blanketed the slopes and delicate alpine flowers bloomed in And we had the mountain all to If you like solitude with your this is a place for We came home through Parley's Canyon and the trip was less than a hundred ANOTHER we drove to The picturesque old town where the thunder of blasting and rumbling of trains shook the buildings every few is no Houses and business buildings have disappeared almost as though they had never But the hole in the mountain is still deep and We also planned a trip to the Farmington Bay Bird and Promontory But these will have to wait for another OUR Wasatch front is uniquely blessed with many canyons and places of beauty that can be reached in a short We still have many places to Right in our own back |