Picto Diary - 24 to 30 September 2025 - TIMDT's 35th Birthday

Above: Richardson Flats, Park City, UT. 24 September 2025.
LSDM Field Trip to Richardson Flats.
Theo educates ROMEOs on why he believes Richardson Flats is critical to Park City's future. Gondola too? Childcare? Latte village? Can't we all just get along? Park City, Larry H. Miller, Hideout, UDOT, Deer Valley?

Above: Markagunt Plateau, Iron County, UT. 24 September 2025.
Aspen colors pushing peak.

Above: Cedar Breaks National Monument overlook parking. Markagunt Plateau, Iron County, UT. 24 September 2025
Freddie (not a bear... a dog) taking a break from the floor of the van.

Above: Cedar Breaks National Monument. Markagunt Plateau, Iron County, UT. 24 September 2025.

Image looks west from overlook. Atypical image taken because of better lighting to the west. Best image from this point looks east... but today, at this time, circa 5:00 PM, that image would have had to be taken facing directly into the lowering sun.

Above: Cliffside Restaurant. St. George, UT. 25 September 2025.
Bishop, TIMDT, and John Galt celebrate TIMDT's thirty-fifth birthday.

Galt is in Ivins to deposit his 'Wing in our garage anticipating a southwestern motorcycle ride with me, and perhaps, others in January of 2026. For Portland, OR readers, you can't ride a 'Wing from Walla Walla, WA to Ivins, UT in January due to inclement weather conditions.

Above: Dixie Technical College, St. George, UT. 25 September 2025.

I captured this image just after leaving TIMDT's thirty-fifth birthday dinner across the street at Cliffside Restaurant. On 05 September 2025 TIMDT and Mwah (sic) were having lunch at Cliffside when we heard that Charlie Kirk had been killed. Little did we know then that the alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, was enrolled in a three-year electrical engineering course at this school. Dixie Technical College trustees, how do you feel about having your most famous student being the assassin of man otherwise on a trajectory to become President of the United States? The parallel is not exact, but this reminds me of the time I visited the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia in 2014. Then, and there, I couldn't get out of my head how the citizens of Gori felt about how the best-known product of their town being a mass killer, by some accounts responsible for the deaths of twenty million people.

St. George and Gori. Permanently cursed locations?

Is this America’s most racist town? - The Spectator World

Above: A Spectator World piece I saw today casting aspersions on two Arkansas towns I had recently visited. 26 September 2025.

I'm very familiar with Harrison and Ravenden.
We overnighted with our niece (not a KKK member) a year ago at her Harrison home. She has since moved to Paragould, AR to be closer to her grandchildren. There is a very good breakfast place in Harrison, Jamie's Local Flavor.
Just northwest of Harrison, in rural Carroll County, is the starting point of the Fancher expedition. The Fancher wagon train was headed for California before they were waylaid in southern Utah and slaughtered by Mormons and Piute Indians in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. The Mountain Meadows Massacre occurred just 20 miles north of our Ivins, UT home. TIMDT and Mwah (sic) visited a Fancher family monument in Carroll County, AR while we were in Harrison visiting our niece.
I visited Ravenden several times during the 70's and 80's with TIMDT to see her paternal grandmother, Mattie. Mattie lived alone in a small house with the proverbial, deep south, outdoor covered porch, on which was a bevy of rocking chairs. Near-toothless Mattie, in her upper 80's the last time I saw her, loved to chat, as is wont for old time, storytelling southerners, as she rocked away in her chair. Mattie was a fine example of TIMDT's hardnosed Scots Irish heritage.
Don't be discouraged by this article. I never met any KKK people in my numerous visits to rural Arkansas. I only met nice, caring, Godfearing, friendly people... MAGAs mostly, you know, people who marry, have kids, work for a living, go to church and play by the rules.
Visit Arkansas! The chance to consume catfish, hush puppies, and beans and corn bread is not to be missed. Add breakfast at Waffle House in Jonesboro for the icing on the Arkansas cake. Oh, and did I mention the fabulous Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR?

Above: Soldier Hollow, Wasatch County, UT. 27 September 2025. Image by Portland.
Grrr podiums in mountain bike competition. He must be pretty good. When we attended these events for Drums several years back there were hundreds of competitors. Congratulations Grrrr!

Above: Wild Thyme Cafe, Springdale, Washington County, UT. 28 September 2025
Zion National Park rock formations in the distant background. After lunch, we drove via UT SR 9 through Zion Park to Mt. Carmel Junction. Wild Thyme Cafe serves a 95% authentic (Joes Stone Crab, Miami being the standard) key lime pie.

Above: Mt. Carmel Junction, Kane County, UT. 28 September 2025.

Mt. Carmel Junction annual car show. While Freddie was at the car show, he proved to be a bigger attraction than the cars. There were a couple of '55 Chevy coupes at the show. My first car was a '55 Chevy coupe which I, with the help of Dad, purchased for $500 in 1962. I think I paid half and Dad paid half. My own money came from my summer job at the Provo City Cemetery where I pulled hoses around to water the lawn and helped the grave diggers before and after the burial ceremonies. Family friend, Paul Harmon, once congratulated me on having a very important job at the cemetery. After all, I was working over twenty thousand people!

Above: Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. Kane County, UT. 28 September 2025.

The last time I was here was in 1999 when TIMDT and Mwah (sic) rode the BMW R1100 GS motorcycle from Colorado City, AZ to Kanab, UT. Then, the AZ part of the road was unpaved, more or less, looking like the sand in the above image. Our ride, me piloting with TIMDT riding pillion, was a facsimile of Mr. Toad's wild ride, the bike swishing back and forth along the sand road. I used my legs as outriggers, and we managed to avoid falling... this over about a fifteen-mile road segment.

Above: Koessler/Portland family picture. Professionally taken. 29 September 2025.
TIMDT and Mwah (sic) very proud of this crowd.

Above: Skyline High School bicycle team achieves. 2025.
Note third from top. Way ta' go, Grrr!

Above: Clifftop Restaurant. St. George, UT. 29 September 2025.
Temperatures reducing. Nice, now, to sit outdoors. We now share a meal... eating less. This time we shared a BLT sandwich after an appetizer of coconut encrusted shrimp.

Addendum:

So sad to learn that the Treasure Mountain Elementary School in going to be demolished. Why?
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Music in the Mountains,
Racine, WI

School was old. Out of date. It had gone beyond its useful life.

Steve,

I served on Redford’s Park City Sundance Institute Board the years I lived in Park City 2003 - 2008. Wonderful experience. For the first time we opened with a documentary “Riding Giants” and another year we opened with “Kinky Boots” both in Park
City and Salt Lake. We were just beginning to show films in Salt Lake. Governor Jon Huntsman attended but left halfway through. He later explained to us he thought the film was fun but given his position in the Church and being Governor he needed to slip out.

Great time for me. Got to hob nob with Redford and others including Paul Newman.

Tom,
Aspen, CO

Lotta "old guys" are captivated by her, their subconscious driving their lost sexual pursuits, as Freud would say. BTW, she has a "team" putting these videos together, it's a good money maker, selling sex to the subconscious of old guys. I seldom look are her product, same with Charlie and Ewan's, unless directed to. Kind of like Duck Dynasty and Ice Road Truckers, fantasy adventures.

Last 10 days in Trump Land, USA (tonight in Sheridan, WY,) then "off the reservation" to the Land of Smiles for the winter.one thing I have noticed in places lime this, not a lot of smiling, more grim faces - one of a cultural phenomenon. I still laugh a lot, maybe a Native thing and being a political agnostic.

80 and you're still "riding," impressive. I'm off the bikes at 80, my hard line in the sand, if I make 80, two years away. Donated my KLR650 to a museum that wanted it last weekend. That's five of my various motorcycles in museums in USA, all well hammered on Big Dog Rides and worn out except one, the turbo charged BMW (300 miles, top speed 160).

Culling my herd.

Best, Dr. G
Crow Agency, MT

Steve-
My father John Brose passed away this morning in his sleep at 92 years of age due to complications with pancreatic cancer.
Thanks for all your friendship and sharing-no need to include [email protected] on future emails.
Thanks again,

Greg Brose
Somewhere in Texas

RIP John. Go to my site and put "Ohl" in the search. You will find many encounters with John Brose. RIP John.