May 31 is my birthday and this year I’m 62, one of those mathematical milestones.

Here are several picture documenting how I became a “Senior” today.

For my birthday Jean gave me $10.00.

I took this $10.00 to the Zion entrance gate and purchased my Senior Pass which is one time purchase for Life Time entry into all national parks or until October 30, 2028.
The pass also gives us a 50% discount on many of the National Park camp grounds.  Anyway now I am eligible to draw Social Security and I have a government document which says I’m a Senior (that’s with a capital “S”)

ZION FRIDAY 6/1/2012

It is going to be 101 today and it was 100 yesterday, VACATION.

Today’s picture(s) are from the West Rim trail above Angel’s Landing.  I took the 6:00 a.m. bus up the canyon and spent the morning on the trail above Angel’s Landing taking pictures and hoping the condors I saw last year would come back.    They didn’t.

Over the winter I bought myself a new toy, a Canon 60d and a couple of lens. The walk around lens is 18-200mm and the big toy is a 150-500mm.  The first picture is of Angel’s Landing at 150mm.

I think this lens is going to be a lot of fun and great to take pictures of birds and other animals.