FirstFish ’09

Yup, that’s the first rockcod of the ’09 season. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Sadie Seadog

Sadie aboard Toad, out to sea. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Sadie Boat Dog

Sadie, er, “mans” the boat aboard the mighty Toad. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Bird Rock

Pelicans dive off Turtle Rock as sealions bark. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Chillin’

Lulu knows when to rest her dogs. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Perfect

Brenda and the dogs finish their morning run on Indian Beach with a footwash in Parker Creek. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Parker Creek

Parker Creek comes out to meander across Indian Beach—called Home Beach by the Tsurai—to the harbor. Dogs meander, too. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Albatross

About eight miles out of Trinidad, a flock of albatross swooped in to land by the boat, one at a time, until there were more than 20. A happy day at sea—is there any other kind? (©Ted Pease 2009)

Holy Halibut!

42 lbs. That’s the result for the first try at halibut since dad caught one by accident from the skiff in Maine in 1965. (©Jim Gullet 2009)

Cap’n Jim

Jim Gullet, skipper of the Wind Rose, a crab boat out of Trinidad, waits for the fish to bite, eight miles out to sea. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Bait

On her first day in the water, the mighty Toad caught the limit of rock cod, from A to Z. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Runner

We run and run and run...and get here. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Beach Hounds

Lulu and Sadie prowl Indian Beach for kelp and revolting things to roll in. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Fishboy ’04

Good times, good snacks . . . while there was still a salmon season: 2004. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Footwash

Sadie and Brenda clean their feet after a run on Indian Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pretty Pony

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Horsenose

The colt in the Saunders’s field likes passersby. Looking for a name. Or an apple in your pocket. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Nasturtiums (or Nasturia?)

(©Ted Pease 2009)

More Ferns

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Ferny

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Gnaw

Sadie does everything, including consuming driftwood, with gusto. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Houda Pool

Low tide at Houda. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pooltime

Sadie ripples a tidepool on Houda Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Cheese!

Nose? What Nose?

Sadie—let’s face it—has a big face. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Sadieface

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Professorous

Commencement 2009, Professorous Maximus (from left) Brenda Cooper, Joyce Kinkead, Fran Titchener and Mark Damen. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Chairfeet

Lulu kickin’ back (©Ted Pease 2009)

Aunt Agnes

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Cool Pool

Anemones (©Ted Pease 2009)

Beachdogs09

Houda Beachdogs & Brenda (©Ted Pease 2009)

Barberina

Oh my LORD!!! What has he done to me??!? (©Ted Pease 2009)

There is SUCH a story to this. See Jennifer Christensen's great account in the Deseret News. Or go to the Women & Gender Studies blog.

Rose Bouquet

(©Ted Pease 2009)

WarpTed

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Sloth Cat

. . . But is that redundant? (©Ted Pease 2009)

Leaves

(©Ted Pease 2007)

Carrumba!

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For many profs, grading is not as much fun as it seems. (©Ted Pease’s sneaky computer, 2009)

Frigid Roads . . .

. . . take me home. The hounds below Mendon Peak. (Ted Pease ©2009)

Rosy Cheeks

Brenda @ a balmy 18 degrees. But it’s a dry cold... (Ted Pease ©2009)

Snowfields

Mendon Peak peeks over the shoulder of a Petersboro snowfield. (Ted Pease ©2009)

Utah Snowbunnies

The girls frolic at a mile high in the Wellsvilles. (Ted Pease ©2009)

Sadie Boatdawg

What a boatdawg! sound asleep in heavy chop her first day out. (Ted Pease ©2008)

Sadie Fishface

Sadie, fish-dawg extraordinare, points a rock cod aboard Toad. (Ted Pease ©2008)

Moon Wink

First full moon of 2009 sets in the West. (Ted Pease ©2009)

Burnt Ranch

WINTER SKIES over the Trinity River on the last day of 2008. (Ted Pease ©2008)

December Morn

RED AT MORNING—Skies ablaze over the Bear River Range, Utah (Ted Pease ©2008)

Autumn Sunrise

The lights of Logan, Utah, twinkle in the autumn predawn chill . . .


. . . as the late October sunrise ventures over the Bear River Range . . .


. . . finally turning night to golden morning in Cache Valley. (Ted Pease ©2008)