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The 18th Annual Moab Music Festival held their free concert outside at the Old City Park in Moab, Utah. The musicians from more populated areas of the United States, come every year for 10 days of music making. Samples from the daily concerts are featured. This year we heard some selections by a soprano who performs at the Metropolitan Opera, a jazz percussionist and pianist, a stand up bass player, a violinist, a violist and two other pianists. This shows the stage where the artists played.

Sunday was the last day ever for the Moab Swim Center, the public pool that has served Moab for decades. Starting this week, the popular swimming pool is being drained and demolished to make room for a new aquatics and recreation facility slated to open in the fall of 2010. Enjoying the pool on its final afternoon are Kestrel (top photo) and Betty. Betty worked at the pool this summer as a lifeguard.

Saturday evening, Jeff and Penny's daughters played for about a half hour at a new park in the Daybreak community in South Jordan. This climbing structure is made of ropes fastened together around a matrix of connecting bars.

Sam went to the annual Moab Car Show this weekend. He took a photo of this woody station wagon with a surfboard on top because it matches the pattern on the shirt he wore to the car show. (below)

While spending a recentl Sunday afternoon in the park, Sam saw young children enjoying the playground equipment.

While spending a Sunday afternoon in the park, Sam saw some young people skateboarding. Many parks include a skateboarding area like this one

When a very old cottonwood tree died in the Murray City Park, no one wanted to see it completely removed, so sculptor Peter ”Wolf” Toth carved the massive trunk into a likeness of Chief Wasatch. Chief Wasatch was a famous Native American leader in the area of the United States that later became Utah. Click on photo to enlarge.

Sam enjoyed visiting the Joan M. Hardle Arboretum in Murray, Utah recently. The arboretum was founded by a friend of his family and several of his relatives are listed on a plaque as founding donors. An arboretum is a park specifically set up for the study of trees. This one has plaques by each tree giving both the common and scientific name.

A couple preparing for their wedding came to the park on a recent Sunday afternoon to take photos for their wedding announcements.

Local gardeners can sell their home-grown produce at a Farmers’ Market in the park.

While at the park on a recent Sunday, Sam saw people training their dogs.

Studies show that about half of the United States population attends church on Sunday at least once a month, but whether or not they attend church Sunday morning, many Americans enjoy the tradition of spending Sunday afternoon in the park. Sam recently took some photos at a park in Salt Lake City. In this photo, you can see someone practicing their golf swing.

This is the inaugural entry of a new category called “Sunday in the Park,” which will occasionally feature activities that people enjoy doing on Sunday afternoons in the park.