{"id":78028,"date":"2021-01-19T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T13:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=78028"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:50:54","slug":"a-cooks-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/01\/19\/a-cooks-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cook’s Memorial? Odd Things I Find While Looking For Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cook'sCook’s Memorial? – Nikon D300, f13, 1\/640, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light
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As best as I can figure out what is in this photo is a cook’s memorial that I found 7 years ago today out on a range in Utah’s West Desert.<\/p>\n

When I am out in the field looking for birds I sometimes come across strange or even odd things and this pile of rocks, red bows, seashells, pottery shards, and wooden spoons was one of those things.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t been to this area in several weeks when I discovered what appears to be a memorial of some kind. The wooden spoons appeared to be high quality and not the kind that you can pick up at a dollar store.<\/p>\n

I decided that what I found and photographed might be a memorial for a cook.<\/p>\n

I spotted the cook’s memorial over the rest of the winter and into early spring and then one day I simply couldn’t see it anymore.<\/p>\n

I wish I knew the story behind the pile of rocks, seashells, pottery shards, red bows, and wooden spoons and how it came to be. Was this memorial for a woman?<\/p>\n

A mother, wife, sister, brother, husband, a ranch hand who liked to cook? I’ll never know.<\/p>\n

I did photograph some birds that day including a few Horned Larks perched on rocks not far from this little memorial.<\/p>\n

This cook’s memorial isn’t the only strange or odd thing I have spotted while out in the field looking for birds. Perhaps I should write about them more often.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good. Sometimes it is a mystery.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my miscellaneous photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As best as I can figure out what is in this photo is a cook’s memorial that I found 7 years ago today out on a range in Utah’s West Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10893,358,26,1314],"tags":[10896,10895,6804,4098,4109,6805,10899,10897,10901,6243,10898,4470,10900,373,10894],"class_list":["post-78028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-bows","tag-cooks-memorial","tag-curlycup-gumweed","tag-desert","tag-grasses","tag-grindelia-squarrosa","tag-memorial","tag-odd-things","tag-pottery-shards","tag-range","tag-roadside-oddities","tag-rocks","tag-seashells","tag-winter","tag-wooden-spoons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t