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This awesome hike was epic for me. Labeled “strenuous” by the Parks Department, it earned that reputation with three vertical miles of trail, equaling 137 flights (yes, flights!) of stairs up.
We enjoyed walking up Fern Canyon in Redwoods National Park where the Jurassic movie was filmed.
This was quite the biking adventure. Misrepresented to us as an old logging road, this trail was not at all what we bargained for, but we still had fun.
We had a wonderful time in the trees among the California Coastal Redwoods of Redwoods National Park. We stayed in Elk Prairie Creek Campground…
What could be more patriotic than the view from Glacier Point of Yosemite?
We enjoyed these immense trees, some whose diameters exceed 28 feet.
We are finally camping! In this post, you can see our first campsite in the Wawona area which is the back side of Yosemite. Check out our camping set up, with our beloved hand-me-down tent, my new camp stove, and my bed for the next seven weeks.
We had a fun time touring the California capitol where our daughter spends part of her work days, and romping around in the extensive gardens.
We had a wonderful weekend in Sacramento. We arrived in time for a Friday night dinner reservation, and had a jubilant meal full of many toasts for being together
Our daughter and I both had a great time at her college orientation. Juniata seems to get a lot of things right…
This is a poem about my niece’s graduation party, the joy of chasing fireflies, and the fleeting transitions of our children
It is just the two of us going for some precious mother daughter time; my husband is staying home and holding down the fort, while tending his garden and his projects.
With a fancy dinner and otherwise very little fanfare, our youngest daughter graduated from high school last night
I need to express my profound gratitude for my husband’s help in launching this new website of mine. It would not have happened without him.
Our youngest has chosen to go to Juniata college in south central Pennsylvania, and has sent in her deposit to reserve her place in their class of 2019. She has been attracted to this small, rural, “sciency” liberal arts school all along and it feels like a great fit.
Happy Easter! This is a wonderful holiday full of hope of rebirth, gratitude for what Jesus did for us, and the glorious promise of eternal life. I hope you enjoyed it!
April Fool’s Day is the deadline for notification of college acceptances, so now all of our long awaited news is finally in. And, although the news was not exactly as we expected, our youngest daughter did get in her second choice school with a hefty scholarship, so the outcome was good.