Rest in the Lord and be willing to wait for Him. Psalm 37:7 (NLV)
Wednesday, July 30 You knew it would soon be coming ~ my last post on Yellowstone. 🙂 While having lunch on the deck at Tower Falls we noticed a young mule deer. There were fifty-plus people walking around the parking lot and in the campground store, but she contentedly grazed along the road ~ unnoticed by most […]
Wednesday, July 30 Our goal for Wednesday was to meander over roads where we had seen wildlife and beautiful scenery on the previous two days. We continued to see bison as we traveled away from the Mud Volcano area. As you can see, the fog had not yet lifted in Hayden Valley. I liked this […]
Wednesday, July 30 We were glad that we arrived here early enough in the day to find a parking spot. I find these boiling, gurgling mud pots interesting and fascinating. This was correctly named, as it gave a continuous deep rumbling sound from somewhere underground. While listening to Dragons Mouth Spring, Cerwin noticed a bison coming over […]
Wednesday, July 30 This was the view from our cabin’s front door ~ about 6:56 AM. I love weed flowers and seed pods. Our cabin at Flagg Ranch. Cerwin taking our luggage to the car. Our rental car. We saw this mule deer shortly after leaving our motel. Pretty morning scenery Those first pictures all […]
Tuesday Afternoon, July 29 We arrived at Canyon Falls about 1 PM. We hadn’t eaten since having coffee and sharing a muffin while waiting for a display from Old Faithful ~ about 7:30 AM ~ so we looked for a place for lunch. We shared a BLT and fries. We spent the next two hours exploring the […]
Tuesday, July 29 We enjoyed the scenery after leaving Old Faithful and headed north to Madison. We headed west after getting to Madison to do the West Entrance drive. I asked Cerwin to stop so I could get a photo of this reflection. As I was taking the picture, I noticed that the reflection was […]
Tuesday, July 29 We left the cabin early (about 6:45 AM) on Tuesday morning to get to Old Faithful before the crowds and saw this coyote a few minutes later. It was right next to our car (on Cerwin’s side), we were moving in opposite directions, and it was still a bit dark ~ my list of excuses for […]
Monday, July 28 As we approached Fountain Paint Pot area, we didn’t know what we were in for. The parking lot was full of cars and buses, and we almost decided to leave ~ but then we saw an open spot and decided to park and see what it was all about. It turned out to be a […]
Monday, July 28 Our first entrance into Yellowstone was through the Northeast Entrance – about 10:00 AM on Monday. We were soon rewarded with our first animal sighting when we saw herds of bison in Lamar Valley. This became an almost common experience in certain areas – bison on the road – as we spent several days in […]
Monday, July 28 (Posted Wednesday evening in Jackson, Wyoming. It’s good to be back online after three days without Internet, cell phone, and TV – but we had a FABULOUS time in Yellowstone. Thankfully we could call our children from our motel room phone at no charge.) We left Cody early Monday morning so we would have […]
Sunday, July 27 We enjoyed a relaxing morning in our motel room. We don’t know anyone in this area and were not familiar with any of the churches, so listened to our own church service from back home. We could do that at 8 AM due to the two-hour time change. We weren’t quite ready for […]
Saturday, July 26 We began our evening at 5:30 at The Cody Cattle Company. They serve a delicious chuckwagon meal. My plateful after going through the line ~ and I chose to not take the tossed salad or beef. 6:30 PM: The music is about to begin. The hour of lively cowboy and bluegrass music was […]
Saturday ~ Morning and Afternoon ~ July 26 We began our day by purchasing a combination ticket for a 9 AM trolley tour of Cody and a two-day pass for Buffalo Bill Center of the West. We had time to relax before the tour, so went inside the dining room to order orange juice (me) and coffee […]
Friday, July 25 This was the view outside our motel window this morning. With sunrise just a bit closer. Before long the hills were covered with sunshine. When we told the desk attendant that we were hoping to seen an animal or two in this landscape, he said, “You never know what will show up in summer. Last […]
Thursday, July 24 We were up early today ~ to be at Dave Hansen White Water by 6:45. No, we were not going white water rafting! We had chosen the more comfortable (for me), scenic, thirteen-mile float down Snake River. After being transported to the river by bus, we were divided into groups of 10 (9 […]
Wednesday, July 23 Though I am posting more than my usual limit of twenty pictures per blog, I eliminated most of the 362 pictures I took ~ to give you the highlights of yesterdays relaxing, delightful day. Our first stop was here ~ to get information for traveling from Jackson to Grand Teton National Park. Our second […]
Tuesday, July 22 I am keeping this online “diary” of our trip – for my benefit and memories. Hope you enjoy it too. 🙂 We flew American because we had enough air miles to make it a free trip. Our check-in went smoothly at Harrisburg. Just after I went through security, and was waiting on […]
I will just post a few pictures from our day, as we landed in Jackson Hole about 7:30 PM Mountain Time, got our luggage and car, found our motel, then went for supper – even before unloading our luggage, because the closest restaurant was closing at 9 PM. It is now 10:17 PM Mountain Time […]
Sunday, July 6 We were on the road ~ heading east ~ shortly after 6:00 AM. We enjoy traveling on Sunday mornings because Sirius Radio has gospel bluegrass music all morning. At 10:00 AM we called in to our home church and listened to the singing and message. Modern technology is an amazing blessing. We […]
Saturday Evening, July 5 Clayton, Peggy, Cerwin, and I enjoyed a slow walk toward the restaurant where we had reservations. This was the sidewalk to an antique shop. We liked this sign indicating that the shop was closed. We weren’t shopping anyway. We arrived at Cobblestone Grill about half-an-our early but decided to see if our table was ready. When […]
Saturday Evening, July 5 We got to Zionsville about an hour before our supper appointment ~ which we planned ~ so we’d have time to enjoy the historic area of the town. We had been here the evening before, but discovered almost everything was closed for the holiday. I loved the brick streets. Consequently when […]
On Monday morning, June 30 (after the Truck Rally), Cerwin and I stopped to get gas for our RAV4 – when on the way to the Lebanon Expo to get the TFC chapel. I hadn’t eaten breakfast, so went inside the gas station for a Dunkin Donut French cruller. (I love French crullers!) When I walked back […]
Try hard to understand, and you will be rewarded. Proverbs 19:8 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
Sunday, May 25 I have a few more pictures on file that did not fit into any other posts. These first few shots are signs of spring in Maine ~ from the day I walked on the dead end road that goes by Mark and Diane’s house. We saw this interesting mailbox one day when we […]
Monday, January 6 We left Mark and Diane’s home about 7:00 a.m. on a very rainy Monday and dropped Lydia off at Region 10 Technical High School where she is studying for her senior year of high school. After arriving, she learned that school was delayed two hours because of the heavy rain. She used […]
We left the house about 5:00 a.m. on December 31 to head north – to spend time with our daughter Diane and our Maine family. This picture (northern Pennsylvania) is a bit deceptive as it appears to be sunny and warm. However, this was taken across the road at the same spot. Traveling northeast means we […]
The snow stopped during the night, but the roads were still not real great in the morning. For the first several miles we couldn’t even see the white lines dividing the traffic lanes. It was a pretty morning to be traveling. Lake Ontario. We had an incredibly nice border-crossing agent on the way into Canada, […]
Friday, December 13 The pretty sunrise seemed to always be behind us as we began our almost eight-hour drive to Burlington, Ontario, for the memorial service for our friend Audrey Scott, so I took a picture in the rearview mirror. The early morning sun made pretty reflections on the Susquehanna River We expected to get into snow as […]
Monday, December 9 We waited until daylight before leaving the truck stop due to the scattering of snow on Sunday night, and were barely on the road when we began seeing signs of a rainbow. I had never seen a rainbow that encircled the sun. (As you can see, Cerwin quickly ran the windshield wipers to give me a […]
Sunday, December 8 When Chaplain Tim asked if we would like a quick tour of Hudson on Sunday morning, before chapel services, he got an enthusiastic YES from me. The old courthouse. I was a bit disappointed that the day was overcast – meaning there was no chance of seeing eagles, but that disappointment was wiped […]