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My husband and I are in Arizona this week visiting my parents. We decided to take an impromptu trip to the Grand Canyon.
This is a bucket list destination and I’m thrilled that we can cross it off. The photo doesn’t do the incredible beauty justice.
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While in college my oldest child studied in Ireland for a semester. This turned out to be a great excuse for many family members to visit her. One of the things we did was climb Croagh Patrick in County Mayo on March 1, 2002. Definitely not the optimal day to do it but we were glad we did.
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I woke up to this scene (my back yard) on Friday morning.
I used my phone to get the photo before 7am.
The bluish hue is actually how it looked. Almost magical.
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Temps hovered in the single digits this week –
Bailey was quite happy to snuggle under her blanket 🙂
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A few days before our daughter’s wedding the family gathered to celebrate our nephew’s 13th birthday.
Friends of my son-in-law’s family offered their cottage (and kayaks) to our family for the day.
Nieces and nephews, daughters, son-in-law and friends used the boat and kayaks to reach this spot and enjoyed being splashed by the Atlantic waves. It was a wonderful day – fun memories.
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Sept. 11 – The river near our house.
I snapped this with my phone while on my morning walk.
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This has been a big year for my family. We welcomed our first grandchild in July and last Monday was the wedding of our daughter and son-in-law.
The bridesmaid closest to the bride is our daughter. The second bridesmaid from the bride is our daughter-in-law and the second groomsman from the groom is our son.
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My daughter (whose middle name is Irene!) lives in southern Maine near the shore – a little south of Portland.
I asked her to take some pictures on Friday.
So here are two of the calm before the storm:
I hope to have equally beautiful photos of the area to post next Saturday.
My husband and I (and many relatives and friends) will be in Maine for our daughter’s wedding next week.
I’m sending good thoughts to all in Irene’s path.
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This is Nikki, a nine or ten year old Westie. Several weeks ago the person Nikki lived with passed away and Nikki was sent to a shelter. You can imagine what was in store for her. The Westie Rescue came to her rescue and she ended up in northern New England where my daughter adopted her. She came all the way from Kansas but Nikki is quickly becoming used to living near the Maine shore.
She even has her own life jacket 🙂
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I visited my parents this week and spent some time scanning old family photos. The couple in this photo are my Dad’s great-aunt and uncle (circa 1900). They owned a farm in Wisconsin. You can click on the photo to enlarge.
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My son and daughter-in-law welcomed their daughter (and my first grandchild) Gracelyn Marie on July 6.
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New this week in my garden: Lilacs! The lovely scent makes them worth the wait.
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Spring is here 🙂
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When my son stopped by the house last Sunday
he asked if I’d noticed the basketball hoop lately. I said “No. Why?”
He told me to take a look. This is what I saw:
And then I looked a little closer:
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Continuing the beach theme on the blog this week I thought I’d pick a photo I shot a few years ago looking out over the Gulf of Mexico from Marco Island, Florida.
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A few months ago I snapped this picture of the Roosevelt Bridge in Arizona. According to information I found via a Google search it spans 1080 feet across the lake and is the longest two-lane single-span steel-arch bridge in North America.
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Magnolia in our backyard – Spring 2010
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I grew up in a small Wisconsin town along the Mississippi River. I visited my parents last fall and one morning my Dad and I rode our bikes to the riverfront park. We’d heard the river was rising and wanted to see for ourselves. It was. The next day it was over the banks and covering a road or two. A week later things were back to normal. There’s flooding almost every year but some are worse than others. I’ve heard the river is on the rise again.
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