tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42826693140286194832024-03-13T11:26:44.397-07:00Stella's RoadtripStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-49000307509533276012013-08-28T12:25:00.003-07:002013-08-28T12:25:54.424-07:00Late Winter/Spring 2013Sorry. I'm behind. I'm currently living in a campground with no electricity or internet (I know, a campground without internet. Weird, huh? Wait, you don't think that's weird?). But today the weather started out drippy, and moved straight into 2000% humidity. You can't even see 30 feet through the haze. I'm certainly not climbing today. So I'll add some photos to this barely-taken-care-of blog. If everyone would just get on facebook (Mom), I could just add pictures there.<br />
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In all fairness though, I haven't added any pictures on facebook in forever either.<br />
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After New Years, I moved back down to Chattanooga until the end of March. It was rainy-er this year than last, which was disappointing, but I suppose it was to be expected. No winter could be as great as the winter 2 years ago. I moved into an apartment with 5 other people. It was a nice apartment, so it was really nice to have a low (but still over my budget) rent.<br />
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This was the second winter I lived with Ruth.<br />
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Ruth and Craig started dating the summer before, so Craig was down in Chatty with us. </div>
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Rachel was in Chattanooga the winter before, but not our roommate. This year she was, and it was awesome to live with her!</div>
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Rachel's friend Bri moved in too. Now, of course, she's MY friend Bri.</div>
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And last but not least, Matt Pomfrey (he knew Bri best when he moved in) lived with us for a couple months. Now he lives in the campground with no electricity or internet like I do.</div>
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Bri was the only one with a job, so we mostly all just climbed all winter. Except for when it rained. We spent a lot of time at the library, and everyone but me pulled their hair out a lot. Luckily I'm good at not getting bored. Here's some more pictures. Me climbing and hiking with Ruth, Rachel, and Craig.</div>
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Of course, Joe came to visit for spring break. He is amazing. He did his first V8 - which is really, really, hard. In 10 years of climbing, I've done 2. And they were easy ones. Joe did his in about 2 hours. Unfair. He visited recently, though, and did his first trad climb. He did just as poorly as I did my first time, if not worse. So. I feel slightly better. I guess. Here he is getting his jump on. The first are two in a series where he ran and jumped off the ground and caught this hold one handed. Then he climbed to the top of the boulder. The other is a famous route in Alabama. His feet were up on the rock, but they swung off as he jumped for the handhold. Then he held the swing and finished up (but not on this attempt, I don't think).</div>
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Maybe I'll do this again soon and catch you all up!</div>
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This post is still about Christmas in the Keys. From the 1st day we went snorkeling. We had to get up at 7am (the picture below shows how many of us actually made it), to get to John Pennekamp State Park by 8, then we boarded the boat at 9. The water was a balmy 88 degrees, which is not nearly as warm as it sounds. Hence the wetsuits. Anyway, here's a great picture of my mom, my brother, and me. It's rare to get such a good picture of multiple people, so I'm really happy with this one!</div>
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The water was neon. This picture came the closest to capturing the absurd color.</div>
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These were crazy coral balls. They were huge, and too close to the surface to swim over, so I just sort of sat there staring at them. I have no idea why they formed that way.</div>
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Fan coral!</div>
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barracudas were everywhere! Every time I saw one I started singing Heart in my head. So... I was singing it constantly.</div>
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We saw sea turtles!!!! I had thought that because you don't see them on beaches in the winter, that we wouldn't see any. But if they're not on the beaches, than they're in the water! Duh!</div>
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more fan coral. And some other cool corals</div>
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Coral reefs are so full of life! Who knew that they actually look like they do in paintings/movies (Nemo)/ at the aquarium!</div>
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<br /><br />Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-89061112786796123292013-02-01T09:48:00.004-08:002013-02-01T09:48:53.797-08:00Christmas It's hard to keep up with my blog these days, what with facebook being a perfect place to post my pictures and tell about them all. And now, almost everyone I know is on facebook, my blog is pretty redundant. Soon I may give it up altogether. Maybe. Anyway, for the first time in my whole life, my family did something different for Christmas. We went on vacation! I haven't been on a family vacation since I was 14, I think. So it's been 13ish years. Wow. That made this one all the better. Now that I'm an 'adult' I can appreciate how awesome family vacation is. You stay in a hotel go out to eat 3 meals a day, hang out on the beach and in the hot tub, and basically do whatever else you want FOR FREE. Unless you're the parent. Then you have to pay for everything. Luckily, I'm not the parent! So the whole not paying for anything was just about the most amazing thing in the world (thank's parents/aunt and uncle!!), and on top of that, I got to see a whole new part of the world, and have some pretty neat experiences.<br />
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We went to the Florida Keys. I wanted to go somewhere in the continental US so that I could drive. I hate flying. But I was surprised to find that my mom and brother wanted to drive with me. My brother because he wanted to stop at climbing areas along the way, and my mom because we had talked about taking a bonding roadtrip together (and, I learned, flying isn't her favorite activity either). We left my dad, sister, aunt, and uncle to make the 3ish hour flight by themselves, and set off 5 days earlier. Our first stop was Chattanooga, so we could fufill Joe's wish for the drive: climbing. Here we are at LRC (Little Rock City), bouldering. My mom even climbed with us!<br />
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Our next stop was Tampa, FL, where our old neighbor Kathy now lives. She had to work during the day, but gave us suggestions as to where to go and what to see while we were visiting. Here we were on the coast in a manatee sanctuary. It was a canal that was warmed by the nearby electrical plant. Overall "beautiful" scenery. We didn't see a single manatee! (but we stopped again on the way back and were rewarded by glimpses of hundreds of them. And the camera died.) But we did see this egret (or heron... I just called all the white ones snowy egrets, and all the blue ones great blue herons). It was our first wildlife sighting.</div>
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Our final stop on the way to the Keys was the Everglades. It's the only place in the world like it, so we HAD to see it, so we stopped in and went on a couple hikes. Here's a purple gallawrignalkrg... something. You might have to blow up the picture to see it, but it's a beautiful bright purple bird with huge yellow feet. And it walks along lilypads. How these birds haven't all been eaten by alligators, I don't know.</div>
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Here's an anhinga drying out it's wings. They dive down under the water to catch fish to eat, but can't fly with wet wings, so they have to sit, air drying their wings all the time</div>
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our first alligator sighting! We were on a boardwalk, leaning over, looking into the swamp for at least a minute before we noticed him, right in front of us.</div>
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At some point on our drive south, palm trees started popping up. Just growing wild. I thought they were all planted. I didn't realize they grew wild (you may have seen an earlier post where I was at a desert oasis, hugging a wild palm tree. I had forgotten about that...). This one, however, was at a visitor center, and was most likely planted.</div>
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a great blue heron!</div>
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The tree my mom is touching is called a gumbo limbo tree. It has tissuepaper thin red bark that peels like a birch tree. Some people call it the tourist tree. For it's peeling red skin. Get it?</div>
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The Keys! Driving between islands, you're rewarded with breathtaking views like this: shallow blue-green water on both sides, with mangrove islands dotting the horizon.</div>
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One of the Key's only natural beaches. All the brown stuff is sea grass, deposited on the shore with the tides. While growing, it is a favorite food for sea turtles</div>
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This is our hotel's beach. See how there are actually rocks next to the water? A fake beach, but the biggest one in Islamorada (the key we stayed on). It was pretty nice.</div>
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a teeny crab!</div>
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When I read that our hotel had bikes that rode ON TOP of the water, I got SO excited. Seriously, I was excited about this for months. I somehow wasn't picturing the wheels to be half submerged and it just being a paddleboat. It wasn't nearly as fun as I expected. Here's Hanna and Joe trying to enjoy themselves (don't get me wrong, it wasn't THAT bad...)</div>
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This picture has everyone but me in it! Hanna and Joe on the bike, my mom and Aunt Paula looking for the crab as I shout directions from behind the camera, and in the backgroung, my dad and Uncle Jay on the beach.</div>
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We also rented a standup paddleboard. They conveniently had some to rent at our hotel. Here's Hanna taking my mom for a ride on Christmas day. I was un-beaching them so they could get started.</div>
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This summer I learned how to do a headstand on one. Headstands are actually easier on a paddleboard than the ground. Handstands, however, are WAY harder.</div>
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Joe (of all people) got up before sunrise on our last day to take sunrise pictures. He had no idea how to use the camera and finally another lady doing the same thing told him he still had the lens cap on. Ha! Anyway, he did a great job once he figured that out.</div>
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We stopped by the Everglades on the drive back too. This time we saw gators everywhere. Literally, for miles, there was a creek following the road, and if we looked at it, within 15 seconds, someone would say "there's one!". Here we stopped at an observation platform. There were about 30 alligators there. They must feed them or something!</div>
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Well, I'm waiting to get the pictures (I will post them later), but the very best thing about the Keys was the snorkeling. There's a reef off the coast, and we went out twice. Once just me, my mom, and Joe, and the next time everyone. But wow. Reefs are amazing! Even though everything is blue, there's still so much color! The coral, the fish, even the water itself was neon green! We saw angelfish, fish that looked lie Dory, puffer fish, hundreds of other fish I couldn't identify, barracudas, my sister even saw a shark!, and the best - sea turtles!!! I can't' really express how amazing it was. At first it was scary and uncomfortable to breathe through your mouth with a weird tube in it, but the more you see, the less that matters. And here's some random knowledge that helped me have a great time. There's such a thing as a DRY snorkel. It means that no water can get in from the top of the snorkel. So, next time you go snorkeling, do yourself a favor and pay extra for a dry snorkel.</div>
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Back in April/May, my friend Ruth and I took a short trip to Washington state, for my friend Amber's wedding. We drove, because this country's beautiful! And, I hate flying. And we drove a round-a-bout way to and from WA, so that we could see more people and places. We had been living in Chattanooga, TN all winter, so by the time we left in late April, we expected 80s the whole trip. But we were wrong. Luckily, we realized our mistake just before we left, and were able to pack enough warm clothes for the trip.</div>
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Our first stop was Chicago! I have family there (Grandma, aunts, uncles, cousins), so we stopped to see them on the way, and it broke up the beginning of our trip perfectly. We arrived early, so we had some time to explore the city first. Here's as trite as you can get! The bean. Oh, and we brought a sock monkey, like I do on all my trips. Susie Sockmonkey is her name, and she's tiny and pink. In the first photo, she's sitting on my head. Keep your eye out for her in other photos!</div>
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My aunt Martha helps run the city ferret rescue. Here's one! </div>
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As soon as we entered South Dakota, we saw signs for "The Corn Palace" so we decided to check it out. Sure enough, the building in the background's facade is completely made out of corn.</div>
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Badlands were next. Beautiful!</div>
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Timon and his friends! I didn't know we had prairie dogs in the U.S.</div>
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And we saw our first bison! He was getting rid of his winter coat.</div>
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We were sure they were going to fight, but they didn't. Just started at each other then went back to grazing. But isn't this the epitome of the northwest prairies?</div>
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Devil's Tower, WY. It's a climbing destination (and sacred site), and we happened to drive by. We explored, but didn't climb.</div>
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Yellowstone. It was in the 30s. And it was smelly.</div>
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But totally worth it.</div>
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This was a surprise. I actually said "holy shit!!" out loud. There was an older couple next to us. They just smiled.</div>
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And, finally, after more beautiful driving, Amber's farm in WA. She scheduled her wedding for the perfect time of year in eastern Washington. The hills around her town were green, instead of their usual brown, and the apple trees were in bloom! It smelled heavenly, all day, everyday that we were there. She lives on this apple orchard, but works on a garlic farm. Some parts of the garlic farm are on the same plot as the orchards, but sometimes they have to drive to off-site garlic fields. It's 2 separate businesses that work (and live) harmoniously together.</div>
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..plus some goats on the side. I felt like I was starting to get the hang of it, but Amber is WAY better at it than I am...</div>
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And the wedding itself! Kiss the bride! Our mutual friend Addy was the pastor. She got ordained when she was in high school. For no reason at all. But she's using it now!!</div>
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They set up a slackline for entertainment. I was entertained. Ruth and I had "battles" to see who could stay on the longest. If we had walked to the middle we could have tried pushing each other off, but we never made it. I put this particular photo up because, as you can see, I won.</div>
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Then we said goodbye to Amber and moved on. But we headed west, toward Olympic National Park. Here were are a Hurricane Ridge. The snow was 12' deep. We trudged around on top of it for a bit, took some scenery photos, and moved on to other, lower, wetter parts of the park.</div>
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And the beach! Hello Pacific!</div>
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The Oregon Sand Dunes. Near the beach, but not actually the beach. This was pretty fun, except for the fierce wind that was blowing constantly. Wind + sand = pain. Especially in the eyeballs.</div>
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Pacific, probably in Oregon somewhere. Just a picnic area off the 101</div>
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And onto California! Everything was bigger there. The trees, the ferns, the gas prices..</div>
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Redwood National Park! This was Ruth and my favorite part of the trip</div>
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we wanted to go to a famous beach bouldering spot, but the hike was straight down a tick-infested hill, covered in tall grass. No thanks. And the ocean was crashing against the base of the hill. Guess it was high tide? So we made some phone calls and heard about this beach. Step out of the car, and onto the beach. My kind of approach. </div>
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On the way back toward the east coast, we stopped off at the Tetons. We tried to visit them right after Yellowstone, but the pass between the two parks was still closed, and when we tried to go around, we encountered snow. Just say no to snow. We enjoyed a picture perfect day in the Tetons.</div>
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Here's some shots from the summer: I was proud that I led this climb, so here's a photo!</div>
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I was really excited that I didn't fall!</div>
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A mystery route. </div>
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<br />Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-22325144493110254502012-03-02T20:02:00.012-08:002012-03-02T20:59:13.820-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span>alright! Here we go! Let's start with my current sock monkey (from Waterstone), Sophie Sockmonkey! Here she is with a bowl of my homegrown popcorn. We were supposed to take a photo of her with the popped popcorn too, but I guess we forgot. Ruth loved the popcorn!</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh41f0s8uPNkTDYEuBLZGQsLruHak1zJS2HKjtg97001QJALIuZD9XETFNekvE20_m2MQs0sFLfT5ihM0vi0LSnkLEd_6xAcgphaTxlrWo_9ULfuv3Kp4PqgIHfGUJYPheYFi6rfFLWXU2w/s1600/003.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh41f0s8uPNkTDYEuBLZGQsLruHak1zJS2HKjtg97001QJALIuZD9XETFNekvE20_m2MQs0sFLfT5ihM0vi0LSnkLEd_6xAcgphaTxlrWo_9ULfuv3Kp4PqgIHfGUJYPheYFi6rfFLWXU2w/s400/003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715521838244682130" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Sophie Sockmokney had a brief break dancing phase. She got pretty good.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKuvGitb_RZlWIHpDOXN5Bij8NRTtVJmfqsbvQLRWAk-eCpmqi9YGcMAsWvR-00WGHopPgMKPcXkp9ZtesKFo35v64J76xfr-jH_56qd7bg6NJ5DPPEBWICRR0VKrtm2FvIRpDWeGoN7a/s1600/IMG_6516.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiKuvGitb_RZlWIHpDOXN5Bij8NRTtVJmfqsbvQLRWAk-eCpmqi9YGcMAsWvR-00WGHopPgMKPcXkp9ZtesKFo35v64J76xfr-jH_56qd7bg6NJ5DPPEBWICRR0VKrtm2FvIRpDWeGoN7a/s400/IMG_6516.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715521831418428898" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Sophie and I chillin'</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrSLhCxLdk8yIbACjh7D9YrUp7Npp4jf50MSGXlkO0VBC-BeH9GHv3X1SfUemxMoNWGUvFEKvuc0Dvb6BsdtNNyIxQ-bBjaHxjgITMef88FiF4JMc8FrF8jxRo5-um2hioCCqqlsbRvLO/s1600/_MG_6447.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrSLhCxLdk8yIbACjh7D9YrUp7Npp4jf50MSGXlkO0VBC-BeH9GHv3X1SfUemxMoNWGUvFEKvuc0Dvb6BsdtNNyIxQ-bBjaHxjgITMef88FiF4JMc8FrF8jxRo5-um2hioCCqqlsbRvLO/s400/_MG_6447.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715521826582243346" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">One of our first weekends in Chattanooga, we went to Rocktown, in Georgia. Our friends Dan and Zak were there, working on their guidebook to the rock climbing there. Here, Ruth and Julia (who I met once before in Joshua Tree last winter, but she lives in Charleston, WV) decided to start a band. And everyone knows the most important thing to do first (when starting a band) is take a photoshoot for your album cover. We haven't gotten any further with our band, like who will play what insturments..., but we have some good album cover photos to choose from.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlgFFWr9WRkhkhaG8uHIco0GS-2M5xmN24TBl_JuA_vjduzegKvVBLp6MB_Wzj_y6Qde1lEDjVu0JM00NVJDsZvpU3jgs3mLl-XhOZeh5gnoyW0s5Ud7TnRbxr-XUjddNhXRN5EG2HaDY/s1600/L_20111204_0066.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSlgFFWr9WRkhkhaG8uHIco0GS-2M5xmN24TBl_JuA_vjduzegKvVBLp6MB_Wzj_y6Qde1lEDjVu0JM00NVJDsZvpU3jgs3mLl-XhOZeh5gnoyW0s5Ud7TnRbxr-XUjddNhXRN5EG2HaDY/s400/L_20111204_0066.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715521239015747618" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Dan was taking photos for the guidebook, so Ruth and I had photoshoots. Yeah, we're kind of a big deal. :) Here's me! On 'Ripple'. You can find me in the Rocktown Guidebook too! Coming out this spring.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCc82UkLvP7foHh4SJtXq1XPoO7m7igreTrnlBGSUdB98kQSb-TCKjfkyyLsflPfqx3XeF3cPZaiQkYp0ZJJNsC0nRHCb01v4cRaqxFucLY3XFV1zYTghMt_6RDnlWZZ44Lp0ORWk_w9L/s1600/B_20111204_0433.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCCc82UkLvP7foHh4SJtXq1XPoO7m7igreTrnlBGSUdB98kQSb-TCKjfkyyLsflPfqx3XeF3cPZaiQkYp0ZJJNsC0nRHCb01v4cRaqxFucLY3XFV1zYTghMt_6RDnlWZZ44Lp0ORWk_w9L/s400/B_20111204_0433.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715521231195081602" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">A different day at Rocktown. Ruth and I were watching our other roommate (we have even ANOTHER roommate too, but I don't think I have any photos of him in this post..), Ryan climb, but the photo came out so well!</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_lx4xnmOFAn05oV3k24b80U2njbJi179sFnJsPLB0OnIJi6baFt-hj_gDUm-8i3_VWPTdLbuVXTiwWstxc-v0IdTiAnZyZoAj-t87GLqR4_C2rSXLZakP5cAyxSLpe68vx5U9ErpyOO8/s1600/072.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy_lx4xnmOFAn05oV3k24b80U2njbJi179sFnJsPLB0OnIJi6baFt-hj_gDUm-8i3_VWPTdLbuVXTiwWstxc-v0IdTiAnZyZoAj-t87GLqR4_C2rSXLZakP5cAyxSLpe68vx5U9ErpyOO8/s400/072.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715520945232639842" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Ruth had her birthday at the end of January, here's a climb she did that day.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv7Y3A8TWvsOo2PbBpHaaNxyJWqSoyBlkUw3-a3I2waeeW-LmBvdZodS6CI-j-bSLvdZJ_4nKCKu42Mzz3h991yigV79jry2TTV8pXKNfjMYBrasw5SuC45oDFuYDd1qlTopojQpDHyRe/s1600/044.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixv7Y3A8TWvsOo2PbBpHaaNxyJWqSoyBlkUw3-a3I2waeeW-LmBvdZodS6CI-j-bSLvdZJ_4nKCKu42Mzz3h991yigV79jry2TTV8pXKNfjMYBrasw5SuC45oDFuYDd1qlTopojQpDHyRe/s400/044.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715520935070029554" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">Here's one of my proudest climbs I've ever done. It's called Helicopter, because your feet swing around a lot.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0h9E8hT3eN_GTyU6Tc6DqhdZZf0rF4nTpmfqWfAH64HVOB7e75Fc5u9Rcu_zm1cNnPx6frbWFbiXN2BBSCyPEDgsI2oFkGZfm71pnk4lFDMoa31BQ9h9iAB_GGgAv0KcNXHpg1EptsLeh/s1600/197.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0h9E8hT3eN_GTyU6Tc6DqhdZZf0rF4nTpmfqWfAH64HVOB7e75Fc5u9Rcu_zm1cNnPx6frbWFbiXN2BBSCyPEDgsI2oFkGZfm71pnk4lFDMoa31BQ9h9iAB_GGgAv0KcNXHpg1EptsLeh/s400/197.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715520631571330914" /></a><div style="text-align: center;">this is my favorite problem at Rocktown! No one else liked it.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJJAf_LOgRx0SCuWMkZbO_daiImPy1F1aleNMj6TB0GqqLx7m0yeIaRK5j0YqxLnssd5gtuXodFuu4Nl0RpsK0AzCQJIpCXt7tPHpyscZ8_PKiqUZQK7IgatrvxbrwAtW7FzfpaU0aHmU/s1600/037.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzJJAf_LOgRx0SCuWMkZbO_daiImPy1F1aleNMj6TB0GqqLx7m0yeIaRK5j0YqxLnssd5gtuXodFuu4Nl0RpsK0AzCQJIpCXt7tPHpyscZ8_PKiqUZQK7IgatrvxbrwAtW7FzfpaU0aHmU/s400/037.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715520624464332674" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a new area! This place is called Mountain Brook, named after the apartment complex it is owned by. This is Donald trying a tall, scary problem called Melon Slab.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbLyL_7Z2QNU9OapUQeCZ0_GO7CBE7hyphenhyphenPaCX6hwdHfA4MLOOk2jA2YcYV1SaxshyphenhyphenSKRHonLwKAi6nQ5uX7a7_ps3WXuwNUoWAC0QPVIyhxhiaNXKtChaWhPDaYjR9IQe1ehZC7OV_yCeC/s1600/_MG_1731.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNbLyL_7Z2QNU9OapUQeCZ0_GO7CBE7hyphenhyphenPaCX6hwdHfA4MLOOk2jA2YcYV1SaxshyphenhyphenSKRHonLwKAi6nQ5uX7a7_ps3WXuwNUoWAC0QPVIyhxhiaNXKtChaWhPDaYjR9IQe1ehZC7OV_yCeC/s400/_MG_1731.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715520241112826258" /></a><div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div>Now we've moved onto LRC. This is the place we climb most often.LRC is owned by Montlake Golf Club. It's in the woods paralleling the golf course, so every once in a while, when there's an awful golfer, you have to watch out for stray golf balls being shot into the woods. Being owned by a golf club, it naturally costs money to go there. I bought a year pass. To make it worth it, I had to go 40 times from Dec. 5th to April 5th. Yesterday was visit 43! Easy. Here's a photo from when Joe visited over winter break<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFlobgfeypUWRrW9UhVR6kehCCWDAmNqDiJPpIRU7CEpzXwnGvj_utH-rfZ5IenM5SJVJBr7Mf7kh4yqNeXMq-2pefQ3NTdluTZFMSHqlyiB6A8S9g5zIe-FJz19jK2fgD6Pb-7YEEpgi/s1600/IMG_6804.JPG"><span><span style="font-size: 100%; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; width: 400px; height: 267px;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlFlobgfeypUWRrW9UhVR6kehCCWDAmNqDiJPpIRU7CEpzXwnGvj_utH-rfZ5IenM5SJVJBr7Mf7kh4yqNeXMq-2pefQ3NTdluTZFMSHqlyiB6A8S9g5zIe-FJz19jK2fgD6Pb-7YEEpgi/s400/IMG_6804.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715520230533234866" /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div></a>Joe on Incredarete!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIXEO7pmse2WFd9o6HSjD6yi7VJYU_OlRcogCpEeMG8TA83uGC4vgNdcSs0savejimo1F7ZubmrlzQ617f9aKzZy6tptyB6aSVcgOxj4i5CAW0ddsaoK5QpjF0EUqfWdVjFEBSFxQyvMw/s1600/009.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIXEO7pmse2WFd9o6HSjD6yi7VJYU_OlRcogCpEeMG8TA83uGC4vgNdcSs0savejimo1F7ZubmrlzQ617f9aKzZy6tptyB6aSVcgOxj4i5CAW0ddsaoK5QpjF0EUqfWdVjFEBSFxQyvMw/s400/009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715519681600968754" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><u>This was another of my really hard climbs. Harder than I've ever done before! It's a V7 called Red House.</u></div></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDxkyA0ulxl9dCsahKPEyujjqI69a0dIDvKgThoiA_rhaE8WY5-D5PlP3lGtKxbVlKdeAcX6QLP78L8qWI2wPxlocRI2fQZVI_vE9ch82AXSsiECiqnZLlUk3Afxlubk3kML8Y_lR7lutp/s1600/050.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDxkyA0ulxl9dCsahKPEyujjqI69a0dIDvKgThoiA_rhaE8WY5-D5PlP3lGtKxbVlKdeAcX6QLP78L8qWI2wPxlocRI2fQZVI_vE9ch82AXSsiECiqnZLlUk3Afxlubk3kML8Y_lR7lutp/s400/050.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715518996397526802" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div>This is Jill (a girl I met while here) doing a problem on a day so cold, they closed the golf course. The boulders actually ON the golf course are off limits, unless the golf course is closed, so sometimes people go at night, and there were some others on the fairway this day, but really the only good time to climb on the golf course is on the bouldering competition day they have once a year.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguBm1-MMwNBIvezOqlsxY5mmceknAONV-l601gGCDSNlrklkNFcx-Lu7v13vUMVl0XvHTKjfciOAnHWG5J6jZEJWJURzhAiD6H-kqgMbn_kwXe3hqEkI94ZS7IC3tpW_NtRqr2C-c5y6tV/s1600/017.JPG"><span><span style="font-size: 100%; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; width: 400px; height: 267px;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguBm1-MMwNBIvezOqlsxY5mmceknAONV-l601gGCDSNlrklkNFcx-Lu7v13vUMVl0XvHTKjfciOAnHWG5J6jZEJWJURzhAiD6H-kqgMbn_kwXe3hqEkI94ZS7IC3tpW_NtRqr2C-c5y6tV/s400/017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715518988571825378" /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div></a>In February (or maybe late January?) Joe went with a Cincinnati school group to Horse Pens 40 in AL. Only 2 hours away for me, so I met up with him. Here he is on my favorite problem there, Spook Eye. He did better than me that trip!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vGmrZa-SlDJToRE6c_43cpPufxd3lFggymAFBrTvU5PyiQXy9-k7sd5XjyCn8oYWlNTIYL9v2_NEzgaMbhLc6A4sBDrCpw4VJbG1RDVzjRYUDorysOylL5_nFWhkYZlF1ittLOxlWJ_O/s1600/012.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vGmrZa-SlDJToRE6c_43cpPufxd3lFggymAFBrTvU5PyiQXy9-k7sd5XjyCn8oYWlNTIYL9v2_NEzgaMbhLc6A4sBDrCpw4VJbG1RDVzjRYUDorysOylL5_nFWhkYZlF1ittLOxlWJ_O/s400/012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715518387831066322" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div>I put lots of photos of me in this post, since everyone got bored with my climbing pictures of other people.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kJEDGu3YnGaPXryu-RchQ-3PvcjTYD1Dhg5qOV2aFSMY1yVrlxySVzUq1MEMHLOuf6cyQCExTxgx4gOZEQVp6kXCyQVqsP4_A0-tC329Ex9JUXh5wpmoHjcRGEgcKA-_9pTM7yZ6rKP6/s1600/096.JPG"><span><span style="font-size: 100%; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; width: 400px; height: 267px;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kJEDGu3YnGaPXryu-RchQ-3PvcjTYD1Dhg5qOV2aFSMY1yVrlxySVzUq1MEMHLOuf6cyQCExTxgx4gOZEQVp6kXCyQVqsP4_A0-tC329Ex9JUXh5wpmoHjcRGEgcKA-_9pTM7yZ6rKP6/s400/096.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715518379305335186" /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div></a>Here's the latest hard problem I did. Jerry's Kids, V7. It's the tallest hard thing I've done, so it took me a really long time to get brave and do it.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Ueeewdavtr0vlQS8hauAgbLPJDTf7aduWlzFpZ7Dd9zEBdz9pgHEv1SiK8DeYI5IXDaLYadOBgourFTORNU1E4j89M8C-6lWbyosaVTB11dNgdSDrqWdsznbHWRlCWsphOy0Iy4XcilT/s1600/235.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Ueeewdavtr0vlQS8hauAgbLPJDTf7aduWlzFpZ7Dd9zEBdz9pgHEv1SiK8DeYI5IXDaLYadOBgourFTORNU1E4j89M8C-6lWbyosaVTB11dNgdSDrqWdsznbHWRlCWsphOy0Iy4XcilT/s400/235.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715518152878747986" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><u>last but not least! My friend Cecylia and I took an intro to aerials class! We tried the aerial fabrics, and learned a bunch of beginner moves on the trapeze. It was so fun, that now I'm starting to think I need my OWN trapeze. But they cost upwards of $270, and to make one you need to be able to weld, and "splice rope". Sounds like too much work.</u></span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Ueeewdavtr0vlQS8hauAgbLPJDTf7aduWlzFpZ7Dd9zEBdz9pgHEv1SiK8DeYI5IXDaLYadOBgourFTORNU1E4j89M8C-6lWbyosaVTB11dNgdSDrqWdsznbHWRlCWsphOy0Iy4XcilT/s1600/235.JPG" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kJEDGu3YnGaPXryu-RchQ-3PvcjTYD1Dhg5qOV2aFSMY1yVrlxySVzUq1MEMHLOuf6cyQCExTxgx4gOZEQVp6kXCyQVqsP4_A0-tC329Ex9JUXh5wpmoHjcRGEgcKA-_9pTM7yZ6rKP6/s1600/096.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVa0haQ5CR5fDLqIJvMjcvP9NZQ-uX9-Zq9EXF3pd573YsFO8qeGGOvSpQ-KFegOatImu650oLVyJvq4NJKoXljLeHqISZL5M-Sss3zm7ZkNX7c4VBYFgTYtTyf76RlFf-t6tnFRX2WZO/s400/1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715521922141954930" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 400px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><u>-Stella<br /></u><br /></div>Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-75471188980959952542012-02-16T12:11:00.002-08:002012-02-16T12:29:20.456-08:00A Winter ViewThis winter has been warm and sunny everywhere. Before it started, though, I decided to move to Chattanooga for the season, to stay warmer than I have been the past couple winters at the New. Which means I've had an incredibly warm winter! There have been 4 days so far with a high below 40. That's it. It's snowed a total of one night, and was all melted before I got up. It's been in the 50s and 60s a lot. Fantastic! I cut my hair short, so I'm not sure I would have survived a cold winter! <div><br /></div><div>A few friends and I got an apartment together, and we have more friends over all the time. I'm vacationing from work, so I just climb almost everyday. My computer won't let me upload any pictures right now, so I'll leave you with this paragraph and try again later.</div><div>-Stella</div>Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-56083807097085489762011-09-29T13:36:00.001-07:002011-09-29T13:54:18.336-07:00Summer's EndMost of these pictures are from September, with a few from earlier in the summer. But here's what's happened since my last update.<br /><br />Joe came to visit for 2 weeks! Unfortunately I wasn't in a picture taking phase. Sorry Joe. Joe really good at climbing naturally, so he was great to climb with. As a beginner, he was just as good as a few others living at Roger's. We accelerated his learning process, and he can now top rope belay with a Grigri and an ATC, can lead climb, and can lead belay with a Grigri. Awesome. But here's his first lead climb! And below is just another climb we did a differnet day. It's a 5.10 crack, and he decided that day that he doesn't really like crack climbing.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtqT9t-dB1EzsE6oxV-U8LYrrhJ3HQf90GvrpOADvferz9yUlvAw0xTxwRoFrbUNeiPIwNztozpaQGQ4wgKztG2cfWZDPsQ9hq0khaRj-P71Okuxl_4YsdYkNVmzLa0IfcYImTk-SB_Gf/s1600/IMG_6143.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtqT9t-dB1EzsE6oxV-U8LYrrhJ3HQf90GvrpOADvferz9yUlvAw0xTxwRoFrbUNeiPIwNztozpaQGQ4wgKztG2cfWZDPsQ9hq0khaRj-P71Okuxl_4YsdYkNVmzLa0IfcYImTk-SB_Gf/s400/IMG_6143.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657885492978396994" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxdZl54xEzeXkXilBKzrSdMSf71qeGJezE-g9t8A5OLhisMIVQT-EBZBXstdBDv1cCy_5XFla-2aeMR4VDkmpK3Xuknm0m_SlQgUSOwKf2P47yO4ThOwvQ8zTo0q8QK6eEZM3IW6cxo4g/s1600/IMG_6150.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxdZl54xEzeXkXilBKzrSdMSf71qeGJezE-g9t8A5OLhisMIVQT-EBZBXstdBDv1cCy_5XFla-2aeMR4VDkmpK3Xuknm0m_SlQgUSOwKf2P47yO4ThOwvQ8zTo0q8QK6eEZM3IW6cxo4g/s400/IMG_6150.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657885490291262306" border="0" /></a><br />Kittens! They were abandoned just up the road from Roger's. Bonnie collected them one by one and is the one feeding them. They're going to the vet tomorrow, then hopefully they'll be taken by campers this weekend. I'll really miss them, that's for sure. They're all boys, and I've named them Grumpy (the one in the back - he hissed when you tried to pick him up. He's over it now), Baby (the little gray one smushed in the back is the runt, and he's the most afraid of everything), Original Kitty (the one Bonnie picked up first. He also goes by OG, Adventure Kitty, and Midget Kitty), and the one in the front is Fat Stinky (he has a his fur is matted up by his tail, possibly with poo). Anyone want a cat?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahf0r9zVvjyU_7buIty2_jmywfrO028FdYd9tFmefhTkd1ZJyy09nAlv3vm5jUaEeNWlWNvl5Uwze7sDarPVQ9-vTZHOGTchoGuBVH45mXkKbQjfWbm1CBWSqS15nyoQRZrH0z855hteP/s1600/IMG_6155.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahf0r9zVvjyU_7buIty2_jmywfrO028FdYd9tFmefhTkd1ZJyy09nAlv3vm5jUaEeNWlWNvl5Uwze7sDarPVQ9-vTZHOGTchoGuBVH45mXkKbQjfWbm1CBWSqS15nyoQRZrH0z855hteP/s400/IMG_6155.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657885482836215538" border="0" /></a>naturally I needed some garden shots in here. These are harvest shots, but close. This was my best harvest ever. And I got a little artistic with it.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIa6k1s9UqJMYJfa4FKds53gCy2qbzA_dIE-Qw55_BRpTWHN2GtNoRv6WPmlWlSGgTutol_APauNKGvjoxUL2f9-fZilAJICfsZHtUSiVnvmMpJQ7AIeJQaanl6dhyphenhyphenIq4IV_u1PtGUcNZ/s1600/IMG_6156.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihIa6k1s9UqJMYJfa4FKds53gCy2qbzA_dIE-Qw55_BRpTWHN2GtNoRv6WPmlWlSGgTutol_APauNKGvjoxUL2f9-fZilAJICfsZHtUSiVnvmMpJQ7AIeJQaanl6dhyphenhyphenIq4IV_u1PtGUcNZ/s400/IMG_6156.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657885478118291938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGJYcOvEeMc0nDGf18z-C_VBzZGDg-gPcN52A8cQkF0IC32O010WHc8zrb3KVjY467hwL3fAuSCQfvykVMvcWUncV-tXCqBJSzaVJ8gw8dIWG8kFyeoE1pI4dpElgrQtaBTKe1b2T9s05/s1600/IMG_6163.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGJYcOvEeMc0nDGf18z-C_VBzZGDg-gPcN52A8cQkF0IC32O010WHc8zrb3KVjY467hwL3fAuSCQfvykVMvcWUncV-tXCqBJSzaVJ8gw8dIWG8kFyeoE1pI4dpElgrQtaBTKe1b2T9s05/s400/IMG_6163.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884850071851474" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7xBTIhk24VvJcF-vbidgnV3lK93-BbeV5HvARoTJWF1J5su5tK7owPwExsfBuAnd449X4vqzShIvsyyqhEOsgmCgUKZY7wv_004Y1H-9caY-9WpfmVW5kQRKJHQbkD04tybvZbCJCS8J/s1600/IMG_6164.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7xBTIhk24VvJcF-vbidgnV3lK93-BbeV5HvARoTJWF1J5su5tK7owPwExsfBuAnd449X4vqzShIvsyyqhEOsgmCgUKZY7wv_004Y1H-9caY-9WpfmVW5kQRKJHQbkD04tybvZbCJCS8J/s400/IMG_6164.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884846046778930" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEila24GPfjEEB3XBnOjeTbl8HwqRsZjYfgcFHcQiUFyEmO8CFevnu5N8-88ChKEkvtyc9da2DK8WJm46WNhwM0WldSMwOcDAbrSoBbD5pTqdknK1gdY3MXGL5ynA2oz4Uph6tUWfhsAVHXi/s1600/IMG_6166.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEila24GPfjEEB3XBnOjeTbl8HwqRsZjYfgcFHcQiUFyEmO8CFevnu5N8-88ChKEkvtyc9da2DK8WJm46WNhwM0WldSMwOcDAbrSoBbD5pTqdknK1gdY3MXGL5ynA2oz4Uph6tUWfhsAVHXi/s400/IMG_6166.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884843714840226" border="0" /></a>to make up for the climbing photos of people you don't know (they're right after this section), here's some photos people have taken of me! First is me goofing off and showing off, then me belaying (I think it looks really artistic and awesome). They're both taken by Matticus. Then my friend Donald snapped the next two of me on Preparation H, a really fun route I tried last week.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2XQMH6qRGbRl-WV-Opv9_RUgyscfOId78QRJoEX0Ol0t0IXuz-U5KFzd8IzRGvYSHO8EI8QaG22NjfFiNEQUEcadym8BYx-Ba4SYzf8XSDmS7fpW_Va_Rthe9dD5LmaGNwO-7PhV4mIeW/s1600/DSC_0194.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2XQMH6qRGbRl-WV-Opv9_RUgyscfOId78QRJoEX0Ol0t0IXuz-U5KFzd8IzRGvYSHO8EI8QaG22NjfFiNEQUEcadym8BYx-Ba4SYzf8XSDmS7fpW_Va_Rthe9dD5LmaGNwO-7PhV4mIeW/s400/DSC_0194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884839402140658" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx55PnioWvynORFIMWXw2ykNzgQ2Ed0_xa62vcLh3hl8LvZD6eNLMv_dD4s2OM_t4MsKTrYM92oCqz-9-y4FbvvPpaiRUhGSLTEftX9Ss39E4Mqyg6nUD0i7-3tbDLjn7PaR16-wgeg6Xg/s1600/DSC_0220.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx55PnioWvynORFIMWXw2ykNzgQ2Ed0_xa62vcLh3hl8LvZD6eNLMv_dD4s2OM_t4MsKTrYM92oCqz-9-y4FbvvPpaiRUhGSLTEftX9Ss39E4Mqyg6nUD0i7-3tbDLjn7PaR16-wgeg6Xg/s400/DSC_0220.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884818277403922" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG7bCZf6pexS5AwJR6ePcNKZDbVdKIYRsJpykGivXqNMrimQQA1QLDi_Kw6zSQpVN5nSjIWcsVMCmET_swCKW5-z-bODYZ6lH4WgSRaeDwB6YCTzIoQU2pzlijzMhbpNfpXwnLP5JL0ix/s1600/IMG_6167.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTG7bCZf6pexS5AwJR6ePcNKZDbVdKIYRsJpykGivXqNMrimQQA1QLDi_Kw6zSQpVN5nSjIWcsVMCmET_swCKW5-z-bODYZ6lH4WgSRaeDwB6YCTzIoQU2pzlijzMhbpNfpXwnLP5JL0ix/s400/IMG_6167.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884072515097490" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8iNsXW3MXTC51HMr7rcjBPzeOShp6Tb53tSpQi1Z6Ptf08CVW_nhHgcrWGcoVGSZ8C5GMKsjLBjcMscQbI5JggAFVBbPjnaw7U9EYvF860vmnlny3P7zl8jtydpDpxepIcYaZfpMQe81g/s1600/IMG_6168.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8iNsXW3MXTC51HMr7rcjBPzeOShp6Tb53tSpQi1Z6Ptf08CVW_nhHgcrWGcoVGSZ8C5GMKsjLBjcMscQbI5JggAFVBbPjnaw7U9EYvF860vmnlny3P7zl8jtydpDpxepIcYaZfpMQe81g/s400/IMG_6168.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884066991234306" border="0" /></a>Here's some more climbing photography that I'm having fun doing! A couple of my friend John, and, of course, another of Ruth (who just seems to be the most photogenic person I know)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-OO-jcYgRJWcHkVhXpbV-uI2nHjLZdyw4dbK3ukzK9be61XBalrhxWn3B5DsXGs0Dg1G6PocQHFtc4ulu9DhVDfreJqv1O1xm3DQfFw5IWJ_rsll-BlgyaiS7SN1SjGlJcvev2x2r-su/s1600/DSC_2518.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-OO-jcYgRJWcHkVhXpbV-uI2nHjLZdyw4dbK3ukzK9be61XBalrhxWn3B5DsXGs0Dg1G6PocQHFtc4ulu9DhVDfreJqv1O1xm3DQfFw5IWJ_rsll-BlgyaiS7SN1SjGlJcvev2x2r-su/s400/DSC_2518.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884065715999218" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqU7ADLiCVdnG_9jhY0LIrV-f82rNPFCPoqhYI8dpzyo-lWXs3HEtbAs3pfk82qYha1e9TjOMBUZc2cpPXbmovYYnzrpy5-_CcgLOMqdD2_TxJR9TWwWYF66xmCZSaGZpj-8WC-50HW2y6/s1600/DSC_2525.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqU7ADLiCVdnG_9jhY0LIrV-f82rNPFCPoqhYI8dpzyo-lWXs3HEtbAs3pfk82qYha1e9TjOMBUZc2cpPXbmovYYnzrpy5-_CcgLOMqdD2_TxJR9TWwWYF66xmCZSaGZpj-8WC-50HW2y6/s400/DSC_2525.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884059389424402" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOlk9S_DbwoUp2pxvkS1oJVtvCVweho1w8phmrfmgdbxE50IhO5f-FuUzKPqi99m6LY5w5fmOgCJ9VqnajLyPdiqUO17vzvKSes4Y-rz3FR-cIi6K2agfjKMC_xnX0M9sJA6CoSI3kyWD/s1600/IMG_6194.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguOlk9S_DbwoUp2pxvkS1oJVtvCVweho1w8phmrfmgdbxE50IhO5f-FuUzKPqi99m6LY5w5fmOgCJ9VqnajLyPdiqUO17vzvKSes4Y-rz3FR-cIi6K2agfjKMC_xnX0M9sJA6CoSI3kyWD/s400/IMG_6194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657884056988865234" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Micah and I are getting a new camera (actually, I was just told it is at Waterstone waiting for me to pick it up!), so hopefully I'll start taking way more pictures.<br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-4023549674636043962011-06-29T19:49:00.000-07:002011-06-29T20:18:31.318-07:00Rendezvous and beyond! Part IIAfter the Rendezvous the spring continued to be awesome (up until yesterday, when one of my campground-mates broke his arm. He got really lucky to have walked away, but he needs surgery later this week. He's trying to keep his spirits up though, and he expects to be back in a month)! I have 3 WOODSians (my college climbing club) friends visit for the Rendezvous and decide to move down here. One of Micah's good friends did as well! We're up to about 20 people at Roger's now. A great group of girls this year too! In fact, it's full-on girl power this year with our weekly ladies of Fayetteville climbing afternoons. So much fun!<br /><br />Anyway, I've been really into getting good climbing pictures lately. It's a fun change of pace sometimes. Micah and I are thinking about getting a new camera, becuase ours is outdated and not so high quality anymore. Needless to say, most of the pictures below were not taken with our camera. But here's a few I've taken.<br />Casey top roping Easily Flakey <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjirHafxc8x85tmwhZla5z1b6JAUI1r9TjgYhLFAy7rVowYxYnMseGvUhKMLnHk4Zo-K44mjFZ0tMga89F9QTAlZ39Tx5nplQegEzCE0LJ8TWePRxQCEH6bovFWPKir0MxCu0vDybpph_to/s1600/P6180044.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjirHafxc8x85tmwhZla5z1b6JAUI1r9TjgYhLFAy7rVowYxYnMseGvUhKMLnHk4Zo-K44mjFZ0tMga89F9QTAlZ39Tx5nplQegEzCE0LJ8TWePRxQCEH6bovFWPKir0MxCu0vDybpph_to/s400/P6180044.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623843459970465922" border="0" /></a>Skervy on a boulder problem project that Micah's been working on (this one was taken with our camera. The colors came out all weird, hence the black and white)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49Jdr5qLPnejKnCkezRy6eORxQtl2nGBmUKnWB6SVtB9rS8yr0AT3dyuL0mr39IJQVv0T-ZcZfDh06GsbP6rl-vfq9fAo0QtG5ThWci8AL1y-QrJlM6WsDcyjuZkk8Oxqi0tbPF-vB0YE/s1600/IMG_6023.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj49Jdr5qLPnejKnCkezRy6eORxQtl2nGBmUKnWB6SVtB9rS8yr0AT3dyuL0mr39IJQVv0T-ZcZfDh06GsbP6rl-vfq9fAo0QtG5ThWci8AL1y-QrJlM6WsDcyjuZkk8Oxqi0tbPF-vB0YE/s400/IMG_6023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623843451238015346" border="0" /></a>Ruth (probably the most photogenic of all my friends, I have pictures of her in an earlier post as well) on High Times<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHMF_To9jFYqSfmJpKKrpfLN_gr0hJac4RcTHBM-LgkFbGsUub5NEUKN-cIablIEiug5h-aKTDxuM3hOR30fdSdcrSxVh6fkCvAT9ymyq4cs9ckqS9VAOkOKlLRCvsZ29p9JPj5rQMyXm/s1600/DSC_0204.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFHMF_To9jFYqSfmJpKKrpfLN_gr0hJac4RcTHBM-LgkFbGsUub5NEUKN-cIablIEiug5h-aKTDxuM3hOR30fdSdcrSxVh6fkCvAT9ymyq4cs9ckqS9VAOkOKlLRCvsZ29p9JPj5rQMyXm/s400/DSC_0204.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623843442446401858" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqTe2RZTmGLrnaRMHjPSwyUMKVVidJt3ntlmr-TSmY-ZcjDsD84MW7gSUbe_pvoDaK010oXN21YDlugGsaDlbchwjXESRHEuByFz_xaPwseUo92wAsrBw-4NsIPdKQYO8wJkFr0ERo782/s1600/DSC_0194.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqTe2RZTmGLrnaRMHjPSwyUMKVVidJt3ntlmr-TSmY-ZcjDsD84MW7gSUbe_pvoDaK010oXN21YDlugGsaDlbchwjXESRHEuByFz_xaPwseUo92wAsrBw-4NsIPdKQYO8wJkFr0ERo782/s400/DSC_0194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623843428472175826" border="0" /></a>And some photos I didn't take (some I wasn't even there for, but they ended up on my computer and they were so good I thought I'd share them anyway). Here's Donald on Labor Day<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcm9gcr_S0oVeDr3uhr2pF90UIYvrrcZy33K_4AoJ5HlSKTeszAbHFOe4ulCfDtHyBqLBRvGLnddAo2e1RSHuamaaxO2a7Kh4mPxB6TpJ9iIUSKsqGN4M-0jvF8xvsX-VjVelgZ2I3cbq/s1600/DSC_0172.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPcm9gcr_S0oVeDr3uhr2pF90UIYvrrcZy33K_4AoJ5HlSKTeszAbHFOe4ulCfDtHyBqLBRvGLnddAo2e1RSHuamaaxO2a7Kh4mPxB6TpJ9iIUSKsqGN4M-0jvF8xvsX-VjVelgZ2I3cbq/s400/DSC_0172.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623843420781390130" border="0" /></a>My new frog friend!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnRuW8xuRK5acbbSQSG4PX7XR74n2MIaxuQoy_mjzbwv1PXj_owe15CQUKm64_h_PmNqiQ6LujOAz_0vgQPUjUiGw4eQkHYkV4D8-mUBh-JlGAXGk8HkGzvVLBB2Hj8Yg5qrMo0Djy0Qq/s1600/DSC_0185.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnRuW8xuRK5acbbSQSG4PX7XR74n2MIaxuQoy_mjzbwv1PXj_owe15CQUKm64_h_PmNqiQ6LujOAz_0vgQPUjUiGw4eQkHYkV4D8-mUBh-JlGAXGk8HkGzvVLBB2Hj8Yg5qrMo0Djy0Qq/s400/DSC_0185.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623842199792275378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjthHuP_W77WYttcCHZzXB3-E7nq4_it9aKP3_-PrysxaIi-L1OIErgv9JWF-N0jK1LofyVrUaRl5gRH5Lu9W-nSYNiiTeykgQ4W_-EdvbILu_dEGk6KIA7L1blkeN3XBYy8T_wlCtkzQ/s1600/DSC_0147.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjthHuP_W77WYttcCHZzXB3-E7nq4_it9aKP3_-PrysxaIi-L1OIErgv9JWF-N0jK1LofyVrUaRl5gRH5Lu9W-nSYNiiTeykgQ4W_-EdvbILu_dEGk6KIA7L1blkeN3XBYy8T_wlCtkzQ/s400/DSC_0147.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623842194171760114" border="0" /></a><br />Donald, Megan and me at Bridge Buttress<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-mCjJPuFW1_eMFDG72T2-vqspbZnjVBdorw-OttYWmWKGQo1rXdK-0i6acyuf5047QTVGwvKQFLkjdowoDO9xGJaKGQogOxthAYbVgev-c1BkqmgNvY0yhRW2Yv0_giEfDX7zn6MZew1/s1600/DSC_0143.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL-mCjJPuFW1_eMFDG72T2-vqspbZnjVBdorw-OttYWmWKGQo1rXdK-0i6acyuf5047QTVGwvKQFLkjdowoDO9xGJaKGQogOxthAYbVgev-c1BkqmgNvY0yhRW2Yv0_giEfDX7zn6MZew1/s400/DSC_0143.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623842178144019186" border="0" /></a>these are the two I wasn't even there for, but they're so good!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPcdv4p810nl6u8IBVcypF_Y0M2YM393q0R2Vv3hncnkqsC_MTn1qsBZLFImZbtOgkfXbh5NKFA9I01ycu8Ljlk4nkhJXydZ5YV10J6_8JWD9NbwxDJzB24JcTDgLwzbjXVBAD3udBqljl/s1600/DSC_0108.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPcdv4p810nl6u8IBVcypF_Y0M2YM393q0R2Vv3hncnkqsC_MTn1qsBZLFImZbtOgkfXbh5NKFA9I01ycu8Ljlk4nkhJXydZ5YV10J6_8JWD9NbwxDJzB24JcTDgLwzbjXVBAD3udBqljl/s400/DSC_0108.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623842166964335138" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpCDBRsBqsKJ_hrV9l5IPL6Q75R4PFg2qXaopOcgtTNfU9kSkX6hesFZmQ_sZdy4L5ChL5rNj018b5ALuvVZQ1S2yyoytr02A6AQ9kjRDyIhM29LSSzOSn706OdbD_piohYUJWSbAp4PtM/s1600/DSC_0096.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpCDBRsBqsKJ_hrV9l5IPL6Q75R4PFg2qXaopOcgtTNfU9kSkX6hesFZmQ_sZdy4L5ChL5rNj018b5ALuvVZQ1S2yyoytr02A6AQ9kjRDyIhM29LSSzOSn706OdbD_piohYUJWSbAp4PtM/s400/DSC_0096.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623842162581375346" border="0" /></a>And to totally change the subject...<br /><br />Hanna and Joe graduated! Here's my photo memories of it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOAEv95pUNbEOqqKP1R5ggdVndcT6RtkG9u8mdBd5dhG-XLaQO8L2lXDnuL0MMyzd8vAvq7EGsIRvoAjpnLh39bPC_TXGPrNM8-ghtYuWJnZxUiB7CU_0cH-Xrl8JDkzy6diOhITuzvxD/s1600/IMG_5958.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOAEv95pUNbEOqqKP1R5ggdVndcT6RtkG9u8mdBd5dhG-XLaQO8L2lXDnuL0MMyzd8vAvq7EGsIRvoAjpnLh39bPC_TXGPrNM8-ghtYuWJnZxUiB7CU_0cH-Xrl8JDkzy6diOhITuzvxD/s400/IMG_5958.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623841096422935954" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKeMt0D-3WB9nCR-56hhccm-ic7xBO8TLosBUbsTxVbLRKqg7XwiOYk6vlM1_d0R_y6xRLW1JgssI3nMKFgk4RyhkvkDebNQlwIFKiV701mendqso2NmgPGjbwes2MKh1tK4Xaa9ZFmtQ/s1600/IMG_5961.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKeMt0D-3WB9nCR-56hhccm-ic7xBO8TLosBUbsTxVbLRKqg7XwiOYk6vlM1_d0R_y6xRLW1JgssI3nMKFgk4RyhkvkDebNQlwIFKiV701mendqso2NmgPGjbwes2MKh1tK4Xaa9ZFmtQ/s400/IMG_5961.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623841102270137074" border="0" /></a>Here are some obligatory garden photos. I hope I'm not overdoing it with all of last years' photos too. Here's from afar to close:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYZb_FlDLDHOQpwELaty1PINwu4-MNU_DG_PbBotm2a7w01BrprajlbA-W4qmDs2n6aJtLwBI5tQJxn2Z1fvNKum8noSA6aNE2xhzdPVh8eiBJK8eA7N_x5it5Ya1IQ64sISj7lAyyrVg/s1600/IMG_5956.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYZb_FlDLDHOQpwELaty1PINwu4-MNU_DG_PbBotm2a7w01BrprajlbA-W4qmDs2n6aJtLwBI5tQJxn2Z1fvNKum8noSA6aNE2xhzdPVh8eiBJK8eA7N_x5it5Ya1IQ64sISj7lAyyrVg/s400/IMG_5956.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623841069535156066" border="0" /></a><br />it's been weeded since this photo was taken, but it takes so long to go through it, that it probably looks this messy again.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uarhjPnmk8-SFPGfMkxB9ar9HH5Dtk6aDb-FaA-3jsubPEr0VRZkJIkRWd7obf3B4dVS7vnbgvr2VVZJP3JUzRYH87TIR_7AHqQ5X8eiPu2prw1bHYTaaPr1syuxLX2lqMWMi410Z9sY/s1600/IMG_6014.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uarhjPnmk8-SFPGfMkxB9ar9HH5Dtk6aDb-FaA-3jsubPEr0VRZkJIkRWd7obf3B4dVS7vnbgvr2VVZJP3JUzRYH87TIR_7AHqQ5X8eiPu2prw1bHYTaaPr1syuxLX2lqMWMi410Z9sY/s400/IMG_6014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623841080180788546" border="0" /></a><br />I planted some peanuts to try out. We may be too cool a climate to get any, but I thought I'd try. They are looking great and flowering, so even of they never produce peanuts, they will have been interesting. See the zig zags in the middle in the foreground? I think those are new leaves. They grow folded up, and when they're big enough, they unfold to become full leaves.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5hIEo8yELVs1o4eDirkU693zniRbxrY4zQ6yNZ_y-FUbwTqNqvF_a7Bc5_WlU3bV0RI0nrBri3OnCadoTACcJ0WhxsLLhXMPXYSBsKgeHGzsXudBtIAgFV4VGWXgHjMuPKNVLHokY28n/s1600/IMG_6013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR5hIEo8yELVs1o4eDirkU693zniRbxrY4zQ6yNZ_y-FUbwTqNqvF_a7Bc5_WlU3bV0RI0nrBri3OnCadoTACcJ0WhxsLLhXMPXYSBsKgeHGzsXudBtIAgFV4VGWXgHjMuPKNVLHokY28n/s400/IMG_6013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623841089990976658" border="0" /></a><br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-62449101227515156672011-06-18T15:36:00.000-07:002011-06-29T19:48:59.879-07:00Rendezvous and beyond!In my last post, I mentioned that the Rendezvous was coming up. It was fantastic! NRAC (New River Alliance of Climbers the people who do all the trail maintenance and replace all the unsafe bolts) raised over $30,000. Here's a couple photos taken by professionals (can I even put these in my blog?) to give you the idea of what the Rendezvous is like. I thought I had one with me in it, but I don't know where it went. But here's one of Micah! A lot of the Rendezvous is free beer and dance parties late at night.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCK8p3qZrgG0K9f-3S8Kv0W1c72YXLf1qbG86fJrgVjmRRb8gMCMKHOO8Mj40oO91IWWJOLgmoIlz6PbWjX4d2NoaYP18i2yxtwDO9tlkDIZ9oEnaJE1nRZyfNWrzIN4vc46Pwh-a_o47/s1600/244094_10150183743817331_576292330_7215201_5087984_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHCK8p3qZrgG0K9f-3S8Kv0W1c72YXLf1qbG86fJrgVjmRRb8gMCMKHOO8Mj40oO91IWWJOLgmoIlz6PbWjX4d2NoaYP18i2yxtwDO9tlkDIZ9oEnaJE1nRZyfNWrzIN4vc46Pwh-a_o47/s400/244094_10150183743817331_576292330_7215201_5087984_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623836809409354882" border="0" /></a>but there are other crazy events. This is a picture of crash pad sumo wrestling. The contestants are duct taped into a crashpad, then they go around running into eachother until there's one person left. The winner wins... a crashpad. My friend and yard-mate Adam won easily this year.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35RpWeGep-R4gSoQ4yeoEQJmTMp9hlL6xm9W1YnZTzg0Fs2AKOK7bzuqtbSKJa7wXGwmd1RaJyO-wgter2MxxuSu6qY5JVZXrN2E6-m2dO2HIRfvChPU7HzCLPAw8eB0rQ9hZbgTVcLe8/s1600/242407_10150183742377331_576292330_7215153_6439844_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35RpWeGep-R4gSoQ4yeoEQJmTMp9hlL6xm9W1YnZTzg0Fs2AKOK7bzuqtbSKJa7wXGwmd1RaJyO-wgter2MxxuSu6qY5JVZXrN2E6-m2dO2HIRfvChPU7HzCLPAw8eB0rQ9hZbgTVcLe8/s400/242407_10150183742377331_576292330_7215153_6439844_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623836571891967122" border="0" /></a>There was a race that was a couple miles, but if you chugged a beer afterward, you got seconds taken off your time. I'm pretty sure the green New River shirt wearer is our friend Vince. Everyone who entered got a free pair of running shoes. Woah.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqckZ204krTNr9nla3XALVgAp2ybG_LkIcyHelvq2sZeFjk5TOlKhvdnjWOeD23YGuRAkGHtnVirhox_GO-OR5AoiQUqm8McJxDbRFBNbM6BqyTPhmtUgwrMfw067Tj_4J7EiAzAuJUc6q/s1600/240625_10150183741997331_576292330_7215140_202463_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqckZ204krTNr9nla3XALVgAp2ybG_LkIcyHelvq2sZeFjk5TOlKhvdnjWOeD23YGuRAkGHtnVirhox_GO-OR5AoiQUqm8McJxDbRFBNbM6BqyTPhmtUgwrMfw067Tj_4J7EiAzAuJUc6q/s400/240625_10150183741997331_576292330_7215140_202463_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619692779722203698" border="0" /></a>Sunday morning is a free pancake breakfast for everyone. Soo good!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVZUfLyP8Rfa1nLHTsUn_BJ6z7Ph4LOPmd5fu0ZZn_QrTTaucPY_N7nqGJo1SnzMcWp0JfXyEPRcLl24MYcECwqXIEK724Lv4poJOwOA1IL-_Xp_VnQsQ0181Y3cHYzsNWCCfBbbvHaUT/s1600/240383_10150183744362331_576292330_7215218_3666474_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVZUfLyP8Rfa1nLHTsUn_BJ6z7Ph4LOPmd5fu0ZZn_QrTTaucPY_N7nqGJo1SnzMcWp0JfXyEPRcLl24MYcECwqXIEK724Lv4poJOwOA1IL-_Xp_VnQsQ0181Y3cHYzsNWCCfBbbvHaUT/s400/240383_10150183744362331_576292330_7215218_3666474_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619692774392973298" border="0" /></a>On Saturday from 4-6pm, these local kids stand at a table filled with socks. If you want a pair (for free) all you have to do is whatever they want you to. Make a human pyramid, drink a pickle juice concoction, and scream "I'm awesome!" into a stranger's face are examples.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuE-19hMLczaNIqhFB31GaO7UWLvKOPpgM-bhAL7w7LsVTKUujRuvGEakOZ7tkheBdkO1bb7ktnAeGKP4h6Q_vz3Pl3hBixfbdXVA9V6D9gN9ircQGGB5WQpGi4vn4uZ32mtXXLn35tLNA/s1600/229319_10150211242431585_671206584_7068074_3713338_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuE-19hMLczaNIqhFB31GaO7UWLvKOPpgM-bhAL7w7LsVTKUujRuvGEakOZ7tkheBdkO1bb7ktnAeGKP4h6Q_vz3Pl3hBixfbdXVA9V6D9gN9ircQGGB5WQpGi4vn4uZ32mtXXLn35tLNA/s400/229319_10150211242431585_671206584_7068074_3713338_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619692758345344930" border="0" /></a>This is vendor village. Each popup tent represents a different outdoor indurstry brand. You can usually get at least one free thing from each booth.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZOXQ1taZgvt8PxteAjMjE6Zx9ur6ssr-dY12d6qFeSgZTUNLcVDBInL7K3P4xXWmjJqFv3P-fBXgKsi0VlluIQN18KcjZHfusucdftxLH7vwkwYywZ0qY2YyzTyqLWK4fNbBvq6TNcNW/s1600/227465_10150197132130842_36844570841_6815992_3106734_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 143px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ZOXQ1taZgvt8PxteAjMjE6Zx9ur6ssr-dY12d6qFeSgZTUNLcVDBInL7K3P4xXWmjJqFv3P-fBXgKsi0VlluIQN18KcjZHfusucdftxLH7vwkwYywZ0qY2YyzTyqLWK4fNbBvq6TNcNW/s400/227465_10150197132130842_36844570841_6815992_3106734_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619692757260930722" border="0" /></a>Dessertapalooza is just what it sounds like. Here's a cake made by one of the strongest local female climbers. That's not a birds' eye view. It's 3D.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukNmzj3TIBVII2_W1GHIcHK63KthVr73tUodH9lRQJdiE9kaf2lEbMgdrsI2VHJY5SQ9B4OtGqnLZ_Nau2zu9wSVERRDaz0bkWNFIdRtj0zuAcpeKzkJhTNhrVrzfvtYsIzsIolLqNI1M/s1600/226290_10150211232776585_671206584_7067925_364574_n.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiukNmzj3TIBVII2_W1GHIcHK63KthVr73tUodH9lRQJdiE9kaf2lEbMgdrsI2VHJY5SQ9B4OtGqnLZ_Nau2zu9wSVERRDaz0bkWNFIdRtj0zuAcpeKzkJhTNhrVrzfvtYsIzsIolLqNI1M/s400/226290_10150211232776585_671206584_7067925_364574_n.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619692751554792658" border="0" /></a><br />Because I didn't have all the pictures in order to begin with, there will be a part II to this post.Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-30697472498711745892011-05-16T17:39:00.001-07:002011-05-16T18:17:17.309-07:00Spring in West Virginia!Spring has been great so far this year! Wet, but really fun. There's a great crew living at Roger's, and I'm planting a big community garden and making a website about the bouldering here. Here's some pictures we've taken so far! I always mess up the order of pictures on this blog, so in no particular order here we go!<br /><br /><br />Micah and I are making a website to inform people about the bouldering here at the New. The New is only known for its roped climbing, but there's thousands of small rocks too. Micah's super into the bouldering here, and he thought of the idea, but he asked me to help him with the making-of-the website, so I've gotten kind of excited too. Here's a topo map I made (I know, SUPER high quality, right?)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1QxT4K8Q5oIHZJyc0LDxKwPFjs2oiY5dKc2Mf_Az__5mdpb3Gtqyu9eJnPfjn9KKNdg5T0eq97fsnC_lpD3nXv9HexIIeiogOgs5-SJDcTV0Vh60rFuVoIJhIn_YlhFeY9BBD8exxRiP/s1600/cotton+top+full+topo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1QxT4K8Q5oIHZJyc0LDxKwPFjs2oiY5dKc2Mf_Az__5mdpb3Gtqyu9eJnPfjn9KKNdg5T0eq97fsnC_lpD3nXv9HexIIeiogOgs5-SJDcTV0Vh60rFuVoIJhIn_YlhFeY9BBD8exxRiP/s400/cotton+top+full+topo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607482171646698274" border="0" /></a>then here's a photo with all the seperate routes shown.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUSRCumW2QKaDtCT_KirS-rdOpGDDVT-pN0GAzgkp7WRKOiR-SzukN41pizmKxuMTef0bU5PP1EjTvtOzvviAQu1rakad636ebK1iYXyjACWmAYiVSGE6nsKh-QSDDc1pEoKdjH3vbh2pp/s1600/bridge+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUSRCumW2QKaDtCT_KirS-rdOpGDDVT-pN0GAzgkp7WRKOiR-SzukN41pizmKxuMTef0bU5PP1EjTvtOzvviAQu1rakad636ebK1iYXyjACWmAYiVSGE6nsKh-QSDDc1pEoKdjH3vbh2pp/s400/bridge+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607482169039076850" border="0" /></a>A picture of the bridge from basically just below.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGNqdZTAdK5vPlBE17acgB_dA3T8kw9S2I-BAn8GCt63LXuGcmSltykeC27m36bFwH01WAI3iMqBBZEdteafC_AxbldKaTaKZVr3aC7LUgX-4jF3E6ef0nlK5hOPh2V9j4KlkwcnAq91m/s1600/IMG_5906.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGNqdZTAdK5vPlBE17acgB_dA3T8kw9S2I-BAn8GCt63LXuGcmSltykeC27m36bFwH01WAI3iMqBBZEdteafC_AxbldKaTaKZVr3aC7LUgX-4jF3E6ef0nlK5hOPh2V9j4KlkwcnAq91m/s400/IMG_5906.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607481483863186306" border="0" /></a>It's so easy to take pictures of flowers<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-2z_Ahbh33F8fhxSam_5i7kNjSY3O6e3QDA8EREj-3bAKdmFsIj0YE_IPu-DUAhMqrl_zIZv-GlitNLKHBaIOk5yV4vjapk9TgJSoNYKWugNeyfGIE2gWaJwsiD2hlQVLfzqpnWl5RQi/s1600/IMG_5872.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-2z_Ahbh33F8fhxSam_5i7kNjSY3O6e3QDA8EREj-3bAKdmFsIj0YE_IPu-DUAhMqrl_zIZv-GlitNLKHBaIOk5yV4vjapk9TgJSoNYKWugNeyfGIE2gWaJwsiD2hlQVLfzqpnWl5RQi/s400/IMG_5872.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607481478214144882" border="0" /></a>I had a day where I just took pictures of people climbing, and some of them came out really well! I'm so psyched! This is Ruth.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqnqvScHzZ-R-1S0z-tZ7_fYsWUbWr4V-NjfyW4e9nfljityRt6Kc8Ue690OtveoFGft6OYBMna61iggDydqVHvQj203FWEnXZ1oYOMaJ6AzFl5rPvj5IJpfFkDAev1OVe4rPaRX9zvkqC/s1600/IMG_5844.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqnqvScHzZ-R-1S0z-tZ7_fYsWUbWr4V-NjfyW4e9nfljityRt6Kc8Ue690OtveoFGft6OYBMna61iggDydqVHvQj203FWEnXZ1oYOMaJ6AzFl5rPvj5IJpfFkDAev1OVe4rPaRX9zvkqC/s400/IMG_5844.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607481473425036610" border="0" /></a>Ruth again<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEWj3tdO49Li-gml4JqQGak8mNmaYD3nR7B77gWNYwakkOGwdf0mRd6O_F91qIgh8phOcgEakKKcxa6ILz2o1EYhN6n5tpx5c4AY7g2DJeU_10tmgeRm7UL6Cy-b5Y8kwMlgRKh-dpJdMh/s1600/IMG_5833.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEWj3tdO49Li-gml4JqQGak8mNmaYD3nR7B77gWNYwakkOGwdf0mRd6O_F91qIgh8phOcgEakKKcxa6ILz2o1EYhN6n5tpx5c4AY7g2DJeU_10tmgeRm7UL6Cy-b5Y8kwMlgRKh-dpJdMh/s400/IMG_5833.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607481469242365682" border="0" /></a>This one's Bill<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7WymVANXrIBg6y8VhKy7hbTBDVulidN8Vo5px4cAOFZbauXbCgH6rUgPgzDZMOck-D7o60cTnU5aXu4mGdfMZnd0qoArFWRzQHTwJacPMZiZ7pM0q8ZtcrkZB28jZ407P8OoRQeDFTS_/s1600/IMG_5789.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7WymVANXrIBg6y8VhKy7hbTBDVulidN8Vo5px4cAOFZbauXbCgH6rUgPgzDZMOck-D7o60cTnU5aXu4mGdfMZnd0qoArFWRzQHTwJacPMZiZ7pM0q8ZtcrkZB28jZ407P8OoRQeDFTS_/s400/IMG_5789.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607481465796804882" border="0" /></a>we celebrated Passover at Roger's this year instead of Easter (we were going to do both, but Easter just didn't happen). I asked a Jewish friend what a normal sedar dinner involves, and this is what I made: brisket! It was SOOO good<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pqU5-6_IuVOvIFh-mCnSH10p8fj8aRYBlf_mEILJSKDMDEl2fMb89v_tRpRyKOBL2SGF9qt6WfwbnMYYgvW12mTKsQwFBLq0BqH3UZd9clBiQ-YzT20Z9Vi35B7xzM7gYEjrN_R2-dN4/s1600/IMG_5768.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pqU5-6_IuVOvIFh-mCnSH10p8fj8aRYBlf_mEILJSKDMDEl2fMb89v_tRpRyKOBL2SGF9qt6WfwbnMYYgvW12mTKsQwFBLq0BqH3UZd9clBiQ-YzT20Z9Vi35B7xzM7gYEjrN_R2-dN4/s400/IMG_5768.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607480455760905746" border="0" /></a>Matzoh ball soup! basically dough balls in chicken soup. It was fun to make something new, and, apparently, it turned out right.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaurNeq1Sv-aRX13rTnKyDUBxwYN5YMuFjiSDFtfQT8jHR68yayQVsGN5r8niFKTnUprIn-JrK3vm08LUUatJovL3vzCi3YLbsf8ZCpuKNKjMO6eDxsJj40vzS1d9yOsWE5o34SFflkLf/s1600/IMG_5767.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaurNeq1Sv-aRX13rTnKyDUBxwYN5YMuFjiSDFtfQT8jHR68yayQVsGN5r8niFKTnUprIn-JrK3vm08LUUatJovL3vzCi3YLbsf8ZCpuKNKjMO6eDxsJj40vzS1d9yOsWE5o34SFflkLf/s400/IMG_5767.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607480451514698674" border="0" /></a>potatoes and onions (that bowl of plain potatoes were for me)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWdos5FpzhGxaaEysrH-7Z_H1rTAyN8Mstn65ANGeRvNNw-HH8UkQG0wUIKtmP6YqtKLGNoOMfQGsQNueTvb-3Bht8TWG_vGT1Ej03GOOCvEdqhq1aQZZWbpdO6CHfjFUPJVPbLKHAxtln/s1600/IMG_5764.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWdos5FpzhGxaaEysrH-7Z_H1rTAyN8Mstn65ANGeRvNNw-HH8UkQG0wUIKtmP6YqtKLGNoOMfQGsQNueTvb-3Bht8TWG_vGT1Ej03GOOCvEdqhq1aQZZWbpdO6CHfjFUPJVPbLKHAxtln/s400/IMG_5764.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607480445511263730" border="0" /></a>another flower<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNDdITmgd0XeYoDVPfQ0BcS9VZM11YlvhVnsDr3sVNlu17Moaz2Jm2Fr-F53Qy2Vfv97xNwXN5xxotTDkVZAygdloe8U4Hq8IKhPA6KBhL_AUKiZY7sWaXfLWKBsxreY2ENhrcVWITL8f4/s1600/IMG_5762.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNDdITmgd0XeYoDVPfQ0BcS9VZM11YlvhVnsDr3sVNlu17Moaz2Jm2Fr-F53Qy2Vfv97xNwXN5xxotTDkVZAygdloe8U4Hq8IKhPA6KBhL_AUKiZY7sWaXfLWKBsxreY2ENhrcVWITL8f4/s400/IMG_5762.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607480441804088274" border="0" /></a>For Earth Day, the town of Fayetteville had a window decorating contest. This was our window, and we won. If you look closely, you can see my seedlings in the bottom left corner<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_W2UVpc98nMz8mHzdFlRaYaPoEcCmOAe8tsh8fzlCIPsVzUgxMl1a7gBMNfJsJ7V5J5I8kFm-EIoTQ1o_o3Vr26HrW0hm5Y1q7YwFOJ0DB5AmXjFlVpHXYP2GAFV0GxQAqueYtg9_D8I/s1600/IMG_5697.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_W2UVpc98nMz8mHzdFlRaYaPoEcCmOAe8tsh8fzlCIPsVzUgxMl1a7gBMNfJsJ7V5J5I8kFm-EIoTQ1o_o3Vr26HrW0hm5Y1q7YwFOJ0DB5AmXjFlVpHXYP2GAFV0GxQAqueYtg9_D8I/s400/IMG_5697.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607480441219108178" border="0" /></a>I found my first morel mushroom! I didn't try it, but other people did. Results: 1 person said: "I'll probably never eat that again." 2: "It tastes like a mushroom." 1: "this is the best mushroom I've ever had!"<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GJCCQQxDN_PQyYM0yPlIq668T8Ncd7Yfos5HvbWkt9STL-ynKD0WfDC4r5RcIEj7QjR7yvSUGoUvmszX2HQJi5Oufl9HrDkQyiGWcpR0Ff6Ea5Icb2wzEAAb3Irh4SEUSIFupSPNw0e-/s1600/IMG_5695.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0GJCCQQxDN_PQyYM0yPlIq668T8Ncd7Yfos5HvbWkt9STL-ynKD0WfDC4r5RcIEj7QjR7yvSUGoUvmszX2HQJi5Oufl9HrDkQyiGWcpR0Ff6Ea5Icb2wzEAAb3Irh4SEUSIFupSPNw0e-/s400/IMG_5695.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607479569207023762" border="0" /></a>at night, crazy shenanigans ensue. Apparently, it's easy to hold someone on your back if you're both in pushup position. We took it a little further. 4 times further, to be exact. Yes, a stack of 5 people.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImzxaIbE9ptCLy4rVKEM7CnsWLtKl6TQLMBQmPJ3Zy3ViI55wWVJcg3X5KBaFPpILHI1JlBCa5KWZki3vK_TeyQt8Hb7tYoqe2t56nyIShXlU960F_HAXNJQYIifXWPS6eoNsUcJFg-Vc/s1600/IMG_5692.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgImzxaIbE9ptCLy4rVKEM7CnsWLtKl6TQLMBQmPJ3Zy3ViI55wWVJcg3X5KBaFPpILHI1JlBCa5KWZki3vK_TeyQt8Hb7tYoqe2t56nyIShXlU960F_HAXNJQYIifXWPS6eoNsUcJFg-Vc/s400/IMG_5692.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607479566370350674" border="0" /></a>some evidence of the wet<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2UumK72fw_MeB2E3ee0D8Ws2s6-c7547hf9aaMSC_hDVG8Yvm1DDqyaO9YPvJBJ2moKwthq2wrPOvvKIQnSOLF5g_4m2k5iqJA4yW0eCeA42TFi61UR7SoeZ3KyzwjeMzKRhTQGi10qHO/s1600/IMG_5676.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2UumK72fw_MeB2E3ee0D8Ws2s6-c7547hf9aaMSC_hDVG8Yvm1DDqyaO9YPvJBJ2moKwthq2wrPOvvKIQnSOLF5g_4m2k5iqJA4yW0eCeA42TFi61UR7SoeZ3KyzwjeMzKRhTQGi10qHO/s400/IMG_5676.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607479564460110770" border="0" /></a>this is when we first got here. I was so excited to see evidence of spring that I couldn't help but take a picture of these daffodils by the sign for my home<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUkAABNwhYYmD2Kr523q9M544p5Zvu3-wdhmVoPgkbDdM9Iqpzj4mkYOZb9FVv_YFYJJexlSCglCxslRBzPwGDqC44GDt7UR-VqQia9r-em9ReMzlKb3t7yY6RRorOv68gfHJAAb1akIx/s1600/IMG_5675.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVUkAABNwhYYmD2Kr523q9M544p5Zvu3-wdhmVoPgkbDdM9Iqpzj4mkYOZb9FVv_YFYJJexlSCglCxslRBzPwGDqC44GDt7UR-VqQia9r-em9ReMzlKb3t7yY6RRorOv68gfHJAAb1akIx/s400/IMG_5675.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607479562294129906" border="0" /></a>My friend Bill took this one day<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRS3yMC4d9i0SVOFmCGRHzVxcdVfhV8lMiSY660KF_jiYWZI2A78EtVHyvL0BSFBdJzj8yzGdSmLgjySfKoWiOaNYwK4ogpqr3yn69BDfFanEbrPWG3d0AqNbMEtGQH22eL-Lfv0uelpwv/s1600/IMG_1652.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRS3yMC4d9i0SVOFmCGRHzVxcdVfhV8lMiSY660KF_jiYWZI2A78EtVHyvL0BSFBdJzj8yzGdSmLgjySfKoWiOaNYwK4ogpqr3yn69BDfFanEbrPWG3d0AqNbMEtGQH22eL-Lfv0uelpwv/s400/IMG_1652.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607479558290880114" border="0" /></a>The Rendezvous is this weekend, so things should stay fun! Love,<br />StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-11899225784905595092011-04-10T14:01:00.001-07:002011-04-10T15:00:04.029-07:00NV, UT, COhere's the rest of the trip pictures! From Bishop, Micah and I headed to Las Vegas! ... for a day.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMtwYlQbUMdaAEInA7Ehguyu-B1UOZUGQZSj7IF61f9GcDDOBMiNDcm-wdwWmz7HKQr5JV2bUydf2-TW2jxkbnYU8pX-USjAjF8J1JK-2aDCMqOVRxDrN3RG47l-u2l2dqPwdboj4uqvAQ/s1600/DSC01417.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMtwYlQbUMdaAEInA7Ehguyu-B1UOZUGQZSj7IF61f9GcDDOBMiNDcm-wdwWmz7HKQr5JV2bUydf2-TW2jxkbnYU8pX-USjAjF8J1JK-2aDCMqOVRxDrN3RG47l-u2l2dqPwdboj4uqvAQ/s400/DSC01417.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594070838145062098" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcHj8VbXThyphenhyphenr-ldCoqtHzLrvcDm3Rda5-S5ok16mcXMn6gZo0E1lv2-UTNIXzBYp2ZfxHKEjKqg5OlSRRDswcgbvbzmH5p9gwdvk1GpOnXDNMt6KMxHhjDgWgWDAzB7ww753hyphenhyphenwXK6ixa/s1600/DSC01422.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIcHj8VbXThyphenhyphenr-ldCoqtHzLrvcDm3Rda5-S5ok16mcXMn6gZo0E1lv2-UTNIXzBYp2ZfxHKEjKqg5OlSRRDswcgbvbzmH5p9gwdvk1GpOnXDNMt6KMxHhjDgWgWDAzB7ww753hyphenhyphenwXK6ixa/s400/DSC01422.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594070833642240274" border="0" /></a>then it was through the scenic state of Utah! It's almost impossible to get good pictures from a moving car, so here are some compromises. This snow bank is already 6 ft. high, so that snow is probably getting 12' of air. I'd never seen anything like it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6TPE2T13PZGcqjrRTZmeX7db5QKwCObTjiutIhCJ6zbzbKJRTnkENKJF4dVLnBgR616aQ5GPYUZDtVYCx5Ru1290eQOukjBwOkSXX8GGu-weT3p1VG_u-t4-xW9gV_JLUOe0U0pDuAhmq/s1600/IMG_5565.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6TPE2T13PZGcqjrRTZmeX7db5QKwCObTjiutIhCJ6zbzbKJRTnkENKJF4dVLnBgR616aQ5GPYUZDtVYCx5Ru1290eQOukjBwOkSXX8GGu-weT3p1VG_u-t4-xW9gV_JLUOe0U0pDuAhmq/s400/IMG_5565.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594070461355542498" border="0" /></a>a really short tunnel<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ywaUesmU2AWLW9oKA0Khqk6Y_UlRzN8ZeDrQaDxUXc6WLnI2vak-QZXTFSmXbdOgK8_NipM2RScXdtEHWEmZzZTbhH9_owAR6ZOfX861JrjUTeT9i310ys0JwgVKzOncePLktpF23L-u/s1600/IMG_5578.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ywaUesmU2AWLW9oKA0Khqk6Y_UlRzN8ZeDrQaDxUXc6WLnI2vak-QZXTFSmXbdOgK8_NipM2RScXdtEHWEmZzZTbhH9_owAR6ZOfX861JrjUTeT9i310ys0JwgVKzOncePLktpF23L-u/s400/IMG_5578.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594070457910886706" border="0" /></a>Utah is the best! Escalante National Monument. See the road winding theough there? Later it traverses a ridge only about 20 ft. wide. It's called Devil's Backbone.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9l0uh3ZC8GuFCLevGwePq7USejRrU0dly8TXh_frVq0gYWSweUQLbX9fp9Lw4gyltb1di0Pgnbb4V9i_EUlQ5IcEa3HcQFzHf-vZ094QheCg0e074MWejR1NXLpzV1mWIcBV1VpYADKIH/s1600/IMG_5594.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9l0uh3ZC8GuFCLevGwePq7USejRrU0dly8TXh_frVq0gYWSweUQLbX9fp9Lw4gyltb1di0Pgnbb4V9i_EUlQ5IcEa3HcQFzHf-vZ094QheCg0e074MWejR1NXLpzV1mWIcBV1VpYADKIH/s400/IMG_5594.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594070454355990466" border="0" /></a>down in the canyons<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6d_4BZHS9zPazngHvqURZbmz910QIsNYVjHfHHmYXYglk8rutHFn5q-7b2_LXmJNCezKMDnMQqfMC3AU9FLdHyUvtdHdlQ7sIHm1mi1e6ZR0-OcYkn7-aS-khjytgd75U8_M_wwWOj2QJ/s1600/IMG_5601.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6d_4BZHS9zPazngHvqURZbmz910QIsNYVjHfHHmYXYglk8rutHFn5q-7b2_LXmJNCezKMDnMQqfMC3AU9FLdHyUvtdHdlQ7sIHm1mi1e6ZR0-OcYkn7-aS-khjytgd75U8_M_wwWOj2QJ/s400/IMG_5601.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594070450753089234" border="0" /></a>the sage (which smells different here than in Bishop) was blooming<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzVzWUh5DBa2w0YGidhMOfrOd97BjghqcUDK4pp-NeKwReuVmd-mp8js-FtKZowKCdf4F6TI4jCHNNa5OPC3LljzWHp6PGNKuKP_2rDNJlgwljZBGTxSSfaG2mFg3RqFwLMe12L0SjF6O/s1600/IMG_5602.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnzVzWUh5DBa2w0YGidhMOfrOd97BjghqcUDK4pp-NeKwReuVmd-mp8js-FtKZowKCdf4F6TI4jCHNNa5OPC3LljzWHp6PGNKuKP_2rDNJlgwljZBGTxSSfaG2mFg3RqFwLMe12L0SjF6O/s400/IMG_5602.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594069820885149842" border="0" /></a>the river<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjW3hYFYBovZP7QVuE6kcetEVTj6XGyMhF_iG8YiKI6eiUU_HW2zelpT2W_glJyqAw0tPXRfLrV2pmnpe0sWwOISA3bZWU1GOpkPY9jC5jgkQ4PrydnjoU9sZXfp4s4N4AOGsn2XVthPkw/s1600/IMG_5607.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjW3hYFYBovZP7QVuE6kcetEVTj6XGyMhF_iG8YiKI6eiUU_HW2zelpT2W_glJyqAw0tPXRfLrV2pmnpe0sWwOISA3bZWU1GOpkPY9jC5jgkQ4PrydnjoU9sZXfp4s4N4AOGsn2XVthPkw/s400/IMG_5607.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594069816549237666" border="0" /></a>we tried to go in a slot canyon, but it was too hard to get to any. The closest we got was right here, where I took this picture. We could see one.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Wr1cJDIJMqG4GpiXKm00f2EI2C5LfI7qrvz5bigkoI5RMIl2j7rtlV66-IeFNruhdXn37diPZv-5dg8lUvPF-JXydF8AJwam3XXwhYTulj0yBlRpiKDCXGI6gvvEVjlWJGOLrhwGkE-Q/s1600/IMG_5617.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Wr1cJDIJMqG4GpiXKm00f2EI2C5LfI7qrvz5bigkoI5RMIl2j7rtlV66-IeFNruhdXn37diPZv-5dg8lUvPF-JXydF8AJwam3XXwhYTulj0yBlRpiKDCXGI6gvvEVjlWJGOLrhwGkE-Q/s400/IMG_5617.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594069815141352002" border="0" /></a>The scenic road goes back up! Here's some aspens on a snowy mountain (you'll just have to take my word for it that it was snowy)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB5nv0rytgr5iTwUSFUWhtl3VE97EGDcY26xXaKnKf_vKkhH7V1WSmcy0gpeUUX0ajOppQu13LVnVOd8N2_FuJ1NFHS-d7kIf7cRJDgCym8DFwHww-t-3cEGgfweRixrfwb5wyWYNFM25O/s1600/IMG_5632.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB5nv0rytgr5iTwUSFUWhtl3VE97EGDcY26xXaKnKf_vKkhH7V1WSmcy0gpeUUX0ajOppQu13LVnVOd8N2_FuJ1NFHS-d7kIf7cRJDgCym8DFwHww-t-3cEGgfweRixrfwb5wyWYNFM25O/s400/IMG_5632.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594069811970990674" border="0" /></a>Joe's Valley, UT. I love it here, but it was still a little chilly.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtr17Bjy1t9hWWQDUz0VQtfTkNV2Cx8WJUFfvgMoT4Tr50-E6kS-GFlNtpmOoMSBBk3RFIZkUiZpN4Wllxagi9qLvjhSb07OxpzrjAfJyKvewmXy6uhGC4Q2Jb_gWNXtp0RM9cMntTOGsY/s1600/IMG_5642.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtr17Bjy1t9hWWQDUz0VQtfTkNV2Cx8WJUFfvgMoT4Tr50-E6kS-GFlNtpmOoMSBBk3RFIZkUiZpN4Wllxagi9qLvjhSb07OxpzrjAfJyKvewmXy6uhGC4Q2Jb_gWNXtp0RM9cMntTOGsY/s400/IMG_5642.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594069805074725794" border="0" /></a>Triassic - Joe's warmer brother. There are pictographs!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8tvWWdMXvTQMdiSMfaHniL8ffh-L3zTRIQI8FbZENUmSSbuyOCUHviINLP-AQWD3QicJno_6TR89F7hZwcADYPWC8CxTEwnEX1fHTo8e6KVl3vlTqzY4Outu3ncODZiT_tIREVf5P6-w/s1600/IMG_5648.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge8tvWWdMXvTQMdiSMfaHniL8ffh-L3zTRIQI8FbZENUmSSbuyOCUHviINLP-AQWD3QicJno_6TR89F7hZwcADYPWC8CxTEwnEX1fHTo8e6KVl3vlTqzY4Outu3ncODZiT_tIREVf5P6-w/s400/IMG_5648.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594065778404548930" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg98gf00VpqQ4hF4-93Hjb850SzbXLqw9SaFiRRuFZN9L21pdZTWXP50darRY57aP8unMYmrjp1tmX13PMnXNH88rZiz9YvPjqrWrYyZj0CeJT2Gz9jU0xcgmQMgOEon48WUYcJWKbsOlRA/s1600/IMG_5654.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg98gf00VpqQ4hF4-93Hjb850SzbXLqw9SaFiRRuFZN9L21pdZTWXP50darRY57aP8unMYmrjp1tmX13PMnXNH88rZiz9YvPjqrWrYyZj0CeJT2Gz9jU0xcgmQMgOEon48WUYcJWKbsOlRA/s400/IMG_5654.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594065766696309522" border="0" /></a>Let me preface these last pics with the fact that I have an irrational dislike for Colorado. Everyone who lives there loves it so much, that they never stop talking about it. Climbing movies always have a segment about it. Every issue of every climbing magazine talks about it. The people in Boulder, in particular, are known to be cocky and egotistical (not to say I don't know people from Boulder who are awesome). Blah blah blah. The New has the best rock in the country (not only do I believe that, but every once in a while, climbing mags have a "where is the best climbing in the country?" article. The New always comes out on top), and Colorado is stupid.<br /><br />So Micah and I chose a super obscure area in the desert half of the state and tried it out. It was awesome (but still not as good as the New). As for the Coloradans, we didn't meet a single one.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid1ZwfvUUpjb3AB2-obswpwN0fbnXvjC59gS1X8upt95ty3eTPHGeJo43fzhPrebBfaG-QKVVBAd6pJBDMiMC_tFDKC_H20V6_ddqioqvzDpQNcYbjb_PEcgnu0Gk-yse7kF-6fOOkvkiT/s1600/IMG_5664.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 141px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid1ZwfvUUpjb3AB2-obswpwN0fbnXvjC59gS1X8upt95ty3eTPHGeJo43fzhPrebBfaG-QKVVBAd6pJBDMiMC_tFDKC_H20V6_ddqioqvzDpQNcYbjb_PEcgnu0Gk-yse7kF-6fOOkvkiT/s400/IMG_5664.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594065765655090034" border="0" /></a>beautiful! Lots of rocks right off the road.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgauzv9EfObPsaJ3bUaE_6oEDaOjVFrkr4pDI83DjfX-tBQvcQsIlByCtayD_hF1Dy7uKem6b3oJ-4M9OcMmB6_l8328z2UlZmHCqD6WbTe7KvE8iOm7mDc1R4KFt5ZIbofnIeL0j7GiPC8/s1600/IMG_5671.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgauzv9EfObPsaJ3bUaE_6oEDaOjVFrkr4pDI83DjfX-tBQvcQsIlByCtayD_hF1Dy7uKem6b3oJ-4M9OcMmB6_l8328z2UlZmHCqD6WbTe7KvE8iOm7mDc1R4KFt5ZIbofnIeL0j7GiPC8/s400/IMG_5671.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594065763261264738" border="0" /></a>if you enlarge this photo, you can see the cool stripes in those mountains.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ0nJ7IEYhntuOr5QyVADhb6hvTZanTr45gsicxsANzuUyl58mOMKJZCokQ_YZXv9j37xX3ZtXoWpQVAPUBBeftq7WGaIwH5DM1uRkrHyzSNSmWNcyaB8-czapC94Jg4_grrYMHvrVwQ5R/s1600/IMG_5672.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ0nJ7IEYhntuOr5QyVADhb6hvTZanTr45gsicxsANzuUyl58mOMKJZCokQ_YZXv9j37xX3ZtXoWpQVAPUBBeftq7WGaIwH5DM1uRkrHyzSNSmWNcyaB8-czapC94Jg4_grrYMHvrVwQ5R/s400/IMG_5672.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594065760589334930" border="0" /></a>-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-1734303428231534642011-03-15T19:35:00.000-07:002011-03-15T21:47:24.526-07:00CaliforniaOn to the next state: California! First stop was Joshua Tree National Park. We met up with our friend Sara as soon as we got here, and we all stayed together throughout CA. You can barely see her and Micah through this cool desert plant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8u0qI8-RXoWxmPEs43OY7AxbkyRoMHlbFDzAqLmNDQADDBc423MwT1CnbxuDaEuf79-AWpEgCDchTowGhAysL5vOashNQRr8P2DLqfkS5vv-GDbLJTSavZtTVw6ezvS0pIk10hMJdIxG/s1600/IMG_5292.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8u0qI8-RXoWxmPEs43OY7AxbkyRoMHlbFDzAqLmNDQADDBc423MwT1CnbxuDaEuf79-AWpEgCDchTowGhAysL5vOashNQRr8P2DLqfkS5vv-GDbLJTSavZtTVw6ezvS0pIk10hMJdIxG/s400/IMG_5292.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584522352167860370" border="0" /></a>Cholla Cactus. Sometimes called the teddy bear cactus because it looks soft and fuzzy from far away. Sometimes called the jumping cactus because each section on the plant is just barely held on. If you brush against it, the whole segment will stick to you.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yMbjNrMkh2vhaHxYaxkLZYYPrXh34k9IgxIY5DdhjjWcDYDYO7FXfsWtq0Iiw8TrBeLzohaf22qaQ3MHLDx1u3KfaclpmiSjIz0EhrbGQKEaAUuHBclefK30A3fhSTpuxZm18Nm6SZ6G/s1600/IMG_5297.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yMbjNrMkh2vhaHxYaxkLZYYPrXh34k9IgxIY5DdhjjWcDYDYO7FXfsWtq0Iiw8TrBeLzohaf22qaQ3MHLDx1u3KfaclpmiSjIz0EhrbGQKEaAUuHBclefK30A3fhSTpuxZm18Nm6SZ6G/s400/IMG_5297.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584522340783021842" border="0" /></a>The epitome of JTree scenery! Dr. Suess-esque Joshua Trees, giant boulder piles, mountains, blue skies, and Micah bouldering.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXrx9A7oy-eiAKYEF50BHL54rIqqq-AmpxsmzwR3CKH3pPL_iREwTPPgL0kQvxSjDkB0x1ufvfn9fu1EUGw1ZDld2RqUIgY1gbd3o-zu5ExYoHZrUlo-Y4QACeahsaq3-JpIEHPeWQtFu/s1600/IMG_5328.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXrx9A7oy-eiAKYEF50BHL54rIqqq-AmpxsmzwR3CKH3pPL_iREwTPPgL0kQvxSjDkB0x1ufvfn9fu1EUGw1ZDld2RqUIgY1gbd3o-zu5ExYoHZrUlo-Y4QACeahsaq3-JpIEHPeWQtFu/s400/IMG_5328.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584521819445431042" border="0" /></a>JTree has the best sunsets. The air is so clear, you can see all the pretty pollution-induced sunset colors of LA<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgos4Zof9vfmx7KuEjQ6oOp8bTRmL9d9b4DgnNjDk_2nb2E1PRsRCporbpHypfLihpV8FrAcikeetap-5FlJ4_jIRyybYdRSpqj5__qgquAZpPeIO2Lfi-gTmONFi6cs7XwDBPE1_un6y/s1600/IMG_5344.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgos4Zof9vfmx7KuEjQ6oOp8bTRmL9d9b4DgnNjDk_2nb2E1PRsRCporbpHypfLihpV8FrAcikeetap-5FlJ4_jIRyybYdRSpqj5__qgquAZpPeIO2Lfi-gTmONFi6cs7XwDBPE1_un6y/s400/IMG_5344.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584521814029173314" border="0" /></a>Sara again<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBmI6uDq-U9W8MzkJ-2HQYtXxuEs3Mj6Ay8ulFwbd87CNTYHCMF8Mck0TLKGu9LOlpQ34n65zBm04qmunWvskcvclSkU7X5xWU7nM71T6EwkYFKVioVE-Y7Re_8SfLSTbUEHTV2Hni5TRf/s1600/IMG_5384.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBmI6uDq-U9W8MzkJ-2HQYtXxuEs3Mj6Ay8ulFwbd87CNTYHCMF8Mck0TLKGu9LOlpQ34n65zBm04qmunWvskcvclSkU7X5xWU7nM71T6EwkYFKVioVE-Y7Re_8SfLSTbUEHTV2Hni5TRf/s400/IMG_5384.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584521805832621458" border="0" /></a>A true oasis in the desert! A little trickle of water can cause natural palm trees to grow! These weren't planted. That's not an everyday sight<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsvzsUyQ0-JRNQ_OnupJkdZj4xufnFxM1giQP3WYKytkhwj1asH_PfPThZCUl9RtTrUqLAcE1JqCAv1q527y7lJYcQX1CV8T-GTK9UDbaxzRgzt2tjLwJTelaqqyEcWASZkcUN1P_NmFuP/s1600/IMG_5414.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsvzsUyQ0-JRNQ_OnupJkdZj4xufnFxM1giQP3WYKytkhwj1asH_PfPThZCUl9RtTrUqLAcE1JqCAv1q527y7lJYcQX1CV8T-GTK9UDbaxzRgzt2tjLwJTelaqqyEcWASZkcUN1P_NmFuP/s400/IMG_5414.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584521800127183858" border="0" /></a>Our sock monkey pal, DanDee, and I love palm trees!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLmuwylcMvVOdVKlYfqqfyYLztxemiBp6t3KmPvyMfQnlzlvs6NELSgt-wOgChZL3OxNQW3NUdQ8HlWlqdy-gTEXk7pKbEcNjGmKJ44TkiuknniiHtgTXOqbN17lwnVkO4dg3mwLYaLXt/s1600/IMG_5418.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikLmuwylcMvVOdVKlYfqqfyYLztxemiBp6t3KmPvyMfQnlzlvs6NELSgt-wOgChZL3OxNQW3NUdQ8HlWlqdy-gTEXk7pKbEcNjGmKJ44TkiuknniiHtgTXOqbN17lwnVkO4dg3mwLYaLXt/s400/IMG_5418.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584521793275081586" border="0" /></a>Then we moved on to Bishop. Micah and I have spent lots of time here, so I wasn't really looking forward to it, but it turned out to be my favorite leg of the trip. I was really motivated, so I broke through my climbing barrier (which had been V3 in bishop before). That, in turn, caused me to be even more motivated. Plus we met a whole bunch of awesome people. Here's the white mountains under a faint moon<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVm7A5Ijp3McZM-fGDgDvJDx_LxeOw8O08LVXmqkHSDTc6405t1mEcyBRS89NxHerZ0mEKx5KlCc-c5UjyO37dUDMACos4kMeyvLElhBEvRc9k61pRlDKF7DCQjDGvSUHYrhLmx-m0Tr8/s1600/IMG_5423.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 84px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVm7A5Ijp3McZM-fGDgDvJDx_LxeOw8O08LVXmqkHSDTc6405t1mEcyBRS89NxHerZ0mEKx5KlCc-c5UjyO37dUDMACos4kMeyvLElhBEvRc9k61pRlDKF7DCQjDGvSUHYrhLmx-m0Tr8/s400/IMG_5423.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584520500908669586" border="0" /></a>The Owen's River runs by my favorite bouldering areas. The Owens River provides water for Los Angeles (5 hours away). In fact, to take this picture, we were standing on property of the City of Los Angeles. There's a huge pipe that carries the water there. But apparently they've learned nothing from the Colorado River, because the Owens River Valley used to be a lot more fertile...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjKLmbgpb1-N7Des14GX4uCzLk1AEkmc48nB0l3wYWTY5mLRvPQ3kjsCotLDXA4tp_Ey4jhO_TiJDIhgFdva_FtAoeSMc4HU3FzQCKfju7rX6pYlNY5cAo42l_vaFu0ccaFoKUzo4esS0/s1600/IMG_5426.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjKLmbgpb1-N7Des14GX4uCzLk1AEkmc48nB0l3wYWTY5mLRvPQ3kjsCotLDXA4tp_Ey4jhO_TiJDIhgFdva_FtAoeSMc4HU3FzQCKfju7rX6pYlNY5cAo42l_vaFu0ccaFoKUzo4esS0/s400/IMG_5426.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584520494358110066" border="0" /></a>Here's where my motivation took me: this problem is called French Press, V6.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-aYj-Dk4JIsllq5_2nlZhmVEpAUA6enocf0yuIiG0BRusUtkchjcLT19jeuKmqetTbUlLyGI5IlOB2v5AMjWLNdog14JXeh_KGSqK2iI3YOl5tILI8cHeSX3d5N6ZgCNr8SLt6Jx9KEy/s1600/DSC01227.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM-aYj-Dk4JIsllq5_2nlZhmVEpAUA6enocf0yuIiG0BRusUtkchjcLT19jeuKmqetTbUlLyGI5IlOB2v5AMjWLNdog14JXeh_KGSqK2iI3YOl5tILI8cHeSX3d5N6ZgCNr8SLt6Jx9KEy/s400/DSC01227.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584520491604784642" border="0" /></a>Sage dots the landscape of Bishop, permeating the atmosphere with it's slight, ever present scent<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqpj0VztPLZfTW-mXyi5DmRnlZNBhjcJU6UWAdwg3KwiAmViaGOXfqo60wQLXqIxae_aPNBMuw42iEn4YxEgTuZN0lXt0vz1utLU3Qz6Cbqo1J7AVQ6NMobKXn0AHDdgytNomNTds7zdv/s1600/IMG_5438.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqpj0VztPLZfTW-mXyi5DmRnlZNBhjcJU6UWAdwg3KwiAmViaGOXfqo60wQLXqIxae_aPNBMuw42iEn4YxEgTuZN0lXt0vz1utLU3Qz6Cbqo1J7AVQ6NMobKXn0AHDdgytNomNTds7zdv/s400/IMG_5438.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584520481319553714" border="0" /></a>Micah was proud to do this problem, the super classic Soul Slinger, V9. In this picture, however, he's getting slung.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJIjnaW6T7TN7U4RIa-HNXDN0g7YtIQZOkHmPrPID3_D86vb94le6Y-LPJUsgqHflp6U6ogaDGlOb_ONCNEu-IXbK5Wtfc8kmgdowdAK1lxxWEOdpy6dE_Z-h43pUbnwJxrLz38nlRUwM/s1600/IMG_5447.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJIjnaW6T7TN7U4RIa-HNXDN0g7YtIQZOkHmPrPID3_D86vb94le6Y-LPJUsgqHflp6U6ogaDGlOb_ONCNEu-IXbK5Wtfc8kmgdowdAK1lxxWEOdpy6dE_Z-h43pUbnwJxrLz38nlRUwM/s400/IMG_5447.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584520480507708194" border="0" /></a>my favorite road sign of all time (runner up: "freeway entrance 1/8 mi." Gives you just enough time to wonder if you;ve ever seen the fraction 1/8 on a freeway sign before you've missed it)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIEoTdBS5WixEI8YE9qRX3SZtt2v1vTdcOV5sSQkImq_N2HTPXHhA8vIU35-5wzwr8UQcMDP7BKvvkEvUgHIjzcZm5J_mFBViLn8AQrVjvVZJDO9Q2mraZYtBcCKg3aG1ytqGTuLbxZ4J/s1600/DSC01231.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIEoTdBS5WixEI8YE9qRX3SZtt2v1vTdcOV5sSQkImq_N2HTPXHhA8vIU35-5wzwr8UQcMDP7BKvvkEvUgHIjzcZm5J_mFBViLn8AQrVjvVZJDO9Q2mraZYtBcCKg3aG1ytqGTuLbxZ4J/s400/DSC01231.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584518891078263346" border="0" /></a>we made this one up. Start with both hands and feet on this stalactite and go up. I had to get my butt swinging in order to grab the next hold.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXZqbPRGYuuVS5skOXMZDlDUf_sReTSIPcWAlSGRKoegRD3Oh5yVKe5l6CYHjFqQw05EDWclGcsY_LAO2GfaJTGL3x0Ny7-yhep1FAoMW9GniJb7xE0tMxBQBsENFaZASIpnqTVh9Oucy0/s1600/DSC01302.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXZqbPRGYuuVS5skOXMZDlDUf_sReTSIPcWAlSGRKoegRD3Oh5yVKe5l6CYHjFqQw05EDWclGcsY_LAO2GfaJTGL3x0Ny7-yhep1FAoMW9GniJb7xE0tMxBQBsENFaZASIpnqTVh9Oucy0/s400/DSC01302.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584518881407300242" border="0" /></a>Sara in the beautiful landscape of the Buttermilks<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgkERIGU7RvMXxmhT2q1PtBr-p5neKUyw0OISHB3RgxrXm5BsYBw1iRtkIf-ZdW-zgW_rD-gMOhajVbDiKeBMJXe5b9Z7BzYyxWB8JyyufuSdX4rDQjt_6NwlEcH5kbgl5RYc5jjC1Tlo/s1600/IMG_5485.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgkERIGU7RvMXxmhT2q1PtBr-p5neKUyw0OISHB3RgxrXm5BsYBw1iRtkIf-ZdW-zgW_rD-gMOhajVbDiKeBMJXe5b9Z7BzYyxWB8JyyufuSdX4rDQjt_6NwlEcH5kbgl5RYc5jjC1Tlo/s400/IMG_5485.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584518871229925058" border="0" /></a>Micah on a long time project of his, Stained Glass V10. Next time.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_QZYaY-7SQYaUz7gxnZF4wP2fDsKHLE7MYXy1j2NSobr119njexsEFk2K6g2FLJ2XvbUkrUwW_K4szA21ocKr-aUKE5e8MAR7BlNKpQ5cO-sceTx5qwdhrTlMvPLVn3Fs6FQ5VMm0Ds4/s1600/IMG_5560.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7_QZYaY-7SQYaUz7gxnZF4wP2fDsKHLE7MYXy1j2NSobr119njexsEFk2K6g2FLJ2XvbUkrUwW_K4szA21ocKr-aUKE5e8MAR7BlNKpQ5cO-sceTx5qwdhrTlMvPLVn3Fs6FQ5VMm0Ds4/s400/IMG_5560.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584518863979955650" border="0" /></a>I swear, March 1st I started noticing more green in my life. Turns out a couple dead-looking desert plants were budding!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcLW081u9LteKzTB4tLkIeEqrsh2OQ83q1BXIOFeqLfM0bBhbftPr7aVzW5hP4FIePpdp4HcglCg5WQSBr7W8Zm3_-3g_Q4e_mEMNdcMWD9ulSnW491_DY8dvj3WUuT2jruy1v7ebr5TPr/s1600/IMG_5556.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcLW081u9LteKzTB4tLkIeEqrsh2OQ83q1BXIOFeqLfM0bBhbftPr7aVzW5hP4FIePpdp4HcglCg5WQSBr7W8Zm3_-3g_Q4e_mEMNdcMWD9ulSnW491_DY8dvj3WUuT2jruy1v7ebr5TPr/s400/IMG_5556.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584518853586231474" border="0" /></a>Some Pennsylvanian from Micah's gym came out to Bishop, so we met them and climbed with them a few days. It was so fun! Here's Katie trying You've Gotta Be Kidding Me! V5<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwdkKbYoYqeQhlMOvFXkWTGn8TVpZLkh4C3qSF-wXAGUkRDvpc-F8nmLF1oAeYGQklO6NW4H3gWgQc6f2thz2AHhiq6zxX9dxfaU4ke4yvBeZbFV0QwbWTd56sqMCwR275n1eaeVg0XeT/s1600/IMG_5549.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYwdkKbYoYqeQhlMOvFXkWTGn8TVpZLkh4C3qSF-wXAGUkRDvpc-F8nmLF1oAeYGQklO6NW4H3gWgQc6f2thz2AHhiq6zxX9dxfaU4ke4yvBeZbFV0QwbWTd56sqMCwR275n1eaeVg0XeT/s400/IMG_5549.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584502127734853394" border="0" /></a>The PA crew again on Iron Man Traverse, V4. This is Gus, I think<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq__GIJoZhyphenhyphenbg6Dfo31pYa0yXQQSHKSfNgU4k-ZrNYY7DNP6R6G024taloiwgVA5qF6W2qaX8Js3_yho0eDRuNQzaUejtxxlI8wLn7Ae0tJBEdOLmQTVgUjvS3WiMozJkwnHTZEV699i8X/s1600/DSC01335.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq__GIJoZhyphenhyphenbg6Dfo31pYa0yXQQSHKSfNgU4k-ZrNYY7DNP6R6G024taloiwgVA5qF6W2qaX8Js3_yho0eDRuNQzaUejtxxlI8wLn7Ae0tJBEdOLmQTVgUjvS3WiMozJkwnHTZEV699i8X/s400/DSC01335.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584502115493012418" border="0" /></a>Also from Micah's hometown, we saw Sarah (not to be confused with Sara), her boyfriend Mikey, and their friend Buhne. Here we are hanging out at our campsite. Our neighbors to the right were cool too. They also came over from JTree, and we had met them there. On the other side of them were the Canadians, and across the campground were the Norwegians. The Canadians and Norwegians always had good fires going in the evening. There were always people to hang out with<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BwFOpdO7tLpLc89hdts5_l17P6k0C019esjIgN5vzBzIhmT1YGXoM1PKcIarzWUAnYldK7hbmz0bPqoF2hHPLbLGe8Vf_ts4QQn6SbeDn08knV30WwNJlW1LHDkYHixsayYXgtYlFiKZ/s1600/DSC01382.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BwFOpdO7tLpLc89hdts5_l17P6k0C019esjIgN5vzBzIhmT1YGXoM1PKcIarzWUAnYldK7hbmz0bPqoF2hHPLbLGe8Vf_ts4QQn6SbeDn08knV30WwNJlW1LHDkYHixsayYXgtYlFiKZ/s400/DSC01382.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584502110535065362" border="0" /></a>Sara and Sarah resorted to calling eachother #1 and #2, respectively. This is my #2. Interestingly, also the 2nd husky I've met who share my name.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYUF_CRkoISbYkhe2uppQrxZ-hme8383Z6Q0Lgr5U1Fh5VEIOSPyYmZ5Y-UkHSI1v2QUio097gSSe3Ak_T9DZcnb5zKxF2EboJ0xiPf9Rrp_Af7qyPCSTuK2-VvXYLYHRJQnh-ZAHIJ4WE/s1600/DSC01386.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYUF_CRkoISbYkhe2uppQrxZ-hme8383Z6Q0Lgr5U1Fh5VEIOSPyYmZ5Y-UkHSI1v2QUio097gSSe3Ak_T9DZcnb5zKxF2EboJ0xiPf9Rrp_Af7qyPCSTuK2-VvXYLYHRJQnh-ZAHIJ4WE/s400/DSC01386.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584502102421250034" border="0" /></a>me and the Sara(h)s (and DanDee)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7507db6utfjX_cRAFzBLOz1w4Mb4BapPICsGBcPXg2IVce8-jOD8tvWMReDst1kljo9qfvNm8hdrTZ_XEwuYId4jHRdEbBeFOgjhueNL6kQlnMDZm5NpdDMeezBa39Cc412IBCZ3qrR5Y/s1600/DSC01392.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7507db6utfjX_cRAFzBLOz1w4Mb4BapPICsGBcPXg2IVce8-jOD8tvWMReDst1kljo9qfvNm8hdrTZ_XEwuYId4jHRdEbBeFOgjhueNL6kQlnMDZm5NpdDMeezBa39Cc412IBCZ3qrR5Y/s400/DSC01392.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584502085738208738" border="0" /></a>I'll update again with Nevada, Utah, and Colorado soon!<br />-Stella<br />PS favorite conversation overheard in CA:<br />we are bouldering in JTree along with some other people, and in the background are some boyscouts scrambling dangerously on a giant boulder pile. One slips multiple times near the edge making all of us collectively gasp.<br />Boulderer (to boy scouts): Hey, do you guys know what your doing? You can die!<br />Boy Scouts: uh... we're wearing harnesses!<br />Boulderer: Yeah, but they don't do anything if they're not attached to a rope!Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-78279578856686503072011-02-05T09:56:00.000-08:002011-02-07T17:57:39.102-08:00Louisiana through Arizona<br /><br />We've seeing a lot of new areas lately. We left the snow of WV behind<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5zcjGAOAXM0ViL-Zki-dMKpaOlAIQgmn4N_TX-YmrFbYg494y-Bw2mnbNFF0H_lm1K-o9otHBG9MxaJFpXDY1z8ytb5a9FHXcEKdUB5Y__Dv_DVVqkWzhlJzQ1rpnNzvFfYWZBx1ubWh/s1600/IMG_5003.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq5zcjGAOAXM0ViL-Zki-dMKpaOlAIQgmn4N_TX-YmrFbYg494y-Bw2mnbNFF0H_lm1K-o9otHBG9MxaJFpXDY1z8ytb5a9FHXcEKdUB5Y__Dv_DVVqkWzhlJzQ1rpnNzvFfYWZBx1ubWh/s400/IMG_5003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571131249039821346" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGazWwSNNDbHlw2ghqEb9XDHg9jafqXkMDYXrzC6sRut2KxTTLAbxrK3PZ4nE_-A5I_B8dSpj8qFVrJVi9zP8owoBodhzeqVuZgJHfZOPDICPzXXAauKYY4ojEwEt7Q6LUace2XtVAmSO/s1600/IMG_5001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLGazWwSNNDbHlw2ghqEb9XDHg9jafqXkMDYXrzC6sRut2KxTTLAbxrK3PZ4nE_-A5I_B8dSpj8qFVrJVi9zP8owoBodhzeqVuZgJHfZOPDICPzXXAauKYY4ojEwEt7Q6LUace2XtVAmSO/s400/IMG_5001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571131255262425122" border="0" /></a><br />and ventured south. Our first stop was Chattanooga where we saw a Erich and Emily from this summer at Roger's. But we woke up to rain, so we bailed. We headed south and covered Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi (first time there! Nothing interesting on I-59S. Oh, except, I swear a poultry truck somewhere ahead of us had a hole in it because the over half of the roadkill looked like white chickens), and Louisiana. We checked out a bayou<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-k1mOfa-KiUsS9NSt7xFwzZwNAVjdpskCHzRibzxGTQb3mOLprwdjes2BedkNin24lV6NdtdKfapJ7kCGGd-ffGdPZS8fS2tcXQSG8ygVI48ABOVj_95OLATktX-UZ0Yhv5GndtZj3rP/s1600/IMG_5005.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-k1mOfa-KiUsS9NSt7xFwzZwNAVjdpskCHzRibzxGTQb3mOLprwdjes2BedkNin24lV6NdtdKfapJ7kCGGd-ffGdPZS8fS2tcXQSG8ygVI48ABOVj_95OLATktX-UZ0Yhv5GndtZj3rP/s400/IMG_5005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571130390894611314" border="0" /></a><br />Early the next morning we decided to check out a scenic route that we hoped would let us see a couple more swamps (and maybe an alligator!?) and a beach! Turns out, the only free way (as in, not a boat tour) to see swamps is driving down the freeway.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqnAB9cGNJ9I2L91m9EdKBv7jse8orVyFhW25twaqMSFFt0GCYAlRcil_PDkj7JZaOw5poYbOhOzrVqxauwoQGe-pKvMnV12ChPnPBg2VV3pQPOMH5vs8SAT1d5sU2WroyszUCn2InV1MX/s1600/IMG_5015.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqnAB9cGNJ9I2L91m9EdKBv7jse8orVyFhW25twaqMSFFt0GCYAlRcil_PDkj7JZaOw5poYbOhOzrVqxauwoQGe-pKvMnV12ChPnPBg2VV3pQPOMH5vs8SAT1d5sU2WroyszUCn2InV1MX/s400/IMG_5015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571130385365112482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RWqN9GVGwLMp4qD8A54URxqmvJ-ZxLLnvGrcm5isyy6cYIV-nQRw-EWWCaXC8g00kKw_OrS87VYI70E2gdog32T3L2JMZDgjJZcHYKtFjMjmcsdXVO6n08DDhyphenhyphenp6jyMlvqo8cBix_wxd/s1600/IMG_5025.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RWqN9GVGwLMp4qD8A54URxqmvJ-ZxLLnvGrcm5isyy6cYIV-nQRw-EWWCaXC8g00kKw_OrS87VYI70E2gdog32T3L2JMZDgjJZcHYKtFjMjmcsdXVO6n08DDhyphenhyphenp6jyMlvqo8cBix_wxd/s400/IMG_5025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571130380763180498" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The beach road had pretty fields, swamp land, spanish moss, and lots of refineries lining it<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4fsNSxpGMFzoJPGjFzirsOsI9IQoHBQvvIcaBB5CAyoN35t3n_A2YPK4wm-APPQNJD1nf8WKj4_DZxkiwNPI-1JAjpTfuxXbBKGpyh3gt8P8sfokRByYs1x6JucQmyXNUP20xUgdOGnd/s1600/IMG_5035.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4fsNSxpGMFzoJPGjFzirsOsI9IQoHBQvvIcaBB5CAyoN35t3n_A2YPK4wm-APPQNJD1nf8WKj4_DZxkiwNPI-1JAjpTfuxXbBKGpyh3gt8P8sfokRByYs1x6JucQmyXNUP20xUgdOGnd/s400/IMG_5035.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571130377639842034" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmA53x9_eJ4UktRze4rdjyJJzr-5uS_LQZ-0_nwu4QT6avcFP_tzAkZHf-K8eWq1V_4l7gLqZpMng4xkQHxhCy0vWHtTo8TcmIxBGTl_TLR088RwYsZLk7chRUZz1Z2PCPuakh5peBwZTG/s1600/IMG_5052.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmA53x9_eJ4UktRze4rdjyJJzr-5uS_LQZ-0_nwu4QT6avcFP_tzAkZHf-K8eWq1V_4l7gLqZpMng4xkQHxhCy0vWHtTo8TcmIxBGTl_TLR088RwYsZLk7chRUZz1Z2PCPuakh5peBwZTG/s400/IMG_5052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571130371243992994" border="0" /></a><br />We finally found a boardwalk through a swamp<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3cOq0NuXV2vXabKhDiHf2kRY1f4JCGP8Ph2pUm1J9ctM63cwIJUDFhMUzgnITmGRyq3ldNFQqP0c9UyUXuNhVtldbebCRWU295NC9O4v8BLCnTLiTrZtZlUIcJxZ3nwqm4-JXl8BEpFz/s1600/IMG_5071.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3cOq0NuXV2vXabKhDiHf2kRY1f4JCGP8Ph2pUm1J9ctM63cwIJUDFhMUzgnITmGRyq3ldNFQqP0c9UyUXuNhVtldbebCRWU295NC9O4v8BLCnTLiTrZtZlUIcJxZ3nwqm4-JXl8BEpFz/s400/IMG_5071.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571129710477410002" border="0" /></a><br />but it still wasn't as amazing as the I-10 corridor<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3omaiwWYQ3kWeKeacPZhgszCm5ni5HKuJSNFJtiCKnseJy7mTDNrpehNjndmZIg9h05iEIiwXJxfdcsKIGuIGheLmkFjrPaaSl_JXOBX_kYGQnorvbSrzIc1EYLzPqKLwIkzZGA9CAu0g/s1600/IMG_5088.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3omaiwWYQ3kWeKeacPZhgszCm5ni5HKuJSNFJtiCKnseJy7mTDNrpehNjndmZIg9h05iEIiwXJxfdcsKIGuIGheLmkFjrPaaSl_JXOBX_kYGQnorvbSrzIc1EYLzPqKLwIkzZGA9CAu0g/s400/IMG_5088.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571129702434270578" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjySsZhyvRpgUUQ_7PqBYCV6mWCgOz0vNYi74AOk8tEWmkDnhjdo1KCNoRS7GhXdxNwkpkYo1gFcMYUJd232gNtdSnqF4dbo0TMO8TjmiTMGbby2oWvijVm3f8Xunt7Y8M9IJJD8hP1xONC/s1600/IMG_5102.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjySsZhyvRpgUUQ_7PqBYCV6mWCgOz0vNYi74AOk8tEWmkDnhjdo1KCNoRS7GhXdxNwkpkYo1gFcMYUJd232gNtdSnqF4dbo0TMO8TjmiTMGbby2oWvijVm3f8Xunt7Y8M9IJJD8hP1xONC/s400/IMG_5102.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571129682766309890" border="0" /></a><br />We really thought we might see an alligator in this swamp. We hugged the middle of the wide-enough-for-a-car trail.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK5G_Km82fcN1t7eprivfjImsjfFiKkxRgt6e9PSbn2g1VUJiJIxQGMbvEkEXBsii6jfRfrHr-e4ioRBBIgv9yJqcJz3kd6E5XzRWDTL9KXA7mkipftamptYO34hkubT5fZrrF1x2AlCo/s1600/IMG_5094.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOK5G_Km82fcN1t7eprivfjImsjfFiKkxRgt6e9PSbn2g1VUJiJIxQGMbvEkEXBsii6jfRfrHr-e4ioRBBIgv9yJqcJz3kd6E5XzRWDTL9KXA7mkipftamptYO34hkubT5fZrrF1x2AlCo/s400/IMG_5094.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571129699785757490" border="0" /></a><br />Alas, we only saw a couple of these<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGntTUGf0TnJxdztcdA0h46GK1vB-EimT4Q6KTiX1TQuaXaKnnww042gKzXqcreUexnPKz5L61n5BzhFpu1Yq_Ad5yUGNiBwmNPlhlw-gEH3qjulADCHeK4Hrwz7cDLvlZTBtxJednl3X5/s1600/IMG_5098.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGntTUGf0TnJxdztcdA0h46GK1vB-EimT4Q6KTiX1TQuaXaKnnww042gKzXqcreUexnPKz5L61n5BzhFpu1Yq_Ad5yUGNiBwmNPlhlw-gEH3qjulADCHeK4Hrwz7cDLvlZTBtxJednl3X5/s400/IMG_5098.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571129688220826914" border="0" /></a><br />On to Texas! We crossed 5 states in 1 day, but it took us 5 days to cross this one state. Here's a sunset over Houston. Possibly the biggest city in the world<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXICBColqQ_-L63UZFzP2i2dFqsnYw-8SaoFA1BOj_9QAQ1S_ZTzTRm21PDyG1RQSdCAHulg3En8e4x4O0LzWltDQq0Jh66VwZRqdWxy1TPKFRJiSTrL_UsklokDV4YmQeM07RC2IGryS/s1600/IMG_5111.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXICBColqQ_-L63UZFzP2i2dFqsnYw-8SaoFA1BOj_9QAQ1S_ZTzTRm21PDyG1RQSdCAHulg3En8e4x4O0LzWltDQq0Jh66VwZRqdWxy1TPKFRJiSTrL_UsklokDV4YmQeM07RC2IGryS/s400/IMG_5111.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128898730787826" border="0" /></a><br />Austin, Texas is known for it's amazing music scene, and, I learned, for it's food culture of eating food from foodmobile trailers. They were all over! Mexican food, hot dog stands, thai food, diner-on-wheels, etc. Also, their parks are nice. A lot of water for the desert<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguUg-rrefR96MOn6xhvhxjMGoxnd69I4MUyXBc8WzOBFYQnGfIw3D_Ad9pXkLuJjUDa0W335X0iVsTro4FR5PGeXB_4KWC4NQGxMYhYUgf446MXn3-fT0Y6bCglksaZyhD98xzwtgk0MDz/s1600/IMG_5116.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguUg-rrefR96MOn6xhvhxjMGoxnd69I4MUyXBc8WzOBFYQnGfIw3D_Ad9pXkLuJjUDa0W335X0iVsTro4FR5PGeXB_4KWC4NQGxMYhYUgf446MXn3-fT0Y6bCglksaZyhD98xzwtgk0MDz/s400/IMG_5116.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128892940332834" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iJUWrXh8n45PQArER1Oyw8xdpwqAZL8RScALbbSqmDTqkJzketCDJWQDRgpmeJ9iChtNYgMu44Gcd8d1S-J2e4Oi9uwayELJJ-gFyxzKDPkj7mCTp4UnF5I9XRKjCGZKfTRpcGymn20n/s1600/IMG_5154.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1iJUWrXh8n45PQArER1Oyw8xdpwqAZL8RScALbbSqmDTqkJzketCDJWQDRgpmeJ9iChtNYgMu44Gcd8d1S-J2e4Oi9uwayELJJ-gFyxzKDPkj7mCTp4UnF5I9XRKjCGZKfTRpcGymn20n/s400/IMG_5154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128884355617730" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BebR8S9SMaeG71mBEbrjDKjFKR3crn46Fmi73chHUkJf96C0Shr3YGWoTyJlVdI-AbZkhFLJn_J-UpZyyi5C7JEggdGElhG2c6H7nPXvxyvzUvTf_r1_nGiXiYuXYeHKJTeHD-ir2Dbr/s1600/IMG_5160.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BebR8S9SMaeG71mBEbrjDKjFKR3crn46Fmi73chHUkJf96C0Shr3YGWoTyJlVdI-AbZkhFLJn_J-UpZyyi5C7JEggdGElhG2c6H7nPXvxyvzUvTf_r1_nGiXiYuXYeHKJTeHD-ir2Dbr/s400/IMG_5160.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128880658103554" border="0" /></a><br />and some cool limestone formations<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwc5m_x7NCTZ2tljT_3Yn0xsaQNa8-w5NobT3VRBf009ZattPa1xm-MmTbqSAtKDk7pcGPOUqMEYwv6j7W2jFaCy1fNvWO5geow1HWdwgmzWqf-Z1S5pN4acqVYHt9laGAUGp1Ch_W4jPT/s1600/IMG_5163.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 228px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwc5m_x7NCTZ2tljT_3Yn0xsaQNa8-w5NobT3VRBf009ZattPa1xm-MmTbqSAtKDk7pcGPOUqMEYwv6j7W2jFaCy1fNvWO5geow1HWdwgmzWqf-Z1S5pN4acqVYHt9laGAUGp1Ch_W4jPT/s400/IMG_5163.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128877648896642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />but proof that it is, in fact, desert. And proof that the desert loves<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECTlAdvdYbIk3h4pu46Qs_RLP37r7J43QOEAG7sI6PHjARjkT0QcqeSjf10pZ4-MPqADwamNzuige5nF8Sqt3ztyLp4bIIkRqu6HrbB5dEmhJ8yqJd2Ghd-UWFavKaHHsCwJw02n6Qhxw/s1600/IMG_5182.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiECTlAdvdYbIk3h4pu46Qs_RLP37r7J43QOEAG7sI6PHjARjkT0QcqeSjf10pZ4-MPqADwamNzuige5nF8Sqt3ztyLp4bIIkRqu6HrbB5dEmhJ8yqJd2Ghd-UWFavKaHHsCwJw02n6Qhxw/s400/IMG_5182.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128096730750482" border="0" /></a><br />we climbed a couple days<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQJiOOEz14_09oiowTA4ympCthlLpPQeBWo7XNlemyTnPEVBcfPHOE6cLiQYqO5nQ169A55E8xE6oJfxNcOH9w0ePgwJUsC0W2dBYwmE-6uHVCZf2DiDH66ndLTMvrb-harg34-UwSQLw/s1600/IMG_5189.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQJiOOEz14_09oiowTA4ympCthlLpPQeBWo7XNlemyTnPEVBcfPHOE6cLiQYqO5nQ169A55E8xE6oJfxNcOH9w0ePgwJUsC0W2dBYwmE-6uHVCZf2DiDH66ndLTMvrb-harg34-UwSQLw/s400/IMG_5189.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128089501391186" border="0" /></a><br />This is DanDee the sock monkey. He's coming with us on the trip. And Evan! We stayed with him while we were visiting. We learned that he has a beautiful mullet<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh31AaCA4GHvPoPPrvVaizazdL_Q0NhhIimkKVluwSjSyipmHj9nWhUMoOZWsIXAax2PD_o-lF9CxYGgRxjJcJyYb1yZ-2od2TAkTODOS7WPPY03sZNsA-_rGW6Ty1EXRslpPNtqU_fNqho/s1600/IMG_5197.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh31AaCA4GHvPoPPrvVaizazdL_Q0NhhIimkKVluwSjSyipmHj9nWhUMoOZWsIXAax2PD_o-lF9CxYGgRxjJcJyYb1yZ-2od2TAkTODOS7WPPY03sZNsA-_rGW6Ty1EXRslpPNtqU_fNqho/s400/IMG_5197.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128085022712850" border="0" /></a><br />Then it was on to El Paso, where we went to Hueco Tanks State Historical Park. We've been here before, and we didn't take a lot of pictures, but here's one of a really brave bird. The other thing in the picture is my leg and foot<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtqKTwjuXhTQt-nICaZlK9DtBz8VvoKh4JEdawY7nvcuiMflvihr8cV9WRo6rbQoZLK13cWE1i4Hb0eD2QdNEkY-9OS8_nrK5OJ0pdmuQqMXLOC2AL2j19JBjNugH4Qh7gL0XtVr9QND5/s1600/IMG_5208.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtqKTwjuXhTQt-nICaZlK9DtBz8VvoKh4JEdawY7nvcuiMflvihr8cV9WRo6rbQoZLK13cWE1i4Hb0eD2QdNEkY-9OS8_nrK5OJ0pdmuQqMXLOC2AL2j19JBjNugH4Qh7gL0XtVr9QND5/s400/IMG_5208.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128079225011890" border="0" /></a><br />Arizona came next.We went to Cochise Stronghold outside of Tucson. It was pretty cold and windy, so we didn't stay long. We'll be back though. Here's some cacti and other nature shots<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCbmdFgtRSeMRhb2uEnXdS81891S-b8_MegqbDKWNH-tX8j68KveMKdlV-9-JSEcVSR8g0_-9AqjoG5A1svhFV9-xLWxaYFMbrazexuZ_I_KM1Zd80d31HOPumab42lyzKYvTm4mS29Zz/s1600/IMG_5217.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzCbmdFgtRSeMRhb2uEnXdS81891S-b8_MegqbDKWNH-tX8j68KveMKdlV-9-JSEcVSR8g0_-9AqjoG5A1svhFV9-xLWxaYFMbrazexuZ_I_KM1Zd80d31HOPumab42lyzKYvTm4mS29Zz/s400/IMG_5217.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571128075704649266" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8I5jkCxFGNIZAVfS9oQzhn3WKkeaNPYq5ssn9VaIEFVWMyelhe_MYgvrmCupNHSWy1CqoyiRDJFbyEvXcQ46qGUIh6zvjDBESGr5tHbJHzGn-l2J-vO9mqPdJyjgZRt4jpm2DeJdoU8JF/s1600/IMG_5219.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8I5jkCxFGNIZAVfS9oQzhn3WKkeaNPYq5ssn9VaIEFVWMyelhe_MYgvrmCupNHSWy1CqoyiRDJFbyEvXcQ46qGUIh6zvjDBESGr5tHbJHzGn-l2J-vO9mqPdJyjgZRt4jpm2DeJdoU8JF/s400/IMG_5219.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570270928918174002" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6r5n-UBE7KixzDjzusVZafdj1hz3Nfu_Ta3J-SLdsYxj_gwIzV9JAp2_wRQWAd8foIJFd7c1fHxfNn8ojSmhDWYVsIOl9xp40DDVYaZOwGvLQv_-5rRh9ZACAIr9AauZGTvP4onsaSTyp/s1600/IMG_5228.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6r5n-UBE7KixzDjzusVZafdj1hz3Nfu_Ta3J-SLdsYxj_gwIzV9JAp2_wRQWAd8foIJFd7c1fHxfNn8ojSmhDWYVsIOl9xp40DDVYaZOwGvLQv_-5rRh9ZACAIr9AauZGTvP4onsaSTyp/s400/IMG_5228.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570270921978531730" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNKfyh-kPE-ZzHPXU5HZgZPH4pDjnh64LUdq06WsFN9XMfG-ZhhPQvnFj6LJhGARLGq8XFP2wqsVWGUtLPy25YL90LWzki9HEBx2IwshEY7VjRF4qFBaGX18kgREuSJNJJPXn5bA6TELB/s1600/IMG_5233.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNKfyh-kPE-ZzHPXU5HZgZPH4pDjnh64LUdq06WsFN9XMfG-ZhhPQvnFj6LJhGARLGq8XFP2wqsVWGUtLPy25YL90LWzki9HEBx2IwshEY7VjRF4qFBaGX18kgREuSJNJJPXn5bA6TELB/s400/IMG_5233.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570270913507475330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowsRnYj-nDC2inf8bukVLmfyhEUzs23EkvGXPqxCgtT9YhXUxmwZe25REtzdSw1vRbfwX2hQyWeEQDx0GwjDYUWdZmGZ-PSi7e-U8-Qwe7w1gtKqHcogNrrSjit5s9kjg_O3JyDurvTX0/s1600/IMG_5266.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowsRnYj-nDC2inf8bukVLmfyhEUzs23EkvGXPqxCgtT9YhXUxmwZe25REtzdSw1vRbfwX2hQyWeEQDx0GwjDYUWdZmGZ-PSi7e-U8-Qwe7w1gtKqHcogNrrSjit5s9kjg_O3JyDurvTX0/s400/IMG_5266.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570270901717940466" border="0" /></a><br />even though it's a multipitch route climbing area, Micah finds bouldering everywhere<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpuYJ_IoVZSxv6je9jgxHOVY01LNr-pufiYqstPuuUmQAErkSaAianOtUvuXCUSoW8XknMvKTryJ_GOyahiQx96Lka60x3CNEVD78TH1SfxNhinO5tCK_bL0tBpRUG7_bKXlT2Ao5pHZ_z/s1600/IMG_5252.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpuYJ_IoVZSxv6je9jgxHOVY01LNr-pufiYqstPuuUmQAErkSaAianOtUvuXCUSoW8XknMvKTryJ_GOyahiQx96Lka60x3CNEVD78TH1SfxNhinO5tCK_bL0tBpRUG7_bKXlT2Ao5pHZ_z/s400/IMG_5252.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570270910967440242" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjgQRkVMAPSeuqnjbx8hVAKGYe6_WNLo9v8EgVgurK5jNJSEH4csofOacTZbZProXCsAWtqobNWh3IXuiDg7r8NqPYGazY2cP9LQVK7rlx0EbLcNJofau-epEZzpPIUYhEE4_gDlgoraf/s1600/IMG_5274.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjgQRkVMAPSeuqnjbx8hVAKGYe6_WNLo9v8EgVgurK5jNJSEH4csofOacTZbZProXCsAWtqobNWh3IXuiDg7r8NqPYGazY2cP9LQVK7rlx0EbLcNJofau-epEZzpPIUYhEE4_gDlgoraf/s400/IMG_5274.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570266664873511746" border="0" /></a><br />Then we headed off to California (where we are now), but along the way, we checked out the Saguaro National Park. Here's one<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpOBo0HYmmFkLepibpTkkkRki6vo1Zn4DhOLEnXOWPpMjmyqgNR_Id6EmoG623k05N8lpKnBmPNg0ZA9leK5gveMMO-TLAbl_wumfj9_mpkiYlbBx6ZsybOth63YgywZamPIdAk80Z5Jd/s1600/IMG_5280.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSpOBo0HYmmFkLepibpTkkkRki6vo1Zn4DhOLEnXOWPpMjmyqgNR_Id6EmoG623k05N8lpKnBmPNg0ZA9leK5gveMMO-TLAbl_wumfj9_mpkiYlbBx6ZsybOth63YgywZamPIdAk80Z5Jd/s400/IMG_5280.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570266654014957938" border="0" /></a>and some other Sonoran Desert plants<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj720cU5aAa6Twf9NzqgcJnv80oO96ON-da4qi5kYKLkGXNh1oC10xZhPNNsUdZwQlCsn3V2gPujAhKv5o8ACtQQWxkY4M3BAjMlUBoeFItJko_zya0oHNvL_64344vlcKpgaLVpGWLOzDD/s1600/IMG_5282.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj720cU5aAa6Twf9NzqgcJnv80oO96ON-da4qi5kYKLkGXNh1oC10xZhPNNsUdZwQlCsn3V2gPujAhKv5o8ACtQQWxkY4M3BAjMlUBoeFItJko_zya0oHNvL_64344vlcKpgaLVpGWLOzDD/s400/IMG_5282.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570266650585825106" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhhAOYUJZSIbAxmZePyclL_laF-gTZqVKVkALgRfa9s6KoadA7bKLaDmwwc8iwVuPKudPZ5hh6LVxCHqI21FRnX9Aa3f2x8keAkWx7_XMjdQIXzU6cua0Ne4FBd_vpGfF398Ucs3craFx/s1600/IMG_5284.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhhAOYUJZSIbAxmZePyclL_laF-gTZqVKVkALgRfa9s6KoadA7bKLaDmwwc8iwVuPKudPZ5hh6LVxCHqI21FRnX9Aa3f2x8keAkWx7_XMjdQIXzU6cua0Ne4FBd_vpGfF398Ucs3craFx/s400/IMG_5284.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570266642007233042" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg028a5Ihvdkke7njeQuCw7aueQsYteqvrAwtILN0I4djytOB7IQEEo6cTHwSv73AbxIumEhUReHEtcxnhAJbP0tO0fuxAy0PAgDNxvTkNup4YpqsNp13x3hukgxktCXAe1gA45xMF5F5fO/s1600/IMG_5286.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg028a5Ihvdkke7njeQuCw7aueQsYteqvrAwtILN0I4djytOB7IQEEo6cTHwSv73AbxIumEhUReHEtcxnhAJbP0tO0fuxAy0PAgDNxvTkNup4YpqsNp13x3hukgxktCXAe1gA45xMF5F5fO/s400/IMG_5286.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570266635251452994" border="0" /></a><br />we've already got some good California shots, but we'll be in this state for almost the whole month. More when we leave the state!<br />Love,<br />Stella<br /><br />PS Favorite conversation overheard in AZ<br />Cool Guy in Green Shirt: where are you from?<br />Micah: West Virginia<br />CGIGS: do you climb at Cooper's? I know some Pennsylvanians who go there to climb<br />Micah: who do you know in PA?<br />CGIGS: do you know Chet?<br />Micah: yeah! I used to climb with him a lot!<br />CGIGS: do you know Micah?<br />Micah: ... what?Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-92171907783185945962011-01-13T14:05:00.000-08:002011-01-13T14:54:09.736-08:00ExploringHey everyone! The winter here is way too snowy, once again. People try to reassure us that it's not normal, but this is 2 years in a row.. I'm not really buying it. But luckily Micah and I are headed out west at the end of the month for a little vacation from all the snow.<br /><br />But NOW, we're living here in Fayetteville at our friend Lydia's house. Which sits on 30 acres. So I did some exploring. Below are some pictures of all the interesting stuff I found on those 30 acres.<br /><br />First, though, are some other pictures:<br /><br /><br />Roger installed a pole to "help support the roof" here's what happened on day 1:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiivhTC4cV-Kzk25u-zpwX46J6KsVAQa2W4kFZmUtxtb4mCGkFbDSxUFUukHIjkYbEfXs6ccYxPmLI5uL8rPYs7hK-5QF9744VN5PCHIfgTGeS9H4hY6x5nNsN_cDmZeNsvZ-ru7iPHfJRY/s1600/l.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiivhTC4cV-Kzk25u-zpwX46J6KsVAQa2W4kFZmUtxtb4mCGkFbDSxUFUukHIjkYbEfXs6ccYxPmLI5uL8rPYs7hK-5QF9744VN5PCHIfgTGeS9H4hY6x5nNsN_cDmZeNsvZ-ru7iPHfJRY/s400/l.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804594931463314" border="0" /></a>I had fun, so I kept playing on it (on a side note, I'm eating melted chocolate in an eggroll wrap. Awesome)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOiYDwGo_2ewLcnar9b5JQk97h23gef2Blh_jz_opUfMqsXUvqKxt1TH7mDwx9jjdhpPl2EegR4v6h0z6EkWtijNCr4_5mc0IOwPz9pPZAuzSLJmO2t73Y1PvuJFaWTtXHG3G5eV6tn7Y7/s1600/e.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOiYDwGo_2ewLcnar9b5JQk97h23gef2Blh_jz_opUfMqsXUvqKxt1TH7mDwx9jjdhpPl2EegR4v6h0z6EkWtijNCr4_5mc0IOwPz9pPZAuzSLJmO2t73Y1PvuJFaWTtXHG3G5eV6tn7Y7/s400/e.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804590089379906" border="0" /></a>I was working on getting my feet to touch my head. Obviously I haven't gotten very close<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhGZvYdgq8SoJcofYUFsizh0vsqsCNfHqkOOR-RZulMEgapyn4nLhcCj0DOSWh5AyglyngrUlGNjJU7ySH3Ip9nULr3FyfLcJ-1UMv6RLS8p-HGht1N8joR4rQhnpWR_Gxk4JsKZ0Ete5F/s1600/t.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhGZvYdgq8SoJcofYUFsizh0vsqsCNfHqkOOR-RZulMEgapyn4nLhcCj0DOSWh5AyglyngrUlGNjJU7ySH3Ip9nULr3FyfLcJ-1UMv6RLS8p-HGht1N8joR4rQhnpWR_Gxk4JsKZ0Ete5F/s400/t.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804583926269410" border="0" /></a>This is my most showy move. You kick up into the splits and hold it while you go 360 around the pole. I don't think I make it 360 though.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOXfJbqFNb0CCfFRqkPX9AAOfIYzZP_1Gqtj_XHxzihZ2trHqhCCAFTKTs06tG2C_YKGoePGh0WAyVroIBhzouFmiMDikV1nqPwWP4p2yNfDmfE1jajA0WMgKGBsSqmRL9S1PTr_A6FsN/s1600/s.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOXfJbqFNb0CCfFRqkPX9AAOfIYzZP_1Gqtj_XHxzihZ2trHqhCCAFTKTs06tG2C_YKGoePGh0WAyVroIBhzouFmiMDikV1nqPwWP4p2yNfDmfE1jajA0WMgKGBsSqmRL9S1PTr_A6FsN/s400/s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804082626483522" border="0" /></a>here's a picture of Waterstone. since I now spend the majority of my time here, I thought I'd add it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjplgZBIeNfzTh64a6Amz_LcB7ippSbWc0fSJmof67RK97YL9iOabV_OPmXfAWySuz63wN8z1p3mzIWZzsZ0FVsxepQdVxKCQE295-bumnsLmgn3_OBsFC7j1BLTWYYNhCAIgwkm6Ukxdsa/s1600/IMG_4969.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjplgZBIeNfzTh64a6Amz_LcB7ippSbWc0fSJmof67RK97YL9iOabV_OPmXfAWySuz63wN8z1p3mzIWZzsZ0FVsxepQdVxKCQE295-bumnsLmgn3_OBsFC7j1BLTWYYNhCAIgwkm6Ukxdsa/s400/IMG_4969.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804084717350338" border="0" /></a>And now to "Things I Found on Lydia's Property"<br /><br />Micah on the bed<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GhA4oI23O2krS7zo24hgeqXt4YfgEPQS0FW54V5Z7MKcS7hvhPgQlt5_Y2blHIL4ZkbypZ916thhROJsax6u5qdAnzczb3B4wr19Zunbqlr4dfVnJQLP7UJ33RzXI1pu-xJTiIgsFHiQ/s1600/IMG_4962.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7GhA4oI23O2krS7zo24hgeqXt4YfgEPQS0FW54V5Z7MKcS7hvhPgQlt5_Y2blHIL4ZkbypZ916thhROJsax6u5qdAnzczb3B4wr19Zunbqlr4dfVnJQLP7UJ33RzXI1pu-xJTiIgsFHiQ/s400/IMG_4962.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804079753381826" border="0" /></a>Ollie! Ollie is the softest cat ever<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJMPkqFss_bc_nKQycf-GE4u8WnSLR79RY-JAn76RaZH1xxWUn_n26niblVxN2btLaFr-T2TGWlQtyuzNhTKZE1NwI2N8kp63WXR3YEbx-qUWfeE_bP9C7A0jua7kCitWKrD2NldlVkQU/s1600/IMG_4963.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJJMPkqFss_bc_nKQycf-GE4u8WnSLR79RY-JAn76RaZH1xxWUn_n26niblVxN2btLaFr-T2TGWlQtyuzNhTKZE1NwI2N8kp63WXR3YEbx-qUWfeE_bP9C7A0jua7kCitWKrD2NldlVkQU/s400/IMG_4963.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804074715566466" border="0" /></a>and the best cat ever<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRu5afmkRMCYWl0cpgli1d8zJEf3da0VkgL_hVPKkNfDaa5HuWKkaVWU7pDJ0uCD6aMqkv6a25f9rqRNCB9lhwDKMJbHoxUXY9g8WAZnQVhu-NGP1ZnDtUhGnrJsbaRWrxW5jA8EWaU-u2/s1600/IMG_4964.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRu5afmkRMCYWl0cpgli1d8zJEf3da0VkgL_hVPKkNfDaa5HuWKkaVWU7pDJ0uCD6aMqkv6a25f9rqRNCB9lhwDKMJbHoxUXY9g8WAZnQVhu-NGP1ZnDtUhGnrJsbaRWrxW5jA8EWaU-u2/s400/IMG_4964.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561804069471897954" border="0" /></a>from the house toward the barn<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM4zzjoiwOyzCgfbL89GuyekIulopcW_HdqWFHdFQFrkDUJSzUnrmOr9oaNV2P050CrURm9F9CgZh_7u5H-H2VOkagBYYMj0GYpHZBDYXOZqaXKPW9QXEw59ZfKqPtLSfo5EZgjDW0vn_G/s1600/IMG_4968.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM4zzjoiwOyzCgfbL89GuyekIulopcW_HdqWFHdFQFrkDUJSzUnrmOr9oaNV2P050CrURm9F9CgZh_7u5H-H2VOkagBYYMj0GYpHZBDYXOZqaXKPW9QXEw59ZfKqPtLSfo5EZgjDW0vn_G/s400/IMG_4968.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561803317231116994" border="0" /></a>from the bridge you can see the house!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdiOihjUeq3ysUWErZM22GdDtCpNmntEnRptOuKnXPDc6A0fCuGZPWps9teVodlTHX6JYTmZyiOiv4RYi8RN5aJITi_JTwFXByarglMnWxXn6T7zLmB-NUzZfP3rVbk_GrMZV8r3SL1TiS/s1600/IMG_4970.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdiOihjUeq3ysUWErZM22GdDtCpNmntEnRptOuKnXPDc6A0fCuGZPWps9teVodlTHX6JYTmZyiOiv4RYi8RN5aJITi_JTwFXByarglMnWxXn6T7zLmB-NUzZfP3rVbk_GrMZV8r3SL1TiS/s400/IMG_4970.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561803314864758210" border="0" /></a>this bridge is part of the driveway. Not gonna lie, it was kind of scary to drive over the first time<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TBzjUZweWHeXmEsoK1K5OaFDsCGcWo6ts8j2Y1THP2zO2RZ0tMdBGdYIEP8y6jSRKEzZVRICGYuT6ZMPJ6tKonEsbzBAG7QAPaXU3nmNNBjfOZifOZkSKJERRT88kXWWRyvneFuvop9M/s1600/IMG_4972.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8TBzjUZweWHeXmEsoK1K5OaFDsCGcWo6ts8j2Y1THP2zO2RZ0tMdBGdYIEP8y6jSRKEzZVRICGYuT6ZMPJ6tKonEsbzBAG7QAPaXU3nmNNBjfOZifOZkSKJERRT88kXWWRyvneFuvop9M/s400/IMG_4972.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561803307942461970" border="0" /></a>bathtub<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpCkpBIr_bRl6IIPWeY2nSbAST446HJw6ruCLwb63RR6IGejd7neYtXrnVbUmlsQ2vpAjmM0bkS-wnzHalgA4Yx7AyrorkIgEQe0HaV00YpO8sXaQXThZiTkuOiFtUHgKs-SQjlDsx2d3/s1600/IMG_4973.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpCkpBIr_bRl6IIPWeY2nSbAST446HJw6ruCLwb63RR6IGejd7neYtXrnVbUmlsQ2vpAjmM0bkS-wnzHalgA4Yx7AyrorkIgEQe0HaV00YpO8sXaQXThZiTkuOiFtUHgKs-SQjlDsx2d3/s400/IMG_4973.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561803301265323538" border="0" /></a>deer poop! I also see deer tracks all the time<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJIthLq3XNg7dd16UPEbqVBMGlcyVRF-mjrQ5ZmNhrVYim3LY7ikSvy8R5VNRhvpp36KIHwQu0lgVivdYiDX0uQ6jwk92tOXdZ-L9lI8Mf8Noj6QI56kAu57DByKtKGjmLuYZUeYILHDr/s1600/IMG_4974.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHJIthLq3XNg7dd16UPEbqVBMGlcyVRF-mjrQ5ZmNhrVYim3LY7ikSvy8R5VNRhvpp36KIHwQu0lgVivdYiDX0uQ6jwk92tOXdZ-L9lI8Mf8Noj6QI56kAu57DByKtKGjmLuYZUeYILHDr/s400/IMG_4974.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561803294812119938" border="0" /></a>a fire ring! There are lots of these around<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqGJ6_3PTQ_CzdLsxl2odPHxKLfJL8LhynMW0aE2uKM3tjr0CE4foOAbo8J4YhTIrmvtIKjPKHmj7SW0lh6K4ld18_Ql9naua6yatjR6lkYlK4BdHbkNtZjzw_NhDvJOovPbGnBjOSrfC4/s1600/IMG_4976.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqGJ6_3PTQ_CzdLsxl2odPHxKLfJL8LhynMW0aE2uKM3tjr0CE4foOAbo8J4YhTIrmvtIKjPKHmj7SW0lh6K4ld18_Ql9naua6yatjR6lkYlK4BdHbkNtZjzw_NhDvJOovPbGnBjOSrfC4/s400/IMG_4976.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561802313796933010" border="0" /></a>a chicken coop!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHjvc49gx8SpKVEX5wlpiK_A3u-msMQNtQ7UksTBtMvn9gkBgcSto1DVPeLK28RXniciuDd3BxHv2KQHjpiQHPLu85gPnTl-A9hMW2G8CnJidD0K-i5hPJ65MqooTvULlAv-kSqTVkCJ_/s1600/IMG_4977.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHjvc49gx8SpKVEX5wlpiK_A3u-msMQNtQ7UksTBtMvn9gkBgcSto1DVPeLK28RXniciuDd3BxHv2KQHjpiQHPLu85gPnTl-A9hMW2G8CnJidD0K-i5hPJ65MqooTvULlAv-kSqTVkCJ_/s400/IMG_4977.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561802308185607666" border="0" /></a><br />this chicken door leads out into a dilapadated chicken-wired space<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-s-EmhVZBW1DzyBNMaQYmOnm6EPXc1_FxdFUw0cL6D6JwyhenNH_4IGqbll7n17ChG9kLwa9nTCWWrlKwpS4c0PdUa4SjrrOK59kP3gDgbje6765bUjJYpGjpJKN7qjGkSmVlnEwmUbj/s1600/IMG_4978.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-s-EmhVZBW1DzyBNMaQYmOnm6EPXc1_FxdFUw0cL6D6JwyhenNH_4IGqbll7n17ChG9kLwa9nTCWWrlKwpS4c0PdUa4SjrrOK59kP3gDgbje6765bUjJYpGjpJKN7qjGkSmVlnEwmUbj/s400/IMG_4978.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561802302752430690" border="0" /></a><br />"You can take a ride on my big green tractor!" -a country song that I can't stop singing everytime I see this. Also, that ladder used to be at the Junkyard wall. It was how you got in and out if you didn't want to walk up and sown the steep, glass infested hill. I miss that ladder.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEzt29QcAiGu1-2W8ATPwTho4G87pAtBFWtmZmUkJct7ahyphenhyphenytSjLSKqY95ZHQ6tX54dG29BlZBo3iG2-oltIj8wWiYceTYPN_Pn9W4GF_b4dsYthZaDmBnrDO7WrFAD5TKvyTqn8IPJJlL/s1600/IMG_4979.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEzt29QcAiGu1-2W8ATPwTho4G87pAtBFWtmZmUkJct7ahyphenhyphenytSjLSKqY95ZHQ6tX54dG29BlZBo3iG2-oltIj8wWiYceTYPN_Pn9W4GF_b4dsYthZaDmBnrDO7WrFAD5TKvyTqn8IPJJlL/s400/IMG_4979.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561802301675191602" border="0" /></a>And here's where the ladder led! Someone's bed! Actually, later this same day, some of Lydia's friends spent the night at our house. Turns out, it was one of them who lived here all summer. He had to walk down to the barn to get the bed<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-rfFz4pCHuRnuSw4DwlNz-QJdc8LzFgwdgd_VGu62lfwM-Bj0ixkGhjOh5hzSXja5aQFU0yI5WlbqeViTU3VehdUQX_RjcyOVT5K4cVTgritbpa6hbkDsqvB2ji1aYCkRDR_cO0AzpMP/s1600/IMG_4980.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-rfFz4pCHuRnuSw4DwlNz-QJdc8LzFgwdgd_VGu62lfwM-Bj0ixkGhjOh5hzSXja5aQFU0yI5WlbqeViTU3VehdUQX_RjcyOVT5K4cVTgritbpa6hbkDsqvB2ji1aYCkRDR_cO0AzpMP/s400/IMG_4980.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561802295915028994" border="0" /></a>stalls!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-kPkTd08_PAMTeA9_MTFbkQwFCz6Z1bmSJAT0YSEylmXGdzamQkmc8KPfWFQ4Cs4LjylgUCFVpUcL9V1wASVabsehxChfoBqbPKFB332KHeUNeyyB4dkMdlKhuBQvBROGOU32CrdgTH0/s1600/IMG_4981.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw-kPkTd08_PAMTeA9_MTFbkQwFCz6Z1bmSJAT0YSEylmXGdzamQkmc8KPfWFQ4Cs4LjylgUCFVpUcL9V1wASVabsehxChfoBqbPKFB332KHeUNeyyB4dkMdlKhuBQvBROGOU32CrdgTH0/s400/IMG_4981.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561801157691830706" border="0" /></a>Proof that the stalls were used by horses<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimLDAw2CQYmUeO1TWJQX5pUTiguLNllwraOR3rK-FHrkOj2m6XKZULO6VsyphDpQ38oELBwOCiz-8fq5dUvFzomsGJLiVUweJMGGXB_J_N4VS79swDAIt8ytTSDvl2veieLUHu5_CbQvh2/s1600/IMG_4982.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimLDAw2CQYmUeO1TWJQX5pUTiguLNllwraOR3rK-FHrkOj2m6XKZULO6VsyphDpQ38oELBwOCiz-8fq5dUvFzomsGJLiVUweJMGGXB_J_N4VS79swDAIt8ytTSDvl2veieLUHu5_CbQvh2/s400/IMG_4982.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561801150984385954" border="0" /></a>this was in the stall too<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgog7mJqAS8qQ8gNZI82RHRoY6R8jxBSI55ZyfQdME4JUPKgc1Y3hCTvI5TLjXsf0KnjzFuMo1IBt2DoUqQTj-36rAna0I-jZ1vULWIfjLQiLd3hlriUD0G0Er3DFoLSJ_OhyoL92ycVVmF/s1600/IMG_4986.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgog7mJqAS8qQ8gNZI82RHRoY6R8jxBSI55ZyfQdME4JUPKgc1Y3hCTvI5TLjXsf0KnjzFuMo1IBt2DoUqQTj-36rAna0I-jZ1vULWIfjLQiLd3hlriUD0G0Er3DFoLSJ_OhyoL92ycVVmF/s400/IMG_4986.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561801146894242226" border="0" /></a>hmm. Actually, what's more interesting (though I didn't know it at the time) is those pallets on the upper edge of the picture. The guy who lived in the barn said it's an outhouse! You just slide a bucket under there, I guess. I'll look at it more closely the next time it isn't buried in 7 feet of snow (give or take)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj57K6G7MHxvv9IwA56pz-ZTWMf8893YFeWVW9dwwlOJHygyuUYFQW2lkYcxRZEaDEJ1gO8D0XL2pQHzWwBqBX4PcoVvKtdtCTdGGvdORVcGOmqYrbu2cAQP8CGFnVjb_WO75ay2lH24FT/s1600/IMG_4987.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj57K6G7MHxvv9IwA56pz-ZTWMf8893YFeWVW9dwwlOJHygyuUYFQW2lkYcxRZEaDEJ1gO8D0XL2pQHzWwBqBX4PcoVvKtdtCTdGGvdORVcGOmqYrbu2cAQP8CGFnVjb_WO75ay2lH24FT/s400/IMG_4987.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561801131431798898" border="0" /></a>the house!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglc8IWOxFbJsi3PCmuSxdDPA2hGgiHq0TSqvTGB6K3og5ZrxuJyAqCU93DByqhBxyrMcOCsGilwtvOO-UErPTrxNpmNQg2cbOnh-W2BaTAtMp4W7d031VbPOrHabLnq6B29Tis1WjyU1f6/s1600/IMG_4988.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglc8IWOxFbJsi3PCmuSxdDPA2hGgiHq0TSqvTGB6K3og5ZrxuJyAqCU93DByqhBxyrMcOCsGilwtvOO-UErPTrxNpmNQg2cbOnh-W2BaTAtMp4W7d031VbPOrHabLnq6B29Tis1WjyU1f6/s400/IMG_4988.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561801129397389794" border="0" /></a>there are two ponds in this picture, you just have to look hard to see them<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6u37b6AZy2Bs4hpioeTidLo66QDpg3HFYZ4Is9Ivzf0l7G0tTf3wz0zHnR1jKEznyXx3XJon4taoKXziQyFLlMr8gnF0VJBZvuBtAdbmesWJio5YsdI2kPwlEkIxyHnrCHzlZ7m6Qsyhk/s1600/IMG_4989.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6u37b6AZy2Bs4hpioeTidLo66QDpg3HFYZ4Is9Ivzf0l7G0tTf3wz0zHnR1jKEznyXx3XJon4taoKXziQyFLlMr8gnF0VJBZvuBtAdbmesWJio5YsdI2kPwlEkIxyHnrCHzlZ7m6Qsyhk/s400/IMG_4989.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561797139147029378" border="0" /></a>this was in the field above the house<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtEi7GlO1FOmPOCMlEJD_XsxZ0B13Bz5BI7-_xuUSdIq6oqs-z3b4BOK3T2ZxqNXIDHD2c3bupaAMqsk-YHD4UhbjabOxbZLFOyOl88BKsJKPgYWlCHoH1-VDgQOObRnL_XTm2pOaiZaSG/s1600/IMG_4990.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtEi7GlO1FOmPOCMlEJD_XsxZ0B13Bz5BI7-_xuUSdIq6oqs-z3b4BOK3T2ZxqNXIDHD2c3bupaAMqsk-YHD4UhbjabOxbZLFOyOl88BKsJKPgYWlCHoH1-VDgQOObRnL_XTm2pOaiZaSG/s400/IMG_4990.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561797129157307010" border="0" /></a>this was unexpected! Just outside that field above the house<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNoh5POF4xlUSJyJn-YDjz7b2RqKgT6yL6OW6p5eBZNUEKL70sDOpCjAYkx7VW8pc-cAX95KeBJ4eVDziTcI_pAAGJ1Q1Mob4DPR4LfbJGEXZMXpV9KLHr5fWLJHjmtXDTKhcx2Hq8hga/s1600/IMG_4991.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtNoh5POF4xlUSJyJn-YDjz7b2RqKgT6yL6OW6p5eBZNUEKL70sDOpCjAYkx7VW8pc-cAX95KeBJ4eVDziTcI_pAAGJ1Q1Mob4DPR4LfbJGEXZMXpV9KLHr5fWLJHjmtXDTKhcx2Hq8hga/s400/IMG_4991.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561797126217525698" border="0" /></a>and this is the ridgeline (of the hill) above the graveyard<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsx85w64_veaZBxz__KrLx-JYujNH8zMIfUvGlIBJNbBhix3tETQ6dnyAyORIsrLYZlsXfYYle9r8HV5flNsp2bOjdz3tbd81KQyJ_XHhYXNvAVfT7mQRtmoK77FvvkYCbZl2L2-Hulp8/s1600/IMG_4992.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVsx85w64_veaZBxz__KrLx-JYujNH8zMIfUvGlIBJNbBhix3tETQ6dnyAyORIsrLYZlsXfYYle9r8HV5flNsp2bOjdz3tbd81KQyJ_XHhYXNvAVfT7mQRtmoK77FvvkYCbZl2L2-Hulp8/s400/IMG_4992.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561797118602182722" border="0" /></a>from the house you can see this fire pit on a peninsula<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiXehqSdGnVEyZQiFtn0BigTkXXOhsZ0L9RJt_V3Nq0FmzqluuPDt9L_3sgQ4iXxsCtWER-eeKAxTtTLNMgveTWDZM-93lq3WH6gkdXTgj-TlAQ3AGG-9JGgeXvJ-wc6MB5C7JP6WNL5A8/s1600/IMG_4995.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiXehqSdGnVEyZQiFtn0BigTkXXOhsZ0L9RJt_V3Nq0FmzqluuPDt9L_3sgQ4iXxsCtWER-eeKAxTtTLNMgveTWDZM-93lq3WH6gkdXTgj-TlAQ3AGG-9JGgeXvJ-wc6MB5C7JP6WNL5A8/s400/IMG_4995.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561797111715697250" border="0" /></a>this is a cool little patio in the backyard! There's a built in grill on the left there<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEzSaALIFoGWrPZp-MkLT288QPhIirG4Tx9zqGspQXu3opfpCeWrSaN9kGnkc_9T_mjAi0bvs3rjIqk1gTp6cL_tBoMwkVSWbWCSP9Z6vxaAzZYbZaSnHhyOwIz99WlOCgthHimZR0ln5V/s1600/IMG_4996.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEzSaALIFoGWrPZp-MkLT288QPhIirG4Tx9zqGspQXu3opfpCeWrSaN9kGnkc_9T_mjAi0bvs3rjIqk1gTp6cL_tBoMwkVSWbWCSP9Z6vxaAzZYbZaSnHhyOwIz99WlOCgthHimZR0ln5V/s400/IMG_4996.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561796149676641794" border="0" /></a>..and a little man made pond on the right<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2EdQlf43dLHzd_4jbFbhyl_ngORFxxutp6SbRa7sLW0xNgg9YPY2KoWbGp2SWD9y4QVzZqAAkhBJI97XuRoyxAC41KeLciaJ4Pm0Bp0hOc3q6p6GSJaO5k314cORs6YjblCT7YJPaq1UP/s1600/IMG_4997.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2EdQlf43dLHzd_4jbFbhyl_ngORFxxutp6SbRa7sLW0xNgg9YPY2KoWbGp2SWD9y4QVzZqAAkhBJI97XuRoyxAC41KeLciaJ4Pm0Bp0hOc3q6p6GSJaO5k314cORs6YjblCT7YJPaq1UP/s400/IMG_4997.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561796145566574018" border="0" /></a>grapes!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qogUsB0XnLs-Z3Rq3uZfvVWMtBTzjf-21DFGHRmRn_GCKVn6b7RKF7J8EqWbI5W0ruVKIHE444Xcmj5UHD8DQY8CWxz4XMSH4dm85P1MDZlNfGx3FJp2TatzWDJYbMkrstZgD5WbO0j-/s1600/IMG_4998.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qogUsB0XnLs-Z3Rq3uZfvVWMtBTzjf-21DFGHRmRn_GCKVn6b7RKF7J8EqWbI5W0ruVKIHE444Xcmj5UHD8DQY8CWxz4XMSH4dm85P1MDZlNfGx3FJp2TatzWDJYbMkrstZgD5WbO0j-/s400/IMG_4998.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561796136111505250" border="0" /></a>there's a dam in the creek, this is where it came from<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpnVEhEvLvpd6nJXaKAI8la4gf1qlLmgTSlT4cZFFA_LNZfsyIFdDgk4clVeFnlvti0tDd5K8zq6c73T4_AklNaozrkbs9oXONE9aAnoFxKRNIo6eDfdyTbOAFesy52xEcS9dU6Iy94MZk/s1600/IMG_4999.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpnVEhEvLvpd6nJXaKAI8la4gf1qlLmgTSlT4cZFFA_LNZfsyIFdDgk4clVeFnlvti0tDd5K8zq6c73T4_AklNaozrkbs9oXONE9aAnoFxKRNIo6eDfdyTbOAFesy52xEcS9dU6Iy94MZk/s400/IMG_4999.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561796130916976210" border="0" /></a>Micah told me later that I should have examined this more closely. That nubbin left by the beavers has actually been carved into a face on the other side<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWq53T7LqoyawaXPG4fdzwntpTOHGaWxltFJS-GX92ZUfyli78sVb9kZsY2C796fVHGqw6LvPHrDE-cB89ezomtszl337i_1PMte2Mkj_mo812NvjHWk1qrvLv5jWstziBysLbNmkNDWWN/s1600/IMG_5000.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWq53T7LqoyawaXPG4fdzwntpTOHGaWxltFJS-GX92ZUfyli78sVb9kZsY2C796fVHGqw6LvPHrDE-cB89ezomtszl337i_1PMte2Mkj_mo812NvjHWk1qrvLv5jWstziBysLbNmkNDWWN/s400/IMG_5000.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561796127230014914" border="0" /></a><br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-45758363223610848752010-12-05T07:24:00.000-08:002010-12-05T08:23:19.412-08:00I know, this post's a little late!Sorry about that everyone who's reading! Hopefully it'll have enough pictures to make the wait worth it... Here we go:<br /><br />In August, Micah and I went to the West Virginia State Fair. It's nothing like the Ohio State Fair. Not nearly as big or sweet. And it would have cost us over $10 to ride this ride. So we didn't. But I took a picture of it.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UNP8iigknQid94PRc657Woy7ERoeo-SEqqXfiV2OFgKCyZY0I-zn6hLECpR-oDcwojDM-plbATPVaxD_a6iyfNnI8okbjBapmyURodkOqtkOoaBko3O2gvCNm71M_jrYUshiX9ZGFG72/s1600/IMG_4615.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UNP8iigknQid94PRc657Woy7ERoeo-SEqqXfiV2OFgKCyZY0I-zn6hLECpR-oDcwojDM-plbATPVaxD_a6iyfNnI8okbjBapmyURodkOqtkOoaBko3O2gvCNm71M_jrYUshiX9ZGFG72/s400/IMG_4615.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547228676148237618" border="0" /></a>Then in September, Micah took a trip to France! I included some of his pictures because they're so good! I took this picture, though, when I dropped him off at his house. This is his niece Savannah, and a Waterstone sock monkey (there are 6 or 7 sock monkeys that live at Waterstone. It is now a store rule that you have to take one when you go on a trip, and you have to take pictures of it). We named him Jean-Pierre.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1I3vORG3mkdYTuwR0yGLtfeRJ8Pg4jsKUBFWhQPbyiNNLOn-jjDEjmuH5-2-YMPNhrV0vW9atgwfglA6DcNR90PRGY98VhGdCneEv9CfqVF1antg0pFDt0Js97zm_mXVs4aHozplHomj/s1600/IMG_4675.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1I3vORG3mkdYTuwR0yGLtfeRJ8Pg4jsKUBFWhQPbyiNNLOn-jjDEjmuH5-2-YMPNhrV0vW9atgwfglA6DcNR90PRGY98VhGdCneEv9CfqVF1antg0pFDt0Js97zm_mXVs4aHozplHomj/s400/IMG_4675.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547228671842107938" border="0" /></a>Here's Jen Pierre checking out the street in Paris<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuW24yuOfgunwtUCtS15w-xbFgYv34v4Mf4GUoOyndAFBk5eb6WQHAHbQoXjQXxueAbY7fgyxSzeYysYfawlKD8Vec6xnG2-CrcfJgKAhWOwrdgInW8V1DhOMkTBmw4Y7QWd9Jc3oihg95/s1600/IMG_4689.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuW24yuOfgunwtUCtS15w-xbFgYv34v4Mf4GUoOyndAFBk5eb6WQHAHbQoXjQXxueAbY7fgyxSzeYysYfawlKD8Vec6xnG2-CrcfJgKAhWOwrdgInW8V1DhOMkTBmw4Y7QWd9Jc3oihg95/s400/IMG_4689.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547228663766261650" border="0" /></a>They went to Fontainbleau, one of the worlds biggest, most famous bouldering areas. Unfortunately it rained almost the whole time.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKR9mQX_GP8-3kBtsgYs0mhjyJZUS5OWOkh2TF8mMYXPa5L1XTEdkjpMhUY7VG5FW7OuCxUVlm4vS9WMiJvD0fuwCu9CQBSL5FvRh5hvfUOxEA-hB6las7kh9CUYkpAFvn-oxB-t2iRuMR/s1600/IMG_4714.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKR9mQX_GP8-3kBtsgYs0mhjyJZUS5OWOkh2TF8mMYXPa5L1XTEdkjpMhUY7VG5FW7OuCxUVlm4vS9WMiJvD0fuwCu9CQBSL5FvRh5hvfUOxEA-hB6las7kh9CUYkpAFvn-oxB-t2iRuMR/s400/IMG_4714.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547228659143611810" border="0" /></a>Then they went to Chamonix. Micah and Jean-Pierre checked out this glacier<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnsu9nE7ljkJSwzjHU9Pm6FUPGFde6uzrj2kl5KA0zKjm1Crd14WD8-LaVriAKwBv3vb9OVfklIhsLjY29Q7NKBFKdI-fd9kFder4yO2IJjbSTxyLU7kKw9AeOEuNt62bwbqID8JsshxK/s1600/IMG_4725.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnsu9nE7ljkJSwzjHU9Pm6FUPGFde6uzrj2kl5KA0zKjm1Crd14WD8-LaVriAKwBv3vb9OVfklIhsLjY29Q7NKBFKdI-fd9kFder4yO2IJjbSTxyLU7kKw9AeOEuNt62bwbqID8JsshxK/s400/IMG_4725.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547228651990460322" border="0" /></a>On to Ceuse. The home of the worlds first 5.15 rock climb. Micah's having trouble on this climb, but Jean-Pierre thinks it's so easy, he does it ropeless, in Micah's face.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzVezV3S7QcKYhv4In_ml4zAV5VSysFFx1WbKOcz-O4uhB9Sdwr8qgnts18W0TnDDy_DK1gvlKMh6sg14vu7F3XaMZdVq5Sdo-iTLP2gjqYwDA33zjtH7hL9mp0JNL7VWMrNxf3TFVhRI/s1600/IMG_4737.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXzVezV3S7QcKYhv4In_ml4zAV5VSysFFx1WbKOcz-O4uhB9Sdwr8qgnts18W0TnDDy_DK1gvlKMh6sg14vu7F3XaMZdVq5Sdo-iTLP2gjqYwDA33zjtH7hL9mp0JNL7VWMrNxf3TFVhRI/s400/IMG_4737.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547227123957690354" border="0" /></a>The Verdon River Gorge was next. It's huge.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7GiyjSQF93XTMYCSyn3KxZQhSztDbjmKmRsdl5aJB9_4TpQ0khCs5a-j2ujVztuh8pL7aQf4rI3WH_ab-xzFoWpCtYv6hnLz3z9R0srQTNlJ8CqjyDGp_Lf1pXiOirH3zV3ITAbkgjLte/s1600/IMG_4748.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7GiyjSQF93XTMYCSyn3KxZQhSztDbjmKmRsdl5aJB9_4TpQ0khCs5a-j2ujVztuh8pL7aQf4rI3WH_ab-xzFoWpCtYv6hnLz3z9R0srQTNlJ8CqjyDGp_Lf1pXiOirH3zV3ITAbkgjLte/s400/IMG_4748.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547227114819060786" border="0" /></a>They hiked along the Verdon river one day.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTtc2IDEpQfHi40ue_agvUcbaiaeC9guFbEvG88HuL_huEQupXMtWTiIazf7kqKtQH_pVeTtlNBqAgbf-OsUywzeh2__eGqOpZc9ueBjYr27IhkY30faPHwMj5LA7KpDpXF86lY32R9Y7/s1600/IMG_4759.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgTtc2IDEpQfHi40ue_agvUcbaiaeC9guFbEvG88HuL_huEQupXMtWTiIazf7kqKtQH_pVeTtlNBqAgbf-OsUywzeh2__eGqOpZc9ueBjYr27IhkY30faPHwMj5LA7KpDpXF86lY32R9Y7/s400/IMG_4759.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547227108647423026" border="0" /></a>And the coast! Hean-Pierre's psyched about the beach!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJSaCe4tuL_OIj2wx9ryZDO_AKpM6rl3LGPV34IVdYOpJBwHCi9YrA4JhG9gy6QTwC7aB9p4HiM3DjECtiHJkJ5WH1QijdilXwJPPCwny4RfGsipUrike3jrLppWHNpn8TNFXtozYH0cT2/s1600/IMG_4818.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJSaCe4tuL_OIj2wx9ryZDO_AKpM6rl3LGPV34IVdYOpJBwHCi9YrA4JhG9gy6QTwC7aB9p4HiM3DjECtiHJkJ5WH1QijdilXwJPPCwny4RfGsipUrike3jrLppWHNpn8TNFXtozYH0cT2/s400/IMG_4818.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547227106335665650" border="0" /></a>Here's a random picture I took of our friend Kati trying Toxic Hueco (5.11d). When she came at the beginning of the summer she hadn't done anything over a 5.9 outside, but she improved so fast! She didn't do this one, yet, but she will.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6B0TVv59zPfVuG8dKcsYWcOnDo2SxhR3Ns_Ovx6JJW-6AktjkcncIVW4es-zc102MV_8sZPswLjalgBkH4RZds9S3BWLoYX9fXUzncCp8Edv8WdUT8tF4gDDvZSInSYuoCfD7Oricit4/s1600/IMG_4841.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 388px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6B0TVv59zPfVuG8dKcsYWcOnDo2SxhR3Ns_Ovx6JJW-6AktjkcncIVW4es-zc102MV_8sZPswLjalgBkH4RZds9S3BWLoYX9fXUzncCp8Edv8WdUT8tF4gDDvZSInSYuoCfD7Oricit4/s400/IMG_4841.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547227100764186226" border="0" /></a><br />In October, on a whim, because it was rainy and cold at the New, but warm and sunny at the Red, Micah, Kati, and I went to the Red for a day and a half! A four hour drive each way, but totally worth it! Our friend Sara had just moved there, and our friends Adam and Ryan were there for the week. Two others, Philip and Johanna (pronounced YOhanna - she's from Austria!) followed our example and came too! There's just pictures of Micah and I though. Here's Micah in a hueco (that's spanish for big-hole-in-rock)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRu_U_08TBcPQa4Xpa_12peUkJsYL9h9cA6Ck8GXqLWFRp7180k1Jtijxb7gtic7N0BdlvoFHzrlhDB483kpuy_wBNOWl9Jc7iYtq-ODXd6XvXwOvlGka_Bd3c4u2zXLygSXocLJn9bNS/s1600/IMG_4853.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRu_U_08TBcPQa4Xpa_12peUkJsYL9h9cA6Ck8GXqLWFRp7180k1Jtijxb7gtic7N0BdlvoFHzrlhDB483kpuy_wBNOWl9Jc7iYtq-ODXd6XvXwOvlGka_Bd3c4u2zXLygSXocLJn9bNS/s400/IMG_4853.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547225687408343378" border="0" /></a>Here's me on a fun climb. I couldn't do the first move, but after that it was easy!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAo9TVLwm4j4xIeEBCH6n5-FMhvn0MsrgLjtTApRNLgbIbCwBhO4HRccx0_V-E0EfJB62e82hodpGqDTy6-BolqNrY7VKQ9dy-GezwAurGc-utVtH1gLoQnriBtEzYEtUPHN69InIiCXl4/s1600/IMG_4855.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAo9TVLwm4j4xIeEBCH6n5-FMhvn0MsrgLjtTApRNLgbIbCwBhO4HRccx0_V-E0EfJB62e82hodpGqDTy6-BolqNrY7VKQ9dy-GezwAurGc-utVtH1gLoQnriBtEzYEtUPHN69InIiCXl4/s400/IMG_4855.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547225682846115250" border="0" /></a>here's some fall pictures I took from a bridge! It was scary up there! It was so high, and the walkway was a bit rusty...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAwGrnhVtjkljajBcdFtKfJ2FkS3cRU9JtTf0wn0v9qbZgyWe1qKQrjNf-yADIdVojAtVxDyBAYUXobKqM-2mzcUGibnUSSEIWyOnUy4sd22DhtRjbGAURci2mDXFI0zdkFx6iEsMo6ql/s1600/IMG_4870.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdAwGrnhVtjkljajBcdFtKfJ2FkS3cRU9JtTf0wn0v9qbZgyWe1qKQrjNf-yADIdVojAtVxDyBAYUXobKqM-2mzcUGibnUSSEIWyOnUy4sd22DhtRjbGAURci2mDXFI0zdkFx6iEsMo6ql/s400/IMG_4870.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547225674946328674" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sf3wSSDiFMqxMbRwVXi5hkyPoWNWdMM47FABAOor_HFdBvs8JOOG3XNHABiG8Qoy2Rn90NbiVBMO6U5iygznoCiRQmuAVlSrqUYQk6NG0AHfrLFWIABus_vFytgLw_9D2uIGypRZG23G/s1600/IMG_4871.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-sf3wSSDiFMqxMbRwVXi5hkyPoWNWdMM47FABAOor_HFdBvs8JOOG3XNHABiG8Qoy2Rn90NbiVBMO6U5iygznoCiRQmuAVlSrqUYQk6NG0AHfrLFWIABus_vFytgLw_9D2uIGypRZG23G/s400/IMG_4871.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547225669200762450" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52VqzYdZ7iFMgO3Dxoo9qf7XVX8lE21YOWi4w_qK8iJsw6gfvafi-HQyIySSiWRk2r5iQnMcVUR1-1roQT-JbalFYxBayobfUBQ8KnON3LbCfL6_l2fyio4L8OU8WOlnnKhNKSBBa0puP/s1600/IMG_4873.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj52VqzYdZ7iFMgO3Dxoo9qf7XVX8lE21YOWi4w_qK8iJsw6gfvafi-HQyIySSiWRk2r5iQnMcVUR1-1roQT-JbalFYxBayobfUBQ8KnON3LbCfL6_l2fyio4L8OU8WOlnnKhNKSBBa0puP/s400/IMG_4873.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547225663403182274" border="0" /></a><br />We went to the Red again in the beginning of November! This time with the staff of the Vandalian, a resturant in town. We know everyone that works there. It was so fun! We also brought Waterstone's only female sock monkey with us! We need a good name for her.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_iU-Nj2cxNVlMeIsSeXAV3VCJOp4HgSvSrvHmx855sOOuoRH3Ogo8rZ7A6rjGIktBDqPyw5e4I7bcg8dH3Xn2WmaSl6qM8zBPk46TZxq9PmgtaNlXsaMnJ9j3QjcYr2zotlwuc_nguo8/s1600/IMG_4876.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT_iU-Nj2cxNVlMeIsSeXAV3VCJOp4HgSvSrvHmx855sOOuoRH3Ogo8rZ7A6rjGIktBDqPyw5e4I7bcg8dH3Xn2WmaSl6qM8zBPk46TZxq9PmgtaNlXsaMnJ9j3QjcYr2zotlwuc_nguo8/s400/IMG_4876.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547223990486048546" border="0" /></a><br />Micah and I stayed at Miguels, but the Vandalian staff had a sweet house to stay in. The sock monkey stayed with us.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFjKYKKaUfDvBB3aWiwJe72DcqmNEPTJQvD59bqIurz2h0Iw0ox0rhju3GwewrV-cIZtXPMtendjjxlPUqIKpzCttMS5PyNfCFqrbmt5WKcF7GN1d8WmFdysUDlqLZFJ5yR6YrTc8ayKg/s1600/IMG_4877.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrFjKYKKaUfDvBB3aWiwJe72DcqmNEPTJQvD59bqIurz2h0Iw0ox0rhju3GwewrV-cIZtXPMtendjjxlPUqIKpzCttMS5PyNfCFqrbmt5WKcF7GN1d8WmFdysUDlqLZFJ5yR6YrTc8ayKg/s400/IMG_4877.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547223985700997378" border="0" /></a>Here's the sock monkey getting ready to hike in<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9maZzcW_NJ80vxIFpVXmUROurJ4z1PvMLHrjK4c4l7Tlt0DOdCxbNSI5ydCe2Njr3omUG_bOgu6k9R8D18WEw0cK8BGehrK-mY8HlvR3zIxJA3lcKVCt67wsunUHUx_YQ7-3IqWJ0Xch/s1600/IMG_4878.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9maZzcW_NJ80vxIFpVXmUROurJ4z1PvMLHrjK4c4l7Tlt0DOdCxbNSI5ydCe2Njr3omUG_bOgu6k9R8D18WEw0cK8BGehrK-mY8HlvR3zIxJA3lcKVCt67wsunUHUx_YQ7-3IqWJ0Xch/s400/IMG_4878.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547223980138243522" border="0" /></a>our friend Craig climbs while the sock monkey looks on<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB3UIxocvu3PsRBM3ecQMjA08vNPgZ3VrDxQ59GTtKKI3hEH3GaI-sqmVRVscdJrUvJOCKmoaxgnNuLE3-sBxP0w16Gy1g5ZA-B5XP5m3EGJzfneiC1G6FRRbbESdNjZHMcEwLThGU9r7j/s1600/IMG_4886.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB3UIxocvu3PsRBM3ecQMjA08vNPgZ3VrDxQ59GTtKKI3hEH3GaI-sqmVRVscdJrUvJOCKmoaxgnNuLE3-sBxP0w16Gy1g5ZA-B5XP5m3EGJzfneiC1G6FRRbbESdNjZHMcEwLThGU9r7j/s400/IMG_4886.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547223969183133746" border="0" /></a>sock monkey's turn!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7cuM4o3Q5CexXvO_ir2EFiCkMQsAFw3re2Dz2H06RF6xsj9Kfl_WZIFb4_6FalzkUOSB5sdmgTwk3aLZeerltMJ6Rx3r_d79G4l5_uPk1MolPKNRDWUPaZEIGucs_zf5ICJbRmyydkGoh/s1600/IMG_4887.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7cuM4o3Q5CexXvO_ir2EFiCkMQsAFw3re2Dz2H06RF6xsj9Kfl_WZIFb4_6FalzkUOSB5sdmgTwk3aLZeerltMJ6Rx3r_d79G4l5_uPk1MolPKNRDWUPaZEIGucs_zf5ICJbRmyydkGoh/s400/IMG_4887.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547223967868035010" border="0" /></a>me and Peilee! and the sock monkey.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgis3Etee539gudy8EfOvjTuReaPISwdEkGExxlUkrDsQPnI8qyX6sQM_YBIHN-wNgK_xQ4RTF-EXPE92B_kpZ_IdOUWEAyql0dNS9w5X0PSTGLbnM6x648M4cZXmfSIzK5cALSeG0ckz8_/s1600/IMG_4891.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgis3Etee539gudy8EfOvjTuReaPISwdEkGExxlUkrDsQPnI8qyX6sQM_YBIHN-wNgK_xQ4RTF-EXPE92B_kpZ_IdOUWEAyql0dNS9w5X0PSTGLbnM6x648M4cZXmfSIzK5cALSeG0ckz8_/s400/IMG_4891.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547221965923184594" border="0" /></a>here's a lot of the Vandalian staff: Emily, Peilee, Craig, Robbie, and Erin. Also, the sock monkey is in the picture too. This day we went to Torrent Falls. Only a certain number of people can get in per day, and we were too late to sign up as guests for the day, but Porter (the owner of the resturant) is so well known at the Red (just look at a guide book for the place! His name is ALL over it), that he just called the owner of Torrent Falls, and we were in!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx9FQRx0vpt36yXWji9aH2AkaEaW5sApO5xZouFeU5uytCYKTgoXBlDrcn3Z3ODspMJHAeEsCWc372fJts7X4R_U3yZvE2T6e__-DUDQs2PGxlhVITSl44fuXZxuhlwQDMYAq4pvWch-p/s1600/IMG_4897.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx9FQRx0vpt36yXWji9aH2AkaEaW5sApO5xZouFeU5uytCYKTgoXBlDrcn3Z3ODspMJHAeEsCWc372fJts7X4R_U3yZvE2T6e__-DUDQs2PGxlhVITSl44fuXZxuhlwQDMYAq4pvWch-p/s400/IMG_4897.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547221962321956498" border="0" /></a>Rachel came to visit! She brought her friend Kyle from Canada. The first night, we went to Open Mic Night at Pies and Pints, where she and Kyle sang (for the record I've never heard Rachel sing before. It was so random, but so sweet!). I didn't bring my camera, unfortunately. But the next day we climbed at Whippoorwill. The lake level is way down, so this is what it looked like<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_SHwHt7JxiqMkAKTNiFcxf9NJOGuitTCZ-LrowJKRKFe1cP-AqChJW1SLSlFuSQV5Vlpuiix3lFxT-28YXKlQMu5Vj-nYrq2T73bk3Oyh_qOhcSjuOeI-ncMKe3730xj_ndVzCIra3ST/s1600/IMG_4908.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_SHwHt7JxiqMkAKTNiFcxf9NJOGuitTCZ-LrowJKRKFe1cP-AqChJW1SLSlFuSQV5Vlpuiix3lFxT-28YXKlQMu5Vj-nYrq2T73bk3Oyh_qOhcSjuOeI-ncMKe3730xj_ndVzCIra3ST/s400/IMG_4908.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547221951869532642" border="0" /></a>We all did a 5.6, two 5.7s, and a 5.8. Kyle had a bit of trouble on the 5.8, but Rachel got right up it even though it's been a long time since she's climbed (nice!). So here's Kyle on the 8<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ST6XT8tPc8SsxB0RZmbaje9qpqn_Ff6hdvFp0h4d5U9C4KW1jLLQUrisj_XKnkB7YoDmn2ASvKgrIVD-9cIte0e_ct5gOuyCuv4l5cXD9a9z9plaab60T2JLGl2HsMPfXKrnNrlECxe5/s1600/IMG_4926.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ST6XT8tPc8SsxB0RZmbaje9qpqn_Ff6hdvFp0h4d5U9C4KW1jLLQUrisj_XKnkB7YoDmn2ASvKgrIVD-9cIte0e_ct5gOuyCuv4l5cXD9a9z9plaab60T2JLGl2HsMPfXKrnNrlECxe5/s400/IMG_4926.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547221946720589410" border="0" /></a>and Rachel on the 8<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj14cFyjge4apNNehpzLh0kzkBAI1mVIhWA2N7ilGliXy-dXi4c1e1Ls1BRJLCdvwkOH9M-JEC0_WwSq5EQho0on9bhlfXI5MxxpRqOjqeluhQwdXMzbs3cS1jd_ceThq6DxHqG2YMVEvDZ/s1600/IMG_4959.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj14cFyjge4apNNehpzLh0kzkBAI1mVIhWA2N7ilGliXy-dXi4c1e1Ls1BRJLCdvwkOH9M-JEC0_WwSq5EQho0on9bhlfXI5MxxpRqOjqeluhQwdXMzbs3cS1jd_ceThq6DxHqG2YMVEvDZ/s400/IMG_4959.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547221943058822690" border="0" /></a>Now it's December and winter has finally set in. We moved into our friend Lydia's house, had our 3rd Thanksgiving (Turkeys were $0.50 a pound!) on the 1st, and now I can't get out of Lydia's driveway because we have a good 4 inches of snow. They finally started plowing, but our road is steep, single laned, and dirt. They won't plow our road. And they don't salt around here. It hasn't been above freezing for 2 or 3 days now, and it's not supposed to get there for another 4 days. And it's supposed to snow everyday until then. I already feel weak from lack of doing anything physical, and I can't wait until Jan 15th, when it's time to go out west again. On the upside, I'm getting a lot of reading done. I'll try to take some pictures of our new home soon.<br /><br />Until next time,<br />Stella!Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-68257286945571366532010-07-28T19:15:00.000-07:002010-07-28T19:54:42.498-07:00another so soon!classic NRG<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJfrLr68P6XjQkT2s_LQMUMSWmDt3oAfuWHjCGuz-1Hxuj7QFRo6TBg-gi__x1abVxPux3oclnnyTihzuKBpTiy_LaUc8LiJgMPahxvMrWNZ-s_gq3w4SM_lWCccLE5liGd4KLGBAWltf/s1600/IMG_4455.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJfrLr68P6XjQkT2s_LQMUMSWmDt3oAfuWHjCGuz-1Hxuj7QFRo6TBg-gi__x1abVxPux3oclnnyTihzuKBpTiy_LaUc8LiJgMPahxvMrWNZ-s_gq3w4SM_lWCccLE5liGd4KLGBAWltf/s400/IMG_4455.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499150192504660818" border="0" /></a><br />the rock around here is as hard as granite. It takes a hammer drill and appx. 1 bit per 10 or so holes. That makes this old hand carved face even more impressive.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOU00wc2kSpeT8kFA49mJ3PUuHJirWjhJ35sTZ3BtOM5BMz4xEnVgy06rTiL5WloC5F43cnP3yXfRxvECWQAsr8PDpCUhggcY_-6We5Nydcr-OSVL52ITAwzoDSJQwv2DGDv6ebicTSNsE/s1600/IMG_4456.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOU00wc2kSpeT8kFA49mJ3PUuHJirWjhJ35sTZ3BtOM5BMz4xEnVgy06rTiL5WloC5F43cnP3yXfRxvECWQAsr8PDpCUhggcY_-6We5Nydcr-OSVL52ITAwzoDSJQwv2DGDv6ebicTSNsE/s400/IMG_4456.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499150182884839490" border="0" /></a>a cookout I planned! About 50 people came<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxlOQA9bIWiaX_oFqKYBjTaj_uYT02LtIfF3W7E7hdYIuCabYJxToRnGRxQ-9F8MHP3HCvPPZpYpRUb9Onz-g6XmE2_AOBSj9m7bzQFeZM38dbUtBx4T6PmBm7bZjHXDG3da2iBOMjYY9/s1600/IMG_4459.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxlOQA9bIWiaX_oFqKYBjTaj_uYT02LtIfF3W7E7hdYIuCabYJxToRnGRxQ-9F8MHP3HCvPPZpYpRUb9Onz-g6XmE2_AOBSj9m7bzQFeZM38dbUtBx4T6PmBm7bZjHXDG3da2iBOMjYY9/s400/IMG_4459.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499150164813526786" border="0" /></a>The ghost town of Thurmond<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpPEkw6c-F_BPcHmt6BhmfGE-0Vv7TXYu0mVR0obEDr7209jDlrjVgeqyJ4woHawlPrvs2pCSfBQRwJTCVmso-ShhCGcueeJHV_PYUAxmhKzjDahaJVuEE_iTO5upHScblmOB-nf3UCtK/s1600/IMG_4463.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpPEkw6c-F_BPcHmt6BhmfGE-0Vv7TXYu0mVR0obEDr7209jDlrjVgeqyJ4woHawlPrvs2pCSfBQRwJTCVmso-ShhCGcueeJHV_PYUAxmhKzjDahaJVuEE_iTO5upHScblmOB-nf3UCtK/s400/IMG_4463.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499150154902118274" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp6QVpoI8IrmA4CjZLDwi0OfVskN2UtxfkbCga8AN0mhR9XkTtSaXM1dZouDItaVYMAKaMZdneYl73kHyL-0J_4iOaF9xroIwIwWC60ihETIb3cnOoPVTT9PfW36bsD0q18SYGapzMOIqB/s1600/IMG_4467.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp6QVpoI8IrmA4CjZLDwi0OfVskN2UtxfkbCga8AN0mhR9XkTtSaXM1dZouDItaVYMAKaMZdneYl73kHyL-0J_4iOaF9xroIwIwWC60ihETIb3cnOoPVTT9PfW36bsD0q18SYGapzMOIqB/s400/IMG_4467.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499149146574016994" border="0" /></a>Plum Orchard Lake<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuoAb7EUKomQ100xe2dNVeoou6tuK3Tl2iV_BrR-RYdH7DbuYvOQx9RlrXUvRZhHyjch_Q0vrYpCLcacTccsonrjvCWoxLOOt8ac6rx39SHKuTVGhfUkl99c9JQSWkM6VY-MI0vybnexq/s1600/IMG_4472.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuoAb7EUKomQ100xe2dNVeoou6tuK3Tl2iV_BrR-RYdH7DbuYvOQx9RlrXUvRZhHyjch_Q0vrYpCLcacTccsonrjvCWoxLOOt8ac6rx39SHKuTVGhfUkl99c9JQSWkM6VY-MI0vybnexq/s400/IMG_4472.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499149134702129890" border="0" /></a>we picnicked there<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvNhmP845PdbF-0EEtTAui3CnnnVX5j-S8sPCRHFoAd7spriJKwY-y_I4w8nN_zillS0zzQ8Tx1HodSP2ZvpZXr9dSJQ0svkq4VYVI_D731yc2t6FPvr6aRZdrUzJ5FB8SbQFjWlQ13nYC/s1600/IMG_4487.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvNhmP845PdbF-0EEtTAui3CnnnVX5j-S8sPCRHFoAd7spriJKwY-y_I4w8nN_zillS0zzQ8Tx1HodSP2ZvpZXr9dSJQ0svkq4VYVI_D731yc2t6FPvr6aRZdrUzJ5FB8SbQFjWlQ13nYC/s400/IMG_4487.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499149117224353842" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwE0R20AhGf8xHD-D8B_6vlwqJxBKu4yv2Lt2OuWJm_kBlIGGdvsqtV9UQn_71_nAxgNotmIwrFdqRhDt_Y3r4ksXiozT_llxJ6je-J_rzFtHim1tDnOPiizT9Sa4NlKi3iEJjdpD3et5b/s1600/IMG_4499.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwE0R20AhGf8xHD-D8B_6vlwqJxBKu4yv2Lt2OuWJm_kBlIGGdvsqtV9UQn_71_nAxgNotmIwrFdqRhDt_Y3r4ksXiozT_llxJ6je-J_rzFtHim1tDnOPiizT9Sa4NlKi3iEJjdpD3et5b/s400/IMG_4499.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499149107723525250" border="0" /></a>smile!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuykHRSQw6xsYSpFLELcGGnRdmDyVTUTTf4ijW4rqZkwkGGe5-hPUrPDyCQXbkj2YnFdhtSwWtsxt98Fwhvl134FkBGyC_SfRv9tICdqauk1mGEQR6qicXcVYA6ieBgcwr5r9f7Y55OY1Z/s1600/IMG_4506.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuykHRSQw6xsYSpFLELcGGnRdmDyVTUTTf4ijW4rqZkwkGGe5-hPUrPDyCQXbkj2YnFdhtSwWtsxt98Fwhvl134FkBGyC_SfRv9tICdqauk1mGEQR6qicXcVYA6ieBgcwr5r9f7Y55OY1Z/s400/IMG_4506.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499149098334542674" border="0" /></a>Monongahela! Cranberry Glades in July. Cottongrass<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBjqklNhzYaRM-yUC77kXqPGRRo4OsMVNrSOCvXvYDdaVs9iC0CDbtltO5vQ-4HM2lCHshqtHAT4_zHj_kwY8cZS5JTvXrEx082AlU0WH3QHHyTpyMiFIZacUVtvC1jaa4zPtFG-LdfjCV/s1600/IMG_4516.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBjqklNhzYaRM-yUC77kXqPGRRo4OsMVNrSOCvXvYDdaVs9iC0CDbtltO5vQ-4HM2lCHshqtHAT4_zHj_kwY8cZS5JTvXrEx082AlU0WH3QHHyTpyMiFIZacUVtvC1jaa4zPtFG-LdfjCV/s400/IMG_4516.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499148426786531442" border="0" /></a>we took this same picture last fall<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIi9MGZNZ04N0Z3kXpcfzFysVL91paOJku-Aq5m4cF_Wy3v_R3SAdLPoiozODhMxZqdfHty4L8SV5Me-G0sZ09e9zay0PkooT7d__3v5opzUShpDUs9p1p-auqhFg4XAburjqdQ8hWY-k/s1600/IMG_4517.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjIi9MGZNZ04N0Z3kXpcfzFysVL91paOJku-Aq5m4cF_Wy3v_R3SAdLPoiozODhMxZqdfHty4L8SV5Me-G0sZ09e9zay0PkooT7d__3v5opzUShpDUs9p1p-auqhFg4XAburjqdQ8hWY-k/s400/IMG_4517.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499148413233093154" border="0" /></a>pitcher plant flower<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXB7bn2NHDgu_VRSrGt842smQprgyjxivC9IxpDrpNMAEYwspkHQtq4FYfShR93_bucjCzAWytqRkMUSjaN0-C_pZ0PZD04cJB6np3aNUdG_UuxPtr_phwaGjSaY9xii3XI4tPq6CzqVgO/s1600/IMG_4520.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXB7bn2NHDgu_VRSrGt842smQprgyjxivC9IxpDrpNMAEYwspkHQtq4FYfShR93_bucjCzAWytqRkMUSjaN0-C_pZ0PZD04cJB6np3aNUdG_UuxPtr_phwaGjSaY9xii3XI4tPq6CzqVgO/s400/IMG_4520.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499148404551070418" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8H7nyMEJeKkvt2Y5YJjgTZedaDr1TgmtE3gM_aP_DxOE6L6eTHWNyVDRRbYlf6dumX6S0wtYLrTPDgbYPEzzRZDFydRFJofBzyOWQzPeuNQhQ8wurbI7VrCifq6YModL7Juorq0LNujz/s1600/IMG_4522.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8H7nyMEJeKkvt2Y5YJjgTZedaDr1TgmtE3gM_aP_DxOE6L6eTHWNyVDRRbYlf6dumX6S0wtYLrTPDgbYPEzzRZDFydRFJofBzyOWQzPeuNQhQ8wurbI7VrCifq6YModL7Juorq0LNujz/s400/IMG_4522.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499148395052090706" border="0" /></a>the part that eats the bugs<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGSsBDrs2ywmvIeY8JG_Fe68yDxOhi1OzOwHQzquXN64urytsWdVuCrnNwH6MY888GcXxWb5_UlEmwTk0yOlxH3NEYGlB6OEM22WGvEKf13cI53whHTdJP2DqiLMm4MRqe9Jp2DKIDrzgT/s1600/IMG_4523.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGSsBDrs2ywmvIeY8JG_Fe68yDxOhi1OzOwHQzquXN64urytsWdVuCrnNwH6MY888GcXxWb5_UlEmwTk0yOlxH3NEYGlB6OEM22WGvEKf13cI53whHTdJP2DqiLMm4MRqe9Jp2DKIDrzgT/s400/IMG_4523.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499148385700152482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiw-jQELhleGZ4ETP6KF8K65n-PInZAUWQs1AUNE2EwZuvGadjQFX_n4ptJ0u8vi3Jt5Y7phVolBukOF0bEoT7tk8bzUp9YOAQdsQWhpXNAmO1CgBf8zFG6_j4Rty-IVXk20HyikTMKBIV/s1600/IMG_4526.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP2zlm4X60fYNsYDg4tsBzWKhZZmWot4QmmzpwO-ZiQvG7THRg9-xLhhmYw7wpRkAQ1ylrEWPbM7fALO-DHnQRAzW2qs_aqmoZcEJF6_ZHOobrByvINISAMO13dlQo1j_qXmnBMlHZ-P4o/s400/IMG_4540.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499147371666220834" border="0" /></a>butterflies!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk7RK92ZVeH1iZePklqRWbdNq071-4wMFH63G-Fq3JLexqKcWfkIpDJJoVBP7Llx77CPxuoWJ8FP_pEoSr2RtxoLzjf6nHDcWjOj3MgpDJs91wPXFrenALCfKmwmwUQqByH9JercfscfEN/s1600/IMG_4541.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk7RK92ZVeH1iZePklqRWbdNq071-4wMFH63G-Fq3JLexqKcWfkIpDJJoVBP7Llx77CPxuoWJ8FP_pEoSr2RtxoLzjf6nHDcWjOj3MgpDJs91wPXFrenALCfKmwmwUQqByH9JercfscfEN/s400/IMG_4541.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499147361167817890" border="0" /></a>about 3-4in. high<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NDOf4FHQ1UxtKKcEc162fEW8IwYyhLZmhrvOcDg1Trtn9txBmDc8MJ4wlMDse4WyR4375UdpOkaAfTQTq6c8utLd8P0cfaYgb0rj0-ibWjzppjabrvVSony6aLLpaDOn3l4xeX9dmkBX/s1600/IMG_4548.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NDOf4FHQ1UxtKKcEc162fEW8IwYyhLZmhrvOcDg1Trtn9txBmDc8MJ4wlMDse4WyR4375UdpOkaAfTQTq6c8utLd8P0cfaYgb0rj0-ibWjzppjabrvVSony6aLLpaDOn3l4xeX9dmkBX/s400/IMG_4548.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499147354211455106" border="0" /></a>we climbed on a random boulder in the Monongahela. And I did it in a skirt.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiR1XfsBAXeVIuHEtjWZmHCz-CHJsV9IvRBlYvYsCUo_zw9Qvj7ien57s4EvB66U1bqtE2v-O-SYBlnWuf07UCKR1IAw8eyPcEJBG1Uw9nO8SBYq87QbkgbwHGHr6QoSSGofqYScrHAjS/s1600/IMG_4559.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtiR1XfsBAXeVIuHEtjWZmHCz-CHJsV9IvRBlYvYsCUo_zw9Qvj7ien57s4EvB66U1bqtE2v-O-SYBlnWuf07UCKR1IAw8eyPcEJBG1Uw9nO8SBYq87QbkgbwHGHr6QoSSGofqYScrHAjS/s400/IMG_4559.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499147349685230370" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OupYgwCMnTaHvbxuzqi_Effrj6Fcc4BdrvqnjWn2k-m0gv0AKtEgxAx2xQxtMePaYN_3XnP1UNZU8nPNplA-qAiVTgqFTsDoqMESykcMkcfxFQcA7jFXh4DJ4q_flbKPVMfZtKCSY_FR/s1600/IMG_4574.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OupYgwCMnTaHvbxuzqi_Effrj6Fcc4BdrvqnjWn2k-m0gv0AKtEgxAx2xQxtMePaYN_3XnP1UNZU8nPNplA-qAiVTgqFTsDoqMESykcMkcfxFQcA7jFXh4DJ4q_flbKPVMfZtKCSY_FR/s400/IMG_4574.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499146829767907922" border="0" /></a>how the garden looks today: cantaloupes: thriving<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2o2DHFVkA36AcMphWTqG2NfkszXtsQym7p9A8vQZxcAET3tqY_cX7PfKYgoifc24EzjN5vOnW5VP-ikeSfRvzt5E2YCbq6r6mMMb9DS_Ms7KbaW1oBgHEZi5tp4agxzHP5n3g-aluUKC/s1600/IMG_4575.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx2o2DHFVkA36AcMphWTqG2NfkszXtsQym7p9A8vQZxcAET3tqY_cX7PfKYgoifc24EzjN5vOnW5VP-ikeSfRvzt5E2YCbq6r6mMMb9DS_Ms7KbaW1oBgHEZi5tp4agxzHP5n3g-aluUKC/s400/IMG_4575.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499146809413874482" border="0" /></a>giant pumpkins: dead<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGiUqxy4iRW6i83851OGoCfl_fajsMNuZeDgor10gilxLBWOHb3xSeRr0MPzMMMuFDwRavqj63jyzQR7iUs3ZmLkAS1O7MfcpyCDmh68uRQHkTmJBmGFIOwSAAAgOyxBUg8MFRicN99Jw/s1600/IMG_4577.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_m6l2sNIZj4IG9I4Fi7b0WkITSHAC4ofUoqoekSt53S7rJhr51tAzIk-_K65ldH9vKZu0M01hAfr5NHGay8YdqxBwju7hsGLwp5VOWFSBtZMjvWvl8SlXf1g9u2-VTQYzv-ITrn_kXUE/s400/IMG_4579.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499146781577750834" border="0" /></a>the best part of Thurmond (out of order, but I couldn't move the video to its rightful spot)<br /><br /> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_m6l2sNIZj4IG9I4Fi7b0WkITSHAC4ofUoqoekSt53S7rJhr51tAzIk-_K65ldH9vKZu0M01hAfr5NHGay8YdqxBwju7hsGLwp5VOWFSBtZMjvWvl8SlXf1g9u2-VTQYzv-ITrn_kXUE/s1600/IMG_4579.JPG"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxvsIIlQQCw-I7ViCBrhw6uIxHLo2HKeorZsH1hIix1vOTS25E4sA64dtaboh8UI46PmYddR9yEKVp4NBvWSg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></a><br /><br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-375171101705221302010-07-11T19:02:00.001-07:002010-07-11T19:18:16.047-07:00more gardeningsome more garden pictures! This first set is a few weeks old.<br />Here's some corn. Newer planted in the front, older in the back.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZuvLnsnGzbCpHLaEUnlnwWlmuQ0jm9lkeriqyQzS4ixAbIJnqUJouNe6oyVaj70vJ4Idyndq8yKMAqODyYYZebqu1S6_UQE6U3uQ6QJ2yoM8-BNz_bHMlJi4ye4Uo2x6hsl-ngGARApd/s1600/IMG_4407.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZuvLnsnGzbCpHLaEUnlnwWlmuQ0jm9lkeriqyQzS4ixAbIJnqUJouNe6oyVaj70vJ4Idyndq8yKMAqODyYYZebqu1S6_UQE6U3uQ6QJ2yoM8-BNz_bHMlJi4ye4Uo2x6hsl-ngGARApd/s400/IMG_4407.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492835729348263634" border="0" />and the pumpkins looking good</a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYYn1X3yVgX0UEq1OyK0vmOdxyuk1ZKXXTIyIKC8r5g0BRHA_kD-nbWriy15PVaBePtXePyk3jru6EZt-ZgEw-3_VtxfAJdN8QUamgllmkva0COPPi_c4H7gThH-in1HVXz463cvW75fDk/s1600/IMG_4403.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYYn1X3yVgX0UEq1OyK0vmOdxyuk1ZKXXTIyIKC8r5g0BRHA_kD-nbWriy15PVaBePtXePyk3jru6EZt-ZgEw-3_VtxfAJdN8QUamgllmkva0COPPi_c4H7gThH-in1HVXz463cvW75fDk/s400/IMG_4403.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492835732433263506" border="0" /></a>some of the corn is growing really well!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFXpcAjcyep5Zl01P0nzhBuIIxVHnUQkC7aKcCov03Ny1Zo6lFP72HCQuDiO1Z-_9aPXRNhezomsXMB6aNcYrAucs-epBQvSkq27sUCWfD9yjSDU2Ss9wIfimyU5cq8NyTpBP0kA0BsNg/s1600/IMG_4408.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFXpcAjcyep5Zl01P0nzhBuIIxVHnUQkC7aKcCov03Ny1Zo6lFP72HCQuDiO1Z-_9aPXRNhezomsXMB6aNcYrAucs-epBQvSkq27sUCWfD9yjSDU2Ss9wIfimyU5cq8NyTpBP0kA0BsNg/s400/IMG_4408.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492835715987473778" border="0" /></a>but the garlic is not. Sorry garlic. I planted you wrong, so nothing will come of you.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_6eyffkBurL-7245LgLYNdV-eqAVJUXGZF8vRuZwIvGNfo2H_Ghp6yZuSeF6ZMKYm6vjC9EGTm8qLeK9Idv5oyDcMQQt_-VHyQlgBaej6ozxQf3KnuRU1gsuI4r60FRm6CG1unq0dpGv/s1600/IMG_4409.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_6eyffkBurL-7245LgLYNdV-eqAVJUXGZF8vRuZwIvGNfo2H_Ghp6yZuSeF6ZMKYm6vjC9EGTm8qLeK9Idv5oyDcMQQt_-VHyQlgBaej6ozxQf3KnuRU1gsuI4r60FRm6CG1unq0dpGv/s400/IMG_4409.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492835713999913410" border="0" /></a>Just last week, we took a short trip to Boone, NC. Unfortunately, I suck at taking pictures as proof. Here's the only one. That's Kyle and Timmy (who are from Boone) on a V4. It was cool to see people I know from the New, somewhere other than the New.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbI2t4mdEpw7ErYWhpSkFJ394AuRIS0jIY61hMHG2OsYlDVYmAc46qKIEUU3MSB5upewQY27alqkAfenmtjL8MWQ3EYB1auRHFGqq9PvQ-HrlNFGeWlYE_hGPP2PinrQjrn-YhMZR5AYRc/s1600/IMG_4444.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbI2t4mdEpw7ErYWhpSkFJ394AuRIS0jIY61hMHG2OsYlDVYmAc46qKIEUU3MSB5upewQY27alqkAfenmtjL8MWQ3EYB1auRHFGqq9PvQ-HrlNFGeWlYE_hGPP2PinrQjrn-YhMZR5AYRc/s400/IMG_4444.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492835701678094050" border="0" /></a>okay, pictures from today! Here's some of Micah's cantaloupe! It's still not quite as big as the pumpkins from the previous set of pictures.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOSl85FI7EscTixziCo1O9A5qviZPIeuz3GjfulUHQfKhzgmyDXINP6Gt8S1lL2aPjMgmdbem2jTmA5wW89vb98L7uFWx9dxMk2MO3Ws025jsdcLVaMje4x2ADlIPA1zdstRivuPgn-wy/s1600/IMG_4449.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOSl85FI7EscTixziCo1O9A5qviZPIeuz3GjfulUHQfKhzgmyDXINP6Gt8S1lL2aPjMgmdbem2jTmA5wW89vb98L7uFWx9dxMk2MO3Ws025jsdcLVaMje4x2ADlIPA1zdstRivuPgn-wy/s400/IMG_4449.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492834940961001698" border="0" /></a>the corn's still doing really well.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqt_-QHGBwNQnX-iIaZCa90Twhqhb8X-qraNDLVjuV5novO_6DTfy-m20b9bSlvRHqdE9pi_jTJ2flAO-1xmFi3k1j6UM0wQP4L-IXR42bhy3XGsDSfgKReUrZ1BNJlzoPgYKG0FBlDoO7/s1600/IMG_4450.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqt_-QHGBwNQnX-iIaZCa90Twhqhb8X-qraNDLVjuV5novO_6DTfy-m20b9bSlvRHqdE9pi_jTJ2flAO-1xmFi3k1j6UM0wQP4L-IXR42bhy3XGsDSfgKReUrZ1BNJlzoPgYKG0FBlDoO7/s400/IMG_4450.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492834932946920178" border="0" /></a>see! Waist high by the 11th of July. It's doing better than knee high by the 4th of July.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHBR0FgMKZoJ9XQxji7kpqzdIIzr2MwRSQTRFwj-55Axy9_ZKYhCZnFegAKo2Sy-qdfxROPORV6HwvtUEdxvi5Qo9ToyS8UL4jgtCNbqRe9Swuse11qCMKBPS2XMQioO2LxpflgFOmlEv/s1600/IMG_4451.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHBR0FgMKZoJ9XQxji7kpqzdIIzr2MwRSQTRFwj-55Axy9_ZKYhCZnFegAKo2Sy-qdfxROPORV6HwvtUEdxvi5Qo9ToyS8UL4jgtCNbqRe9Swuse11qCMKBPS2XMQioO2LxpflgFOmlEv/s400/IMG_4451.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492834924178107746" border="0" /></a>The pumpkins haven't been growing. A deer started eating them. I put up a fence, but I still thought they were goners. Turns out they were just using their energy to make flowers?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABHrji6kqDEgMBbAd9KVJZNIggYLNYS1G158tMRMVYVAfeqUeKEvtCmKSLNG4bEjRji27rdmr1MUfYhev4f-m1bZOXHYUrfLidPwnHseWz6Xam_3BDjioJCIA1wfKwSCD_UM8TpvGMT6w/s1600/IMG_4452.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjABHrji6kqDEgMBbAd9KVJZNIggYLNYS1G158tMRMVYVAfeqUeKEvtCmKSLNG4bEjRji27rdmr1MUfYhev4f-m1bZOXHYUrfLidPwnHseWz6Xam_3BDjioJCIA1wfKwSCD_UM8TpvGMT6w/s400/IMG_4452.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492834911947983506" border="0" /></a>One of my fingers started swelling up while I was weeding. I have no idea why (but the hypochondriac in me was guessing black widow bite). It's done swelling now. I guess I'm allergic to a weed?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDPQoy1i7MXT528c4-petjD3ALOiQnUz8Vxxvv_TLDFn56-qa3Wk1Z1aEHf8akOCMXJYwnhZunnSoSohyphenhyphen9O13pep2v9di1To0zPJ6jbDZjl_Xp5zbcQj8cd4qZYxxlkfDw95Lc8law0RRe/s1600/IMG_4453.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDPQoy1i7MXT528c4-petjD3ALOiQnUz8Vxxvv_TLDFn56-qa3Wk1Z1aEHf8akOCMXJYwnhZunnSoSohyphenhyphen9O13pep2v9di1To0zPJ6jbDZjl_Xp5zbcQj8cd4qZYxxlkfDw95Lc8law0RRe/s400/IMG_4453.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492834903232040578" border="0" /></a>Right now Colin is visiting! He's my second visitor since last winter (Rick, Jan, and Sayre came a month or so ago). Be my 3rd!<br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-72317870781646683132010-06-02T19:57:00.000-07:002010-06-02T20:06:44.426-07:00gardeningnot too much to update. Moved out of the cabin and back to Roger's. Weather's been much nicer (when it's not raining). I'm not climbing very strong, but I'm having a good time when I go out and I've been more motivated lately. I'm working 3 days a week, which seems too often for me. But most important is my garden. I'm super psyched to garden. Today I was out there in the 85 degree sun at 2. That's how psyched I am on it. Here's a couple pictures.<br />I have corn:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPligENwvKQrXVr0lveg2hetcJUyTd0yTkmkSVgPBVMUiKd_YrwBICHnCoVN1TGb9RfJ-JNoYfQ-6LVslwJSBN_i_PLFVDjFCfDTI7yHVwmnVXr9rwaMNu8eVg3B_8uo-DwcMPkYnM3oQ0/s1600/IMG_4398.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPligENwvKQrXVr0lveg2hetcJUyTd0yTkmkSVgPBVMUiKd_YrwBICHnCoVN1TGb9RfJ-JNoYfQ-6LVslwJSBN_i_PLFVDjFCfDTI7yHVwmnVXr9rwaMNu8eVg3B_8uo-DwcMPkYnM3oQ0/s400/IMG_4398.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478377575076675954" border="0" /></a><br />giant pumpkins:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiph-zt-Sr74uACXEHQ5-_QHmxT-G8YAvqeKqkJnCjn_XPQ_NNWoSl30Xt4wxMGIy8XzX0p_VZXsYXciPeJtKWHTVe7dBSTt2g9EkKB82DCGoUJQC7yTc_5jQuuajNc1jbp4fZtELsJGdUZ/s1600/IMG_4400.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiph-zt-Sr74uACXEHQ5-_QHmxT-G8YAvqeKqkJnCjn_XPQ_NNWoSl30Xt4wxMGIy8XzX0p_VZXsYXciPeJtKWHTVe7dBSTt2g9EkKB82DCGoUJQC7yTc_5jQuuajNc1jbp4fZtELsJGdUZ/s400/IMG_4400.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478377565666910498" border="0" /></a><br />and garlic:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9QsIlVFeMuQZDrbjA3sLI1UqHS2R3qoBEgDlJwasqyVzTczJ-x84xjXmsosPGKyvlX4qR3cqeC_mDWIkMYWRs53YeQ0BTNAYK3mApGkfUVbvAnXZq-xas2yuOyeSmDJ4PjDwHCofVOsE/s1600/IMG_4396.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9QsIlVFeMuQZDrbjA3sLI1UqHS2R3qoBEgDlJwasqyVzTczJ-x84xjXmsosPGKyvlX4qR3cqeC_mDWIkMYWRs53YeQ0BTNAYK3mApGkfUVbvAnXZq-xas2yuOyeSmDJ4PjDwHCofVOsE/s400/IMG_4396.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478377556426506786" border="0" /></a><br /><br />also Micah and I went to the Monongahela (national forest) yesterday and saw a(nother) baby bear. And (again) I didn't get a picture of it (sorry Jay).<br /><br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-9023769744600379122010-03-24T10:28:00.000-07:002010-03-24T11:00:10.155-07:00Ahh, now that's more like it!Finally, spring has come! At least, in the Southwest.<br /><br />Joshua Tree!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjTxSNwEQsEOu7xJoo5K5awNL2ecUuWoovAh9WRfU8SZNCaDa8D_M7czdSmyJTVK3CKf9mm2YO2o9hXYR6tysqiXcVXbq7tBIkZokyb0Zc_JpWIdqDVcU8NR0mOYeKFNgIYBNniG-YN60/s1600/IMG_4363.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3GdEGDXxSnULfTgZgqEOGU9562E1szwBxv3z4QkzVQSgQANZXJ30I-sZs1akIXJ-sBne7KSq8CrxwTbUpokchj_maCwruoGIDvqS-wh6oIxwAvu4DBs0tfrQrx-Tv7h_jiuahuNTcovU/s1600/IMG_4348.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy3GdEGDXxSnULfTgZgqEOGU9562E1szwBxv3z4QkzVQSgQANZXJ30I-sZs1akIXJ-sBne7KSq8CrxwTbUpokchj_maCwruoGIDvqS-wh6oIxwAvu4DBs0tfrQrx-Tv7h_jiuahuNTcovU/s400/IMG_4348.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452258604108776642" border="0" /></a><br />Key's View at JTree<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjTxSNwEQsEOu7xJoo5K5awNL2ecUuWoovAh9WRfU8SZNCaDa8D_M7czdSmyJTVK3CKf9mm2YO2o9hXYR6tysqiXcVXbq7tBIkZokyb0Zc_JpWIdqDVcU8NR0mOYeKFNgIYBNniG-YN60/s1600/IMG_4363.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjTxSNwEQsEOu7xJoo5K5awNL2ecUuWoovAh9WRfU8SZNCaDa8D_M7czdSmyJTVK3CKf9mm2YO2o9hXYR6tysqiXcVXbq7tBIkZokyb0Zc_JpWIdqDVcU8NR0mOYeKFNgIYBNniG-YN60/s400/IMG_4363.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452258881995811330" border="0" /></a><br />the first of many wildflower pictures for Grandma!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTL-OyaI9WAZEU5QpgpXwag1VLVVGbeloJE_sYRp3yVDCuv_-VWy9EYmTgQ9FCe8fIlz6rtAbXoJ9MPzkq_kxXO7mVFNK4Ye2rwxWMfXqfYYL-Y6VbitS3aX42XiWmzRFy-WHudDImzCg/s1600/IMG_4335.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTL-OyaI9WAZEU5QpgpXwag1VLVVGbeloJE_sYRp3yVDCuv_-VWy9EYmTgQ9FCe8fIlz6rtAbXoJ9MPzkq_kxXO7mVFNK4Ye2rwxWMfXqfYYL-Y6VbitS3aX42XiWmzRFy-WHudDImzCg/s400/IMG_4335.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452258600736460050" border="0" /></a><br />Kelso Dunes in the Mojave Desert National Park<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6tRW1daiWHCJ4lfYAiDdf60O_twNisAn0e5vdBm5OxU23-P-O9k9ZCqsTrOsAn_caxaMUgTTfsSaa-2uzTADIR-uyfPdPYoXSvcgxFn9Be6v-7B87DMv37JMT59bgE6RRHhyphenhyphenU6Mq94vAw/s1600/IMG_4331.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6tRW1daiWHCJ4lfYAiDdf60O_twNisAn0e5vdBm5OxU23-P-O9k9ZCqsTrOsAn_caxaMUgTTfsSaa-2uzTADIR-uyfPdPYoXSvcgxFn9Be6v-7B87DMv37JMT59bgE6RRHhyphenhyphenU6Mq94vAw/s400/IMG_4331.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452258592846502162" border="0" /></a><br />Some dessication cracks in a dry lakebed (there was SOME water) also in the Mojave<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ScvnRCTQii3fl33lpdKAn8nApzAv1d2DW_A-We1YR6DZK34TUH4z-KmBD-scNoFqEaVIIn_mXOhsiSTlI87FQQlL-1bz2XB7_9H50oABB1D1FaalYbcignuvbM3_LBYW_MR7MNCfNAeO/s1600/IMG_4329.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9ScvnRCTQii3fl33lpdKAn8nApzAv1d2DW_A-We1YR6DZK34TUH4z-KmBD-scNoFqEaVIIn_mXOhsiSTlI87FQQlL-1bz2XB7_9H50oABB1D1FaalYbcignuvbM3_LBYW_MR7MNCfNAeO/s400/IMG_4329.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452258584329327474" border="0" /></a><br />I can even identify this flower. It's a wild poppy!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZdpqlbk45hH8Z_b-G6RREHDUOPtQ4Xppo3oqZ1_a8QabsaunwDEoaJSsLKoYlDCB5HPIiCWKmomdnj8Xd63iPqW4G050uBN3fiKaDo8dwyVrohb94M7XuHbazxQVNzQ8YeP6nGLU5_ok/s1600/IMG_4322.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBZdpqlbk45hH8Z_b-G6RREHDUOPtQ4Xppo3oqZ1_a8QabsaunwDEoaJSsLKoYlDCB5HPIiCWKmomdnj8Xd63iPqW4G050uBN3fiKaDo8dwyVrohb94M7XuHbazxQVNzQ8YeP6nGLU5_ok/s400/IMG_4322.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452258578138320402" border="0" /></a>This is Ephedra, it's more powerful than caffeine if you make it into a tea. It's starting to bloom<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2Xd5f7unq7IkAc_8q8BJ57BUQhBYsw4qA5bO9RndNeHjEIT6MqpTOSVXF0bPRcYwqoIGV0fzl9VYQlnkiEPbU4RyqY9VEAo1EI6F9tA0DUVyx-2Gku_FYJe6rl7qPgGCvNloevUQBO-T/s1600/IMG_4320.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP2Xd5f7unq7IkAc_8q8BJ57BUQhBYsw4qA5bO9RndNeHjEIT6MqpTOSVXF0bPRcYwqoIGV0fzl9VYQlnkiEPbU4RyqY9VEAo1EI6F9tA0DUVyx-2Gku_FYJe6rl7qPgGCvNloevUQBO-T/s400/IMG_4320.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452257686095450386" border="0" /></a><br />A Saguaro that must have been blocking the trail<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9vqyhdbTUj3IXrpqWEnQwxwFE4UqfTkJ1q3m1ep1z5b05RkmDyw3LnVfCRxhi1Mbz39eITqyaGcHo7H6axp_k1j4aQYCKYJdrMVPjLSWUdrFl3OoCPxPImeYeyeG8VRlmRMCc7_Toe2I/s1600/IMG_4318.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9vqyhdbTUj3IXrpqWEnQwxwFE4UqfTkJ1q3m1ep1z5b05RkmDyw3LnVfCRxhi1Mbz39eITqyaGcHo7H6axp_k1j4aQYCKYJdrMVPjLSWUdrFl3OoCPxPImeYeyeG8VRlmRMCc7_Toe2I/s400/IMG_4318.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452257683036047586" border="0" /></a>a close up, cool, huh?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKG2VdvJYAdzZ5Ck8EqyZCsVblI-l_SdC2PlrXyBJ0osQXBaP5WapGNTuNrSe91wXQqkClpQC94BpXLOmocmZF02JUQ4P2KXyHvwGsjaoUO830Q12GCwA74GKw5tlDlXBfS_QA4jIB6TX/s1600/IMG_4317.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKG2VdvJYAdzZ5Ck8EqyZCsVblI-l_SdC2PlrXyBJ0osQXBaP5WapGNTuNrSe91wXQqkClpQC94BpXLOmocmZF02JUQ4P2KXyHvwGsjaoUO830Q12GCwA74GKw5tlDlXBfS_QA4jIB6TX/s400/IMG_4317.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452257673651502482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbMJmG3g0ZXuN0MA1623yeHvbE1Y_CqJ6zDnmgZlm-bwz3kZD8hXMiIBoLXinVoSu1E0AFn0DLDIwEYTQTtdGC3c0k2kOmhNhcwBzfcnkRU5zqJKJkVSdl6SFO4BqLGB5C-Gb14vCsCzP/s1600/IMG_4314.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbMJmG3g0ZXuN0MA1623yeHvbE1Y_CqJ6zDnmgZlm-bwz3kZD8hXMiIBoLXinVoSu1E0AFn0DLDIwEYTQTtdGC3c0k2kOmhNhcwBzfcnkRU5zqJKJkVSdl6SFO4BqLGB5C-Gb14vCsCzP/s400/IMG_4314.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452257666309991090" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8z0HH8qoZfANVV3R1T-yO_st1d8Y2fG7OaI6zm8ydeZa2pHbmzXKt-gv0yIZNipBXc6_jkIpTxmB5h9V2k7eBgusZJtq2tzF-23NOO_r0gFlKoy5y1OOAE3iOb6shGwsWBelHsR-r8ps/s1600/IMG_4313.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8z0HH8qoZfANVV3R1T-yO_st1d8Y2fG7OaI6zm8ydeZa2pHbmzXKt-gv0yIZNipBXc6_jkIpTxmB5h9V2k7eBgusZJtq2tzF-23NOO_r0gFlKoy5y1OOAE3iOb6shGwsWBelHsR-r8ps/s400/IMG_4313.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452257655490079122" border="0" /></a>close up of another Saguaro<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkFoi4u8TueDt3Q2iw5GzVBEJONNYy3F3hhHcgowSWTBfFBMRoo5VJpmWxVdp6UDuHDsAXlPBAGVDF0Nl7kCn4wMWhzNAbu_MuxBNLwRTWg7z0HWpoF1xtpZsxiBJ82FX8WvtuDrijaKAH/s1600/IMG_4311.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkFoi4u8TueDt3Q2iw5GzVBEJONNYy3F3hhHcgowSWTBfFBMRoo5VJpmWxVdp6UDuHDsAXlPBAGVDF0Nl7kCn4wMWhzNAbu_MuxBNLwRTWg7z0HWpoF1xtpZsxiBJ82FX8WvtuDrijaKAH/s400/IMG_4311.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256730519646994" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk51NvMZwpCwDxznROfJvsV-Jl2Ca3j7X2PocbSdH80f2FtVyLnfM4u5STUlgDtHm7VNSY7DNTdUwCbG5a6B1KkwXnz4mea6y8sCvQwRRGKKeVsBHCSbIzsn_MBSxcelKUoHSWlQ_xP8AY/s1600/IMG_4310.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk51NvMZwpCwDxznROfJvsV-Jl2Ca3j7X2PocbSdH80f2FtVyLnfM4u5STUlgDtHm7VNSY7DNTdUwCbG5a6B1KkwXnz4mea6y8sCvQwRRGKKeVsBHCSbIzsn_MBSxcelKUoHSWlQ_xP8AY/s400/IMG_4310.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256717118242018" border="0" /></a>rainbow rocks!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ffMfDWk-vhv7ldSUAGGU1lxllJqrCGH1D_IyWjbVKttHTZH9QIzrr0Veb3nl6sGeoOCXtoqEF9KtTy9whdQKV-djduDx542bYNk1BIDokuHssBGYhjv-99jFBohoCuj_XP3CVjY-2L7P/s1600/IMG_4307.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ffMfDWk-vhv7ldSUAGGU1lxllJqrCGH1D_IyWjbVKttHTZH9QIzrr0Veb3nl6sGeoOCXtoqEF9KtTy9whdQKV-djduDx542bYNk1BIDokuHssBGYhjv-99jFBohoCuj_XP3CVjY-2L7P/s400/IMG_4307.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256706893585170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprNwLxeu5_SNpCvnE1nvtrcfIMaFciKjIgtUz0CpSergR37LLN3HAuO_W7rHbWfP5JO-UFjvo9HXnHPCsBzXlJjoQuYW3x1b39AzOdBCUBhR-B5jysw9gawarmVaJVsZ6o0RfKc5p0dhY/s1600/IMG_4300.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprNwLxeu5_SNpCvnE1nvtrcfIMaFciKjIgtUz0CpSergR37LLN3HAuO_W7rHbWfP5JO-UFjvo9HXnHPCsBzXlJjoQuYW3x1b39AzOdBCUBhR-B5jysw9gawarmVaJVsZ6o0RfKc5p0dhY/s400/IMG_4300.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256692417310962" border="0" /></a>Camping with the WOODSians! Kelsey, Sarahbeth, Lydia, and Harper from left to right. Stephanie joined us later.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_e1doIEAxA6JXfrueq7UiWkREcBKXMboUtR38UwotNsDvemA-3COuHED69xzYXd9JG4Kaj2j5DjEUm8tBrmv2ERM8s1nMFuR0I_CH9xz3G0dZEd9rZJPATU_HGr4vd9Jbanz_nsiI9lHa/s1600/IMG_4296.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_e1doIEAxA6JXfrueq7UiWkREcBKXMboUtR38UwotNsDvemA-3COuHED69xzYXd9JG4Kaj2j5DjEUm8tBrmv2ERM8s1nMFuR0I_CH9xz3G0dZEd9rZJPATU_HGr4vd9Jbanz_nsiI9lHa/s400/IMG_4296.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452256681861250418" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3EBia10Zo7jfonH2vOjWXbVLU1sZczYeM3hS8DHKWy5Ik131bD7xZlkhm_pE0jtLCStaWCOUGhdDl0xfxlglpH8v1VMi8olCMdSivekj8a3EJxS1eEd0tSUrwTalVCeRzC1yCLiHaiVg/s1600/IMG_4295.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3EBia10Zo7jfonH2vOjWXbVLU1sZczYeM3hS8DHKWy5Ik131bD7xZlkhm_pE0jtLCStaWCOUGhdDl0xfxlglpH8v1VMi8olCMdSivekj8a3EJxS1eEd0tSUrwTalVCeRzC1yCLiHaiVg/s400/IMG_4295.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452255780109014130" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjGCvW7_eaJ3I5h-vFCfBokGSHnzg9Jvi5rQpHn7KhQ04fx_AynuOE987zUAC0DW5YnHoGeN3ImYqvTwzDqtnGyl_Xz0_GseZEMUf6WBhGhTDYsH-CALPka0y3P3IVeRjZNlMAiQuhBpD/s1600/IMG_4293.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAjGCvW7_eaJ3I5h-vFCfBokGSHnzg9Jvi5rQpHn7KhQ04fx_AynuOE987zUAC0DW5YnHoGeN3ImYqvTwzDqtnGyl_Xz0_GseZEMUf6WBhGhTDYsH-CALPka0y3P3IVeRjZNlMAiQuhBpD/s400/IMG_4293.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452255769927079666" border="0" /></a>this is Phoenix, believe it or not. It was greener than WV is now!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEArk4QU66s13URstFLidQ4tMGZEu7aH9yvV5XUyRDbYokxyOqsRCKw_yk5M43BXXzVnQgW9RtDYjpyObcMQAxaFfADkQAI032pHPvOFjkgPgW7QZ_R-C2Jl_jB9XkpqgHkvHhjol0eih/s1600/IMG_4288.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSEArk4QU66s13URstFLidQ4tMGZEu7aH9yvV5XUyRDbYokxyOqsRCKw_yk5M43BXXzVnQgW9RtDYjpyObcMQAxaFfADkQAI032pHPvOFjkgPgW7QZ_R-C2Jl_jB9XkpqgHkvHhjol0eih/s400/IMG_4288.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452255763269540786" border="0" /></a>Slide Rock State Park, near Sedona, AZ. It's a natural waterslide!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBkHwrW7aV2RetlD-xOfYLYievjGzb4H6l28Q3W70hKaYX4vfMEh5z9joew88vONyvRxiEXS4RLQvwncR8nnc_ekI_nH_YabesNhP07BBtyZaqWXZpehrAFERUookJpPV4ZY49IBAqmkY2/s1600/IMG_4284.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBkHwrW7aV2RetlD-xOfYLYievjGzb4H6l28Q3W70hKaYX4vfMEh5z9joew88vONyvRxiEXS4RLQvwncR8nnc_ekI_nH_YabesNhP07BBtyZaqWXZpehrAFERUookJpPV4ZY49IBAqmkY2/s400/IMG_4284.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452255747910730130" border="0" /></a>Petrified Forest/Painted Desert National Park. Here's some petrified wood in the painted desert<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinN8rcVV6fbmc8hY-rWkZN2INYf60lIOTcPH83JTDJdjB7xsiFSHCweluMmC_IukLDch8I7YcfVApv5zymPaTfeynQiHuRd_Ndonf7ztL8rD79fei3wtxoEgx8-HPZjhh5qvJLwpWI7GI0/s1600/IMG_4278.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinN8rcVV6fbmc8hY-rWkZN2INYf60lIOTcPH83JTDJdjB7xsiFSHCweluMmC_IukLDch8I7YcfVApv5zymPaTfeynQiHuRd_Ndonf7ztL8rD79fei3wtxoEgx8-HPZjhh5qvJLwpWI7GI0/s400/IMG_4278.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452255746272091314" border="0" /></a><br />Hopefully the weather will start being just as nice here as it was there! It is getting a lot better!!<br /><br />Come visit me,<br />StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-17627010710511636342010-02-12T13:51:00.000-08:002010-02-17T11:58:40.309-08:00only a couple picturesMicah and I decided to chase the warmth down in North Carolina last weekend. It was warmer, and we got one nice day in, but we guessed wrong with our first destination. They had had an ice storm the day before. It made for some interesting hiking. It still snows here everyday. Today, I had to get my car out of our neighborhood to run errands and stuff. It took an hour, Micah pushing, and I broke one of my snow chains in the process. When I tried chains out on my car first, in the desert (sunny, 65 degrees), it didn't occur to me how hard it would be to put them in the snow. You have to fully lay down in the snow, the chains are cold metal, and you can't use gloves, because they require fine motor control. Damn. I'm looking forward to the desert in March!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQT_rcwdOvYKCYbMPmh8RgffJBWKS9j58HaikUFeUNrhx4yOjIdHDrkxBEHdnaaw7bx4SqW6z5EnxjCGs1achO9GHBHsfP5BLaKYllnocedL8zjuJeMdRnS0za4RDnYkQi3em4cTnSNEX/s1600-h/IMG_4244.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQT_rcwdOvYKCYbMPmh8RgffJBWKS9j58HaikUFeUNrhx4yOjIdHDrkxBEHdnaaw7bx4SqW6z5EnxjCGs1achO9GHBHsfP5BLaKYllnocedL8zjuJeMdRnS0za4RDnYkQi3em4cTnSNEX/s400/IMG_4244.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439302554638552242" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7QBU3WBjXfwxnIRD1vXBeYYmTqFe77bIvsbW4dnTs1wLiwnIq7fm1UiTmo5yB8J-sffO7rIH1rP08n6aTJlzaHnWqFxdHGm5CdAu3HI_EOvsIb1-SE63wADMRrhZCKHMOf_qKcNB5oFJd/s1600-h/IMG_4247.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7QBU3WBjXfwxnIRD1vXBeYYmTqFe77bIvsbW4dnTs1wLiwnIq7fm1UiTmo5yB8J-sffO7rIH1rP08n6aTJlzaHnWqFxdHGm5CdAu3HI_EOvsIb1-SE63wADMRrhZCKHMOf_qKcNB5oFJd/s400/IMG_4247.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439302797398001810" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKv_uCgrmzM0PSt1hkCebPHDBWSC4hvV9tqgkKqoFyqkFoUCq9EGu9VGYVCUbCA8aHkb857obHmUin6ZxDBtPgHuuQhvy6Hs6DOUKYNiB9lFoy49Q9xSfMsm2H_hWo_T-Cswj-KkCNoj5e/s1600-h/IMG_4240.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKv_uCgrmzM0PSt1hkCebPHDBWSC4hvV9tqgkKqoFyqkFoUCq9EGu9VGYVCUbCA8aHkb857obHmUin6ZxDBtPgHuuQhvy6Hs6DOUKYNiB9lFoy49Q9xSfMsm2H_hWo_T-Cswj-KkCNoj5e/s400/IMG_4240.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439302549874718370" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaN_bqyzE6Qky6ziyv4MHOMAhAKi-Nf2OW5iDYd8ppFTlAA0xYWrYoukekVEMAyMB3JoTdWZjOYQuk7k_xtZWyl5LPLp18m1ChMA7GdaC__Q78WvP55y53MfBBPRRpW4nkKwsEeHHhWk-j/s1600-h/IMG_4239.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaN_bqyzE6Qky6ziyv4MHOMAhAKi-Nf2OW5iDYd8ppFTlAA0xYWrYoukekVEMAyMB3JoTdWZjOYQuk7k_xtZWyl5LPLp18m1ChMA7GdaC__Q78WvP55y53MfBBPRRpW4nkKwsEeHHhWk-j/s400/IMG_4239.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439302540097049570" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdsrEH8tk3tBbJjSsAxTz5MHSP-LJdoNtshqywGAzKaH53zH1PhfJwHaBllDqD1HT-SvfWL0bqwr2VShUvU2kBOYaQPa0ImOCHsgWbj17jUSVVm2M8EX2daUF9S_eSBapSQ_EJXEJ_bIq/s1600-h/IMG_4238.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkdsrEH8tk3tBbJjSsAxTz5MHSP-LJdoNtshqywGAzKaH53zH1PhfJwHaBllDqD1HT-SvfWL0bqwr2VShUvU2kBOYaQPa0ImOCHsgWbj17jUSVVm2M8EX2daUF9S_eSBapSQ_EJXEJ_bIq/s400/IMG_4238.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439302531493766402" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8g_KEchIRzLSZsYHO_5p_YgpSWfgPGsDe3FyBxh25lDKpTgqMYvQnNt28yFCvMtA_9qtX5n345A8hSHuJZb-3Kd-lZsxfMzs_nLHMJBhvJlpIZpIqJiy3Gn5IEm41diOEE71BtscsQYS/s1600-h/IMG_4237.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm8g_KEchIRzLSZsYHO_5p_YgpSWfgPGsDe3FyBxh25lDKpTgqMYvQnNt28yFCvMtA_9qtX5n345A8hSHuJZb-3Kd-lZsxfMzs_nLHMJBhvJlpIZpIqJiy3Gn5IEm41diOEE71BtscsQYS/s400/IMG_4237.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439302523687809858" border="0" /></a><br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-55899280286245093962010-01-19T11:57:00.000-08:002010-01-19T12:18:33.537-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaH-rzB86TLp85HCov2fvHchQH2nLPHQ33NngCsdX5la7tbj4cHQZdZnSP5bL8MF5hDCHk9eDAiVMWtiC7eY8ktT1e1TbXUIZMYTd1IJs1rQGvD-F1O75L16RC3hm6hThqLLk_QdkdTcNe/s1600-h/IMG_4213.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaH-rzB86TLp85HCov2fvHchQH2nLPHQ33NngCsdX5la7tbj4cHQZdZnSP5bL8MF5hDCHk9eDAiVMWtiC7eY8ktT1e1TbXUIZMYTd1IJs1rQGvD-F1O75L16RC3hm6hThqLLk_QdkdTcNe/s400/IMG_4213.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428545407571154146" border="0" /></a>Here's some winter pictures! Above is some ice on the Meadow River. Below is from the same day, the rock was covered in a microthin layer of ice, making it slippery. But Micah still tried, of course. The rock was so colorful!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOirwPQyinyF7LBDnOi2w60ySSOWhiZhT0AGOBJZTsrSSOLD3ZSEwjN8Ap5XlHTWDK6dxQq0OqMI-WtznTFM94oOfq8ClhaDcVw9H5OdlJRUnQO-XKyHC8IOISQdwu0tufKrJPLpOTmGM/s1600-h/IMG_4212.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqOirwPQyinyF7LBDnOi2w60ySSOWhiZhT0AGOBJZTsrSSOLD3ZSEwjN8Ap5XlHTWDK6dxQq0OqMI-WtznTFM94oOfq8ClhaDcVw9H5OdlJRUnQO-XKyHC8IOISQdwu0tufKrJPLpOTmGM/s400/IMG_4212.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428545196957856370" border="0" /></a>The Meadow River on that same day. Our view while bouldering.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEhiHRr53TKXle9C2f2gCxTku5SabRM5p5gmkx7EbD1kTCLvz1h36hDdOegIAJuZe0QJGjfeDiv1p679ck9CPNqkJSYnQEtXL9hz1oatw7-coQVVWsO_yhtqaDHbtHdBX8xxwPjqEDgqQ/s1600-h/IMG_4208.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEhiHRr53TKXle9C2f2gCxTku5SabRM5p5gmkx7EbD1kTCLvz1h36hDdOegIAJuZe0QJGjfeDiv1p679ck9CPNqkJSYnQEtXL9hz1oatw7-coQVVWsO_yhtqaDHbtHdBX8xxwPjqEDgqQ/s400/IMG_4208.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428545188403463602" border="0" /></a>Micah found this dead mole. Look at how big its digging claws are! It's amazing! Also on the wildlife front, Micah saw a river otter. He said it was about 4 feet long and beautiful!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1fb9DPuapYNKNqwt3wG48jyNZsJpFlaTTGAORaaFd4tjPWCaLtVs76xKTKzPttve6hL0ogok2WgDB3QpJt45eGCCbR4X17-0JNE_7ZP87zlUGU7WRMY7n1-GcRy_ynzzuQE7o2xGnaKS/s1600-h/IMG_4199.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY1fb9DPuapYNKNqwt3wG48jyNZsJpFlaTTGAORaaFd4tjPWCaLtVs76xKTKzPttve6hL0ogok2WgDB3QpJt45eGCCbR4X17-0JNE_7ZP87zlUGU7WRMY7n1-GcRy_ynzzuQE7o2xGnaKS/s400/IMG_4199.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428545178771450786" border="0" /></a>Micah bouldering a different day. I think it was just before the extremely cold stretch we just left behind. During that cold stretch, ice waterfalls formed all over the gorge, making ice climbing possible. Micah and I got to try it on one of the warmest days of the cold stretch (22 degrees!). It was hard! Even when you have spikes attached to your feet, its still hard to kick holes in the rock to stand on. It was pretty fun though, I guess. I'll never really be an ice climber, I hate the cold, but I did enjoy it. And, like the river otter, we didn't take our camera. What were we thinking?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYxI-vy9IqZxsUShA_NOSKB4A2CbIXDgbDEgmwtpKmEGyMtR4Xv0kbplkVusd6c-2o4EjLF1JQb3nCTt2xZ4DVWx00LGcu-BzgDCmWezkqCwuoFAVYsDEhQfEm-a_7LhvAeoD5FIxalD9/s1600-h/IMG_4192.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYxI-vy9IqZxsUShA_NOSKB4A2CbIXDgbDEgmwtpKmEGyMtR4Xv0kbplkVusd6c-2o4EjLF1JQb3nCTt2xZ4DVWx00LGcu-BzgDCmWezkqCwuoFAVYsDEhQfEm-a_7LhvAeoD5FIxalD9/s400/IMG_4192.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428545174509184482" border="0" /></a>day 1 or 2 of the staright month of at least a foot of snow on the ground. It started with these 2 feet. This particular picture is showing our glacier roof. You can see how it's sliding down the roof and curling under.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9M8gb6NydofXrnry109UNRIopDI6urEvOi3LrKlYNejbZ66o_BjE3cmn9jXgQBxjZXEjrtWHoAQNl6Uom2KeF_CorPhgdHIPH54vS49SJOYpmOar4Qk8JV73Dp4oqrzDr0DOGE3qvLra/s1600-h/IMG_4176.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit9M8gb6NydofXrnry109UNRIopDI6urEvOi3LrKlYNejbZ66o_BjE3cmn9jXgQBxjZXEjrtWHoAQNl6Uom2KeF_CorPhgdHIPH54vS49SJOYpmOar4Qk8JV73Dp4oqrzDr0DOGE3qvLra/s400/IMG_4176.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428545166816248226" border="0" /></a>the"curling under" part meant we opened our door to icicles in our faces!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjPdMCdPOja7Gx7XsNhfDgzdzfhDc5nwxwXTVuTpX77IlxTqQRaoeTIMXenEKgDVcHrgM9ZIt3R7o9Mhb2Op2isKe8LZYNN0gXvShNH3eIeKSFuCtW_4w1CsL_E74OVkQhpfTb0B_nutG/s1600-h/IMG_4175.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijjPdMCdPOja7Gx7XsNhfDgzdzfhDc5nwxwXTVuTpX77IlxTqQRaoeTIMXenEKgDVcHrgM9ZIt3R7o9Mhb2Op2isKe8LZYNN0gXvShNH3eIeKSFuCtW_4w1CsL_E74OVkQhpfTb0B_nutG/s400/IMG_4175.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544088486042146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WVdCAmJW-U7xokveem5nwI0paCI_lKwAE-VMOAo4FuE4cK5y0T18VAGtsDtGZPjwvgA0wRT__LO_qFsqcK0K5Bzq8OO9LlBT4i27tveyynfBMUYF5xMbXj65f9FJ2C7yWJmwQqPja6JC/s1600-h/IMG_4174.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WVdCAmJW-U7xokveem5nwI0paCI_lKwAE-VMOAo4FuE4cK5y0T18VAGtsDtGZPjwvgA0wRT__LO_qFsqcK0K5Bzq8OO9LlBT4i27tveyynfBMUYF5xMbXj65f9FJ2C7yWJmwQqPja6JC/s400/IMG_4174.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544085738130722" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6g653pLIvVGTfR3yPavCLQgeHU6KrwTURHtK0h82-jTGwwBf3od3LKhOErcu_xQQRg2ElEglA8SGtfu9rrZU6MnbJxBdqr2M0AO0PIaAXuPyCvev5k5Ueh99AFiDrF86sfUtgBsWSOCjm/s1600-h/IMG_4168.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6g653pLIvVGTfR3yPavCLQgeHU6KrwTURHtK0h82-jTGwwBf3od3LKhOErcu_xQQRg2ElEglA8SGtfu9rrZU6MnbJxBdqr2M0AO0PIaAXuPyCvev5k5Ueh99AFiDrF86sfUtgBsWSOCjm/s400/IMG_4168.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544075282317762" border="0" /></a>Somehow the trash can got 3 feet of snow balanced on top of it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsb_pa45mJEnLVvWzjPZOR-FZRGDQqTAZXxK5AbDcCdWNrUhrZsVUiW2Bji3iTC-RuKhbcQKf14NA4OrW7uQqCO6eUxNcSAGCK9GVtA2p5DvMXSDpsD1JjnyoKIwQ-drtkoiiXr5r8Ems/s1600-h/IMG_4162.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzsb_pa45mJEnLVvWzjPZOR-FZRGDQqTAZXxK5AbDcCdWNrUhrZsVUiW2Bji3iTC-RuKhbcQKf14NA4OrW7uQqCO6eUxNcSAGCK9GVtA2p5DvMXSDpsD1JjnyoKIwQ-drtkoiiXr5r8Ems/s400/IMG_4162.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544071372748098" border="0" /></a>why I couldn't go home for Christmas as early as I planned<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhAi5wlxRMfXy4cUK7mSPKTdGRJMP1xOxWZ3pc5F9yYnnkhguAi4PYmdWzD3PZU263GXsFX8ReCYSSqcrXEhRhuiu6akZI7_kKHMxTy_ksEl_d6vxBSIxg4ROtCqanPs6uyG5YrhvF2f91/s1600-h/IMG_4157.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhAi5wlxRMfXy4cUK7mSPKTdGRJMP1xOxWZ3pc5F9yYnnkhguAi4PYmdWzD3PZU263GXsFX8ReCYSSqcrXEhRhuiu6akZI7_kKHMxTy_ksEl_d6vxBSIxg4ROtCqanPs6uyG5YrhvF2f91/s400/IMG_4157.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428544062954497218" border="0" /></a>I'll post as we take more pictures!<br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-46652226003368985562009-11-22T06:29:00.000-08:002009-11-22T06:53:04.949-08:00<a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kittens and Our Winter Home</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since the last post, we have moved! We now live in a small cabin right on the edge of the gorge. We walked to Fern Buttress to climb yesterday. The cabin isn't finished (no insulation or drywall), but we have free electricity (and rent), and a small wood burning stove. We've also got a fair amount of kitchen appliances including a stove (6 burners in all, if we really want to go crazy), a grill (one propane and one charcoal), a toaster oven (2 of those too), a waffle iron, and a crockpot/oven. Sweet! The only thing we're missing is water. There is no running water, so we have to go down the road to a spring labeled "Not Potable". That scares the crap out of me, but everyone around here insists that they've been drinking water from that spring for 10 years and they've never gotten sick. But have any of</span></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span>them actually got</span>ten in tested? No. I'm 80% sure drinking this water is going to be a decision I regret come 12 years and I've got mercury poisoning or something. I'm considering a water filter. On the upside, we have a bona fide outhouse with a moon cut in the door and everything.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s400/IMG_4146.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406939215773261282" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbKq-JFi_Z-BMsWFp1ofBmiOQ8-FTMUx_zRUoNnuxRsWsWHobz5DCYbZ70hn1ZJReF7ZjBQRFSV_a79Jt5__3tEzhFEpsUbZHbTEVPflOHn62obxh-3fyUONbmsHkJbXBns1u18dT7CP_/s1600/IMG_4145.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLs5CTc8cgIsiXCSAu5beMRUTCu45a9GUSteZGteHyTQx_aY4gIp3g0O8QxQTJSr5WejsK_qTEii1FiLYlZpOXqmTumz1UZlkXp6RjgSy22ZcgLMPZiVrxSnBjFg2tO1sUVIAlDeIfhPL/s400/IMG_4139.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406936014350940450" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here are some pictures of our kittens! They're Megan's kittens now, she took both of them. Kofi is the red collared one (the girl - even though Kofi is actually a boy's name), and Mou is the blue collared one (the boy - pronounced Moe. He's named after my chinese name).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Megan found them on a cold, rainy night and wrapped them up in a towel in her tent for the night, but Mou was bored, so he left. I found him shivering on the porch at Roger's and he spent the night with us in the van.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since then, Megan has moved on to the Red, and the kittens with her. I miss Mou (and Kofi), but I know Megan's taking good care of them. I'll visit them sometime later this winter.</span><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG"> </a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjj0rBiEtXw8UBzo2B9wPRr9aflFDLbfXjzoZbGkhekTC1aJkHha9QW-cRkVLh4UIwnZaoDS_XK_mGAq3MvZdf2Ys1TgSq3Zn-AasHI9T7qA3RtHDvGdEErGdjdZHWHwpKrAgzqwdoChtJ/s1600/IMG_4138.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjj0rBiEtXw8UBzo2B9wPRr9aflFDLbfXjzoZbGkhekTC1aJkHha9QW-cRkVLh4UIwnZaoDS_XK_mGAq3MvZdf2Ys1TgSq3Zn-AasHI9T7qA3RtHDvGdEErGdjdZHWHwpKrAgzqwdoChtJ/s400/IMG_4138.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406936007454469170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZaaHhgmXfCgDwvuOacioYhq_YnmUrHFq8KrXQetlV54eNhUqnORhNQVqOKBjK7aD4jzfaoxVMUspS7WMr4038qHucX-Iax8q-rlPLW_NAG8f4Ngy_OuGv9QF3-5UCxMdwtEcTz_M6Cdz/s1600/IMG_4135.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZaaHhgmXfCgDwvuOacioYhq_YnmUrHFq8KrXQetlV54eNhUqnORhNQVqOKBjK7aD4jzfaoxVMUspS7WMr4038qHucX-Iax8q-rlPLW_NAG8f4Ngy_OuGv9QF3-5UCxMdwtEcTz_M6Cdz/s400/IMG_4135.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406936000043815618" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQsQGi5IYwNx1HIAlYgp5ZqPadcSdInRL74iskwGcfVKJEAmjlbt4fwPtDHDgDkIy_OL8te2OPsi_L6FBJbyB7jT4ESZslWzNpeYCeFjIsHi5dpfe8DRMJzwtHNp99X56XanCozc1ZuNf/s1600/IMG_4134.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQsQGi5IYwNx1HIAlYgp5ZqPadcSdInRL74iskwGcfVKJEAmjlbt4fwPtDHDgDkIy_OL8te2OPsi_L6FBJbyB7jT4ESZslWzNpeYCeFjIsHi5dpfe8DRMJzwtHNp99X56XanCozc1ZuNf/s400/IMG_4134.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406935994191245378" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmobUBByhK4Q_66j2h3Taepy5sY3BprOSbyalH0MR3Szdhot07mgS1UdQuiupOf_rTnOJkPB-okEV6ZGIk8N0KO2McaoYvM0VROLNn6BHPCWuI-Tm9iYaSB3oeeTGpcS7yjJ3AVk5xjrT/s1600/IMG_4133.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmobUBByhK4Q_66j2h3Taepy5sY3BprOSbyalH0MR3Szdhot07mgS1UdQuiupOf_rTnOJkPB-okEV6ZGIk8N0KO2McaoYvM0VROLNn6BHPCWuI-Tm9iYaSB3oeeTGpcS7yjJ3AVk5xjrT/s400/IMG_4133.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406935986707170930" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvis3b1eDT3r303tJysehOmZWjvFO0LmN9AptnFzcTQtDAxLBBaqi-TZe-FJujkQGOfCvwRVk2SBcKw08p7FjNPkoferO3Des1RkROpbnRUf4MI5rVdGqLNWSiWvlWkShvFMch4HAmBa2q/s1600/IMG_4146.JPG"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See you all next time I see you! Love,</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stella</span> </span></a>Stellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-1209431778867516422009-10-12T18:09:00.000-07:002009-10-12T18:35:31.205-07:00I saw a bear!Naturally, I have no photographic proof. But it was a black bear cub. We didn't see the mom, despite putting the car into park in the middle of the road and waiting. I had my camera out at that point, waiting to get a picture.<br /><br />But the day wasn't a total waste. I DID get some other pictures. We took a short roadtrip to the Monogahela National Forest and a couple state parks nearby. It was beautiful! And, because it was higher elevation (we made it to 3800ft.), it was prime fall colors.<br /><br />Monongahela<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9ocaPnzgPqt_Ls1sLkA3zazThTD0828MXbBuUJQV7TVCGmA23gR3ClBqTat5lutEhqNRxqon1ZM21S5dBQjijJELVXL1aMVEJgZii5Ayq4cnwcxwWZjqVBSCQ2mMFt5vDMxqJV1BHbhI/s1600-h/IMG_4109.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9ocaPnzgPqt_Ls1sLkA3zazThTD0828MXbBuUJQV7TVCGmA23gR3ClBqTat5lutEhqNRxqon1ZM21S5dBQjijJELVXL1aMVEJgZii5Ayq4cnwcxwWZjqVBSCQ2mMFt5vDMxqJV1BHbhI/s400/IMG_4109.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391889488665836706" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDy3Op-pw6k-5vB1FLRAmuZpy9paAgmo6tACVzXrKelA95LE8B2FrZElqidx390sp1_k4WtH59SnO_AICk7RJOY60B49TV2wK-N75RuSvbJRejlO1hHr00OR4OO2r9s7bhGRwegXpMskch/s1600-h/IMG_4114.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDy3Op-pw6k-5vB1FLRAmuZpy9paAgmo6tACVzXrKelA95LE8B2FrZElqidx390sp1_k4WtH59SnO_AICk7RJOY60B49TV2wK-N75RuSvbJRejlO1hHr00OR4OO2r9s7bhGRwegXpMskch/s400/IMG_4114.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391889499764685938" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKd9AyzVBEN5zxvhxOXZSti9H5S3XAGdvPyrW1aXtdSzd7J61YoYdOD_iq_N_2f_kyzw4qyU_KDl7Uh_8qMX00xCQF7Kg6QnujsBk6gtNaIh0mNzETWr7J71ZZ6ECqlS13kzw2ogGtHKH/s1600-h/IMG_4106.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKd9AyzVBEN5zxvhxOXZSti9H5S3XAGdvPyrW1aXtdSzd7J61YoYdOD_iq_N_2f_kyzw4qyU_KDl7Uh_8qMX00xCQF7Kg6QnujsBk6gtNaIh0mNzETWr7J71ZZ6ECqlS13kzw2ogGtHKH/s400/IMG_4106.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391889480241198338" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj28KS5c-xaCCmlDzhJR_gcbLU70Fa7bpubfITzkEydbTyDKjCnu6RableikPetU7rA_TAUSRWV43Nk8IPzIdZ7iTFdLjocV88ADtRHnju9PMt1vaZlQbNBHLgR-YD-6lNZTEch3w7clI2U/s1600-h/IMG_4098.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj28KS5c-xaCCmlDzhJR_gcbLU70Fa7bpubfITzkEydbTyDKjCnu6RableikPetU7rA_TAUSRWV43Nk8IPzIdZ7iTFdLjocV88ADtRHnju9PMt1vaZlQbNBHLgR-YD-6lNZTEch3w7clI2U/s400/IMG_4098.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391889474342152066" border="0" /></a><br />this is Watoga State park<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0UBz5of105s77c2-y-7YOTt_Eyzmid61tbA7rrT9WWo-gsngj9fMh_QHCwvC940uPCSYhkz_JKjT39y13PFdohA4xDOH595i7cJDQm7YshDV1IqqF9hMkDjQV2mj623ctj0ie6-DWeYC/s1600-h/IMG_4097.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw0UBz5of105s77c2-y-7YOTt_Eyzmid61tbA7rrT9WWo-gsngj9fMh_QHCwvC940uPCSYhkz_JKjT39y13PFdohA4xDOH595i7cJDQm7YshDV1IqqF9hMkDjQV2mj623ctj0ie6-DWeYC/s400/IMG_4097.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391889465157536834" border="0" /></a>Ferns at Beartown State Park. Had to include some green<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu3Go5nzwtw7caDThKd95urSSBpTHqJvWjybBbTVvSX3a6kH_eUZxFtVe1GiE8p9mH8WDXzHWWx3nvDOT4yC8i6DcLdR1KOvFyj_bc_2HDxXYZ7Bg9zv56hfKcSkyANCGpg_RB84jARRcW/s1600-h/IMG_4096.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu3Go5nzwtw7caDThKd95urSSBpTHqJvWjybBbTVvSX3a6kH_eUZxFtVe1GiE8p9mH8WDXzHWWx3nvDOT4yC8i6DcLdR1KOvFyj_bc_2HDxXYZ7Bg9zv56hfKcSkyANCGpg_RB84jARRcW/s400/IMG_4096.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391888637934415122" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwR-1RRkN3MCiFOcQsGlobH4ZlttGA-qZhF_mII7p_OJgaQy5UKYAVhqQXqZlE2sXbtZIbdZtjesjL-1mvvYQYt81_EUDTj1fCWXYI71pFoZy8Z9CMvDVNdNbloM1RMc_6VH6k-tD6LyZx/s1600-h/IMG_4095.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwR-1RRkN3MCiFOcQsGlobH4ZlttGA-qZhF_mII7p_OJgaQy5UKYAVhqQXqZlE2sXbtZIbdZtjesjL-1mvvYQYt81_EUDTj1fCWXYI71pFoZy8Z9CMvDVNdNbloM1RMc_6VH6k-tD6LyZx/s400/IMG_4095.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391888627291133650" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvs7s48WV9cTym2bWN-np7Tyw6KQZvT8NcHu9XI4cpP-q_nXJbFCOiqd7v3ldKKcHwwndtzvfQ1sQIrrzTlyhKZc1pvzZLecLXBVEEIgHpzF1Q88T6N0-7HhTCJFUpbwhyR-rqDtquE0PA/s1600-h/IMG_4092.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvs7s48WV9cTym2bWN-np7Tyw6KQZvT8NcHu9XI4cpP-q_nXJbFCOiqd7v3ldKKcHwwndtzvfQ1sQIrrzTlyhKZc1pvzZLecLXBVEEIgHpzF1Q88T6N0-7HhTCJFUpbwhyR-rqDtquE0PA/s400/IMG_4092.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391888618396562642" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivzGIvq8Ud5DnZMKmo9oL5b52-vDGjkXuuvstEWPDbfBm7afqPMKAjSuUHMG3-V6eG9dwfYT_v8ThbUqUH0Tjgj_09DPlGwA2tqaFZZLz3fVg6CAvw1EBOOXQLr1Ohm9RPeV270rIz1tL/s1600-h/IMG_4087.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgivzGIvq8Ud5DnZMKmo9oL5b52-vDGjkXuuvstEWPDbfBm7afqPMKAjSuUHMG3-V6eG9dwfYT_v8ThbUqUH0Tjgj_09DPlGwA2tqaFZZLz3fVg6CAvw1EBOOXQLr1Ohm9RPeV270rIz1tL/s400/IMG_4087.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391888610991469394" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iEhO7LY9mByWrBBrYGQ5EDJvPM6uAQaQvgqn3Vqj1jSSBU_lj1ivJk43qvOZ8AKWNyAk9dhevGVzBkmPXtdeCOAAaOTP5KSOQGB1YFtQ2CkeSlpH9PTHj9qtEc1zb3sLrM9GXN-nsMqI/s1600-h/IMG_4086.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_iEhO7LY9mByWrBBrYGQ5EDJvPM6uAQaQvgqn3Vqj1jSSBU_lj1ivJk43qvOZ8AKWNyAk9dhevGVzBkmPXtdeCOAAaOTP5KSOQGB1YFtQ2CkeSlpH9PTHj9qtEc1zb3sLrM9GXN-nsMqI/s400/IMG_4086.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391888601484529810" border="0" /></a>The Cranberry Botanical Area. These ferns were huge and I felt like there should be dinosaurs around<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnk15yIF-KnrWTTkRvVq66c4UW-pO8XBxrU8jbfBU2CKnvzgFtcRmIQY9SuKby_QQZ274dRckQXt7fccD122VZ5utOu9yG3F98K3MRFq2cMf3p_rAUsBpVQ64XAWZDM7FdmxHFYS_YzYxK/s1600-h/IMG_4085.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnk15yIF-KnrWTTkRvVq66c4UW-pO8XBxrU8jbfBU2CKnvzgFtcRmIQY9SuKby_QQZ274dRckQXt7fccD122VZ5utOu9yG3F98K3MRFq2cMf3p_rAUsBpVQ64XAWZDM7FdmxHFYS_YzYxK/s400/IMG_4085.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391887732889070834" border="0" /></a>A gigantic root cluster<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhWFQy59CE7ECVzaOOwIdQwxl1izFtjNN1xqbLv_tpf69xVDMHayN67bqroWBUeyYF9J53vJN8lcZ_gwlauyq7B6CgBqRIYBYgSkZad36KsO9hh_YBNZvgI_CG-ZILtikzkigTHAN-HFM/s1600-h/IMG_4084.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhWFQy59CE7ECVzaOOwIdQwxl1izFtjNN1xqbLv_tpf69xVDMHayN67bqroWBUeyYF9J53vJN8lcZ_gwlauyq7B6CgBqRIYBYgSkZad36KsO9hh_YBNZvgI_CG-ZILtikzkigTHAN-HFM/s400/IMG_4084.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391887724888716130" border="0" /></a>Some wildflowers! They're actually tinted purple<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEuhV28Q7gxK1ZCf4djxOBZjcsycz4P7NFTshWcDRwdXT34ThDIMQ1srY9agRIO4MiFcJjjY4AYjVS3BVXxBc5uacA1GwdjmXR1sS3d9O52NVvs-k5pHomMhXf7g-Zg1Xx7xmlVNCMnueB/s1600-h/IMG_4082.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEuhV28Q7gxK1ZCf4djxOBZjcsycz4P7NFTshWcDRwdXT34ThDIMQ1srY9agRIO4MiFcJjjY4AYjVS3BVXxBc5uacA1GwdjmXR1sS3d9O52NVvs-k5pHomMhXf7g-Zg1Xx7xmlVNCMnueB/s400/IMG_4082.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391887718189025826" border="0" /></a>Cranberry glades. Cranberries grow wild all over this bog/field<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfQG2ksoSNhuZBr__ytRvxs7qK50UX0S2E_2T1zXT0XJ6VS60HYQ8wLMS7FZSTudnUBzAm9AGTTD3iGiIoBB3EX02nYjPtXMtIOBqA4NW2VbaQWq_rqWJViUKUthEG2sc9_GLTcGVsLD-/s1600-h/IMG_4079.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilfQG2ksoSNhuZBr__ytRvxs7qK50UX0S2E_2T1zXT0XJ6VS60HYQ8wLMS7FZSTudnUBzAm9AGTTD3iGiIoBB3EX02nYjPtXMtIOBqA4NW2VbaQWq_rqWJViUKUthEG2sc9_GLTcGVsLD-/s400/IMG_4079.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391887707733793954" border="0" /></a>Totally unrelated, this is a climb that Micah bolted and will send soon. It looks like a ship's prow. Unfortunately this isn't the best picture to show that.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7_PRzaHGYj2qBF7QFzK9EpHIs-FfclbItGMqX6-k8uNv2fKvyMe4AYDfjEsqXCW85RqWQLvv9LkFtTczByJL94aFWamvKxu422m1AYmOoTujGTDGtskOv_53iq77fd3QLFBQWknCUJkQ/s1600-h/IMG_4063.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7_PRzaHGYj2qBF7QFzK9EpHIs-FfclbItGMqX6-k8uNv2fKvyMe4AYDfjEsqXCW85RqWQLvv9LkFtTczByJL94aFWamvKxu422m1AYmOoTujGTDGtskOv_53iq77fd3QLFBQWknCUJkQ/s400/IMG_4063.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391887698588069282" border="0" /></a>Hope everyone (Jay, maybe you're the only one reading this) is having a great season! I love you,<br />StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-91864628528531590322009-07-05T20:38:00.001-07:002009-07-05T20:45:55.480-07:00pictureless updatehey everyone. Not much super interesting is going on around here. Just thought I'd update anyway. My sweet job is no longer my sweet job - the farmer doesn't need my help anymore. Now I'm looking for a filler job - one that will get me some money, but I'm not particularly attatched to. Hopefully that'll happen soon. I've been climbing a little more often now. The group of full-time residents at Roger's campground has increased. Now we have me, Micah, Toby, (Michael jut left today), Vince, Stephanie, Dolci, Brian on and off, Chris, Joel, and Craig. So even when Micah's working, there's still plenty of people to climb with. Not everyone gets along perfectly, but at least drama is interesing? I'm going to stick with that.<br /><br />My crashpad got stolen the other weekend, I'm pretty sure. If you ever see anyone bouldering with a purple, pink, and yellow crashpad... it's probably mine.<br /><br />On the upside, this week is supposed to be beautiful - sunny and 80 everyday. I hope I get to take advantage of it and have some fun!<br /><br />Maybe I'll even take some pictures...<br />Love,<br />StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4282669314028619483.post-90119819790844744142009-04-24T10:54:00.001-07:002009-04-24T11:26:05.053-07:00my sweet job!here's some pictures from the farm! This is Larry's house (the farm owner) with cows in front. The ones further back are Dexter cattle. They are only about 4 feet tall. The ones closer and to the left are miniature zebu cattle. They're originally from India. See the hump on the back of the black one? All zebus have that hump.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtdN9FfxJYccrXj2hJlg5ywFBIfFeMUyyawkOQ6hfHDC8AUbXjlD4SYrfpV3-xQCWqFqTN_9d8jLIb0NN_xoOvMJEIz1eQ72LqpxpzWJZeHP1iu8cP0X751I4bIC1X3eZK9l19elLvyFZi/s1600-h/IMG_3962.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtdN9FfxJYccrXj2hJlg5ywFBIfFeMUyyawkOQ6hfHDC8AUbXjlD4SYrfpV3-xQCWqFqTN_9d8jLIb0NN_xoOvMJEIz1eQ72LqpxpzWJZeHP1iu8cP0X751I4bIC1X3eZK9l19elLvyFZi/s400/IMG_3962.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328322574738603634" border="0" /></a><br />a new baby!! There are two more on the way. She's almost a week old.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UKailOT0vffKHnL9Vy8lBSJt8PkWrY8y1xemyKehk4Ewn-uB2lOqM_9L_yARIuHyZKXmc0XktonZ6DuoTIBnZGzYJFhb5tY8CzF0dKOGM3cSyZLdNYp6BqIqD4YHx8M6CxUK0ZVeomMf/s1600-h/IMG_3963.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6UKailOT0vffKHnL9Vy8lBSJt8PkWrY8y1xemyKehk4Ewn-uB2lOqM_9L_yARIuHyZKXmc0XktonZ6DuoTIBnZGzYJFhb5tY8CzF0dKOGM3cSyZLdNYp6BqIqD4YHx8M6CxUK0ZVeomMf/s400/IMG_3963.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328322579540340274" border="0" /></a>these are miniature horses. They were far away, so sorry about the bad picture. And unfortunately, you can't see it, but there's a full-sized goat that lives with them, and it's unnerving to see that the goat is the same size as these!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JnoZ9fIrrjkb1VzHo1worXr6DMSL8LesMW2Q9iFyRN22n6aj3VglMgQvjPVR8C86BbBp7Gam9BkqbzjmYB_npxKOZzef860WwppPpahpvEyBtgnjgFLkVY6YPaxhKXCi9zRgfzYEnzMx/s1600-h/IMG_3959.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JnoZ9fIrrjkb1VzHo1worXr6DMSL8LesMW2Q9iFyRN22n6aj3VglMgQvjPVR8C86BbBp7Gam9BkqbzjmYB_npxKOZzef860WwppPpahpvEyBtgnjgFLkVY6YPaxhKXCi9zRgfzYEnzMx/s400/IMG_3959.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328322574145965330" border="0" /></a>Here's some more dexter cattle and miniature donkeys behind them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzwOSz8OeDZFYUyywRKi7H16AHT4Neh2Mjl6f0Pe21rlOciY5IrZk-S5S6TrWQ9CENA9vVmb6IVEvlQoZ6sPwsAVVYkWUvieNZPuKgIuxqbISzThCEhnZaDiROHqcan8PSqCdQc8yHCXUh/s1600-h/IMG_3958.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzwOSz8OeDZFYUyywRKi7H16AHT4Neh2Mjl6f0Pe21rlOciY5IrZk-S5S6TrWQ9CENA9vVmb6IVEvlQoZ6sPwsAVVYkWUvieNZPuKgIuxqbISzThCEhnZaDiROHqcan8PSqCdQc8yHCXUh/s400/IMG_3958.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328321583105875186" border="0" /></a>a better miniature donkey picture. There's a baby with them! That fence behind them is probably 3.5 feet or 4 feet high. All the fences are the same height - if that helps with perspective in any other pictures.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_sK3Fy3R3c0ZHQYJeOXnxm9YZsSrkuvdYQnvKci8Hajw12JXQkbA0d5ZT4jfQelejV3wDv82BnKIO8HCOL6NZ58F1bEshvPpmNluyYc4A9YYHgrS4JAbTJ9-IhffU1SnAUJxEYveXciT7/s1600-h/IMG_3957.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_sK3Fy3R3c0ZHQYJeOXnxm9YZsSrkuvdYQnvKci8Hajw12JXQkbA0d5ZT4jfQelejV3wDv82BnKIO8HCOL6NZ58F1bEshvPpmNluyYc4A9YYHgrS4JAbTJ9-IhffU1SnAUJxEYveXciT7/s400/IMG_3957.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328321576102711602" border="0" /></a>these goats (full-sized) were sniffing my fingers. There's a baby in there!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZU0RArBzplU5nNVRxQw8xnDKV4PznvMApCY0fzfMJT1i1vW7iHuraVwwJi013ZEmuZU5ylrSxU3e6vjZt43hwKVXcGWRjfaN04f73xjch4ZwwaroGBoDODqcf_ws191sig5-0W9qF-pf/s1600-h/IMG_3952.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZU0RArBzplU5nNVRxQw8xnDKV4PznvMApCY0fzfMJT1i1vW7iHuraVwwJi013ZEmuZU5ylrSxU3e6vjZt43hwKVXcGWRjfaN04f73xjch4ZwwaroGBoDODqcf_ws191sig5-0W9qF-pf/s400/IMG_3952.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328321574978415234" border="0" /></a>that baby horse again. She'll grow up to be 2000 pounds at least. These are the only full-sized animals on the farm (I guess except the chickens, which I don't have a picture of. Guinea fowl too). They are draft horses - which means they're bigger than any other horse I've ever seen.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSU3qwX-Yp7Uj7zsPIXNhZbiBfV1V__m-PgydxrGk2tnfldw3Uo9iO1NbWgwDg3DVqxGcxtTTZTLD2ndBlIbrgHEsNIeall5Vue23hZMSM-R56vl3xI5o_CGdVqJXuKbPJiXS-BMZu3Ydk/s1600-h/IMG_3948.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSU3qwX-Yp7Uj7zsPIXNhZbiBfV1V__m-PgydxrGk2tnfldw3Uo9iO1NbWgwDg3DVqxGcxtTTZTLD2ndBlIbrgHEsNIeall5Vue23hZMSM-R56vl3xI5o_CGdVqJXuKbPJiXS-BMZu3Ydk/s400/IMG_3948.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328321556461905842" border="0" /></a>some more baby goats. Springtime means babies all over the place<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjaINPJkq95xO1r-3ff6ScuOJKYWZ1nsGk-BW3nvVuYIXnEQCld4FT49MamIrjSpK3wwTAsaVoEG58YlaN_K89Cw2fdIKbmYwrJE0bVrmC3GeNYusvt1AfWiJSo2mab_VYsmVOr_r_UzaU/s1600-h/IMG_3946.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjaINPJkq95xO1r-3ff6ScuOJKYWZ1nsGk-BW3nvVuYIXnEQCld4FT49MamIrjSpK3wwTAsaVoEG58YlaN_K89Cw2fdIKbmYwrJE0bVrmC3GeNYusvt1AfWiJSo2mab_VYsmVOr_r_UzaU/s400/IMG_3946.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328321553876133938" border="0" /></a>a mommy goat! She's friendly<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcB5qIyc7Uo9tJGIhs-Dj68Jj_SZUvfPCiXazy_7ZtxiV1-ySKSLzjKZ2QvAChGzzb6yCGv4LxVeG9evd6WCOpkBoonK9kz2jIvKZe_fL58gnbmj8nVXAT5B4-nvds9AOI4ACDfOoLbgNY/s1600-h/IMG_3944.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcB5qIyc7Uo9tJGIhs-Dj68Jj_SZUvfPCiXazy_7ZtxiV1-ySKSLzjKZ2QvAChGzzb6yCGv4LxVeG9evd6WCOpkBoonK9kz2jIvKZe_fL58gnbmj8nVXAT5B4-nvds9AOI4ACDfOoLbgNY/s400/IMG_3944.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328320112473837282" border="0" /></a>2 young rams. They are called babydoll southdown sheep. Which means miniature. We just moved these guys into this stall today and the black one sat on my lap. He was the size of a toddler and so cute!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxpfv47u8Vz-b_mjVts6kOvRYAEF_AlbcBv-G4E4oEDxRVcIPpf5xxQKkm5ghWmbuBtp_seYN8O1c4aLGxe09zV-G8IaN_Dbg6f38GiiBy0ct6T0I01Ikra2ELkro13RercAi4pmFfKzdI/s1600-h/IMG_3943.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxpfv47u8Vz-b_mjVts6kOvRYAEF_AlbcBv-G4E4oEDxRVcIPpf5xxQKkm5ghWmbuBtp_seYN8O1c4aLGxe09zV-G8IaN_Dbg6f38GiiBy0ct6T0I01Ikra2ELkro13RercAi4pmFfKzdI/s400/IMG_3943.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328320107905169202" border="0" /></a>an emu! There's 2 emus on the farm. They've been there 2 years and between them, they've laid one egg. Which they accidentally crushed immediately.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzo9Wfokq101-zjWrJ8RGqF15_E-2XstpnioBFb3pbY9y3ixOzze13FCdjBGM8-DauX4UmLZJQyJ6kGRf37bMM99hhcJxqkXUjG-Ho4cXd6o_iJcY1lg8KKPNQlcjp36IcpOc-E_-A7f3/s1600-h/IMG_3942.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqzo9Wfokq101-zjWrJ8RGqF15_E-2XstpnioBFb3pbY9y3ixOzze13FCdjBGM8-DauX4UmLZJQyJ6kGRf37bMM99hhcJxqkXUjG-Ho4cXd6o_iJcY1lg8KKPNQlcjp36IcpOc-E_-A7f3/s400/IMG_3942.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328320106478464146" border="0" /></a><br />a new addition to the farm! There's only 3 chickens, but soon there will be more!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyYVHTWAioVfwQaKh4gX8iAVQ6t73ory0lY-3mK5hh0a9oLcFqpnc5i2i5yVNFNaRJ6XqQPLKI0nz11XtRBYnEfzvVdJQp-0TZtylxgEKSpYDg3AtVtmrtkTVZPxU-yiqyQLIRaPN4mzY/s1600-h/IMG_3931.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyYVHTWAioVfwQaKh4gX8iAVQ6t73ory0lY-3mK5hh0a9oLcFqpnc5i2i5yVNFNaRJ6XqQPLKI0nz11XtRBYnEfzvVdJQp-0TZtylxgEKSpYDg3AtVtmrtkTVZPxU-yiqyQLIRaPN4mzY/s400/IMG_3931.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328320090232562130" border="0" /></a><br />all of the sheep on the farm were sheared last week, but Larry doesn't do anything with the wool, so I volunteered to take it. I have 12 fleeces. Yesterday I tried to dry them all out. It didn't work perfectly, but it helped. Soon I'll wash them all. That'll be a big task. I'll take more pictures as I do stuff with the wool.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnLWp2ZoBUpoFcLp9DwuVUmmALV9CrqyXTTyIWyTF7Z0CZr_ccA-ORW4Kf2ELId_Rm_GEZF9OVidCKV0Tqz9_5ZCZmiNt5mXfDkgQ7i-F8w5urR9dRMs-lE_obIwKRPtejYAA9vs6f6-f/s1600-h/IMG_3935.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFnLWp2ZoBUpoFcLp9DwuVUmmALV9CrqyXTTyIWyTF7Z0CZr_ccA-ORW4Kf2ELId_Rm_GEZF9OVidCKV0Tqz9_5ZCZmiNt5mXfDkgQ7i-F8w5urR9dRMs-lE_obIwKRPtejYAA9vs6f6-f/s400/IMG_3935.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328320097841392242" border="0" /></a>as for climbing, I've only been 3 times so far in the last two weeks. I'm always too tired after getting home from work to climb, but I'm still having a great time. I'm sure I'll get in more climbing days soon.<br />See you all later!<br />-StellaStellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299148133468516884noreply@blogger.com3