Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
i’m taking a break from writing about NYC to wish you all a lovely new year. i have a cold, so we’re spending the night sitting around. we did have some new year’s eve day excitement though – we went to see the latest “star wars.” i...
Dec 31, 2019 | New York 2019
After leaving the spectacular SeaGlass Carousel on the evening of Wed. Dec. 11th we got on a bus and made the short trip over to the 9/11 Memorial Fountains. It was dark, cold, and windy by the time we got there, so not a big crowd. You can’t tell in the picture...
Dec 30, 2019 | New York 2019
On Wednesday, Dec. 11th after we left the Brooklyn Museum and got tix for the Temptations show on Broadway, mom and I hopped on a free downtown manhattan bus and headed for the Seaglass Carousel. Bev had told me about it; she’d seen a post that our friend Gil...
Dec 29, 2019 | New York 2019
OK, a few more photos from the Brooklyn Museum…this is a jackal from Egypt, and i took it because it reminded me of amy and jim’s dogs. i found this info about it very interesting. i liked the description of this modern painting more than the work itself,...
Dec 28, 2019 | New York 2019
We arrived at the Brooklyn Museum after seeing the church where mom and dad got married and then doing a lot of walking through Prospect Park. Online it says the Brooklyn museum is”one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.” I love...
Dec 27, 2019 | New York 2019
On Wednesday dec. 11 we left our place in Brooklyn at the crack of 11:30. here’s the front of the building. Another photo of our subway stop, the Franklin Avenue Station. the reason i kept taking photos of it is because a few weeks ago kevin and i started...
Dec 23, 2019 | New York 2019
Tuesday Dec. 10th, the rest of our first full day in NYC was very busy. After our long walk up the High Line park we stopped briefly at the super fancy new Hudson Yards shopping mall and then took the new subway to get over to Times Square. It was late in the...
Dec 22, 2019 | New York 2019
i don’t know why i didn’t think i would post the video i took of our apartment in Brooklyn, so here it is. ok then,...
Dec 22, 2019 | New York 2019, Uncategorized
finally, some photos from the trip mom and i took to new york. it started inauspiciously…on Monday dec. 9th we drove down to Lambert airport in St. Louis and our plane was delayed for three hours. we sat around for a very long while and both felt crazed by the...
Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Les and Riley can’t help being so adorable all the time…here they are on the first day of december. christmas swan!!! mom and i went to hobby lobby at the beginning of the month and were were about to check out but i hurried back in to pick up some...
Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew. Xmas is now ridiculously close and i still have a whole bunch of stuff to do. I think i’m still a little tired from all the traveling. I just transferred my 2.3 millions photos from phone to computer and i can’t think about them right now, even...
Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
so…i just got back from NYC. Mom and i left on monday and got back yesterday afternoon. Right before i left i spent a lot of time uploading photos, creating drafts to post while we were gone. it didn’t happen. plus i took approximately 3.2 million photos...
Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
I feel i’ve been woefully lacking in my posting of les paul photos, so here are some from the beginning of November. we were having a lovely walk…and then Les decided to climb right up the oak tree that’s leaning way over in the lake. he didn’t...
Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
gee, i can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year…my goal is to get everything from this year posted in this year. not a huge goal, so hopefully it’s attainable. first – when i jog on the lake road i pass a house that has a...
Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
and i’m tired. but my house is clean, one of those rare times when it looks pretty good and i wish it looked that way more often. the thing about cleaning is that you get it all done and then it just gets dirty/messy again. meanwhile… as i wrote last time,...
Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew, plenty has been going on around here since we got back to spfld at the end of September…like, for example, it’s almost thanksgiving! two more days. must get on it. but backtracking, highlights of this fall: on Monday Sept. 20th we drove up to...
Nov 12, 2019 | Glacier 2019
The train arrived at the station right on time on Sunday morning, Sept. 22nd, and left promptly at 9:50. Here’s a picture of the river as we left the station. I didn’t take any more pictures most of the trip home. It was a fine trip, and we met some more...
Nov 6, 2019 | Glacier 2019
First, as I mentioned, we’d been given the terrific map which detailed all 88 “day hikes” in Glacier – all 734 miles of trails. We hiked on about eleven of them, which isn’t bad for our first trip. However, ten of the 88 day hikes are 15+...
Nov 4, 2019 | Glacier 2019
After leaving the park (and our exciting bear sighting!) we drove down the road to the tiny town of East Glacier. I had to take a picture of this motel because i grew up only two blocks from the Sears department store, so Sears always has a place in my heart. I...
Nov 3, 2019 | Glacier 2019
After packing up our stuff and heading over to East Glacier, we went into the Two Medicine entrance of the park and had a little snack lunch in our car. it was chilly and windy. We hiked on the Running Eagle Falls nature trail and quickly arrived at the falls....
Nov 1, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Saturday morning, Sept. 21st, It took us a while to load up all our stuff. And i had to run around and take some last photos of some of the cute outside stuff…can you spot the metal bicycle to the left of the aspen tree? I wish i’d taken a picture of the...
Oct 31, 2019 | Glacier 2019
It was a short drive down the road from where we’d been hiking on the Johns Loop Trail over to the Lake McDonald Lodge. The parking lot was kind of full and we had to park a little far away but since we hadn’t hiked very long earlier in the day it was all...
Oct 30, 2019 | Glacier 2019
This was our last day on the West side of Glacier. As we drove down our street, there was the white bunny to greet us. We decided to try the Johns Lake Trail. I really wanted to go on the boat ride from McDonald Lodge in the afternoon, and we’d bought online...
Oct 28, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Whew, I felt pretty good on Thursday , and we decided to hike to Avalanche Lake. It was Thursday Sept. 19th, and first we stopped off at the West entrance to get our pictures taken. We’d seen people stopped here most times we entered the park and decided now was...
Oct 26, 2019 | Glacier 2019
We’d gone on an eight-mile hike on Tuesday, had a nice evening…but when i woke up on Wednesday morning, sept. 18th, something was terribly wrong. I was lying on my side and felt dizzy and weird. when i rolled over to my back, still dizzy, still weird. I...
Oct 24, 2019 | Glacier 2019
On Tuesday, Sept. 17th we decided to hike along the shore of Lake McDonald. It’s a total of seven miles one way so we decided we’d hike as far as we felt like. we didn’t leave our place til midday, though, because i suddenly got worried about our...
Oct 22, 2019 | Anniversary!, Glacier 2019
After our great hike up Apgar Lookout Trail on Mon. Sept. 16th we headed back to Apgar Village. It’s the largest village in Glacier, but all it consists of is a couple of gift shops a couple of hotels, and a restaurant. The first place we stopped in Apgar is the...
Oct 21, 2019 | Anniversary!, Glacier 2019
Monday, Sept. 16th, our 13th anniversary! We celebrated by going on a lovely hike, up to Apgar Lookout. it’s funny that our hike two days before had been so chilly and windy. today, we fairly quickly zipped off our zipoff pants and comfortably hiked in shorts....
Oct 19, 2019 | Glacier 2019
Sunday morning, September 15th, we headed back to the west side of the park. My plan had been to take the Going-to-the-Sun road back across, stopping at Logan Pass to go on one of the must-see hikes, and maybe stop a few other places. but on saturday night Kevin...
Oct 17, 2019 | Glacier 2019
whew, we saw the plaque which proclaimed we’d arrived at the glacier, but we really hadn’t and had to hike another half hour. We finally got to our end point around one thirty. We had expected it to be bigger, and i was also always under the impression...
