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priceless memories.
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Greetings from Big Bend National Park
Ocotillo Sundown We stand in the desert staring at the Chisos Mountains reddening in silence, each little rocky crag and slit given emphasis with nearby prickly pears brilliantly lit, but perhaps the most striking thing proves to be the way the setting sun illuminates spiked ocotillo plants with tiny red…
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
In 2006 I had just finished 6 months of chemo for Stage 3B cancer. It had been a long winter in Minnesota, and during my chemo treatments, I'd been inside for most of the winter, watching movies, reading, writing a little, and doing a lot of self reflection. When…
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Greetings from Capitol Reef National Park
On a road trip in 2005 we were in Capitol Reef driving through one of the roads that follow one of the canyons that are a wash for heavy rains. There was quite a bit of traffic. We were in a convertible. We had a CD playing, when all of…
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Greetings from Grand Teton National Park
In 2010, Alan and I returned to the Chapel of the Transfiguration. We were married there in 1970. A few days after this photo, we climbed the Grand Teton. We met in Glacier National Park in the summer of 1969. We have visited 38 other National Parks and they were…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
As a child summer vacation trips were a rare and special treat for our family. One of the best was the year we traveled to Tennessee to the Great Smoky Mountains for a week of camping fun. Coming from the rolling hills of southern Indiana I had never seen a…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
I have taken many trips to the Smokies. Fall is my favorite time to go. The colors are breathtaking! I love Cades Cove and imagine what it might have been like to live in this remote place. We were able to watch sorghum molasses being made on one fall trip.…
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Greetings from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
I have taken many trips to the Smokies. Fall is my favorite time to go. The colors are breathtaking! I love Cades Cove and imagine what it might have been like to live in this remote place. We were able to watch sourgum molasses being made on one fall trip.…
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Greetings from Crater Lake National Park
In 2009, my wife Terry and I visited a financial planner who turned out to be more of a life planner than financial planner. Mary’s comment was “how can I create a financial plan for you if I don’t have any idea how you would like to live? What is…
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Greetings from Fort Stanwix National Monument
My Boy Scout Troop just did volunteer service work at Ft. Stanwix National Monument in Rome, NY. We cleaned the old straw bedding out of the Soldiers' Barracks. We learned that each wooden platform would hold 12 - 14 soldiers, and the straw provided their bedding, We filled seventy-two 42…
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Greetings from Acadia National Park
Finding My Ten Year Old Self at Acadia National Park My husband and I recently had the pleasure of sharing some time in our favorite playground in all the world, Acadia National Park. We biked the carriage trails for hours and had the chance to paddle on Eagle Lake, Jordan Pond…
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