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Sunday, July 07, 2013

Gracie first trip to Forest Home Summer Camp...

It's great to have Gracie back home... Gracie's pictures from camp...


Grace starts her first day of camp today.
As you can see, she's doing just fine.
Just look at that smile!




Happy 12th Anniversary to us....


Friday, July 05, 2013

A fun 4th!

Wasn't sure what was prettier...
the fireworks or this beauty

Watching the sky rockets!

I'll hold it, but I'm not letting it
anywhere near his pretty face

Some snow cones at the festival in Claremont

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Camping shots from Gracie's camera

Camp Hair
Cooling down in the Kaweah River
Oh Deer!
Sequoia National Park Jr. Rangers

Cozy Chillin' by the Fire

Inside Crystal Cave.

Inside a hollow tree that Gracie found

Crystal Cave had many formations
including this massive stalactites
hanging from the ceiling

The entrance to the cave was guarded by this beauty

Let's grow this in our garden!

Me with the prettiest thing at Sequoias

That water is snow run off.
She's smiling on top, but her legs are crying

The outside entrance of the Crystal Cave.
There is a 20 degree temperature drop inside the cave just
10 feet from where we are sitting 

Grace just steps away from the top of the
top of the Tokopah Falls trail

Gracie's view of our campsite

Ready for a cold night

Becoming Jr. Rangers at the swearing in ceremony

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Camping in Sequoia National Park...

This is not a fake background.
We took this on the Big Tree Trail 
The entrance to Sequoia National Park
Campsite 186 at Lodgepole
On the trail to Tokopah Falls
Even though it's low on water this year, Tokopah Falls
was worth the adventure to the falls
A cone from a Sequoia.
Every tree starts with the seeds from a cone like this
In front of the Sentinel Tree
What is in there?


Burn damage from a forest fire...
Saw my professor and good friend from APU,
Gary Lemaster at the General Sherman Tree.  
I mistook him for a National Park Forest Ranger
Gary Lemaster and a real National Park Forest Ranger
I don't think these guys made it...
The General Sherman Tree.
The largest tree in the world by sheer wood volume. 
Walking through the Congress Trail
A fallen Sequoia.
It shatters and takes down anything in it's path