Today is a beautiful sunny day, but so cool, I'm wearing a sweater. I amy go our and weed a flower bed, so the sweater will come off . IT's 65 degrees this morning. I"m having trouble finding my goldfish in the ponds, but I have no trouble locating the frogs. We have at least two different kinds. ONe is mostly light green and the others are darkgreen. These two on the rock are almost black, they are so dark.

This is the first of JUly and my hybrid daylilies are just beginning to bloom. I had blooms in May down south, but I'm happy to have my big blooms here in July. Let's see if I can add a few pictures to this blog.

2012 Trips

February Trip to Dallas. While visiting Chuck and Luella in Dallas, we attended three wonderful Valentine concerts. Dallas does things up right. We also ate a lot of good southern food..

We got home in time to repack for Las Vegas and had a great time with Dean and Eunice in their Condo. We visited Death Valley in CA and went to the lowest point in the U.S. We also visited Hoover Dam and the Majave Desert, Red Rock Canyon and The Valley of Fire. I love the Joshua trees too.

Since I never finished our trip south, I'll continue. We spent the weekend in chattanooga going to Brainerd Baptist church and visiting friends..We left on Monday to go to Mississippi and found the Flint Creek Water Park a quiet place to stay while we visited friends. This included a trip to the Gulf Coast for a fish dinner.

ON September 20, I suffered a light stroke at the campsite. By the time paramedics got there, I was back to normal and we saw no need to go to the hospital. A mistake said my doctor when I got home. So after several weeks of therapy and new drugs, I 'm back to normal.
we continued on our trip stopping at Natural Bridge and going over the Skyline Drive. /Users/marystandard/Desktop/Oretty Valley.jpg

Virginia

We drove 430 miles today in about 8 hours and the day was beautiful. PA and Virginia are both beautiful states with far off mountains, and farmland.
I will post some photos if I can. I took pictures this morning matamoras along the Delaware. We walked to the river from our campsite and on one picture you can see the high water mark of debris behind Tom from the recent flooding.
Tonight we are at Natural Bridge, VA at a lovely KOA campground.

Matamoras, PA

Photos will come tomorrow because by the time we had supper and walked around our campsite, the good light was gone. However, what we found when we walked around was that we are on the banks of the Delaware River. A lovely park with groomed flower gardens, benches, etc overlook the river which is teeming with hundreds of geese at the moment and Linda from the office assures me you can catch any fish you want to in the river.
We saw where the floodwaters from tropical storm Lee had covered the road right along the river and dumped large trees on the banks of the gardens.
We hope to visit a few historic sites tomorrow if we have time. The Columns is right near here and is the official museum of Pike county. The blood stained flag which was under President Lincoln's head as he lay dying is among the historic exhibits.
There are so many wonderful places to visit in the USA that we could never see them all, but this is an area I would love to revisit.

Back again

Here I am back on the blog. I will be posting along our trip south as we take off in the camper for a few weeks. Hopefully I will be able to put in photos as we stop for a few days in Chattanoog,TN, Wiggins, MS, Enfield,CT and Longmeadow, MA.
Look for updates when we have internet.