Highlights of 2015

Orcas Island in April ... one more time ... or as we like to call it, Orcas 3.0

Spring in the Salmon River Mountains We went to the mountains to gawk at wild flowers but they weren't blooming yet so I guess we'll just have to keep going back till they are.

June in Pennsylvania

School Reunion Good times with old friends from the long ago but still wonderful years of the fifties. Gettysburg Battlefield A sobering, powerfully evocative experience Covered Bridge Hunt A serendipitous meander across southern PA in search of the elusive wild covered bridge. We ran five of them to ground. Not a bad day's work, I'd say.

OGG IV Old Grampsengram Camp with grandson Hudson

Summer at home Shirley brightened our summer considerably with her flower magic while Old Grumpy installed some new windows, fixed the fence, trimmed some trees, seriously chainsawed some others, and mostly just fiddled around a lot. I don't think I like fences very much.

September in the Sawtooths Sawtooth Mountain peaks from the west from a spot near the Grandjean trailhead

Bull Trout Lake in Autumn Our annual October camping adventure at a very favorite mountain lake. Results: a twelve inch rainbow trout and we didn't even get snowed on. It doesn't get much better than that.

Family Time

Thanksgiving in Oregon Erich, Bill, Luke, Shirley, Kurt about to do some serious Thanksgiving feasting.

Winter Solstice Eve in Coeur d'Alene Mike, Porter, Kristin, Hudson, Shirley, Bill on a perfect Tubbs Hill walking day, complete with fog (Can you see the lake in the background?) ... and wind... and then, of course, the occasional minor blizzard. Perfect. Good, good times.

Bill & Shirley with Mt. Hood and the city of Portland in the background Thanksgiving 2015