Elements

One of my favorite elements here...I love food!!!! Laurel's kringle is on the right...and then strawberries and toasted pecans and walnuts...things I'll miss

Laundry!

Laurel and I have talked about this several times; laundry on the line is cool! It's like Little House on the Prairie and all things clean and green! The wind whips it, it smells good, it's pretty...so many good things about sheets on a line.

A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

This picture is worth 1000 words, to me anyway. How can sky infuse you with a sense of life and a good dash of joy? It does! That little flat rimrock (shadowed side, sunshiny top, at the end of the shadowed hill) is one of my favorite places. I can sit up there and share the day with my family via phone. It's one of the closest places to cell service! It's beautiful up there, and I love it. I think Mom has heard me say, "Man, I LOVE this place!" quite a few times while I was sitting up there talking to her. Those mountains, the Centennials, give a kind of joy too. I love looking at them. I can stare at them for longer than I would've thought, and whenever I do,  my mind tries to probe pathways up into them. I'd love to get to the top sometime! That would be so COOL!

Mesa Falls: Henry's Fork of the Snake

Mesa Falls...the beautiful, peaceful Henry's Fork of the Snakes curves and flows around many quiet river bends. Not all of it is quiet though! Mesa Falls takes a quiet river and turns it into a thundering angry bull of a river fenced in by steep, high basalt cliffs. Right after the falls it goes back to being it's peaceful self. It's about a 15-20 minute drive off Hwy 20 near Island Park. The walk down takes maybe 5 minutes, if that.There's an old inn there too. I don't know if people can stay there or not.