Spring at Millerton Lake SRA, CA

It's wildflower season (Eastwood's Fiddleneck) and wildlife season (bobcat). The sunsets are spectacular.

Summer Assignment

We have our summer assignment. We will be camphosts at Twin Rivers Canyon Resort near Sandpoint, Idaho. Our time will run from 1 May until after Labor Day. We're excited. The resort is at the confluence of two rivers and is only a few miles from the Canadian border. We will work four days a week. That leaves three to explore.

Is it Spring Yet?

Today the temperature is in the 60's and it's a holiday weekend, Martin Luther King day is Monday. Y'all come!

Here, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!

We have bobcats. They always seem intent on what they are doing. They are usually stalking ground squirrels.

Winters Are Short!

Winters in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Fresno, CA are mild, but often foggy. That's the bad news. The good news is that they are short. Occasionally, we get a week of fog. Then we climb fifteen minutes up the hills to the sunshine. These were taken last week. High temperatures were in the 40's.

Merry Christmas

Millerton Lake State Recreation Area, Friant, CA. The stockings were hung by the window with care, but we had to go to Fresno for the fillings and the dinner fixings.

This is our seventh season as camphosts at MLSRA. We'll be here until sometime in the spring. We're not seeing very many campers this holiday season. We believe the economy is taking its toll. Fewer people are traveling.

We are thankful for family, for freedom to worship in a wonderful church, and for friends. We have wonderful friends all around the world. We've seen so many this year. God is good, even when the economy is not. He is our Jehovah Jireh.

Our Short Time in Canada

Wndmill Point Campground in Fort Erie, Ontario, was our first stop. The TransCanada Trail runs right beside it. So we had to walk a few miles on it.
Our next stop was Toronto, where we spent three days in a city park nursing our sick dog. She had succumbed to too many treats from her baby(dog)sitters at Niagara. No pictures of Toronto or of Lake Ontario from the Canadian side.
Next stop was Kingston, ON, a military town at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River at Lake Ontario.

City Hall was amazingly ornate. The mayors had a tradition of adding a link to the decoration shown around the neck of the mayor in the picture. After awhile it got too heavy to wear. Ft. Henry is on the hill. The old railroad station is across from City Hall. Kingston was the first capital of Canada, later moved to Ottawa a few miles north.