Happy December First!

It's snowing! Has been for hours! There are about 6 inches on the ground.... Very cool. Or COLD rather. :D

Therapy-in-a-text-box

I've never let myself feel like the victim where my dad was concerned, I guess because I needed to think there was something somewhere somehow strong and good and right in my life, and he was the only thing I could pinpoint, or he was the closest thing I had to that I guess. Dave and I were talking tonight about things between my Dad and I growing up, a timeline I guess, and he came right out and said it without a thought. Fuck.

It's that time of year...

Sorted through the christmas stuff last night so that I could give Dan all of his grandma's ornaments. I expected it to be a tough thing, giving away half of everything, the baubles that have decorated my home every Christmas for the last 10 years, but really, it was so nice to declutter, to purge, to simplify. I feel good about it. I started out with 2 huge boxes, and they turned into 3 - one for him, one for me, and 1 (the largest) for the garbage can.

Long overdue and obscenely large pictorial, Texas to Washington... My Bobbie is home!!!!

Texas, miles and miles and miles

Cotton fields

Powdered donuts

some kind of grain

New Mexico

more of the same in New Mexico

and more

Oh! A hill!



real trees!

my monkey boys

a common sight on our trip, unfortunately. I hate U-Haul.

My Michael boy







rest area fun

Markie is king of the rock







Denver Convention center... What a COOL statue!!!

I love this! Still in Denver...

More of Denver

Denver REI - most important :)

finally out of the city again



Wyoming!!





Love this...


















Montana!



Yellowstone River!




morning snow

so pretty... We drove through a full-on blizzard for a good hour or two, but my pictures of it didn't turn out so well.





Big sky





Larch in Idaho, not the greatest picture, but LARCH!!!

Last sunset of the trip, home to Washington