Serendipity and Orchids

"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth."  PSALM 72:8  In In February and again in June and July we were in the Edmonton area to visi...

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"The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord."  Proverbs 21:31. We were in western Washington for a short visit to see our son and his family and hiked with t...

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 "And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth."  Genesis 8:13. In 2018 I went on an...

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On May 12th we went to Palouse Falls State Park with our daughter and grandchildren, but found the park closed due the death of someone who had fallen from the cliffs and for whose body they ...

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But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven.  Deuteronomy 11:11. Early in May we hiked one of our favorite trails, th...

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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.  Genesis 1:20. We try to make ...

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To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.  Isaiah 2:21. ...

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The second day of our stay in Zion National Park began at the Canyon Overlook Trail which we hiked to see the sunrise. Not only was the sunrise spectacular but we saw a lot of Bighorn Sheep a...

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 Our 2018 trip to the southwest ended with visits to Zion and Bryce National Parks.  We drove through the night from Redlands, California, to Zion, arriving in the morning, and spent two da...

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 After leaving Anza-Borrego Desert State Park we headed for the Salton Sea.  We had never been there and discovered that apart from the Sonny Bono Wildlife Refuge there wasn't much to see. ...

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 After spending a couple of days in Joshua Tree National Park, we drove west and south around the north end of the Salton Sea to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California and spen...

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Our second day in Joshua Tree National Park began at Hidden Valley where we had hiked the previous day.  We were there just after sunrise and hiked the same trail through the valley, after w...

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After a few days in Redlands, California, with friends we headed for Joshua Tree National Park and spent two days there exploring and hiking.  We came in from the northeast but before enteri...

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We have been in the Redlands, California, area a number of times recently staying with friends.  I lived and worked there for a summer as a teenager and it has been nice to be back.  We esp...

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  After leaving Death Valley via the west entrance we turned south and followed the Panamint Mountains to the ghost town of Ballarat.  There was not much to see there, the most exciting thin...

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One of the days we were in the area of Death Valley National Park we traveled out of the park by way of Beatty, Nevada, and spent most of the day at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Ne...

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When we were in Death Valley for six days in March and April we came in via Beatty, Nevada.  We also spent a day outside the park in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in the Amargosa Vall...

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After spending the night at Aguereberry Point we watched the sunrise over Death Valley, had our breakfast and then headed back to the Emigrant Pass Road and from there to the main road west.�...

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Our sixth day in Death Valley began at Warm Springs Camp where we had parked our vehicle for the night.  After breakfast and coffee we drove back down the Warm Springs Canyon Road, stopping ...

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Our fifth day in Death Valley we spent in Warm Spring Canyon.  We began the day by driving from Ashford Mill the Westside Road and on to the Warm Spring Road.  We stopped often for photos o...

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Our fourth day in Death Valley National Park began and ended at Ashford Mill but was a very busy day.  We drove up the Badwater Road from Ashford Mill stopping often for photos.  We hiked t...

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  We spent most of our third day outside Death Valley National Park.  It was Easter Sunday and we went to a church in Beatty, Nevada, only to find that their sunrise service was already over...

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 Day two of our trip to Death Valley began at the Racetrack where we had camped for the night.  We drove from there back up the Racetrack Valley Road to Teakettle Junction and on to Ubehebe...

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The middle of April we made a quick decision to get away to California and drove through the night to Death Valley National Park where we spent seven days before going on to Joshua Tree Natio...

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  We made another snowshoe excursion to Artist's Point on the north side of Mount Baker the middle of March.  We were in the area and chose a beautiful day for snowshoeing. Looking north wi...

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