Travel tales

At left is a photo of Cresent Lake up in Olympic National Park. B. and I were only there 5 days but we sure saw a lot of beautiful places - mountains, lakes, rivers, streams, rain forests, ocean beaches.

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Our latest travel plans are for a week+ trip to Peru and Maccu Picchu. Since we hadn't heard anything from the tour company for a while, we weren't sure if they had canceled the trip (as they did our planned trip to Egypt) or not. Last week we found out that the Peru trip is still on. A dozen people are signed up and there will probably be some additional folks by the time of departure.

September

Though it is already September, things are blooming like crazy in our neighborhood. These flowers are glorious shades of orange, light and dark, and this photo doesn't do them justice.

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Our tomatoes have gone wild. They are not ripening very quickly but once they do, I'll be busy making tomato sauce or tomato soup in order to use them all. Or I could invite the neighborhood in for tomato sandwiches.

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Even my pumpkin patch is thriving. For weeks I was morose about pumpkin prospects as NONE of the blossoms became actual pumpkins. Today I looked and I now have 5 growing. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, jack-o-lanterns...