Memorial Weekend 2007

late start to gvl

relaxing morning

checking out the flowers



yes i water the weeds, can't help but love these pin wheels...



macro shot (ok, i am macro shooting weeds now, i think i have officially lost it!)

lake walk

we watched this dog forever, he was having so much fun chasing the ball into the lake. check out all the boats, there were dozens out there fishing.



i was having a hard time finding a black oak to plant at camp shiwaka. as part of our wise old willie patch, the green feather, we chose to donate a tree. well, 6 weeks of phone calls led me nowhere since it is difficult to purchase native california trees at your local nursery. many places said they could get one within two months, yikes! too late!

luckily i remembered last minute that there is a nursery on our way to the cabin, they had one black oak left and we had to search and search to find it. deerlick nursery in arrowbear saved the day for sure! our tree planting day is next saturday...thank goodness we got it! by the way, it is the prettiest lime green color, lovely!



there has been a lot of swashbuckling...sword play going on around here and i think dad had just about had enough when he tossed this sword out of the way while packing the truck. i said i didn't hear it hit the ground and we both laughed when we saw it high in the trees...ooops! the boys would never have noticed, until a week later i am sure, but we let them help get it down. aaron actually asked us how it got up there...suggesting a supernatural force of some kind did it (yes i am serious!) no aaron, aliens, wizards, fairies have better things to do than toss your sword into the trees. this kid reads A LOT!