Memories…
Four people, luggage, blankets, and two dogs packed into a Volkswagen for vacation trips! Those were the days!

Four people, luggage, blankets, and two dogs packed into a Volkswagen for vacation trips! Those were the days!

People think I’m kidding when I tell them that the state tree of Nevada is the telephone pole. But, in many areas and for as far as the eye can see, there’s not a tree in sight.
Nevada has a rugged beauty all it’s own!

The original cryptogram from Thanksgiving was:
“CH UZBKV QGKCXCYNB XU MHYGCBHYU KSN ZEBKUKSC, CH BSKMC QGKCXCYNB XU QBSBGHYU KSN SHPEB, PYC CH EXRB QGKCXCYNB XU CH CHYMF FBKRBS.”
OHFKSSBU K. QKBGCSBG KGC FXUCHGW ZGHDBUUHG, CFBHEHQXKS, ZHBC
Hint: C=T
Decoded by Alysia Burrows 🥇
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven.”
Johannes A. Gaertner, Art History Professor, Theologian, Poet
Photo by Erol Ahmed

by Beth Haley
Small icy flakes began falling Tuesday evening. Barely seen, they fell and came to rest with tiny whispers. I sheltered beneath the swinging bows and listened to the wind blowing its icy breath through the leaves. It’s a light show for now, but promises more Winter to come.
I reflect on a friend’s words from not too long ago:
It snowed through the night and stuck around. Thank you for some snow this season! ❄️
Header photo by Chandler Cruttenden

“CH UZBKV QGKCXCYNB XU MHYGCBHYU KSN ZEBKUKSC, CH BSKMC QGKCXCYNB XU QBSBGHYU KSN SHPEB, PYC CH EXRB QGKCXCYNB XU CH CHYMF FBKRBS.”
OHFKSSBU K. QKBGCSBG KGC FXUCHGW ZGHDBUUHG, CFBHEHQXKS, ZHBC
Hint: C=T
Photos by Priscilla Du Preez and Erol Ahmed

Boulder, NV
A very good bite
Great service and coffee too
in Boulder N-V 😋

by Beth Haley
Wide open spaces,
There are very few faces.
As the sun goes down,
We’re driving from yet another town
This chapter of our journey took us through the rest of Arkansas and on through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.