Spring Trip to Yellowstone

For mothers Day weekend, Erika and Eric went to Yellowstone. This was our best sighting of the weekend. A grizzly below the bridge near the Tower/Lamar Valley intersection. We were safely on the bridge above him.

Saw several Sandhill Cranes

Sunday morning was as beautiful and calm of a day as you can get. This is a pic of Electric Peak reflecting in the Swan Flats ponds

Lunch with a set of antlers at the Blacktail Patrol Cabin on the shore of Yellowstone River

It was amazing how this antler was "naturally" perched right next to these flowers.

Ma's 75th in Sedona

In honor of Ma's 75th birthday all her children and children-in-laws took her to Sedona for a week. This is the house we rented with fabulous views from the deck. I spent as much time on the deck as I could no matter how many hats and gloves i had to wear!

Sunrise on our first day in Sedona - notice the snowfall in the hills above Sedona from a storm the day we arrived.

A pretty sunset from Doe Mountain

Cactus flower

Here is the whole gang on our first full day in Sedona (My cowboy mustache was a temporary thing)

A pretty lunch spot on the Munds Wagon Trail

Theres a new board game out -- note the name in the middle. Its not a camera trick. Herb made this board and it looks exactly like the real board just with different names of places that we've all lived at over the years. Instead of "going to jail" you get to "go to Long Island" for your punishment.

A beautful church built into the rocks. According to the information at the site the architect was inspired by the empire state building.

Sunrise north of Sedona with tourist ballon.

Herb, Trying to get liftoff from the Vortex at Devils Bridge.

The last sunset of our trip - view from Doe Mountain