Laying a Stone to Rest

 Hullo, today we are checking out another trail...

It looks beary civilized...

Beary nice...

There are even some red huckleberries here!

Yummm!!!

Mama and her sister say they used to play here as kids...

There is quite a forest of bracken fern here!

But when they played here, it was an open meadow!

That must have been a beary, beary long time ago!

More berries!

We get a better view from up here. And now... we are off to meet some guys at the cemetery...

Yes... it's time to lay the headstone for Gramma and Grammpa

That's the stone there...

It's beary heavy...

They sprinkled some dirt and grass-seeds... and we put some mums in the ground..

Uh-oh... where's my stash...

Here!!! Have a kleenex!

And this is a stone turtle that Rose painted for the grave...

Sigh... so hard to believe they are gone.

Bus Bingo by Mice, for Mice!!!!

 Hullo!!! We finally got permission from the Powers That Be to make up our own Bus Bingo card! Of course we have to share... which doesn't seem quite fair... but we'll make it work!

Alright... we have some ideas from a previous attempt, so we are going to put them on here first...

We aren't going for your average bingo card... some of these routes have some cool places along them...

Maybe we should send Beanie a list?

There... we've got all the intersting places ones on here...

No we just have to find some other good numbers...

But it's not easy!

And finally... we are done!!!! Whew!!!

That was hard work!

Luckily there's enough squares that we each felt like we had input into this...

And there it is!!!

Waterfalls and Campfires

 Hullo! We are continuing our adventure... there sure is a lot of driving involved...

We came to this general store which has been around forever!

Maybe they have Starbucks hot chocolate??

They have pretty zinnias!

But... um... not Starbucks hot chocolate... sigh...

But that's ok... because a short distance away... we got out of the car to go on another little hike...

Ummm... Blueberry... what are you doing???

Ugh... getting a group photo can be sooo difficult!!!

I'm here!!! 

This is a massive old cottonwood!

The hike involved a bit of a steep pitch...

But luckily there is a rope or two to help one...

We found some mushrooms too... think this is a russula of some sort.

Ooooh... I can hear a waterfall!

There it is!!!

O.M.G. That is... gorgeous...

Framed perfectly with trees....

And the bluegreen water too...

Gorgeous!

We went down to the edge of the pool... because we can!

It was a bit misty down here...

But we are waterproof... mostly...

Now we just need to scramble back up (no tow rope...)

Whew... we made it up, no problem, drove a bit farther and stopped at the lake (not The Lake)...

And walked along the beach...

And had a campfire!

Out of driftwood... nice.

There was even a blanket and some snacks... impressive!

Mama and her sister are reminiscing a lot... and this trip seems to be a lot of stops that bring up a lot of memories...

It is pretty here.

And now Blueberry as been to the lake!! (and The Lake)....

It's got the cloudy turqouise glacial water sediments in it too...

Still not a Blueberry colour though!