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Here in Big Bear we have an area called the Pebble Plains.  It is a place like none other in the world.  A combination of clay in the soil and the quartzite pebbles left from the ice age have created a plain where trees can’t grow but small plants with spectacular tiny flowers thrive.  This…

A shot I took 7 years ago.  We took the kids to the Colorado Renaissance Festival in Larkspur Colorado.  I was still new to the camera but fiddled around with settings and snapped this one.  It has always been one of my favorites.

Entry 11 Life in East Ann Arbor was fine for a 7-8 year old.  I could walk to Busters Market and to the East Ann Arbor Hardware store where my Grandpa worked for a couple years.  He would be there on most Saturdays and it was fun to walk in and see him.  If I…

One of my favorite photos.  It is the lone goal from the Big Bear vs Yucca Valley soccer game on January 25, 2016.  Haley fought off 5 Yucca ladies to score.

Entry 10 Life is what happens while you are waiting for something else to happen.  Existence on a dirt road with unusual neighbors was all I knew.  If it is all you know, it is what is normal and what is home. I don’t have any idea if we were normal, but it sure seemed…

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Entry 9 I am sure every family has their logic about when and how to increase their family.  In the early 1950’s things were going well for the entire country.  We pretty much thew up our hands and said, ‘this whole war thing is not working for us’ so we just quit fighting in Korea…

Our favorite Christmas song.

Entry 8 After a short musical interlude. 1950 was a fascinating year. It was filled with things planned and things not planned. Planned: All of those young couples who were married at the end of World War II started having babies. The entire country along with it’s educational systems forgot about these kids until the…

A wonderful comic from The Oatmeal. It’s going to be ok. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane