Spring 2012

Our beautiful spring--

Snowdrops in our yard--

Pear trees in bloom-

Snowy blooms.
On our drive to Tennessee--

Redbud and dogwood--

Forsythia--

Redbud and evergreens.
In Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

azaleas--

Flowering cherry--

and dogwood.

Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

View from Clingman's Dome overlook.

Mingus Mill

Corn hopper

Grinding stone

Corn meal.

Native American carving in Cherokee, North Carolina.

Views at Newfound Gap.

You do what on this road?

Drive back to Virginia--

Our home garden.

Christmas 2011

Our Christmas tree!

Tammy and her miniature nativity scene from Costa Rica.

Bryce plays with his train cars.

Pam helps Isabella with her doll's sleeping bag.

Reindeer Ken!

Isabella and "fuzzy" hands.

Christmas in Gettysburg.

Eric's whole bunch with their "fuzzy" hands.

Monica with her Costa Rican bag--holds her new camera.

Rhys and her doll in their ponchos.

Desi and her doll wearing the ponchos that I made for them.

Costa Rica Nov/Dec 2011

The beach at Papagayo Bay, of the Pacific Ocean.

The resort, built up the hillside.

View at breakfast and lunch.

Our unit

The main pool.

Greenery everywhere.

My breakfast escort.

Breakfast guest--blue magpie.

Screw pine tree--not a pine, we saw them in Okinawa, too.

Bird of Paradise flower.

We took a day trip to Palo Verdes National Park--on the river. Then to the city of Liberia.

Our boat!

Tree of egrets.

BIG crocodile (10-ft)

Crocodile

Male (orange) and female (green) Iguanas.

Guanacaste Tree in Liberia. Guanacaste was the name of the state we visited.

Mountains and volcanoes.

View from the hilltop.

Our road from the hilltop.

Our last good-bye to Papgayo Bay, from our upper balcony!