July Placeholder

 Seems as though we have been having too much fun.  I am quite behind on my blogging stories.  Having just returned from a great camping trip to Medicine Lake, one requiring almost 3 days of photo processing, I decided to write that first, before returning later to fill in the blanks about a great July.

So just a couple of highlights:

Fourth of July was celebrated with another lake camping trip to Fish Lake with daughter Deborah, including a side trip to kayak our beloved  Recreation Creek.

Early July saw the summer heat building with a few storms and sunsets and summer flowers

Mid-Month I traveled north to Brownsville for a few days to visit Daughter Melody.  I enjoyed her gardens, conversations, good cooking, and a day trip to the coast at Newport.

Mid-Month Mo and I traveled back over the High Lakes Pass to Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls for the first Thunderbirds air show held there since 2008.  Spectacular!

We were included in a level 2 evacuation notice thanks to a fire that was much too close for comfort, just a mile south of home

Late in the month, my sweet little Dakota, which I bought new in 2002, passed away, and Mo and I found a replacement in Portland.

For my personal journaling purposes, each of these events requires more than a photo or two and one sentence, but all that will show up later, when I find days that are not filled with so many other things that allow writing time.