It’s hard to see- but these trees are heavy with ice – and this was taken 6 days after the snow storm!!! It was very beautiful, but very trecherous when it first happened. By the time we left the roads were fine, but the trees were still waiting to be released from their icy grip.

It’s wonderful when God supplies such a beautiful sunset when you’re stuck in traffic! Makes all those tail lights not quite so offensive. =)

Deb and I met at Shippensburg College in 1969, when the college randomly put us together as roommates. We’ve been good friends ever since. Ah, sweet providence!

This is my niece Christiana, her brother Mike and his wife, Robyn. Christiana lives in Philly and inherited lots of our “stuff” when we hit the road. Mike and Robyn live in Pittsburg (we were fortunate to catch them visiting Chris). Mike’s a Doctor, and Robyn is a talented artist – check out her website!

And last but not least, our son the GRADUATE (with his proud parents)! He really has a heart for youth, and is being mentored by the Youth Pastor at our home church while he works a day job in construction to start paying off his college loans (and live in general!).

Though we never expected it to be the case, we’ll be “home” for the holidays! Well, we’ll be at Toby’s home for the holidays, but we’re headed to Doylestown to catch up with friends there first. But FIRST – we have Josiah’s graduation on Saturday!!!!! Yippee! We’re Very Proud of him!
We head out EARLY (Gary is saying 4AM) tomorrow for the trek north. We’re leaving the RV here in Kingstree, so we’ll be mooching off family and friends for a couple weeks! Hope they’ll have us!
We’ll be talkin’ soon, K?

I know, I know, A beach is a beach is a beach. But it was soooo pretty! Here are just a few (believe, I’ve left many at home!) pictures of the day.

Here are some more shots of the Congaree National Park. This ‘floodplain” forest was quite diversified and amazing. And some of the trees were Huge. Some have even called them the Sequoias of the East.

The cypress tree’s roots grow up – and are called “knees”. I had never seen them before, and thought they were pretty darn interesting. They reminded me of families of ground hogs sticking their heads out of holes!