FOR AULD LANG SYNE

 Because we couldn't take a road trip this New Years weekend, and thus blog it, we decided to share the story of our last New Years weekend.   We spent the first night {Friday} in the quaint town of Cedar City, Utah. Our plan was to see Bryce Canyon Nation Park, The Grand Canyon, and Zion National Park {along with any other place that struck our fancy}.  Early Saturday morning, each with a cup of hotel coffee in hand, we took the road headed for Bryce. Winding our way up the mountain road, through Dixie National Forest, we passed cascades of ice, frozen in their flow down cliff sides, deep blue and pale in color. At a viewpoint on the summit, we stopped to look out...

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'TIS THE SEASON

 I {Maria} love the Christmas season. Decorating the house is one of my favorite past times. I {Will} love... watching.   This year we have a real fireplace, complete with mantel and hearth to decorate. Which of course we are taking full advantage of. The mantel was the first thing we decorated for the Christmas season. Two smiling snowman gaze out from the brick shelf beneficently. A garland wrapped in lights hangs in even loops; a bow at the center and each end. Ornaments hang the length of the garland, three on either side of the center bow.  Acquiring our tree turned out to be an adventure involving two trips to a tree lot, a dead tree, and a trip to a second tree...

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