Joyful Scribblings of a Bookish Wanderer

I've been in a bit of a haze the last three weeks. My Grandpa left us to be with Jesus on April 9th.  I have not been allowing myself enough moments to process and grieve, and as a result, the fog thickens.   I am hoping that allowing myself to crawl back into my memories for a little while will help to dispel some of the fog.  I've had multiple best friends through the years... my childhood best friend, my cousin best friend, my adult best friend, my soulmate best friend. But the one person that was my best friend through all of the years of best friends - was my Grandpa. As a little girl, I remember taking Grandpas big hand, and leading him along, jabbering about my toy horses and telling him all about my cats and fussing about my brothers. He mostly listened. He had the most gentle. husky voice and his laugh is forever burned into my memory. He had a little raspy chuckle he would do in response to my chattering, and that chuckle always told me that he was listenin...

Another morning dawned in our Anniversary trip.  We once more were up at 3am (time change messed us up) and we headed out early.  We took yet another road from Angels Camp across the Sierra Nevada mountains. We decided to take the Tioga Road in Yosemite, since we visited the valley area of the park the day before.  We decided this was our favorite place of the park yet! There were some amazing overlooks, and it was just fantastic to be able to see so far out over Yosemite valley!  But before we got to the views, we stopped to see the Hetch Hetchy reserve, and it wasn't quite as amazing as we had hoped, but it was ok.  We continued driving and soon arrived at Tuolumne Meadows. It was gorgeous - fantastic - surreal. Everything of my dreams and fantasies! We were able to walk out to the river, and explored a section of the meadows that was large boulders scattered in picturesque way over the meadow. I will just let the photos below speak for themselves!  We co...