Best Friends: Colin and "Brrr"

Colin and Grampa "Brrr"

Wedding and Honeymoon May 1978

I'm going to repost this on our 38th Anniversary. Some of the few photos we have of that day.

Kenny Przybylski on left (the only photo I have of him). At our reception in Mt. Airy Forest, May 5, 1978.

Terri Antholzner and Brother Dan

Cutting the Wedding Cake

Linda, on our way down from Mt. LeConte, Smoky Mountains

Smoky Mountain Honeymoon, near Mt. LeConte

Because of our daughter's approaching wedding, we started looking at our own wedding photos from May 1978. Linda has not changed much. I used to have hair! Brown hair and a brown beard. Tempus fugit!

Colin and Grampa "Brrr" at the Mentor-on-the-Lake Splash Park

The Splash Park on a hot summer day!

Yesterday's Birthday Picnic, at Fairport Harbor, on Lake Erie.

Colin playing in the sand with Emily

Ed and Julia

Colin eating the birthday cherry pie

Colin and "Brrr"

First Bear Near Euclid, Ohio Since 1850s

A Black Bear climbed over a barbed wire fence and entered the property of the Lubrizol Corporation in Wickliffe, Ohio (Lakeland Boulevard at Lloyd Road)--maybe  a half mile from densely populated Euclid, Ohio. This happened about one week ago. Since then, there's been no word about the bear. This bear was seen in Kirtland (on the high school property), in Willoughby, and in Wickliffe. When was the last time a bear was in Euclid or Wickliffe? 150 years ago? Longer?

When I was a kid in Euclid you never even saw a deer. Then one day around 1990 I saw several deer on E. 266 Street, running through yards, leaping over fences, heading toward Lake Erie. Now deer are common in Euclid and all the surrounding communities. You see deer, turkeys, and coyotes. Geez, next we'll see bobcats, grey wolves, and cougars!

Here's a video that was shown on WEWS TV:

Colin with Aunt Carolan (at Emily's Wedding Shower)

Still Deep Snow on Montana Mountain --Carolan Discovers!

Early Saturday my daughter Carolan started hiking from the Holland Lake Campground with the goal of meeting some of her friends working on the eastern side of the Swan Range in Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness. She began on the Holland Falls Trail (Trail 416). After a couple miles she crossed  the footbridge over Holland Creek and continued on Trail 35. After 6 or so miles of hiking she skirted Upper Holland Lake and at that point had to strap on her snowshoes. She then hiked uphill in increasingly deep snow for a couple miles heading for Gordon Pass. Her goal was Shaw Cabin. As she approached the top of the Pass, which is about 7000 foot elevation, she could no longer see the trail. The snow was almost 10-feet deep in places. Carolan realized that continuing on would be dangerous, so she reluctantly turned back. She had already hiked almost  7 or 8 miles, with about as much to go to Shaw Cabin. So she hiked back 7 or 8 miles until she reached her car at the Holland Lake trailhead.  She had hiked that day 15 to 16 miles with about 4 of those miles in snowshoes. The first half of the trip was pretty steep and she was tired out and somewhat disappointed about not reaching her goal.

But who can complain about a day's hike in one of America's greatest wildernesses? Shaw Cabin will wait for another day, later in the season.

Holland Falls (image found on the internet)

Any doubts about the snow depths around Glacier National Park and The Bob can be put to rest by this image that appeared on the Glacier National Park Facebook page (below):

Logan Pass in Glacier National Park--Mid May