My turn to maybe be pining cause everybody else now seems to be on vacation.
Alaska must be wonderful too Jackie, but travelling gets a bit tedious when you have to take your shoes off all the time.
(Ironic, terrorism made us take our shoes off, not in churches and temples but on airports)
The cutest gadget of rural and suburban America I thought is this:
link The little free standing house for letters, outbox when you put the red signal up. Cute. But I also admired Pluto and our moon's surface through a telescope, the Science Academy and SFMOMA in San Francisco, a black widow spider in the garage, dolphins and seals seen from the beach, white pelicans over the house and the large hawks. A frantic howling coyote outside the fence on my family's back land in the dead of night.The mountains round Lake Tahoe, the largest variety of pine and fir trees I ever saw and many more amazing things of beauty. etc. etc. Now back to work and I hope you're all having a nice vacation too. :~)
