Road Trip

At about noon on Friday, as DH and I were headed north toward Idaho, I thought, "oops!"  I forgot to write my blog post!  I know I don't have to post every Monday Wednesday and Friday, but it's a deal I made with myself and I do like to keep it.

Oh but I also like to go on road trips with DH!  I had never been to Idaho and he grew up there.  He had talked about the falls and different places, but in my mind it was still all potatoes.  Then he showed me this!  Shoshone Falls.  Incredible!  I wish there was some way in the picture or my words I could express to you the mist on my face, the birds swooping through the water.....

....the rainbows.  Can you see it there?  It's a double.

Then we went to Dierkes Lake.  The water really was that green.

As a kid, DH tells me he used to jump off these rocks into the water.  I really wanted to take a dip in that pool myself, but alas, no bathing suit and I wasn't goin' skinny dippin' in broad daylight!

It was fun watching these three boys playing king of the raft.  Notice the splash.  That's the third boy;)

DH had made reservations at Billingsley Creek Lodge.  He reserved the Hemingway cottage, where the author is rumored to have stayed when he went on fishing trips.

The highlight of my trip:)

Hope is everywhere:)

An osprey at Hagerman Wildlife Refuge.

The Perrine Bridge crossing the Snake River.

We headed back to Twin Falls to gas up and have some dinner before we took off.  Driving past the park, we saw that there was a Portuguese festival going on.  So we decided to stop and watch for awhile.  DH started cracking up at me, saying that I am the only one he knows that would be pointing my camera up in the air while all of the dancing and music was going on around me.  I know of at least two other people who would have been doing the same; so there!

I loved these old men.  The one on the right must have felt me watching him.  I was quite a ways off, but he kept turning around and looking.

I was mesmerized by the evening light; when the sun is low in the sky, the light pours over the land like thick honey.  As we drove south, away from our getaway, it was fitting to see this light again as the sun was going down.

I took 412 photos of this trip!  And had to choose just a few to show you.  I told DH that it's like thinning seedlings; every tiny plant is a potential big plant!  It feels the same with the photos.

I hope you are having a beautiful Monday, and a fun Labor Day weekend if you are celebrating that.  See you Wednesday!