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Father's Day! He is a good Dad. They all filled out an "All about Dad" questionnaire  (which was hilarious as he read them out loud to us) and the 2 older ones also wrote him sweet letters. A Father's Day tradition I began a few years back :) He threw himself in the pool with Chester :) Bounty from the Clay Collins Garden  basil The gazebo is up and just needs the roof! more homemade pots by Clay with all the herbs thai basil the abundant mint english thyme Chester's bell pepper plant the cantaloupe is going bonkers tomatoes last week was filled with playing in the pool and getting this one ready for college...filling out all the paperwork to play basketball is huge! We got word she can head up to SLO but the protocols are very intense.  I can't believe she'll be leaving in a month. Also, her face looks like 6 year old Lucy here :) I sat and waited for my hummingbird friends there are two hummingbirds that buzz around playfully, swooping in and out of the

The second day of our trip we headed out to the very back of Kings Canyon.  I had no idea what it was or what it was about.  My whole expectation of this trip was pretty low since we knew nothing except every travel tip declared it the less visited park next to Sequoia.  Turns out it was a gem! We decided to go to the end of the canyon and work our way through the park.  Here is a shot looking down and I thought... huh, this looks a lot like hot San Bernardino.  So, at first glance the only thing that impressed me was the road ribboning down into ...somewhere? My first impression was way off.  That winding road led us down to a pine filled paradise! We stopped at Zumwalt Meadow first for our lunch.  The air was clean and smelled again of sweet pine. It felt like the perfect day to meander through the park. The South Fork Kings River didn't look too deadly here :) But it did much later! "Rivers flow not past us, but through us" John Muir I think he relished in getting his