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2014: While visiting in California, we took one afternoon off hiking and visited the beautifully restored Mission San Jose in Fremont. It was still decorated for Christmas and quite inviting. The museum attached to the Mission church is also quite interesting.

2013: Angie and I spent three weeks over the holidays with her sister and family in Fremont, California. While there we took every opportunity to go hiking in the regional parks, usually in the hills around Fremont. And as you may be able to see from the cap, I also got in a trip to my favorite spot, Muir Woods.

There are more pictures on my Flickr photostream.

2013: We got treated to an early cold spell complete with sleet and freezing rain. It kept the DFW Airport and all of North Texas shut down for quite a while. This is what the front yard looked like the morning after.

There are lots more pictures of the ice storm on my Flickr photostream. 

2013: We got up to Paris, TN where we met up with Alice McCutcheon and Carol Mannon. Carol presented me with a "genuine Fidel cap" she picked up on her recent trip to Cuba. We decided to do our visiting while we enjoyed a trip up to Grand Rivers, KY and Patti's 1880s Settlement. Angie and I decided to share one of their famous 2" thick broiled pork chops. We ate all we could, brought more than half of it back home, and it made a couple more meals too!

On the way back I decided to go through the "Land Between the Lakes" National Recreational area which has some beautiful scenery, twisty roads, and an infamous sign!

All in all, we had a great time.

2013: The next stop was in Dyer where we visited with family and lots of old friends. As one of the good old Dyer High School teachers, Mrs. Catherine Thomas, was celebrating her 99^th birthday, my cousin Natalee and I went by to wish her a happy birthday and drop off a card.

2013: Jim and Connie Wallner invited us to join them in a trip down to Ennis to see the Bluebonnets. We had a great time at the festival browsing the crafts and eating all the goodies. After that we went out to check out the Bluebonnets. Although not a particularly good year due to the drought, we found plenty to ooh and ahh over on a near perfect early spring day in Texas.

Apparently it's either a law or a requirement written into the state Constitution that all Texas parents have to take the babies in particular, and the children in general, out for a photograph in a Bluebonnet patch this time of year. Just to be on the safe side we got Jim and Connie to take our pictures too!

There are lots more pictures here on flickr.

2013: The program at the Rockwell Collins Retiree meeting this time was given by Elizabeth McCormick, Blackhawk Helicopter Pilot, author, and motivational speaker. She certainly had some interesting stories to relate.

More Pictures here. 

2012: For the first time since 2008, we were in town and able to make the State Fair. It was really nice to get back to the fair and visit all the usual attractions plus a few new ones. However, if the prices keep going up I'm going to have to get a bank loan to afford to go next time!

Lots more pictures on Flickr.

Little did we realize that this would be the last time we'd see Big Tex in the present incarnation. We look forward to seeing his return from the flames next year.

2012: We were happy to be invited to attend and celebrate the wedding of Bobby and May Joe. Their invitation forgot to mention that it was early evening in downtown Dallas on Texas-OU weekend, but we managed to make it and had a great time!

2012: We decided that the first of March was such a beautiful, warm day that it merited another visit to the Dallas Arboretum. Young lovers were enjoying it also! (This statue always reminds me of a similar sculpture I saw in a park in Lima, Peru!)

Lots more pictures including the Chihuly glass exhibition here on flickr.

2012: January also brought a visit from the Dilleys that had been long promised and oft postponed. We really had a grand old time while they were here, and we all took advantage of a warm sunshiny January day to visit the Dallas Arboretum, tour the Degoyer mansion, and pig out on some good country cooking at Barbec's.

L-R: Marion Dilley, ShuFong Dilley, Angie Harrison.

2012: Well guess who should wander in from China to say howdy in January! Ed Nance was back for his annual Chinese New Year visit & business trip. We took the boy down to Spring Creek BBQ and fed him some ribs so he'd feel at home.

2011: Together again! Before we left Taiwan to fly back home we managed to get a group of old friends and relatives together for a good, long catching up visit. Here are the four amigos, Jenny, Lynn, Lucy, and Angie together again for the first time in a long, long while.

It surely was good to see everyone again.

2011: While in Hong Kong we got to meet old friends and neighbors Ed and Nenette Nance. This was snapped by a helpful fellow in the lobby of the Marco Polo Hong Kong hotel where we met. Ed located a nice dim sum restaurant just down the street, and we spent several hours catching up on what's been going on while having some good food.

2011: This year Angie and I took a slow boat to China! And yes we got to see the Great Wall. Angie made it up to that third watch tower you can see, but I stopped about a 100 feet below. Seems like I'm not 18 any more!

Actually we boarded the Diamond Princess in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and cruised until we reached Singapore. Between Vancouver and Singapore we visited Ketchican, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, College Fjord, and Whittier Alaska, Muroran and Nagasaki Japan, Vladivostok Russia, Busan South Korea, Qingdao, Dalian, Tianjin and Shanghai China, Hong Kong, Nha Trang and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Vietnam, and Bangkok Thailand. After Singapore we flew to Taiwan and spent a couple of weeks with Angie's family and also got to visit with long time friends there.

More pictures are here on Flickr.

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