I'm still having computer problems . . . bare with me for a couple of days.

God bless (and heal my computer).

OK, so these photos are from last weekend, our son's birthday.  I won't say that I am up and running but I was able to post in a round about way.  I uploaded the photos from the memory card to the network ethernet hard drive through my barely limping machine.  Then I transferred the files to my portable hard drive which connects by firewire.  I then connected the external drive to a Linux machine that does not want to talk to my network (no reason why other than maybe the lan board is fried or something).  Then using the GIMP I edited the photos and saved them back onto the portable drive.  Finally I used my wife's laptop to upload the files to xanga.  Because my wife is using her computer, I came down to my server and posted my blog.  What a pain in the wazzu!

Anyway, about these photos . . . our son's 24th birthday.  P's girlfriend MA and our youngest daughter K drove up from Pocatello to spend the day with P. Lovely MA never wears dresses but dressed up just for P who was spellbound and stunned.  Being a great sport MA allowed me to take her picture though I did promise her photos of P from our backup drive.  My wife and I made P a homemade cheesecake for his birthday.  The above photo of the cake is interesting because we did not have 24 candles.  I thought about 2 and 4 for twenty four but decided to go binary.  Twenty four in binary is 11000 so I added a "parity bit" so I could have at least three of the candles lit.

Anyway, I hope to have a bunch of other meaningless photos edited and then uploaded so I can post some this week.

Blessings.

Here are some more scenery shots of our trip into the mountains.

You need to keep in mind that we are driving a mountain ridge in a heavily forested area.

I don't remember the actual altitude of the area but I can tell you that even though we still have green grass in Idaho Falls, this area is currently buried in snow right now.

The seasons change quickly here and it would seem that we went from summer to winter overnight.

But for the time being, as based on these photos, this is part of the splendor of the Rocky Mountains.

There is little above our trail as indicated in these photos but if you look at previous photos, you can see the valley spread out below.

If I had the time and money, I would spend every weekend in these mountains.

I would buy land up here but most of this is forest service public land.  What little is privately owned is held onto for generations.

Enjoy.