It has been a busy month

A lot has happened since my last post a month ago. Val arrived from Texas and we have been busy! We took Christopher (Craig's oldest) to look at Stanford.  I hadn't been back to campus for a long time and it has expanded tremendously.  My old chemistry building is now all surrounded by chain link fencing and inaccessible for some reason.  There are new science and engineering buildings in a new quad adjacent to the old quad, which is still the same.  Stanford has an impressive art collection, particularly sculptures by Rodin.  It was fun to see.  I also saw some old friends that are in the Palo Alto area--I hadn't seen them since about 1968 so we were all a little older.


After that trip we went to the 50th anniversary of good friends Judy and Joel Bedford.  They live in Denver and the anniversary was at a rustic resort in Saratoga, Wyoming.  Sort of smoky in Denver but better in Wyoming when we arrived.  Val and I had decided that we would go on the Grand Teton and Yellowstone after the anniversary.  We got a place at Jackson Lake Lodge in Teton and it was just great.  We took trips up to Yellowstone and also explored the Teton area.  We are now back and recuperating before the next trip to Carmel next week and then NYC at the end of the month.  So it has been a summer busier than any I remember in recent years.  Val has never seen anything in the west so it has been fun to introduce her to the wonders.  Here are a couple of pictures.