In the Absence of Blogging

Blogging has taken a serious backseat in my life over the last month or two, and with good reason. My job, as usual, has me riding on waves of frenzied production, the wavelengths ever shrinking and crests ever growing. By a stroke of serendipity or simply good fortune, I'm dating a fascinating, handsome, lovely man named Brian. By a stroke of poor luck (though not nearly on par with my good luck), my personal computer crashed, forcing me to wait on pins and needles for a week until my IT man confirmed that sum of my picture and music files had not been lost afterall. (Back up your files, people - I beg you.) And I just returned from a nearly two-week vacation with my parents and sister. We visited Glacier National Park in Montana, Yellowstone National Park, and the Grand Teton National Park just outside of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

I'll post a few pictures as I come across some good ones.

Here's one taken at the end of our first trek in Glacier. I wanted to hike down to the lake. I was out-voted.









This is probably not the best picture of Iceberg Lake. If you look closely, you'll see the icebergs floating in the lake (hence the name) formed from glaciers slipping off the mountainside and into the water. This was our longest hike in distance and time. We were on the trail for 5 hours or more for a round trip of 10 miles. I have to give my dad credit - the hike wasn't easy.







This last picture was taken from Many Glaciers in Glacier National Park. This spralling old lodge sits at the edge of a lake surrounded by imposing mountains. This picture does the scene no justice. In person, it's spectacular.

That's all of the pictures for now. I just got home today and I need some veg time before returning to work tomorrow.