Time with the Grandson!

Our sweet seven-year-old Grandson is visiting us for a month and a half. We had missed him so much the year since he and his Mommy left to go back out to Tucson!!! I had a great visit the two months I was in Tucson this spring, and now he is here, and we are loving every minute!

On the ferry ride over the James River to Jamestown he made a friend to share the sights with.


With his Grand-daddy on the Susan Constant in Jamestown.


Getting to "light" the cannon on the Susan Constant.



Next to one of the guns.




With his aunt, making his very first toasted marshmallow.




The "last hurrah" of the train table...we pulled it out of storage, and he's been playing with a combination of the trains and his Army men!



With his Great-grandpa who went into a nursing home this week.




When we went to Virginia Beach a "roving photographer" approached us about having shots done to buy at their studio later that day, so he had his first "photo shoot" :-)



He ran and played in the water and sand and had a ball that day!


Following Grand-daddy down the beach.


We are halfway into his visit, and these are the "highlights" of the first half. He's getting pretty homesick at this point, but also having fun, and it's wonderful to have him here!

The First Trip

Last year I helped my daughter drive home to Arizona, and here we stopped along the way to take some pictures. It was a long, tiring trip, but once there, I had a great ten day visit. This year I flew back, and those pictures will be posted later. I stayed for two months and there will be a lot to share!!!!
Great scene, I think in New Mexico somewhere along the trip.
A palm tree in my daughter's front yard.
Another nearby palm on an unusually cloudy spring day.
A blooming ocotillo cactus across the street in a neighbor's yard. Once the ocotillo are dead, the dried out strands make great "barbed wire" fencing and were used a great deal in the old west for that purpose.
My daughter and son-in-law and the grandson when we went to the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum.
A mountain lion at the outdoor habitat museum.
My grandson in front of some dino bones.
Three agave and a prickly pear.

I've missed getting to post things, and I've missed looking at all your blogs!!!! It's good to be back, and I can't wait to get caught up with each of you!!!
Marie