Proofsheet - G&G 05

Another small update from a roll of film that Ellen sent.


Because only one of the pictures is interesting, here is a larger image of Grandma and Grandpa (click for a larger image.).


UPDATE

Shari writes in the comments:

This looks like the photo they had on display at their 50th Wedding Anniversary party. Remember those sheet cakes they had? And all the people who came to the farm? Grandpa and Grandma are (understatement of the year) troopers.

Thanks, Shari! I don't remember the sheet cakes -- until I found eggless cakes I didn't pay much attention to cakes -- but I would love to get more pictures (and stories?) about their anniversary. And, yes, they are quite the troopers!

Grammar Nerd Question

In the recent post Proofsheet - G&G 04 we wrote "the rest of the roll either exists somewhere else or is lost." We treated "the rest of the roll" as a singular subject and, thus, used singular verbs. Should we have treated "the rest of the roll" as a plural subject and written "the rest of the roll either exist somewhere else or are lost"? Would it matter if we changed the subject to "the rest of the negatives"?

See, kids, grammar is not only important, it's fun!

UPDATE

Craig writes in support and I think I can rest easy now.

"rest" is singular. You are correct. "of ...whatever" is not important to the singularity of the rest.

Whew! Even if the rest of the family members is unsure, we should probably put this to rest. Thanks, Craig!

Dave also chimes in with the rest of the story.

Of course, there are different rules if you are using British English. In America, we would say "Italy has won the World Cup" (or "Italy wins the World Cup!!"), whilst in the UK they would say "Italy have won the World Cup" (or "Italy win the World Cup!!"). We consider a noun that represents multiple items (in this case, the name of a political unit made up of millions of people) to be singular, they regard it as plural.

But of course, they also say "maths" instead of "math," so there's really no reason to take their grammatical rules seriously.

Thanks for the worldview, Dave! I am kind of interested in what the English think of their grammar; the language is called English for a reason, after all. It seems that some people view the resolution of subject/verb agreement for compound nouns as not being so simple. I cannot say that any particular view is clearest, and I do not think the grammar police will arrest anyone for getting it wrong, but in the interest of restoring some manner of prestige to my grammar skills I will continue to wrestle with the issue to find the surest, purest, fairest rule of application. Or, whatever.

OTOH, the use of "maths" seems to be a spelling disagreement more than a subject/verb agreement disagreement. "Maths" is used as a singular, correct?

Proofsheet - G&G 04

Today we have a very small update from the film that Ellen sent. There are only two negatives showing preparations for Christmas in Grandma and Grandpa's basement. Because these negatives did not match any of the others in the package, the rest of the roll either exists somewhere else or is lost.


Click for a larger image. Let us know in the comments if you would like GAP to post larger images of any of these.

UPDATE

Ellen posts some information about the pictures and a poem (!) in the comments.

For years, Grandpa and Grandma would fill a Christmas stocking for every child and grandchild in the family. It took a lot of effort and quite a bit of money and the basement would be off limits to family members for weeks. These two pictures were separate from other negatives because I think Grandma used them in her family newsletters. She also wrote a poem about the family Christmas stocking project.

Christmas on Grandpa's Farm

On Grandpa's farm there's a basement door
That's sealed up tight from top to floor
And a great big sign in black and white
Says, "DO NOT OPEN 'TILL CHIRISTMAS NIGHT!"

(My Daddy says, when he was a kid,
He'd crawl under the porch where the windows hid
And try to see through the webs and gloom
What was hiding in that secret room.)

On Christmas morn we'd wait in delight
While Grandpa turned on the Christmas lights,
Then we'd burst through the door and shout with glee
And "Whee-Whee" round the Christmas tree.

On the walls of the room were dozens of socks
One for each person - present or not.
Then we'd pour all the gifts out on the floor
There must be a zillion million or more!

Later that day we'd creep down the stairs
To see if there might be more gifts down there,
But the door to the secret room stood wide
And there wasn't a single thing inside

Thanks, Ellen! GAP can never have too many stories and poems!

Ellen wrote commented again to clarify that, "that poem was written by Grandma Stutz, not Ellen." Duly noted!

Other Projects - Photo Restoration

In addition to scanning the negatives and pictures that Ellen sent, I have been working on some other projects unrelated to family history. One of the more interesting ones is a photo of President and Mrs. Johnson that I restored for a friend at work.


In these before and after pictures, you can see (click for a larger image) that the original was very faded and retained very little color information. After scanning, and using only Photoshop Elements 5 (I still have not invested in a newer program!), I was able to tease some color and detail out of the picture. The steps I took were:

1. Straighten and crop the picture;
2. Fix and saturate color;
3. Improve the contrast and highlight/shadow detail;
4. Sharpen image;
5. Remove dust, scratches, and other blemishes; and
6. Reduce grain and other noise in the image.

The results are not perfect -- certainly not as as nice as a new picture -- but they are not too bad, especially considering the original image. It took a lot of trial and error, but short of painting on color (which I did not do) the picture is quite usable. I even received a box of cookies and brownies out of it!

I am not trained in photo restoration, and undoubtedly a professional could do more. But, if you poke around at a hobby long enough -- and I've been poking around a digital archiving for a little while -- you can get pretty good results.

UPDATE

Ellen writes in the comments, "Way to go, Rob. That's pretty cool how you can do that." Thanks, Ellen. I enjoy doing it!

Craig then adds, "Now see if you can photoshop grandma next to LBJ."


I'm not great at photo manipulation but, what the heck, here by request is Ladybird Stutz. Now, if you can identify which image Grandma's face is from -- it is from one of Grandpa's slides -- I will be really impressed.

Rippin'est, Roarin'est, Fightin'est Man the Frontier Ever Knew!

Fess Parker died today. He is not family, and his television fame as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone predates me. In fact, I would not have noticed his passing had I not come across his name earlier in a family picture.

When I was scanning some of Grandpa's slides a few months ago I became curious about this picture of John and Susan playing in the snow (developed in April 1967). What was John holding?


I opened the largest scan I had, zoomed in (click to see the big picture), and made out the words "Fess Parker" and a picture of a frontiersman.


After some poking around on Wikipedia and eBay (thanks, interwebs!) I found a better picture of the lunchbox and some history about Fess Parker.


And now I'm curious. What other Fess Parker gear did John have? For that matter, what other childhood heroes were people fans of?

As I look at the family pictures, I sometimes wonder about the details in them and the stories they hold.

UPDATE

Susan writes in the comments "wow, now that's a blast from the past" and John adds:

That lunch box was one of my favorite treasures including the matching thermos inside. I would have been a complete man if only Mom and Dad (Grandpa and Grandma) would have bought me the coon skin hat. In addition to Daniel Boone, I had my eye on Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, Jungle Jim, Zorro, And of course Super Man. Oh the good old days....!

Thanks, Susan and John!

Shari also writes, "You guys must have been walking home from school. :)" Ah, the fond memories of walking home from school. I should do a post on this, because in my memories I did enjoy the walk home. Thanks, Shari!

Earthquake in Chile - Sarah Is OK

GAP is not a great source for current events. Heck, we're lucky if we get items posted once a month! This one's important, though, so we wanted to get the word out quickly.

Sarah Landeen, who is on her mission in Santiago, Chile, is OK after the earthquake.

Ellen, her mother, wrote on Facebook:

There was an 8.8 earthquake in Chile last night. Sarah is serving in Santiago West and is on the coast, but (being the nervous mom that I am) I called Church headquarters this morning, and all missionaries in her mission are safe and accounted for. :) We hope that is the same for all missions in Chile.

Sadly, many people have died in this disaster, which had 500 times the energy of the recent quake in Haiti. Please keep them and all who are suffering around the world in your thoughts and prayers. Please do what you can to help.

UPDATE

Ellen just posted more information about Sarah on Facebook:

I just got a phone call from Sarah in Chile. She is ok. Her house in intact, they have food and water, and there was no flooding from the ocean in her area. She said she woke up Friday night to the earthquake, they jumped under a table, stayed there until the shaking stopped. As of today, there is no power in her town, so she may not get to email tomorrow. It was so good to hear her voice!!!

Pumpkin Patch Pictures

"Ask, and ye shall receive." GAP asked, and we certainly have received! Ellen sent a story, Andrew sent two patriarchal blessings, and Craig also sent a story. In addition, Ellen sent a box of slides, negatives, and pictures that are currently being digitized. Finally, there is more stuff from Ellen in the email inbox that we need to go through, too! Thank you everyone for the family history information for GAP to post!

Can we keep this train rolling? GAP could still use plenty of help, and we're open to publishing pretty much anything family related. Old stuff, new stuff, whatever stuff is just fine. Send to stutz at montana dot com and GAP will take care of the publishing logistics. Or, if you want to be involved on an on-going basis, drop a line and ask to be an author!

Today, we have some pumpkin patch pictures from the Stutz farm taken in what looks like the late 1990s, though I do not know the specific year. They include Ellen's family and Grandma and Grandpa and are from the recent batch of materials Ellen sent. We recognize almost everyone, but we'll make this an interactive posting. Drop the names, year, and any stories in the comments and we'll update the post with new information.






The pictures have not yet been edited to remove the bars on the side that are part of the scanning process. By way of comparison, though, these pictures, when clicked, are 1/25th the size of the images that we send out on disc each year. You can look forward to these pictures (and more!) on the disc that goes out this Christmas.

UPDATE

Ellen writes in the comments:

I remember when we took these pictures. It was on a sunday afternoon in October and we came to Provo in our sunday clothes. Picture #3 is of Melissa, Sarah and Emily Landeen with Grandma. Picture #5 is of David and JR Landeen. The first two pictures look like Kenni Lynn Wilcox's children. Notice the giant Pumpkin. It made a wonderful jack-o-lantern.

Patriarchal Blessing - Joseph Reuben Stutz

Thanks to Andrew for sending this!

Patriarchal Blessing of Joseph Ruben (sic) Stutz

Millcreek the 9th of July 1893, Salt Lake County, Utah.

A blessing given under the hand of Patriarch W. J. Smith, upon the head of Joseph Ruben Stutz, Son of Lorenzo Stutz and Catharina Leutenegger, Born August the 26th 1881, Millcreek Salt Lake County Utah.

Brother Ruben, I place my hand upon thy head in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, to bestow upon thee a Patriarchal and a Fathers Blessing, and I Seal upon thy head the Blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with all appartening to the new and everlasting Covenant, even the Blessings of posterity, that thy posterity may be numerous upon the Earth, with houses and lands, flocks and herds, the fruits of the Field and of the Vine, and that you may be valiant to the truth and in the testimony of Jesus Christ and be mighty in proclaiming his gospel to the Sons on Man, and to Nations afar off, live to see Israel gathered, and Zion redeemed, and assist in building up her waste places, be gathered to the center stake, and be a pillar in the Temple of God, when your hair shall be white as the pure wool, have the ministering of holy Angels, and have faith like Elijah of Old, and be filled with inspiration and revelation and discernment, and prophesy, and be a Mighty man in the Lords House, be a comfort, and a blessing to thy parents, all the Day long, and heal the sick, comfort the afflicted in Israel, and be valiant in the Testimony of Jesus. Thou art of the Royal seed of Israel, of the house of Joseph, of the lineage of Ephraim. I Seal these Blessings upon thy head with a Holy Resurection in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Recorded Book D, Page 83, 84.

UPDATE

Ellen thanks Andrew in the comments. Andrew then notes, "There must be another one out there as these were numbered 2 and 3."

When Grandpa Went to Jail - Clifford Stutz (1982) (Introduction)

The previous five posts are the essay "When Grandpa Went to Jail" written by Clifford Noel Stutz in 1982. Clifford is Grandpa's (Howard's) brother, and the "Grandpa" in the story is Lorenzo Stutz, Clifford and Howard's (and others') grandfather. Lorenzo's story has also been told in two previous posts: the first was from newspaper accounts from the time and the second was from Grandma's (Mildred's) book All You Immigrants.

The story is written in these posts exactly as it was sent to me by Ellen. I broke it into five sections -- one section per post -- and gave each a title identifying the content:

1. Story
2. Poetry
3. Diary
4. Polygamy and the Penitentiary
5. Final Thoughts

These title headings were my only contribution to the essay. Ellen also contributed a note to the poetry section about a Landeen ancestor's connection to Lorenzo Stutz.

Thank you Ellen for sending this story to me! It was especially helpful that it was already transcribed into an electronic format, making it easy to post and share with the family. If anyone else has stories transcribed or electronic versions of Grandma's books or other family documents, please send them along!

UPDATE

The posts were originally published 1-2-3-4-5 chronologically, but because GAP organizes posts in reverse chronological order they were on the blog as 5-4-3-2-1. Ellen suggested (thanks, Ellen!) reversing the order so they can be read 1-2-3-4-5. Fortunately, GAP can alter space-time, so we've changed the posts to make them look like 1 was published last (and, thus, appearing first on the blog, 5 was published first (and, thus, appearing last on the blog), etc.

Andrew writes in the comments, "Great stuff. I'll check my records to see if there is anything I can add." Thanks, Andrew!

Andrew then writes, "I have the patriarchal blessings of JR and Lorenzo. Also, do you want any Coombs stuff?" Oh yeah! We love getting patriarchal blessings, Coombs stuff, and any other family history information. Send it to GAP, Andrew, and we'll post it. And, thanks!

Mystery Picture 100116

This picture from a slide developed in October 1963 shows Ellen on the tractor, Joe on the rake, and Dennis off on the left.


Who is Dennis?

UPDATE

John tells us about Dennis in the comments.

Dennis Ferguson was a neighbor boy who was a permanent fixture around the Stutz farm. He was hard working and loved to be out in the fields or orchard. He had a sad life but for many years could be seen riding his bicycle around town miles from home. Grandpa recenly told me that Dennis stopped by to visit within the last few months and seemed to be happy.

Thanks, John!

Mystery Picture 100115

It has been awhile since we ran a numbered mystery picture, and I probably should have numbered the pictures from last Friday, too. Feel free, of course, to add names to the comments for those pictures, despite their lack of numbering.

Today, however, we have a straight forward fall picture from a slide developed in December 1985.



As always, the first picture can be clicked on to view a much larger image. The second, numbered picture can be clicked on to view a somewhat larger image. If you leave comments with the names of the people, I will fill in the numbered list as people are identified.

1 - Tricia
2 - Jeremy
3 - Jana
4 - Lori

UPDATE

Andrew and Ellen agree on Tricia and Jeremy, and Ellen also guesses Jana and Lori. Thanks, Andrew and Ellen! I am not 100% sure about Jana, given the ages of the kids and the quality of the picture; I would probably guess Wendy. Thoughts?

Ellen also notes that this is on the Stutz farm, and I can picture (Ha!) exactly where they are standing.

This is as good a time as any to mention that GAP has added a link to The JEM Show blog (Jeremy, Emlyn, Millie). Welcome!

Bottle of Rye ... Flour

At our house, we minimize a lot of allergens for medical reasons, including wheat, dairy, eggs, nuts, and soy. We do not avoid these entirely -- except for nuts, which almost never make an appearance -- but we do need alternative foods (and an EpiPen) to make sure everyone stays healthy. It is not as difficult as one might think, but it does take some effort.

We keep rye flour, spelt flour, and, sometimes, oat flour in gallon bottles that long ago held banana peppers for a Subway shop. We use these flours in place of wheat flour in our recipes. They mostly work well, and spelt is biblical, so no complaints, no worries. We are fortunate to have access a variety of grains that we like, and can even be a bit picky in this day of global markets; millet flour and quinoa flour do not make the cut in our family!

Susan recently posted on her blog about Grandpa's work to increase rye yields, and it is a very fascinating and funny tale. Besides, it combines two of my favorite topics -- family and food. So, with all credit to Susan for putting the story together, here is an excerpt about Grandpa's work to increase rye yields.

Like Gregor Mendal, who is considered "the" father of genetics; "my" father, a BYU professor of botany and genetics, also is a meddler of plant chromosomes. The big difference is that instead of creating pink pea flowers from red and white ones, my father experimented with polyploids of rye... Yes, the fiber-rich, good-for-you cereal, stuff...Rye. Eventually my dad's work led to a significant increase in the yield of cultivated rye...estimated to be around a factor of 10 fold. (that's really a big deal on the global world hunger stage....seriously.)

Thanks, Susan! And thank you Grandpa for increasing rye yields and making it easy for my family to pick up rye flour at Safeway to make normalish pancakes!

You really should read Susan's whole post because she continues the story and tells how Grandpa got her to bake a loaf of rye bread. I considered "excerpting" the whole post here, but thought it more fun to rile Susan so she will expand on the story Grandpa was telling about WWII before I "excerpt" it. Besides, she may even discover a great rye bread recipe that will inspire me to crack open a bottle ... of rye flour.

UPDATE

Susan writes and thanks me for "keeping up" with her, so I guess that means my "excerpting" of her posts is officially sanctioned.

I called Susan the day after the original post to discuss the part-plant, part-animal sea slug and, on her suggestion, I called Grandpa to talk with him about it. He had very good questions -- much better than I thought to ask, but he's the geneticist -- and I did my best to answer them. Fortunately, I recalled that the sea slug can produce chlorophyll (Grandpa asked if it was chlorophyll or chloroplasts), the sea slug can pass these chlorophyll genes down to the next generation (Grandpa asked if the genes were incorporated by each generation eating plants or if they were passed down), and the sea slug can carry out photosynthesis (Grandpa asked if it was functional change or just incorporation in the DNA). I forgot the detail that the slugs have to eat chloroplasts in order to carry out photosynthesis.

Grandpa and I also discussed his rye research. He hybridized and selectively bred rye to increase both the number of nodes per head and the number of florets per node, either of which can increase the rye yield. He explained that evolution is driven by plasticity, which is the ability of an individual organism to change its traits in response to its environment. When the change becomes permanent and is passed down from generation to generation, the organism has evolved. With the rye research, getting the plastic changes (more nodes or florets on individual plants) to become permanent (more nodes or florets on all descendant plants) was the real trick.

In the case of the sea slug, the production of chlorophyll is a permanent change -- the sea slug evolved to produce chlorophyll -- but the production of chloroplast is a plastic change -- the sea slug has not evolved to produce chloroplast, but individual slugs can produce it once they consume it. Unfortunately, at this point in the conversation Grandpa had a difficult time hearing me; I blame it on a bad cell connection. So we said I-love-yous and good-nights and promised to talk again about genetics.

Mystery Picture 100112

Here is June Kessler, Grandpa, and some bunnies. I probably should have saved this for Easter!


Who is June Kessler?

UPDATE

Karen writes, "Doesn't June Kessler look like the same girl as the one in the 'Mayflower' picture?" I think she means the picture in Non-Mystery Picture 091205 and I think she's right. That picture of the Mayflower had several names on it, and one of them was June Kessler. Thanks for the cross-reference, Karen!

Mystery Pictures 100108

This may be a bit of a cop out, but here we go....

Yesterday GAP published a What Would You Do about a bunch of slides developed in July 1970. The first roll of slides had pictures that were mostly from a family trip to some sand dunes. The information I have about the picture is posted above each picture.

Susan at sun-up


Susan and Angie


Ellen


John at sand dunes


Big John


John, Mom, Ellen - sand dunes


Susan is on the farm in the first one, but two things are apparent about the others: 1) We do not know where, when, and why this family group was in the sand dunes, and 2) Not everyone in the pictures is identified. Can anyone help out with this information? Was this a road trip family reunion?

UPDATE

Ellen provides some names and background information in the comments:

Going to the sand dunes was a very conmmon event. While Grandpa was studying atriplex, we would often pack everybody up and go to the sand dunes for the afternoon. In the picture of Big John, that is Aunt Janet in the blue jacket. The toddler in the last picture must be Shawna. I would guess this was about 1970.

Thanks, Ellen!

What Would You Do? Overlapping Rolls of Film

These pictures show various scenes from the farm, some sand dunes, and a trip Ellen took to the Grand Canyon and southern Utah. The Grand Canyon being the theme du jour, it is a good time to post this odd assortment of pictures. All are from Grandpa's slides and were developed in July 1970.

Sometimes putting pictures in the proper order is like solving a puzzle. If you do not enjoy puzzles, just enjoy the pictures, write any names or stories you know about the pictures into the comments, and skip the rest of the text.

These pictures were all developed at the same time and had no additional information about the development printed on the slide frames to set them apart. To further complicate things, they arrived from different collections at different times. This post is my attempt to put them back in order and reconstruct the original rolls of film with the slides in the proper order.

Each roll of film lacks most of the slides, so the collection is incomplete. The slides were all numbered, and they all contained some information written on the slide mount that I incorporated into the file name for each image. You can see this information by clicking on the image and saving it to your computer (the default file name will show the information) or by looking on the right side of the URL for each clicked picture. This is cumbersome, so I provide what I think is the pertinent information at various places within the slides.

The slides were named using GAP's fancy pants file naming system, with one exception and one caveat. The exception is that at the beginning of each slide is a two digit number that I added for purposes of this post to group the pictures in the correct order (per the printed slide frame number) and by roll (I grouped them into four rolls, each roll's numbering beginning at a multiple of 10). Thus, the earliest frame of the first roll has 01, the second earliest from of the first roll has 02, the earliest frame of the second roll has 10, the second earliest from of the second roll has 11, etc. The caveat is that several of the file names have a Roman numeral (I or II) after the "JUL 70", which was an unsuccessful attempt by me to distinguish the rolls when scanning and naming the images; ignore this number, it means nothing now.

The pictures in this post are not in the order that they are on the DVD I sent out. If anyone is still reading this -- which I doubt -- and is interested in solving the puzzle -- which I really doubt -- you may want to pull the images for July 1970 off the DVD and sort them out yourself. If nothing else, you may get a sense of what GAP goes through when trying to recompile family history from little bits and pieces.

The rules I followed when arranging these are:

1. The order has to be logical;
2. The slide frame numbers within each roll have to increase from one frame to the next, since this is the order the pictures were taken; and
   
3. The content of the pictures has to make sense in the context of the picture groupings.
   

Numbers 1 and 3 are explained below. Number 2 you can take for granted ... or you can look at the slide numbers in the file name to check my work.

OK, here is my grouping and reasons.

Roll 1 - These pictures are a different size and shape than the others and had increasing frame numbers with no overlap, so I grouped these together as one roll of film. I put them first because the weather looks colder and, thus, earlier in the year than in the other rolls of film. Can you name the people and the place?







Roll 2 - These pictures start on the farm and conclude at the Grand Canyon. I reason that there was a roll of film with farm pictures in the camera that was taken to the Grand Canyon. I grouped these pictures together because they had increasing frame numbers with no overlap. I could not group the farm pictures with the later pictures from Zion's or Bryce Canyon because the frame number would have overlapped. What is going on in the farm pictures?







Roll 3 - These pictures start at Cedar Breaks, continue into Zion's, and conclude at Bryce Canyon. I reason that the roll of film was changed between the previous Grand Canyon picture and the following Cedar Breaks picture because the frame numbers reset between the two and the picture content naturally breaks between them. What were Ellen and friends doing on this trip?










Roll 4 - These pictures contain only Bryce Canyon. I reason that the roll of film was changed at Bryce Canyon because the frame numbers reset. I placed this roll after the previous one because Bryce Canyon pictures conclude the previous roll and begin this one.




Thus, I reasoned that the chronological order of the pictures is as follows:

1. Sand dunes (probably on a different camera than the rest)
2. Farm
3. Grand Canyon
4. Cedar Breaks
5. Zion's
6. Bryce Canyon

Other explanations could be that there were more than four rolls of film developed in July 1970 or that there were multiple trips to the same locations, making the obvious grouping of pictures the wrong one. Perhaps someone knows the answer and can clarify this? If clarified, I will update the image file names in the collection of slides to reflect the proper chronological order.

What would you do?

I am guessing that, if anything, what you are doing is smiling slightly, shaking your head in a sad sort of way, and clicking over to something more interesting. At least, that's what I will do after I read this!

UPDATE

Woohoo! Ellen writes in the comments that I got the order of the pictures correct.

Yes, Rob, you have organized these pictures correctly. I took a trip with my girlfriends, Mary Tucker, Ellen Millett and Patty Millett, to Grand Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Zion's and Bryce Canyon one summer about 1970 or so. I probably borrowed Grandpa's camera because all those pictures are of my trip. It was really fun. Thanks for the memories.

Thanks, Ellen! Your help filling in the details of these pictures is always appreciated. Plus, I can now stop fiddling with trying to get the pictures in the correct order. I will relabel the file names to ensure that these are organized correctly, and I will include the updated names the next time I send out a DVD. This is a good example of why it is useful to replace previous versions of the pictures with new ones; sometimes identifying information is updated!

The pictures in Roll 1 above are now the subject of Mystery Picture 100108.

Susan and Todd's Excellent Adventure

Santa brought Susan a new camera, and she was quick to put it to use on her and Todd's 1st Annual Winter-Time Road Trip to the Grand Canyon.


The GAP staff wishes we had a new camera, but we are comforted (somewhat) by the fact that there is a trading post near the Grand Canyon named after Grandpa's Apple Press.


Thanks for the beautiful pictures, Susan and Todd! Be sure to check out Susan's blog for more pictures, stories, videos, and the occasional rant.

UPDATE

Susan posts again with even more pictures from the adventure.



Thanks, Susan!