When family members live in widely separated parts of the country (or the world), parting is bittersweet. You are always glad to be back home, but you do leave a part of your heart behind you.
Jim and Bev Ohlman
This is my last day with my brother, Jim, and his wife Bev. Yet having over 400 photos on my camera memory chips, it will be easy to recall the pleasant memories of my stay at Bluebell Springs. One of the joys of being here is the long conversations we have—which go on into the evening until the call of the pillow becomes too strong to resist. Then I trek up to “the barn,” my home for the week, and hit the hay. Of course the barn is really a garage (entered from the back), a workshop (that I envy), and a comfortable “efficiency apartment” (with a view you’d have to pay dearly for if it were a resort room.)
"The Barn"
As you can imagine, Jim and Bev have friends and family by the dozens come to visit: writers, musicians, pastors, professors, and others who are compelled to return once they have experienced the wonder of creation showcased by Bluebell Springs. As a bird and deer sanctuary, a botanical garden, an arboretum, and a place of quiet rest, it will always beckon me.
See you outdoors!
Dean
Enjoy more photos of this awesome place:
Bluebell Springs pond and house
Bluebell Springs beach
Bluebell Springs creek
Magnificent madrone
The garden house
Backlit maiden hair fern
Crescent Beach shell furrow
June 27th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Dean,
Beautiful pictures. I’m going to have to get a digital camera and learn how to send pictures on the internet. What a great way to communicate!
And speaking of communication, in my last post I tried to say that there is no place I’ve seen that’s MORE beautiful than the Puget Sound area. Not that its the MOST beautiful. Bob, you’re right that I have never seen the Smokey Mountains, and that’s certainly my loss. But, as you say, each area has its own unique, distinct beauty.
Anyway, the On The Road series have been enjoyable. I look forward to more in the future.
Mike
June 29th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Mike, they say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and “beholding” Bluebell Springs in Dean’s photos says beauty for sure. Would love to visit the San Juans. My sister vacationed near there a while back and remarked of the beauty and wonder of the area.
Dean, glad you got to visit and be with Jim and Bev. Hope you got your soul revived and are ready for what is next on this wonderful web site. I guess it won’t be long before we’ll have the new WOC revealed to us, and sure hope the conversations on line can continue. Seems like our blogger family may have increased a little, and am pretty confident that if allowed to share like this, it may grow more.
At any rate, love the site, and what you are sharing.
Bob