It’s become my tradition on this blog to recognize our wedding anniversary, September 7, 1968, 57 years ago!

It’s also becoming tradition to include a picture from Estes Park since we usually vacation there the last two weeks of August. This year’s “vacation” was a bit different. We arrived on Monday, August 18, and spent all week getting ready for a piano concert as I’ve written about before. The concert went as well as it could have, and you can watch it here if you like. Music starts about 2:20 in, and the concert lasts about 85 minutes. You can’t see the speakers since the camera is trained on the piano. Someone captured June and me giving our opening remarks:

We spent the second week of vacation trying to recover from the first week!

I usually include a hiking picture, sometimes of Bible Point, a short, steep hike: 500-foot elevation gain in 0.8 miles. Because it was cloudy, we could shoot toward the YMCA of the Rockies, where we stayed and where the concert was.

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. (Proverbs 31.10, ESV)