Merry Christmas!

Danny & Melissa

We took Melissa on an Autumn drive near the Mississippi river one day last week.

Balyki Class of 1973

Saturday night was my 35th high school class reunion. I truly enjoyed getting to see and visit with my 'old' classmates.

At the Grand Canyon

We spent a week at the Grand Canyon in July.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!

Adam and Melissa playing with sparklers. 4th of July 2007

1954

A page I did of the four of us.

Rhododendron

This rhododendron grows on the north side of our yard. It was a retirement gift for Alice Pratt given to her by her daughter in 1976.

Chair Lift to Natural Bridge in KT

We took a vacation to Kentucky with Adam and Melissa last year.

Chief Mountain

It will be two years, the first week in June since we visited Glacier National Park in Montana. This mountain fascinated me. It looks so neat standing there alone in the wide open sky.

Happy Mothers Day

MOM and DAD

Lilacs growing in our yard.

Here are Danny and Melissa overlooking the Mississippi River in Hannibal MO. a couple of weeks ago.

Violets

One thing that grows good in my yard are the violets. They grow everywhere, but I like them.

Gerbera Daisy

My Gerbera Daisy

Pink Tulip

A pink tulip that I used to have. It dosen't come up any more. I love this picture I took of it.

Daffodil

I have noticed everyone has daffodils blooming now. Mine aren't! I don't have any this year. I don't know what has happened to them.?
This is a picture of one taken a few years ago in my flower bed.

Dad

Here is a picture of Dad when he was a young boy. Today it has been 4 years since he passed away.

An Old Vacation Picture

This is me at age 15. We were on vacation in Colorado. I loved those family vacation road trips. Even as a teenager I loved them, unlike the teenagers you see on TV who are portrayed as being bored and annoyed that they have to go.

Avalanche Lake

Danny and me at Avalanche Lake in Glacier N.P.

Waterton Lake, Canada

This is me at Waterton Lakes National Park. Taken from the lawn of The Prince of Wales Hotel. What a very pretty place! Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE the mountains?

A Letter From Home

A scrapbook page of my great grandparents, Hugh and Adaline Mills. The picture of Adaline reading a letter was taken by her son, Chester. A lot of the Mill's pictures were by him. I like how he would put a title on them. I used Adaline's own signature on this page, I got it from her daughters(my grandmother, Audrey) report card.

Great Great Grandparents

This is Cordelia and Elijah Homan, they are my great great grandparents from my dads side (his mothers side). They were my great grandmother, Adaline's parents.

Herbs

This is my herb garden a couple of years ago. I am so ready for winter to be over so I can get out and work in it.

Danny With the Colonel

We took a weeks vacation last Summer with Adam and Melissa in Kentucky. We stopped at the Original Kentucky Fried Chicken "Sander's Cafe" restaurant and had lunch one day.

M, D, & A at KFC

Moose

I have a thing for moose. It goes along with the lodged/cabin decor that I like I guess. When Danny and I went to Colorado last September we hunted and hunted for moose until we found some. I had been standing by this lakes edge for along time watching a young bull moose that was across the lake. Just after I left and walked up the steps leading from the lake this moose comes and walks into the water right where I had been standing not one minuet before. I think she was waiting for me to leave so she could get across. How's that for a close encounter with a moose?

Alaska From a Plane

When we went to Alaska in 2003 we didn't own a digital camera so we borrowed my dad's. We didn't really know how to use it so we didn't get too many good pictures. We do however have a lot of video that we took with our camcorder. This picture is one I took from the plane window, it was so awesome to see the mountains and glaciers from above.

The Postcard

A scrapbook page I did using my grandmothers postcard album and one of the photo postcards(both front and back) that is in it. She is second from the left, the first row in the photo. The postcard was from a friend named Hattie, who must also be in the picture, as she writes "Remember the day?" I just love all the old family pictures, they are my favorites to scrapbook.

The Mills Family

I think this is a neat old picture of my Dad's maternal grandparents and his mother and uncle. It was taken on their farm in Kansas.

Fun Old Picture

I have always been fascinated with this old picture of my Grandfather, David Huey. Both men in the the picture are him. He took it himself using a timer on his camera I guess. I've always thought it was a neat picture.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

1965 Colorado Road Trip

Me, Linda, Dad, and Kathy

Not the best of pictures but there was something not set right on the old Brownie camera of Dad's, so all the pictures on that trip were not much good. I think this one was probably the best one. This is the first time we ever went to Colorado and when I first fell in love with the Rocky Mountains. Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE the mountains?

Snow Geese

These snow geese have been showing up around here about this time for three or four years. There are thousands of them! Linda and I went out in the very cold weather yesterday to get some pictures of them. We couldn't get very close though so it is hard to see them in these pictures. There was also this neat old barn we got a few pictures of and they came out real nice.