So, to pick up where I left off with Megan and her surgery – we were still in Boise – and Megan was ready to check out of St. Luke’s hospital.
Oh, wait! Before we do that, I want to share a few more photos I took of downtown Boise.
I took this photo standing on the second floor of the Capitol Building, looking out through the columns over the city, down Capital Avenue:
Far in the distance you will see a tower poking up in the sky. That’s the old Boise train depot. We decided to drive to the other end of Capital Avenue and check it out:
The Boise Depot
We stood in front of it and I snapped a photo looking back over Capital Ave:
Follow Capital Avenue back, toward the center of the picture, and you will spot the dome of the Capitol Building.
I got David to pose in this picture I took of the back, track side, view of the Depot:
There are some well-preserved old buildings downtown, like this one on Idaho Ave:
Okay, so now Megan has checked out of the hospital and it’s time to hit the road for the 275-mile trek back to Idaho Falls.
Megan is in the car ready to roll …
And get back online texting her friends.
It had been three days since we had driven to Boise – and now, on our return, I was hoping to glean from the landscape some fresh signs of spring …
The signs were fresh, all right. With more snow clouds on the horizon.
Then we passed this rig:
What are those things stacked upside down in the back – giant dog kennels? Who bought this stuff?
I spotted something that might be photo-worthy in the field ahead, advancing toward us at 80 mph, an old barn and … OOOO! Where’s my iphone? … fiddle … fiddle …tricky to capture it!…”Click!”
What? Trucks? Where did they come from? I never even got another glimpse of that barn. By the time we got past those two trucks that barn was a good half-mile behind us.
A few miles down the road I took this photo. Any buds on the trees? Or did the leaves recently fall? I’m suddenly confused …
This sure looks like November to me.
We kept driving and driving, with David at the wheel and me making sure he wasn’t dozing. I had a strategy in place for keeping him awake. If I saw as much as one eye lid droop I would begin chattering at him non-stop. Or he would have to pull over and let me drive.
He stayed alert.
Here I captured a typical southern Idaho landscape:
Is that truck following us?
I glanced at Megan in the back seat …
“ZZZZZZZZZZ”
Okay, so I was bored, too, and trying to keep myself awake, in case I had to start chattering …
I captured this picture:
Do people actually live here? How far is the mall? Does that truck look suspicious to you?
I was determined to capture scenery with my iphone. I’d have the camera function ready and I’d be focusing on some subject of interest, but then we’d accelerate into the passing lane, I’d hear the loud roar of a truck, and …
…”Poof!” – shoot an abstract of the inside of our car.
Here I captured another farm, pretty close to Idaho Falls. You gotta take what you can get.
I wasn’t going to demand David to “Stop the car now and let me out!” to take the photo, especially given that the odds of getting run over by a truck might be pretty high.
Okay, so we’ve pulled into our driveway now. We’re home! Whew.
Time to get Megan out of the car and into the house …
… without being impaled by crashing icicles on our way to the front door. Ahhh! A fresh sign of spring!
Flowers arrived!
So did the new faucet for the main floor bath –
It’s a perfect fit – with the holes in the sink, that is. David spent most of a Saturday adapting and attaching the plumbing, with several trips to Lowe’s for various sized plumbing pieces.
Is that you, honey?
He proved himself a handy plumber. The faucet works great. That pull-out hose is handy for washing hair, or rinsing out bins.
Or if you are a grandparent or parent of young children, I say, out with rubber duckies and squirt guns. This faucet could offer hours of great fun for small children and immature adults. So if you think you might want one of these for your bath, for whatever reason, it is made by Delta – model number 550.
We’ve been home for almost two weeks now. Megan has long since settled in. So has the dog …
… until she boots him off.
We’re just hanging out, mostly. She in her recliner with cell phone, books, music, art supplies, and TV controllers and I with my iphone. Hey I’ll photograph anything. And post it on my blog.
I just took a picture of our new dining room table arrangement:
It turns out, you need the leg supports off the wheelchairs more than you need them on. But you also need to put them somewhere handy.
Interesting still-life there.
Maybe I should take up painting?
Tags: Boise, Idaho landscape
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