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The Kind of Woman to Marry

Dear Josh and Eamon,

We didn't go to the islands or Paris on our honeymoon. 

We went to Cape May, NJ, 

where the proprietor of a B&B 

refused us shelter because we arrived at 3 a.m. after an all night drive.
That first night we slept on the beach by the nun's convent near the lighthouse. 

It was freezing and my new bride (your mother) and I clung to each other for warmth.
Since that night, many others have slammed doors in our faces. 

Always, we've clung to each other near the outgoing tide and laughed with each sunrise after the cold, harsh night.
So marry a woman like that...

one like your mother...

one who shelters you from the cold and dark...

both human and nature.

Love, Dad

Grammy's Easter Card

Grammy Curley's Easter Card to Josh that Arrived Three Weeks After She Died in 2003

Glacier

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Inwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

Pure Water Dubois WY

Pure Water, Fitzgerald Wilderness, Dubois, Wyoming 2003

American Eagle Nest

Eagle Nest, Brush Creek Ranch, Saratoga, Wyoming 2003

Osprey Nest

Osprey Nest Above Telephone Pole, Dubois, Wyoming 2003

Waterfall

Waterfall and Josh, Fitzgerald Wilderness, DuBois, Wyoming 2003