#21, #22 & Colorado Vacation

What's a summer vacation without 2 books read?  So I'll start with book #21 ~ The Ocean at the End of  he Lane by Neil Gaiman.  This was a strange little tale of mystical happenings.  The main character return to his childhood home and remembers his encounter with evil spirits from across time & space and his rescue by his neighbors.  It wasn't a bad tale, but it did cause me to have a bad dream!  I dreamed a ghost visited me in the room I was staying in at my parents' house, closed the blind & tried to take me.  It was a frightening dream.

Quotes:

epigraph ~ "I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things.  But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew.  It would scare them."  Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker, September 27, 1993 {Which certainly explains much of Sendak's work!}

p11 ~ Books were safer than other people anyway.  {I totally understand that sentiment}

fl: It was only a duck pond, out at the back of the farm.  ll: Perhaps it was an aferimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk.

#22 ~ Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray is a cute little read.  I love with I find a new author to like.  Ray creates lovable characters, funny and thoughtful plots, and light enjoyable stories. {with happy endings}  This is a 'remake' of Romeo & Juliet {obviously}, but in this story Julie & Romeo are in their 60's and try to make a romance go in the face of their feuding families.  Enjoyable!

fl: The first time I heard the name Caciamani I was five years old.  ll: It's Romeo and Julie's now.  Two locations to better serve you.

And my Colorado vacation 2013 ~ started with a delayed flight out of Cleveland ~ and then a 3 minute connection in Chicago.  I was sweaty when I took my seat on the final flight ~ but I made it!  

Hiking Cataract Lake

We hiked Cataract Lake, Jeeped over Georgia Pass ~ in a thunderstorm, at dinner in Leadville with the Bueny Butlers, shopped, swam, rode bikes and I ran over the dam & did a 12 miler to Keystone Lake and back ~ almost killed me.  It was a great week, and it went too fast.

At the COLD top of Georgia Pass