Ruby Beach Sunset

This will be my last post for a while. We leave for Alaska tomorrow and will not be back until the beginning of July. We'll not have our computers and will have very limited access to the internet. We will, however, have our cameras.

We are taking the Alaska ferry up through the Inner Passage and will be going first to Kodiak Island and then on to Denali and the Kenai Peninsula. We'll be mostly hiking and camping before flying back home.

This is in celebration of our 40th wedding anniversary, now a week away. Forty years warrants something special and for us this is special, though it may not be everyone's idea of a holiday. It will be our first trip to Alaska, too.

The photo is appropriate, I think, since it was taken at Ruby Beach in the Olympics and this will be our ruby anniversary. Not only that, but after forty years I suppose we are in the sunset years of our lives (tongue in cheek).

The photo was taken on one of our excursions together, hiking, orchid hunting and doing photography, and for that reason, too, is appropriate. Our mutual interest in these things and enjoyment of them has been a blessing in our relationship.

So this is dedicated to my dear wife of forty years, whom I love even more than I did when we first got to know each other as teenagers. I wish we could have forty more years together, but I suppose that then we'd be too old to enjoy each other.