Not only was the time spent at Whiskeytown fun, but so was the drive home! We decided not to take the usual Highway 299 route home through Redding. Instead we decided to drive home by way of Igo on a little used road out of Whiskeytown. Before we actually left pavement, we stopped at a very pretty and apparently often visited cemetary.
Mom and Dad found two gravestones they thought were very neat.
This fancy cross,
and this cowboy's stone from 1895.
Their favorite grave however, was this one:
Family and friends had made a bunch of tiles and placed them around the grave. Not only is it a neat idea, but this guy spent some time in Hawaii judging by some of the tiles.
Besides neat graves, there were some beautiful flowers.
Iris,
more iris,
and something else (lavendar I think).
Just when the flower photographing reached its peak, a huge storm began to move in and we had to leave.
Then the paved road to Igo became a one lane dirt track,
and our 2x4 Ram 1500 only had a quarter tank of gas!
Just when we thought things couldn't get any more tense (or fun!) the storm really started to move in,
and it started to rain!
However, we managed to outrun the storm back to paved roads and home with time to play some chess before bed.
Can a single day be any more fun?!
3 comments:
Something I forgot to put in is Vanessa was wondering what it must be like for kids who go to school in Igo. "Where do you go to school?" "Igo High School." Leave it to Vanessa!
It is a type of lavender - Spanish Lavender actually. Sounds like a great day and that storm looks impressive!
P.S. You'd better brush up on your chess playing! Marianna loves to play chess!
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