Jaci Dawn

I’ve been out of town for the past nine days and today was spent sorting through over 260 photos (narrowed down to 190-something).

Don and I loaded up the dogs into their car kennels and took them on a road trip to the high desert of Oregon’s Outback country. Our destination was in the very southeastern corner of the state: the Alvord Desert which is situated at the eastern base of Steens Mountain. It’s country that is rife with interesting geology, a healthy insect population, migratory birds (Malheur Wildlife Refuge is on the northwestern side of Steens Mountain with all of its wild marshes), reptiles and a few mammals. It is also one of our very favorite vacation destinations.

I will be posting about our adventures and the critters over the next few days (unless something else comes up and interrupts me). For now, I need to continue on with sorting through all those photos.

But before we left, we welcomed a new little life into our own little world: Eliran Jeremy Weisser was born at 6:37PM on August 12, 9#4oz and 21″ long. Eliran is Hebrew for “God is my Song”. He’ll be called Eli for short and he seemed so tiny when I held him Friday afternoon.

What can I say?

This is why they call them GRAND children. 🙂