June 9 - Day 5...So...have you ever been delayed in traffic due to buffalo? Me neither! Today was a first for me. Around 80 to 100 head arranged about an hour delay as they showed who's 'king' in Yellowstone. I didn't think of video until afterwards.
The day began with church service provided by a
National Park Christian group. The young college folk...Josh, Josiah, Briana and Nathan did a fine job. Josh gave a message from Psalm 139, with focus on God's purpose in and through our lives, giving a fine example of his own life. A boy born in Korean with a cleft palate, adopted into a family from America in whose home town resided the world's most well known hospital for cleft palate repair. I see God's precious hands in these young people's lives.
Gary & Rick with his dog 'Buddy'
Buffalo Traffic Jam - Gotta Love It
From the service (and once past the buffalo city) I continued my venture through this absolutely magnificent park. I now see why people spend an entire vacation here. Todays sites included 'The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone'...surely a competion for beauty rights with its sister in Arizona. Definite must see! Then the 'Lamar' valley, with well over 300 head of buffalo roaming its lush terrain and a breath taking mountain backdrop. From here I enjoyed an hour 'listening' time in Soda Butte valley before exiting the park, gabbing a bite to eat at the 'Bearclaw' Cafe and concluding my day at 'Crazy Creek campground. And it is! It's here that 'Silver Spur' and 'Gear Up' Gary Callahan is camp host. Gary and I rode back to Cooke City, Montana for strawberry milkshakes and watched as my hopeful College World Series bound Oregon State Beavers were roughing up Kansas State in game two of their series. A win tomorrow and they're in! Got tickets to watch a couple CWS games a week from Monday. Yeah baby!
Perhaps some days are meant for reminiscing. While doing
some work today in my garage/man-cave, I find myself listening to three CD’s
that are within my excellent $15 find of a ‘boom box’ off Craigslist. All three
of the CD’s are ones that became mine four years ago while tending to my father’s
estate down in Mexico. Those days in itself are worth a blog or two for another
day.
What I find amazingly ironic is that even when these men
(father and son) who were very much like oil and water, there are some things
of similarity. Such are these CD’s that include music we both greatly enjoyed. There’s
‘Chicago’ with ‘Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?’ Or there is Elton John and
his song ‘Daniel’…a side story…I’m a young teenager driving with dad, Ione,
Christina and Tami toward Northern California to go camping. Along the way we
picked up some black cherries, to which yours truly had a dozen or two to many.
While ‘Daniel’ was playing on the car radio I found myself needing to get to
the side of the road immediately. Now, some forty years later, whenever I hear ‘Daniel’
on the radio I think of cherries, or when I eat cherries I’m reminded of the
song ‘Daniel’.
The last CD plays, a remake of both Don McLean and Jim
Croce. Jim’s song ‘Time In A Bottle’ is likely legendary…
If
I could save time in a bottle The first
thing that I'd like to do Is to save
every day till eternity passes away Just to
spend them with you
If I could make
days last forever If words could make wishes
come true I'd save every day like a
treasure and then Again, I would spend them
with you
But there never seems to
be enough time To do the things you want
to do, once you find them I've looked around enough
to know That you're the one I want
to go through time with
If I had a box just for
wishes And dreams that had never
come true The box would be empty,
except for the memory of how They were answered by you
But there never seems to
be enough time To do the things you want
to do, once you find them I've looked around enough
to know That you're the one I want
to go through time with Jim Croce
Perhaps each of us can peek into the recesses of our memory
to find even a glimmer of joy in relationships which we wish the journey had a
different outcome.
'Man Wall' picture #2
For now… “I thinks it gonna be a long, long time…now who
wrote that?
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