Darla took some time off the first week of July.  I call it time off rather than a vacation because ultimately most of it was invested into work here at our place...harvesting cutting Swiss chard, washing, blanching and it and then putting it away in food containers for the freezer.  Ditto spinach.  Lettuce and mixed greens were cut and put into fresh table salads.  Beet pickles were canned.  And so it went.  Weeding, watering, washing.

But, we did set time away to get up to Bonners Ferry, June 30th, to visit her family plot in the cemetery there.  A delayed Memorial Day or an early July 4th as it were.  From Bonners, we made a quick trip on US2 over to Libby, her city of birth.

The trip was not a poke in the eye of the isolation//quarantine guys.  Actually, we hardly came close enough to anyone to even think about needing to socially distance.  At the gas pumps in Bonners--one other guy an island over.  At Lolo--the same. 

We did stop at Kootenai Falls and the Swinging Bridge.  Now there, to be honest, a fairly large number of tourists from all over the country were stopped and checking out the falls.   But, given the fresh air, we figured no harm no foul. 

Kootenai Falls, MT June 30, 2020

                                        Kootenai Falls, MT June 30, 2020 

 

                                        Idaho's State Flower--syringa

                                                  Darla trying to work a photo