Patrick drew these birds when he was four years old. Now he´s twenty!

I´m dreaming of a road trip with no laptop, no cell phone. Actually, we´re driving to Missoula to see Patrick in a couple of weeks. I´ll probably still take the cell phone though.

We don´t own this little trailer yet. But it is another dream, along with building a strawbale house in the desert. Does it seem like I have a theme of leaving civilization?

Barbara Hobbs from Enumclaw, Washington wrote to say that she´s sure the creature riding in the trailer is her alpaca, Persephone.