Fall of 2007 for the Waltons

Well, Summer 2007 comes to an end.

Winter is coming!

We pull our boat out of the water on
a beautiful fall day.

Wish summer would never end,
and wish fall would never end.

The trees are just wonderful.
Next we visited St. Louis for
a technical meeting (Eric's work).

So ... of course we want to see (and go up in) the
St. Louis Gateway Arch.
I must admit, it really is impressive and beautiful.

Imagine the vision of the person who had this idea as a symbol of the city of
St. Louis (Gateway to the west!).

So simple yet so compelling a symbol.
It was so nice that my son Daniel
came to share the (partial) week with us.

Since I was getting an award, he especially wanted to be there.

Good kid.

THE WALTONS AT NIAGARA FALLS

We visited Niagara Falls this summer with my brother Dave.


It is hard to beleve that we have lived in Ohio for 30 years (gasp!)
and not seen Niagara Falls.

It really is exciting and fun.

We did all the tourist things.

Ride the Maid of the Mist.
No kidding, the Maid of the Mist
is really exciting.

The falls really are huge and noisy and

wet!!
It was a fun thing to do with my brother.

I think he liked getting wet.
We walked along the
raging (really!) river downstream of the falls.

It is a wonderful way to spend a weekend in
the summer.