Today we celebrate nine years of marriage. It has been nine wonderful years and we look forward to many more years together.  Another milestone we celebrate in March is the beginning of our fifth year of retirement.  We are spending the week, here in Death Valley, enjoying the mild weather and desert sites like no other found on earth. 

Had we stood in this spot 20,000 years ago we would be at the bottom of 600 foot deep Lake Manly.  We could have drowned!  The lake stretched from the Black mountains on the east to the Panamint mountains on the west and was some eleven miles long.,. Imagine the crystal clear blue waters of Lake Manly, surrounded by thick forests of trees and abundant wildlife.  Today a salt plane, 282 feet below sea level, the lowest place in North America. 

We are back here for the Death Valley Spring Art Show later this week.  God is good and we thank Him for all that we have.