Updates!

Congratulations to John and Katie Dravenstott! On May 31 Katie gave birth to 7 pound, 1 ounce Evelyn Kate. She is beautiful and we are so happy for them all!

We are also enjoying a great visit from Bill and Connie ho drove out from Ohio for a full weekend of swim meets and baseball games. Thev saw the kids swim great racers and compete well in baseball and have already fixed Rob's car radio and the dish washer, as well. Many thanks!

Now - here's a poem about the Dunes. Pictures still to come!

Dunescape

El Sangre de Cristo flows through

This wondrous place of resurrection

Where mountains diminish to coarse

Iron-tinted grains and are

Reborn as vast tidal thrusts of

Sand embraced by holy water.

Surreal expanse of gently sloping mounds

Like shoulders, breasts, bellies of

First Nations people long passed.

All shades of living tan, they turn

Shift in their repose, restlessly yearning

For the strong hold of the mountains.

Picture the ripple of arcing wings, bird flock

Silhouette on migration path each spring.

Now see same shifting patterns ripple across

Hard sand and streambed alike,

Waving under sage-scented wind which carries

Sound of children splashing, God laughing.