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| Me with my best friend from College Tia and her husband Roy |
Leaving Lawrence, Kansas I headed north on Highway 75
because I wanted to continue driving west on Highway 36 – a quiet, two-lane,
straight road that would take me all the way through Kansas to Denver. At
Denver I jogged north again to Laramie, Wyoming where my best friend from
College Tia and her husband Roy Clark live.
I last visited Tia and Roy in Laramie in 1988 when they
invited me to come and design their garden for their brand new home. Tia has
come to California a few times in the interim so it was my turn to go visit
them.
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The Laramie parade was much like the Piedmont parade
with more horses |
My timing was perfect because Laramie was celebrating Laramie Jubilee Days. There was a parade
in the morning and a rodeo in the evening. What could be more Wyoming than a
rodeo?
In between these traditional events we just talked endlessly – just as
we had in the 1970s when we were students together at UC Berkeley and lived in
the Student Co-op.
I asked to be entertained by looking through Tia’s
scrapbooks – each of which is a masterpiece in technique and design. Tia has
developed a talent for photography that far exceeds mine, so I thoroughly
enjoyed each page of every album and could have looked at more but did not want
to seem greedy. We made muffins together and ate a lot of good food at home –
just as we had OMG 45 years ago!
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| Pink tractors in Laramie??? |
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| Lots of beautiful horses |
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| Cheyenne Lions Club entry |
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| More beautiful horses at the rodeo |
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| Cowgirls doing obstacle course runs in 17 seconds |
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| Mutton riders 6 years and younger. There's a very young boy riding the sheep |
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| All the mutton riders won trophies |
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