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  1971  To  1972

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Flowering Prickly Pear cactus


High Desert area, CA


April, 1971

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Creosote bush and Ocotillo plant







Desert Dandelion


Mormon Tea


Ocotillo plant and Creosote bush


Ocotillo




Storks Bill Filaree


Teddy Bear Cholla
Joshua Tree National Park
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Flowering Ocotillo cactus






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Cottonwood Spring Oasis
April, 1971
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Inside the oasis

Keys view

     







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Intersection of Hwy 62 and Park Blvd
Joshua Tree






Van's Branstrator trailer
under a sun roof



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Mount San Jacinto





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Overlooking Palm Springs



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Debra J Hildebrand













Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman













Cable car












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Coffmans Crag



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Overlooking Palm Springs




High Desert area

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The San Juan creek
along the Ortega highway

Above and beyond Elsinore
on the way to San Juan Capistrano









South Laguna shoreline

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Racing fleet of sail boats passing by

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Cliff hugging staircase and cave
below La Senda Drive


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Carved ocean pools
Three Arch Bay
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Concrete ocean pool and cabana

Kris and Lee Bower, Van, David Walden Young




An old stucco garden home
probably in Laguna
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The Surf & Sand Hotel, left of center, is where
Van's sister Hannah spent her wedding
night with John Giles
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Laguna's Main Beach cove in the distance


Visiting Marsha and May Fink
San Diego
April 22, 1971



Flying east April 23, 1971


Hobbit in our new back yard
August, 1971

The yard was installed before our wedding
Monmouth Junction

Adding a cottage deck with recycled lumber
from a New Brunswick house wreaking yard
Talk







Van and Deb visit the old farmstead of
his late maternal grandparents




Near the canal bridge in Bourne
September 12, 1971
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The Bourne Bridge


Kaare Karstad visiting

May be the entrance to the Cape Cod canal?



Squeteague Harbor
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The Blakeman home is in the center

Kaare Karstad sailing his boat with
Debra Blakeman and others

Megansett Harbor



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Spohr Gardens
Falmouth



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Nobska Point Lighthouse
Woods Hole
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Ferry boat to Nantucket


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Early 20th century cottage behind the
ferry landing in Woods Hole
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Cobblestone street with fountain
Nantucket
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It's our honeymoon, okay?
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On the honeymoon boat from Nantucket













Back home in Monmouth Junction
November, 1971



Cracked Chevy Nova windshield




Fall leaves on our back yard


Installing a driveway










Added a stained glass skylight, found in a
New Brunswick house wreaking yard

Adding an external closet
to the bedroom cottage





Christmas wreath on the front door
December 25, 1971

















our new kitten
cuddles with Hobbit



'Cat'













The stained glass bathroom skylight (under plate glass)
is covered with snow









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Building a chair-wall
July, 1972
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Megansett Harbor
August, 1972
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Squeteague Harbor and Lawrence Island

Sketching a plan for our NJ home




Van's folk's home
Talk



Thomas Ledyard Blakeman


Deb Blakeman, Alice Bebout,
Tom Blakeman and John Giles

Painting our home



New soil for the corner lot which the town
provided for letting them round off the corner

Spreading it around

Built this stone wall to
surround the septic tank

The house has been painted and
the cottage has new cedar siding






Our back yard in the woods

Blue the kitten and Catty

On a stone wall in the back yard


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Blue attacking the antique trunk




Working on his penny collection
August, 1972








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A bronze handle and mail slot on a door
found at the wreaking yard covered in paint
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Stripped the paint, stained and polished
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Somewhere in the northeast
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Maple syrup country

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Where is this wooden bridge?


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Talk


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Sanibel Island, FL
September 12, 1972
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Disneyworld, Orlando, FL
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Key West, FL
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Long Key Viaduct, FL








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Daytona Beach, FL



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St. Petersburg, FL

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Castillo de San Marcos Spanish fort
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A Bucks County covered bridge in New Jersey
December, 1972
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Bowmans Tower



Delaware River from Bowmans Tower




Gravestone of Dale C Hildebrand
Deb Blakeman's brother
"1946 - 1966"

Steps from the kitchen door
to the cottage crosswalk






Inside our bedroom cottage




Doors to the closet addition



The closet pole hangs from and
rolls along a ceiling channel




Chestnut beveled glass french doors
open to the rear deck and yard

The doors were found in a New Brunswick
house wreaking yard









December, 1972









Our Christmas


Robert, Bobby and Geri Stover
with Barbara Hildebrand

Aaron Stover in the Hildebrand home
Pennington, NJ






Bobby Stover and Stanley Hildebrand

Visitor with Bobby,
Geri and Aaron Stover







Barbara, Van, visitor, Red Hildebrand
and Robert, Geri and Bobby Stover





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