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Flowering Prickly Pear cactus
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High Desert area, CA
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April, 1971
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Creosote bush and Ocotillo plant
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Desert Dandelion
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Mormon Tea
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Ocotillo plant and Creosote bush
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Ocotillo
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Storks Bill Filaree
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Teddy Bear Cholla Joshua Tree National Park
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(i) Flowering Ocotillo cactus
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(i) Cottonwood Spring Oasis April, 1971
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(i) Inside the oasis |
Keys view
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(i) Intersection of Hwy 62 and Park Blvd Joshua Tree |
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Van's Branstrator trailer under a sun roof |
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(i) Mount San Jacinto
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(i) Overlooking Palm Springs
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Debra J Hildebrand
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Phillips Van Cleve Blakeman
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Cable car
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(i) Coffmans Crag
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(i) Overlooking Palm Springs
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High Desert area
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The San Juan creek along the Ortega highway
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Above and beyond Elsinore on the way to San Juan Capistrano
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South Laguna shoreline
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Racing fleet of sail boats passing by
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(i) Cliff hugging staircase and cave below La Senda Drive
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Carved ocean pools Three Arch Bay |
(i) Concrete ocean pool and cabana
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Kris and Lee Bower, Van, David Walden Young
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An old stucco garden home probably in Laguna |
(i) The Surf & Sand Hotel, left of center, is where Van's sister Hannah spent her wedding night with John Giles |
(i) Laguna's Main Beach cove in the distance
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Visiting Marsha and May Fink San Diego April 22, 1971 |
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Flying east April 23, 1971
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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 |
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Van and Deb visit the old farmstead of his late maternal grandparents
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Near the canal bridge in Bourne September 12, 1971 |
(i) The Bourne Bridge
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Kaare Karstad visiting
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May be the entrance to the Cape Cod canal?
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Squeteague Harbor
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(i) The Blakeman home is in the center
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Kaare Karstad sailing his boat with Debra Blakeman and others
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Megansett Harbor
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(i) Spohr Gardens Falmouth
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(i) Nobska Point Lighthouse Woods Hole |
(i) Ferry boat to Nantucket
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(i) Early 20th century cottage behind the ferry landing in Woods Hole |
(i) Cobblestone street with fountain Nantucket
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It's our honeymoon, okay?
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(i) On the honeymoon boat from Nantucket
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Back home in Monmouth Junction November, 1971 |
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Cracked Chevy Nova windshield
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Fall leaves on our back yard
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Installing a driveway
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Added a stained glass skylight, found in a New Brunswick house wreaking yard
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Adding an external closet to the bedroom cottage
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Christmas wreath on the front door December 25, 1971
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our new kitten cuddles with Hobbit
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'Cat'
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The stained glass bathroom skylight (under plate glass) is covered with snow
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1972
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Building a chair-wall July, 1972 |
(i) Megansett Harbor August, 1972 |
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(i) Squeteague Harbor and Lawrence Island
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Sketching a plan for our NJ home
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Van's folk's home
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman
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Deb Blakeman, Alice Bebout, Tom Blakeman and John Giles
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Painting our home
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New soil for the corner lot which the town provided for letting them round off the corner
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Spreading it around
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Built this stone wall to surround the septic tank |
The house has been painted and the cottage has new cedar siding |
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Our back yard in the woods
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Blue the kitten and Catty
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On a stone wall in the back yard
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(i) Blue attacking the antique trunk
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Working on his penny collection August, 1972
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(i) A bronze handle and mail slot on a door found at the wreaking yard covered in paint |
(i) Stripped the paint, stained and polished
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Somewhere in the northeast
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(i) Maple syrup country
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(i) Where is this wooden bridge?
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(i) Sanibel Island, FL September 12, 1972
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(i) Disneyworld, Orlando, FL
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(i) Key West, FL
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(i) Long Key Viaduct, FL
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(i) Daytona Beach, FL
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(i) St. Petersburg, FL
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(i) Castillo de San Marcos Spanish fort
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(i) A Bucks County covered bridge in New Jersey December, 1972
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(i) Bowmans Tower
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Delaware River from Bowmans Tower
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Gravestone of Dale C Hildebrand Deb Blakeman's brother "1946 - 1966" |
Steps from the kitchen door to the cottage crosswalk
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Inside our bedroom cottage
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Doors to the closet addition
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The closet pole hangs from and rolls along a ceiling channel
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Chestnut beveled glass french doors open to the rear deck and yard |
The doors were found in a New Brunswick house wreaking yard |
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December, 1972
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Our Christmas
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Robert, Bobby and Geri Stover with Barbara Hildebrand |
Aaron Stover in the Hildebrand home Pennington, NJ |
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Bobby Stover and Stanley Hildebrand
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Visitor with Bobby, Geri and Aaron Stover
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Barbara, Van, visitor, Red Hildebrand and Robert, Geri and Bobby Stover
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