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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






My 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











South Laguna shoreline

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Racing fleet of sail boats

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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 Young




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The Surf & Sand Hotel where my
sister spent her wedding night
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Visiting Marsha and May Fink
April 22, 1971



Flying east April 23, 1971


August, 1971

The yard was installed before our wedding

Adding a cottage deck
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





Squeteague Harbor
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The Blakeman home is in the center

Kaare Karstad with Deb 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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Nantucket

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It's our honeymoon, okay?
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Back home in Monmouth Junction
November, 1971



Cracked Chevy Nova windshield







Installing a driveway










Added a stained glass skylight

Adding an external closet
to the bedroom cottage



December 25, 1971
























'Cat'













A stained glass bathroom skylight









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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




My folk's home
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Thomas Ledyard Blakeman


Deb Blakeman, Alice Bebout,
Tom Blakeman and John Giles

Painting our home



New soil for the corner lot



This stone wall surrounds the septic tank

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








Blue the kitten and Catty




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Working on my penny collection
August, 1972








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A bronze handle and mail slot on a door
found at the wreaking yard
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Somewhere in the northeast
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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 Deb's brother








Inside our bedroom cottage








The closet pole hangs from and
rolls along a ceiling channel




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










December, 1972









Our Christmas


Robert, Bobby and Geri Stover
with Barbara Hildebrand

Aaron Stover
Pennington, NJ






Bobby Stover and Stanley Hildebrand















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