Star Valley #1

Star Valley Wyoming
August 13-15, 2009
I was so pleased when my friend Lynn asked me if I'd accompany her on a three day trip to go rafting on the Snake River with a bunch of great folks from her neighborhood. Rafting was something entirely new to me. It was the perfect cap to the summer my husband and kids dubbed me 'Adventure Girl'.
The views of the valley are from the Carlisle Ranch which is north of Afton. I'd never been to this beautiful valley before and I was absolutely thrilled to go because my Curtis grandparents homesteaded there in the early 1900's when my father was a teenager. He used to tell me cowboy bedtime stories of breaking wild horses, taming Magpies for a little cash and Olympian-sized thunderstorms. He also painted several landscapes of the valley when he was young. When I viewed these early works as a girl, I used to think the mountains looked fake. I discovered on this trip that they do indeed look as he painted them. Now that I've been there, I've set aside my foolish adult skepticism about his tall tales and find that in my child's heart I know every story he told me is true.