GlenndeavourA Wonderful Adventure

Grandma Olena Thompson-1938Vivan RyeBeverly Rye-March 25,1951 let it snow let it snow, let it snowNorris Rye, Glenn Rye home on furlough-December, 1945

Top; Raymond and Mother, Emma, Ray, home on furlough serving in the air force in Anchorage, Alaska during the Korean War.. Ray and a friend drove this 46 Ford down the Alaskan highway breaking down on the way and recused by a large enclosed van that loaded them in the back where they bounced [...]

Top picture; the children of Gullik Nelson Rye and Emma Thompson Rye-1989-Location-probably Phoenix for Dan and Brigid’s wedding.left to right;Beverly Rye Nerison;Vivian Rye Helgeson;Glenn Rye;Eldora Ryebakk; Opal Rye Nelson.Below-Standing on grain elevator Vivian Rye Helgeson and friend Cyrstal Nelson.below-right- Emma Thompson Rye-on the Rye farm in the 40’s

Duane, Roger, Barbara Bakk;Norris,Glenn,Eldora,Opal-Valley Springs school in background;Vivian and 36 Ford.

Courtesy of Vivian Rye Helgeson’s photo album

Vivian on Thompson farm;Opal, Elmer and Duane Nelson;Beverly Rye-March, 1945; Vivian at horse coral, Rye farm

Top left Duane and Elmer Nelson, right;Eldora,Vivian,Norris, Glenn
lower; Keith Anderson,Vivian;Raymond and Duane

DesiderataMax Ehrmann, Copyright 1952.Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peace there may be in silence.As far as possible without surrenderbe on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly;and listen to others,even the dull and the ignorant;they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the [...]

Dan,Brigid and Summer- Fall of o7.
Dan, a safe port in any storm.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAN

Dan’s blurred high school graduation picture.
Most of these narratives are in recompense for forgetting his birthday in 1965 as we were traveling through Canada.

Dan is rejocining at Randy’s college graudation,The University of Colorado at Boulder. The next year marked Dan’s graduation from that institution.Randy will be joining Dan, Brigid and Summer later this summer up in the lower inland passage.