Mary Bedy Photography

In 2015, my daughter was living in Flagstaff, Arizona and we went there to celebrate Christmas with her. Flagstaff is a beautiful town surrounded by the San Francisco mountain range, and while we were there, we experienced more snow than they had in the Port Huron area of Michigan where we live. Of course the city itself is at about 7,000 feet elevation. During our visit, our daughter took us to a restaurant called Josephine’s in Flagstaff, where for Christmas Eve they had a buffet dinner with no menu service, but five years later we are still talking about that meal. It was easily one of my 10 best meals ever while traveling, or really just ever in general. They had salmon, ham, other meats, about ten difference salads and sides and three or four deserts, including chocolate mousse, that I ate verrryyy slowly to enjoy it as long as possible. I’m not a huge fan of ham, but the ham they had at this buffet was to die for, and I kept going back for more. Anyway, during this visit we

One national park I have visited four times which has an interesting geologic history is Acadia National Park in Maine. At only 65 square miles, it’s a small park compared to others, but it’s a beautiful area of the eastern seaboard. Most of the park is in an area called Mount Desert Island. The topography is comprised of ridges and valleys running north and south that were excavated by massive ice sheets up to a mile thick. Protrusions of these immense ice sheets carved out lakes such as Eagle Lake and Jordon Pond on the west side of the park. The results of centuries of rocky seacoast being battered by waves has resulted in large, jutting granite formations with linear cracks and sea caves along the coast. As these ice sheets thickened 21,000 year ago and moved over the area, they sheared off mountain tops giving them a flatter, rounded appearance like Cadillac Mountain which rises to 1530 feet - the tallest area on the eastern seaboard. At the top of Cadillac Mountain, wher