Cheese Singles and Bestsellers

Here are several photos that have only one person in them...hence, the name of this blog.


One of the things we all love to do is get outside and hike and play and build dams. Here is Denise making the most of being in beautiful Yankee Boy Basin in Ouray. She is reading Marilynne Robinson's second novel, Gilead. According to amazon.com, "The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of his second marriage. It is a summing-up, an apologia, a consideration of his life. Robinson takes the story away from being simply the reminiscences of one man and moves it into the realm of a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man."


Her husband, Rick, has gone as far as he can between the twin waterfalls. Maybe he lost his book? I think he is reading The Book of Useless Information, by Noel Botham and the Useless Information Society.


Stumpy, meanwhile, went off looking for the perfect stump in Yankee Boy. Did he find it? We'll just have to wait and see. He did find an abandoned mine. I think he is reading 90 Minutes in Heaven, by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey.


GrandDad saved his alone time for Owl Creek Pass near Ridgway. Behind him is the John Wayne Meadow where a climactic scene from True Grit was filmed. Ahead of him is Chimney Rock, which you can see in the photo. I think he is reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki.


Back in Ouray, behind our apartment, Isabella found a bridge across the Uncompaghre River and paused for some personal time. I think her mommy is reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, by Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway