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Twin Lakes Tradition

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"This is my lake country."  I quote Thoreau, who references Wordsworth. "They are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light." I posted about our trip to Twin Lakes last year , which doesn't even seem that long ago, and was only about six posts ago given the irregularity of my presence here. But it truly is something that brings me bliss, and it seems that around the seventh week of the school semester I start to crave it desperately.  "Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth."  It was Addie's idea this time to go again, and maybe make it a yearly tradition, and we went in July, right before Lucy's birthday again: Pops, Joey, Scout, Addie, Art, Utah, me and the girls. Darin couldn't come, and I'm more confident now; I think I did a pretty great job with the girls and our gear, driving and camping together. Course I always have Pops and Fofe to back me up. "This was an airy and unplastered c