Taming Adam: Burlap and Barbed Wire by Shirley Penick

Author:Shirley Penick [Penick, Shirley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

Adam drove on auto pilot, he was still thinking about what he would say as the best man. How could he give a toast when he still wasn’t sure Beau was making the right decision? Yes, he seemed happy with Alyssa and she with him, but was it really going to last? He supposed it could. They did have a lot in common. Similar families and values, lifestyle and careers. When they worked together as vets it was like they read each other’s mind. He’d watched Alyssa anticipate Beau and hand him things before he even asked.

Maybe they truly were a match made in heaven. He wished he could be as care free as Beau was. Beau didn’t analyze everything to death like he did. Beau took life by the horns and hung on for the ride. Adam wasn’t sure he could ever be that way. He thought about everything, and how every decision would affect everyone else. Maybe he should take a lesson from his younger brother.

As far as the toast went, he could talk about how compatible they were. That would be easy. He’d need to think about that more. He should put it away for this drive over Trail Ridge, it could be a treacherous road and he needed to be paying attention. He saw Beau pull to the side in an overlook area and followed him, so Rachel could take pictures. Alyssa seemed to know what Rachel would want to take pictures of before Rachel could say anything to him. Almost like sisters.

He stopped, and Rachel swapped out her telephoto lens for her wide angle and started snapping pictures. They were still near the base of the mountains and he knew the girls would both be in awe, up higher where the tree growth stopped, and the views went on and on for miles.

Beau must have been thinking the same thing. He said, “This is just the beginning, trust me you’ll want more time up higher.”

Rachel looked at Beau and then at Adam who nodded. She said, “Well let’s get moving then. I don’t want to miss the best part.”

She took a few more pictures and then hurried back to the truck. She jumped in the truck and fastened her seat belt. “So, what’s so cool up higher, isn’t it the same?”

He shook his head. “Not at all, we’ll hit timberline and then it will all change.”

“What do you mean by timberline?”

“Trees can’t grow above a certain altitude. When we hit that it will look like a ruler was drawn along the mountains and they will be bare of all growth above that line, except for the sturdiest brush and grasses. It might be too early for the flowers that grow in all colors. You’ll see, it’s quite interesting.”

She looked skeptical. “I’ll have to take your word for that, it sounds rather odd to me.”

“It is odd, but once we hit that elevation, which if I remember correctly is a bit over eleven thousand feet, you can see for miles.

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