I published this on my birthday in 2009, but I still think it tells my story so let’s go again!! Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back. (I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.) For a few years […]
Category: Family photos
Another House Project…
Let’s take a very brief breather from the art world (not for long though…next up a visit to Tom Cramer’s studio…) to see how Zach and Ashton’s house came out (BEFORE the landscaping…). When Zach bought the house it looked like this and then last fall the work started on the project of raising the […]
The Day Itself…
Here’s a vacation blog day…no art today…only family. Sometimes I have to post stuff just my family wants to see since they are my most loyal readers!! We had a great Thanksgiving and much laughing and carrying on and eating good food. (There is nothing like a family that can cook!!) Highlights besides food included […]
Beam Me Up Scotty…
Just discovered my nephew is an alien…
Memorial Day at the Beach
My computer has been acting up hence the long silence. So now a little catch-up. Memorial Day was a beautiful weekend–really began to feel like summer. Doug & Marie, Emma & Finley were visiting. We had some fun. Fin leaps from a log and falls to earth: When they went home Monday the big event […]
On the S.S. Oceana
I’ve been transcribing my grandmother’s travel journal from the summer of 1928. She and my grandfather went on a long excursion traveling to Europe by boat and then boarding the Oceana in Hamburg, Germany, for a cruise to Norway. Though my grandfather was very much a part of my life growing up, my grandmother died […]
Sorting Photos
This weekend I’ve been sorting a big box of family photos that arrived from my brother in D.C. These familiar faces and places, these unfamiliar ones, strike a chord somewhere. My great grandma Libbie McClain Decker Cromer Kochel, my parents in the 1960’s, myself at 3 or 4, The perfect one for this winter day […]
On The Way 