Busy Grandkids

Gwen singing  in her school zoom play

with perfect parasol twirls.

Maddie babysitting two very small foster kittens.

Patience and love.

Max offering me dessert from his new cotton candy machine.

Sugar delicious!

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And modeling his home made t-shirt face mask.

Ninja-like.

Simon working on a self portrait

and the bold result!

Here's to 50 Years

 

 

 

of a wonderful journey together.

 

 

 

 

From our special Chocorua summers,

 

 

 

  To raising our kids,

watching them get married

and  delighting in being with them 

                                                          

                                                             and their perfect spouses!

                                                        

                                                        To welcoming four very sweet

 

grandchildren!

To taking trips together.

To storytelling moments of dancing

and singing.

 

 

To enjoying cozy moments

 

To aging together.

Truly wonderful to have had these 50 years together.

Wonderful Real-Life Train Names

 

 

 The California ZEPHYR!!  

What a word! I had to look it up. Zephyr is a soft breeze.

 Who uses it now?

Imagine The Coast Starlight streaming from Los Angeles to Seattle at night.

 

The Palmetto from NYC to balmy Savannah.

 

The Empire Builder sounds so New York tough.

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The Capitol Limited seems prescient in view of today's truncated politics! 

And naming a train after a city:  The City of New Orleans

--and then a song after a train. 

 

I think it was the Silver Star that Sam and Rachel and I rode overnight down to

Miami from Washington DC many years ago.  Emmy and Didi met us in Miami.

 

Sam

 

 

 reading my "Painted Stories" book!

My Two Very Adventurous Grandsons....

 

preparing to zipline high in the sky over a ravine in Panama

 

and climbing under the ominous Cow Rock atop Mt. Chocorua last summer.

Brave boys--and I love them!!! 

My Two Crazy Wonderful Granddaughters--

always experimenting... 

Gwen trying out a mud pack

 

And Maddie trying out a partly shaved hairdo.

Just love them!!! 

My First Isolation Visitor



Lea entering my studio with mask, gloves and umbrella
(in case of rain, not pepper spray) 

Max's 5th Grade Graduation

from Edison Elementary, the neighborhood school we've grown to love,

was an at-home Zoom event 
complete with fizzy drink and bubble blowing.

 

Max got a well deserved achievement award!

Two proud grandmothers look in from above on Skype screens

 

and there's one super excited Mom!

Congratulations Max!  You're the best.