kids in a boat

mmmmm  It looks like a very nice warm day for a sail around the lake.  The year is 1951 so that would make me three years old.  Looks like we're having a lot of fun.  Today is a very cold day by southern standards.  Don't let the sunshine fool you.  Tonight...brrrrr   Still, I'm having a good time.

above the trees

This is one of my favorite pictures.  My sister and I posed for this picture in July of 2015.  We had just attended a family reunion in Seattle and we decided to drive up to Vancouver, B.C. for a few days.  My sister and I hadn't been there before and so we were the perfect tourists on our sightseeing adventures.  The Capilano Suspension Bridge Park was high on the list.  Once the main suspension bridge is crossed there are more pathways and bridges that circle through the forest and overlook the canopy of trees below.  At one overlook we were able to pose for this picture.  The picture is still in my camera almost three years later.  In fact it is the first picture that I come to in the camera storage.  I like to look at it often.

the prof

In December of 2003 my Dad and I flew out to San Diego to celebrate Christmas with my two sons.  They had arranged for us to stay in a B and B right down in the Ocean Beach area.  It was a beautiful Victorian cottage style house with comfy furnishings.  We purchased a tree and some decorations and set about celebrating the holidays filled with fun and festivities.  I captured the moments with my new camera that I received as a Christmas gift.  Nobody escaped my quick shots.  When it came to my turn to be photographed, this is what was captured on film.   It is a nice picture but for some reason I think this picture makes me look like a "seasoned" research college professor or the author of a dull book.  Take your pick.  I might look this way because of the little readers I'm wearing or because of the "hunched over at a table" position that I"m in but that's what I think of when I look at this picture.  I laugh every time.  And, I like it.  hahahahaha

sisters (with horns)

2007.  The beach.  Two sisters.  We've always been close.  We have a lot of fun together.  We would do anything for each other.  We respect each other.  So, I'm wondering, why did she carefully pose me in the picture below so that the moose horns from the wall plaque at the local Moose Lodge look like they are springing out of my head?  SUSAN!!!!!  re-re-re-re-spect...just a little bit

fried chicken

Back in the fifties we did a lot of camping out in the ol' Higgins tent trailer.  This mode of camping is aptly named (for us, anyway) because it fits right between our tenting days and our trailering days.  We camped in the state parks around Minnesota but also did some long distance traveling with the station wagon pulling the tent trailer.  We traveled east to the nation's capitol and then went south through Virginia and into Tennessee and Kentucky.  There were no modern interstates then.  We drove on state highways and county roads.  Every night we slept in the Higgins and every day we went sightseeing and had our share of fun.  I will never forget a request my mother made while we were in Kentucky.  She had heard about this restaurant that served a special fried chicken and she  really wanted to try it.  Let's say, she was determined to try it.  My Dad obliged and located the restaurant.  He bought a sizable quantity of chicken for us to eat for supper.  Boy, were we happy.  The spices, the coating, the tender meat...oh, yes!  And the biscuits...oh my word.  Just heavenly.  Fast forward thirty years or so.  I was living in Vicksburg.  Whenever I treated my family to this special chicken, I always brought home an extra order of biscuits.  My oldest son couldn't get enough of them.  Buttery tops and goodness within!!  Lick your fingers.  It's all good.  Thanks Mom for pointing us in the right direction.  The quest rolls on.

the big hat

My Dad and I had a favorite restaurant in our town and they served up the best Mexican cuisine in the area or so I think.  When it is your birthday they bring out the big sombrero for the birthday guest to wear while the mariachi band serenades.  Kind of embarrassing and kind of sweet at the same time.  This picture was taken in January fourteen years ago.  Oh, wow, 2004.  It looks like I'm still rockin' the same hairstyle.  Still hanging out in restaurants, too.  Aclamaciones!!

the gardens

The gardens at Versailles.  That's what is in the background.  But look at those hot chicks posing on the balcony.  The year is 2013 and my sister and I are having a great time in Paris.  A day trip brought us to Versailles.  We toured the palace...oh, my!!!  Such opulence.  Such beauty.  Such everything.  But, this is about us.  Two sisters being together and having a lot of fun.  p.s. By the way, it was so hot that day that we spent a fair amount of time cooling off at a cafe, eating some lunch and doing a lot of people watching.  Viva la France.