Yes, I know I should label all the pictures with the specific locations where they were taken. Maybe next time I take a trip, I’ll take better notes to accompany the [...]]]> We saw so much beauty and variety on our trip from Seattle to Alaska, but the predominant color was most definitely green.

Yes, I know I should label all the pictures with the specific locations where they were taken. Maybe next time I take a trip, I’ll take better notes to accompany the photos.  Or, even better, I’ll have a camera that records GPS coordinates in the photo’s metadata. I’m all for technology that allows me to be even more lazy.

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She did peek out the window a few times to make sure we were still up in the air, and then she would announce to me [...]]]> Here we are somewhere between Alaska and Seattle, most likely over Canada. She spent most of the flight in this posture, watching Curious George on my computer.

She did peek out the window a few times to make sure we were still up in the air, and then she would announce to me that we were “flying in an airplane.”

Wish I could sit that comfortably in an airplane seat. There are benefits to being that short.

This family photo was recently sent to us by a distant relative in Michigan.  It is dated May 14, 1911.

I don’t know anything about most of the people in this photo, but one I know personally.  My grandmother is the infant in the back row to the right.

Allow me to [...]]]>

This family photo was recently sent to us by a distant relative in Michigan.  It is dated May 14, 1911.

I don’t know anything about most of the people in this photo, but one I know personally.  My grandmother is the infant in the back row to the right.

Allow me to introduce you to my great-grandparents, Lulu and Ira Blakely, and their daughter, my 98-year-old grandmother, Doris.