Verna’s Mom, Jane, presented me with this beautiful Caribbean print as a belated birthday gift. It’s a Tommy Bahamas silk shirt with a Club Paradiso pattern. We both love this colorful Art Deco theme.
Photo credit: Verna. Click image for big.
Family
Watchin’ the Hoomins
I got to sit on the front porch today and watch the Mama and Daddy Hoomins work on the trees out front. The Daddy went up a big stair thing like I use to get in the truck. When he got up there, he took out a buzzer thing and made pieces of the tree fall down. I wasn’t scared though. The Mama took the things that fell and put them in the black thing that always smells funny.
Yesterday, the Daddy Hoomin let me out in the back to chase a squirrel away from where the birds eat. It was fun. That’s a picture of me that you can make big if you click on it.
I’m tired now and think I will take a nap.
Ancestry
I have not taken the time to go to the ancestry site that my sister sent me a while ago. I got interested a while back about the origins of our family and found out some interesting things, but not in great depth. One of these days, perhaps after retirement, I plan to look into our family ancestry.
Several years ago, I borrowed this 19th century photo of a trio of my Mom’s mother’s siblings and scanned it into a file. As a child, I knew two out of three of the people in this picture, my great uncles Frank and Bert. Great Aunt Kathryn, for whom my mother is named (I presume) was my Grandmother Myra’s older sister who had passed before I was born.
I can remember that as senior citizens, Uncle Frank (left) still had that bushy haircut (white, of course) and Uncle Bert had the same serious expression. Both uncles seemed to enjoy Mom bringing us to visit.
A Sunflower at Mom’s
We were visiting Mom today. When we went into the back yard, this beautiful sunflower greeted us right outside Mom’s back door. Click image for big.
Vacation Slide Show
This is but a few of the many, many pictures we took during our summer vacation. The slideshow starts in Solvang, California, spends a bit of time at Morro Bay and various scenes from Missions and wineries to RV parks and lakes as we traveled through Big Sur, Monterey, Aromas and Paso Robles.
To pause the slideshow, roll your mouse over the picture. To resume, roll the mouse out of the picture.
Pyramid Lake
Pyramid Lake is alongside Interstate 5 between Tejon Pass and Valencia. I snapped this picture of the lake on our way home from Paso Robles. You can see why they call it ‘pyramid.’ The vacation is almost over, but the memories linger. We will post more about our summer adventure in the weeks ahead. Click the image to enlarge.
