Friday, December 27, 2019

2019 in pictures

As my old haircutter abruptly quit, my friend who was battling leukemia, offered to cut it. I got two haircuts before she died

Went to several plays at the Purple Rose in Chelsea this year

Steve and I took a walk in Dexter while waiting for our new car to be prepped. Naomi had 2 car accidents in s many months. We sold her one of our cars

Giant vegetable pancake. Made this for the Moms

May brought a flock of orioles, sometimes ten at a time

We spent a few days in Amsterdam before the official trip

Amsterdam

The original Brooklyn Bridge though spelled Breukelen

Our Barge The Fiep



Had lots of Belgian beer This translates to Sudden Death
Bruges

got a new granddog Kaya
moth on my porch

fledging barn swallows

We had 40 balloons floating through our house

to surprise our daughter on her 40th. Her aunt and uncle from both coasts came

In July did my annual bike ride up North , just part of the 3150 miles I biked this year. Naomi camped with me 2 of the days

Cadillac Michigan. As soon as I got home, I had surgery to prevent ovarian cancer. Had to cut back on exercising

Michigan floods. This one wrecked Shanna's car

one of my gardens. This by the way is the garden my crappy neighbor objects to

sunset on my driveway

In August went to the Bay Area with Naomi staying with my brother This is the art museum in Palo Alto

saw lots of marine mammals: seals sea lions and dolphins. Alas no whales though they were around

trees near my brother's 

Carmel Beach

Half Moon Bay cute store

Sunset at Miramar

Heart in San Francisco
hidden stairs San Francico

Pfeiffer Beach Big Sur


Napa

more Napa
Debbie  Miss her. Died 8-30



one of my butterflies
spaghetti squash Also green peppers, zucchinis, acorn squash, Swiss chard

In October, Steve and I flew to Munich and then went to Austria, the Czech Republic then back to Germany
This is Salzburg


Cesky Krumlov

Kafka head Prague
Regensberg

Marienplatz Munich


Trick or treaters on he oldest wettest Halloween ever

some of my found treasures


all of us on Christmas
tree before the kids came



3 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

A busy, and often beautiful year.

Snowbrush said...

Such lovely photos. Kaya is beautiful as is your garden. I can but assume that your neighbor's reason for objecting to it was that it's not formal. How sad to be so controlling, so willing to create friction for a trifle. In my neighborhood, I'm happy just to look out and not see any street campers.

Sue in Italia/In the Land Of Cancer said...

She doesn't like all my tall flowers and then some of them I keep up for the birds to eat the seeds. She claims it devalues the neighborhood. We do have a strict neighborhood association but gardens are not forbidden.

Kaya is an all black German Shepherd. She has a very strong herding instinct and is happy only if her family members are in a tight group. Their last shepherd didn't have this instinct though was tennis ball obsessed.
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