Christmas this year at Shannas
Hannah in Northville
Linz art museum
Sunrise over patio with sprinklers going
Blue church in Bratislava
Stopped getting my nails done during Covid but am using nail covers now
Montera beach California
Church in Krems Austria on early morning walk
Found this foos ball set discarded on a bike ride it’s in my garage for now
View from drinking my early morning coffee
Early morning run along Half Moon Bay
Mural in Grand Rapids. We went to ArtPrize. Much smaller than years past
New puppy Snickerdoodle
Passau
Took Tessa and Maya trick or treating. Liked this skeleton Beatles
entwined light display Golden Gate
Winter Palace Vienna
My bathtub area
Steve and Beethoven grave Vienna
Parliament building Budapest as we first set sail drinking pear schnapps
Over the top decor in Gottweig Abbey
St Mathias Budapest
Hundertwasser house in Vienna
Townsend warbler in bottlebrush in pacific grove
Before my MIL funeral in Long Island
Holocaust memorial in Budapest. Each leaf a victim
golden Gate park San Francisco
My Buche de Noel this year
Steve and me on our ship
Some of my many tomatoes I grew
Snow
Close up of Monarchs in Pacific grove
Frains Lake near my house on my bike ride
Mayas party at a bowling alley
Lots of daffodils growing here
Kids hiding out on our bed as we watch something inappropriate in the other room
From my cooking class. I’ve made this salad several times. Only the lettuces I grew
Steve’s family came this summer We are having lunch after a very long hike in Ann Arbor
My morel harvest of one from my front yard
We met up in Ohio with Steve’s cousin
Last years Chosen sisters in early January
Birthday drink from Josh in Plymouth
Frains Lake
Year of the cicadas For three weeks a constant drone. I didn’t realize I had an oak tree until they appeared
I have several feeders. This one right out my bedroom window
New to me iris. Italian
New day lily
Maya’s art project
The house at dawn
Fake donut in Toledo where some of our family got vaccines. Free donuts to those vaccinated
Last years Christmas in shifts
Naomi has gone back to school to learn computer science. So far so good
Vaccines easier to find in z Ohio. Parking lot full of Michigan plates
Huge ice cream for Tessa
My mother in law shortly before getting Covid
Deer
Late snow
Tiffany exhibit at the Henry Ford
Birthday lunch for Josh in our pod in Milford
I love lights and have them all over the place
Lots of amaryllis
Josh’s girls during their shift here
Going backwards. As we were finally vaccinated we felt safe traveling this fall: first on our twice canceled before Danube river cruise and then to California in December. Still many events were canceled. Although I was able to get vaccinated early, we did a lot of searching to get everyone else vaccinated going to Ohio for some of them
I gardened a lot per usual growing kohlrabi for the first time. Lots of tomatoes and rhubarb. I added a lot of different flowers too I biked a lot in the early morning stopping for pretty sunrises on the local lakes Steve’s family stayed with us in July which was fun. saw my Chosen Sisters a lot and went with Steve to Grand Rapids art fair.
My mother in law was about to turn 97 but succumbed to Covid despite being vaccinated. Presumably the staff was all vaccinated but I suspect not. It boggles my mind that those who work with the elderly and the sick in the hospital are too selfish and stupid not to get vaccinated
The grandkids all started in person school as Covid levels were relatively low But in December omicron hit and Maya has yet to be in class this year as so many people are sick despite being vaccinated
4 comments:
A comprehensive year in review.
We were doing fairly well with Covid here. Until this latest variant.
Sue, I know there are too many photos of too many people and too many places for you to label them all, but I did, of course, wonder about a great many of them....
Did the coffin contain your mother-in-law, and are coffins ever left open before or during Jewish funerals? I worked at no less than three funeral homes when I was in my teens and twenties, and I don't remember Jews being treated any different from non-Jews, but then again, it's possible that I never attended a Jewish funeral. I see that the clock in the coffin photo looks to be at twelve--is there a story behind this? I'm also greatly curious as to whether all of the photos were taken at your house. I can "picture" people better when they're in their homes, so such things matter to me. I saw two Christmas trees in what I took to be private homes, so were they both your trees, and was the bluish look to one of them real or the result of the way the lights shone?
My mother in law is Jewish and the casket was kept closed. There is no public viewing for Jewish people. The casket was opened briefly for her sons to ascertain it was her Jewish bodies are never embalmed and ideally are buried in a plain pine coffin within 24 hours. As she needed to be transferred from Seattle to NY and her doctor didn’t sign the death certificate and then went missing, it was several days later Also never send flowers to a Jewish funeral. Not done. it was noon in the viewing room
The Christmas trees pictured with kids is in my house. not real Most of the photos were taken in my house though my grand daughter and her dog was taken at her house and my other grand daughter and cake at hers. All the flowers and yard pictures are from my house. I think where I am holding a drink is at a friend’s house who has the fake blue tree
Lovely post
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