Many pictures. Although I loaded them in order, Blogger has a mind of its own. We went to Europe twice and to New York City. With an old friend I tried canoeing the Boundary Waters and visited the main sites in the Upper Peninsula with Naomi. In between did lots of gardening, running, bicycling and raising black swallowtails. Also had lots of family time and seeing friends For the most part, a good year Aside from maybe getting Covid and an accident that chipped my front teeth, we have our health
Church in Vienna
4th of July bbq
Mittleberg Germany
Along the Main
Hundertwasser Vienna
My brother visited in the fall law quad UM
Mardi Gras punchkey
Spring trip Germany Breisach
White Christmas through a wreath
Naomi did very well in her computer science program
Taquemmonen falls
Black Forest. Some of my relatives came from there
Pictured Rocks UP
One of the butterflies raised about ten of them from larva found on my dill and fennel
Maya is now in middle school. Her choir
Passau
Summer lunch with Josh and girls
Shoe memorial in Budapest
Our flock
Amsterdam
Oliver played football and now is in high school tempus fugit
Zillions of fancy churches seen. in Vienna
French pastries in Strasbourg. Will return to France in a few months
Steve and I in Rothenberg
Storks in Strasbourg several blocks of these
Back at home Flamingo willow
Lots of strawberries this year. lots of Maya stay overs
lots of hibiscuses
Cologne. Visited it in the spring and the fall
Bamberg
Spring
Street person in Cologne
Although we really didn’t have much snow in 2022 I still hated it
Speyer
Budapest
Daniel and Tessa
Fall flowers
Harlem
Snow and sunset here
Cologne
Koblenz
Christmas
Up at the lodge before our canoe trip. Pretty but harrowing
We got together in NYC for Steve’s mom’s jahrzeit
Otto Wagner church in fog. Vienna
Lots of birds. This is an orchard oriole couple. Much more Baltimores
Fall and sunrise
800 year old mikvah in Speyer Germany. Lots of Jewish history and lots of cruelty
Went to see Kinky Boots this fall
House guests in my tub
New expensive mower but cuts grass cutting in half
Local night out for our 45th anniversary
Local fall fair
Fall colors
MElk abbey staircase
Went to the last art fair in Grand Rapids
More birds in our yard. These cranes used to be rare
On a layover in Chicago for our spring trip
Naomi and the Big Spring UP
Castles and more castles
One of our campsites in the Boundary Waters
Lots of glads
Highlight of our fall trip. Mozart concert in Vienna
One of many German towns
Right before one of our trips had a two day power outage due to a terrible storm. No power means no water as we are on a well
Regensburg
4 comments:
I appreciate your blog! Always interesting to read and I love the photos, especially of your family! Happy New Year! Kris
Happy New Year to you too Kris!
I saw a documentary about a Holocaust survivor who, a few times a year, travels from Israel to Budapest. During the filming, she was at the shoe memorial (where some of her relatives died) when some idiot drove by and yelled, "Filthy Lice-Ridden Jewess." Trump called people like that "good people" when they were in Charlottesville, and I think they're all Trumpians at heartm no matter where they're from.
Of these many wonderful photos, I especially enjoyed the one made in Germany that has an orange house in it. You are a gifted photographer.
Thank you Snow. It is easy to have nice pictures when there is so much beauty around
The Shoe Memorial was vandalized a few years back though not clear if it were clueless teenagers or neo Nazis
Lots of scary Trumpers everywhere. I fear for my ‘rainbow ‘ family
Sue
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