HAPPY BIRTHDAY (yesterday), KEVIN!!!
Kevin's birthday was yesterday, August 4th, and a good time was had by all. We started out with a kayak (first time this year for me) over to Long Bay. Delightful! This is the end of Long Bay. The big fluffy tree on the right is a Cypress. Earlier in the year when Kevin was at Oak Ridge Cemetery practicing for the Lincoln's Tomb ceremony, a guy who works there gave him a few small starts of trees, including a few Cypresses. Kevin planted them and now they're about a foot high. I hope we'll still be alive when they grow up to be tall. But it might take a while...we'll see... Here's the view...
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Sunday afternoon in NYC, June 21st, 2026
On Sunday afternoon we hopped on a bus for the short ride down to the library. This picture is funny to me because that's what happens when you don't quite get somebody in the frame. Oops, sorry,...
New York on Sun. June 21st, 2026
We stayed up late (for me, and early for Mom) watching TV, and on Sunday morning, the expo was still going on. Not so busy at 10:30 on Sunday morning. Ready to roar out at the crack of noon! Mom was...
Saturday night in NYC
All dressed up and ready to go! I'd never changed outfits so much on a trip, except when Kevin and I were super duper dressed up for sailing to and from the UK, and then changed to hiking gear for...
The Met on Saturday in New York
When we got to the Met it was very crowded. The line was long, and I snuck a photo of these oddly-dressed young women. Mom tried to ask them if they were in a play, but they didn't speak English. I...
Saturday, June 20th in NYC
I woke up on our second day in the city with plans. Did I? Yes, I always have a plan. I believe I intended to go up to the Metropolitan and maybe the Frick and also Central Park, which is just about...
Quickly, the rest of the first day in NYC…
It was Friday, June 19th, and we'd breakfasted, we'd gelato'd, we'd walked a lot at the Little Island and the High Line, and I was in need of refreshment after all that walking. We'd managed to walk...
First Full Day in NYC!
Well, here are some of the photos from our first day - we were busy and of course I took more than one million pictures. Even though I've whittled them down to way less than a million, I still have...
Getting to New York…
Mom and I left for New York on Thursday, June 18th. Our plane didn't leave til the three in the afternoon so it was a leisurely drive to the St. Louis airport Or it would have been a leisurely...
Flooding the Zone,
which I'm reading is actually a political term, whereby someone does a whole bunch of different things in all directions in order to cause confusion. Well, that's not what flooding the zone means to...