I send my apologies all around for not being here. I have no excuses except that sometimes life
gets in the way of my enjoyment of it and there is never enough time.
At the end of last year, I decided to go through my photos
and pick one out for each month that illustrated the way things were going for
me at the time. This year I am doing the
same. So here are my first six months of
my 2012 in pictures.
In January, Greg and I took a drive down to Charleston,
South Carolina. It was a wonderful trip
and we saw lots of beautiful things, but the experience that stood out to me
was being in the presence of the Angel Oak.
The Angel Oak is a Southern Live Oak that is estimated to be between 300
and 400 years old. Standing near this
magnificent tree was a spiritual experience for me that I will not soon forget.
February…well, what can I say? I imagine that I drink more coffee in February
than in all the rest of the months combined.
In March, we were lucky to be able to travel to St. John
with our good friends and travel companions, Dona and Bob. We had a great time in this beautiful place,
but if truth were told, we have a good time with Dona and Bob pretty much any
place we end up. After all, isn’t that what
friendship is all about?
In April, I got together with my daughter Carrie for one of
our field trips. We went to Magic Wings
Butterfly Conservatory in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. We had fun watching the ponies eating the
rainbows and pooping out the butterflies…
In May, our son Evan received his Master’s
Degree in Information and Library Science from Syracuse University. As a reward, he and I embarked on a wonderful
journey to Budapest, Vienna and Prague.
I took this picture on the last day we were in Prague. We ate lunch at a sidewalk café called La
Gare. La Gare in French means “the station.”
Carrie and I got together in June to check out
The Three Sisters Sanctuary in Goshen, Massachusetts. This place is a wonderland of color and
creativity. If you ever find yourself in
Goshen, you must walk around here with your camera. But call me first, because I want to meet you
there…
The adventure continues...
