Traveling Back into the Land of Snow and Family

My sister Martha named this little Caroline Wren, Edna Brown, after an author of a children's book she was reading at the time and because my mom's name is Edna. We decided that this little Caroline Wren was sent to us by my mom, or she embodied my mom's spirit and had come to visit while all her children were gathered together at my brother and his wife's house. Here's my picture of Edna Brown, see Martha's picture, here.

My sister Martha and I constructed a funeral wreath , that when finished, you could only see a bit of these grape vines. They soon were covered with material, paper and pictures--I happen to like this vine part of it best. Martha posted about the wreath here.



I flew into RI at the beginning of a great snow storm! I loved it!





We were all together in our happiness and sorrow. Comforting soft snow was falling all around us.
Thank you Mom.

Ten Hour Car Ride Home

On our way home from northern CA to the central coast, we traveled through very tall red wood trees,

This was a great snack while traveling in the car, because it was actually fun to make, and not too messy.

We rode into snow, my granddaughter made a slush ball. Snow in April!




Incredible oak trees--old, crippled trees--beautiful, spooky, familiar...
towering juts of rock and earth,

over the golden gate bridge,

into San Francisco--"Little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same..."

A ride through the city on 19th Ave,



From here it's another 5 hours to go--it felt so good to get home and get out of the car!!