When I returned from our trip last week, I found out that my Uncle Bob had passed away at the age of 86 on August 18. That’s a snapshot of him from 1970 during a visit to our house in Westlake. It’s the only photo I have of him that even begins to convey his sense of humor which was enormous! We all adored Bob. Such good times we had! Bob was a salt-of-the-earth midwesterner. He was one of nine […]
Categories: People • Tags: 99 card game, hancock building, uncle bob
This is my mother Celia and me in a favorite old photo. Isn’t she adorable? She would have been 81 today. She was about 35 here. I’ve always loved this picture because I look so happy and content. I remember that red, black and white ski sweater she is wearing so clearly. My parents had a cabin in Big Bear Lake and that’s where she’d wear it. She loved clothes and she had a knack for dressing well and keeping […]
Categories: Embroidery, People • Tags: burlap, celia, embroidery
One of the things I miss most about visiting my mother-in-law is her book collection. I always found one or more books to borrow and quite a few that I really loved. This photo shows three of my favorites: Murder Under the Palms, a Charlotte Graham mystery by Stefanie Matteson; The Widows Club, an Ellie Haskell mystery by Dorothy Cannell; and Thornyhold by Mary Stewart. The common theme of these three particular books – secondary to their stories – is the love […]
Categories: People, Reading Material • Tags: charlotte graham, ellie haskell, thornyhold
Today would have been my mother-in-law Darlene’s eighty-second birthday. She passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on May 27th of last year. It’s caught me off guard, how much I miss her. I don’t think she particularly cared for me when we met back in the mid-eighties. I was taking the attention of her baby, the last of her six sons. And she wasn’t the warm and nurturing kind of mother I was used to. I didn’t produce any grandchildren until […]
Categories: Embroidery, People • Tags: crewel, embroidery
