Miscellaneous Items

Not having anything new to post, I will occasionally post old things that might be interesting.  Below is a photo of our twins, Gwen Burnham and Mary Howard.  They are adorable and loved by everyone at Lake San Marcos because they are peppy and have a great sense of humor.  Mary recently had her entire shoulder replaced and recovered without a hitch about as fast as anyone could---and she's in her mid-eighties.  At about the same time, Gwen has a detached retina repaired.  They are amazing.

I took this on the fourth of July in 2005 at Bob and Kathy Balog's house.  I used the photo for a birthday card which I gave to each of them one year.  They are always dressed impeccably with matching glasses, jewelry, shoes, bags, etc.  They look in this photo every bit as much fun as they are in real life.

I took this photo of Sophia at a joint celebration of her birthday and my Mother's.  It was August 18, 2005 at the Lake San Marcos Country Club.  Sophia was celebrating her 4th birthday.

A very pretty picture of Mother taken that same day.  As you can see they got big ice cream sundae's for their birthday dessert, compliments of the Club.

At our very first Yacht Club Halloween party in 2005, Eli and I went as Dorothy and the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz.  The costumes were borrowed from Flora Lang and Billy Martin who wore them once upon a time.  Flora's garage is full of wonderful costumes.  I don't think all that straw stuffed around Eli was that comfortable to wear.

Me as Dorothy.  Flora even had sequined red shoes.

In April of 2006 I happened to be out in the golf cart with my camera.  I don't remember what I was up to but I saw this egret walking across Sharon Gallagher's yard.  I stalked it quietly long enough to get this good shot.  Because of the body of water here, we have all manner of fine water fowl to enjoy; swans, blue herons, mallards, geese, cormorants, pelicans, etc.