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back home in ny: papa and mimi’s house

Posted on July 23rd, 2014 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on back home in ny: papa and mimi’s house

With my camera in the shop, I think I’ll wind up the last couple of posts on our June trip to NY. While we were at their house, Papa and Mimi were working on a new circle driveway. It’s finished now, but here it is in progress.  Papa did most of the work before we […]

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back home in ny: camping at southwick beach

Posted on June 24th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on back home in ny: camping at southwick beach

While we were in NY, Mimi and some of us kids drove up to Southwick Beach on Lake Ontario.  Southwick has a feel like the ocean–wild and windy.  Lake Ontario is the 14th largest lake in the world, the easternmost of the five Great Lakes. Its source is the Niagara River and its outlet is […]

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back home in ny: cousins

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

I’m finally getting around to posting pictures from our NY trip, just a couple of weeks late.  Our 11 days there was so packed full that I decided to post the pics in a series, instead of cramming them all together in one post. Here is Gianna with Cash–she’s my little sister Sarah’s baby, three […]



new york city

Posted on June 17th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  10 Comments »

It’s taken me awhile to post our NY pics, but finally here are a few.  While the kids and I were farther north, David was in the big city working at Radio City Music Hall (streaming the Tony Awards).  My Papa calls NYC the armpit of the world–and I have to agree–but these are the […]



a week in southern cali

Posted on January 7th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  11 Comments »

We spent last week in San Diego!  It was the first time Zia and Cash and I saw the Pacific, and our first time in California.  We got a little hotel on the beach… and went dashing giddily through sand and sea. Besides being beach bums, we went on a whale watching ship, went to […]