my grandmother, marion claire white, passed away last week after a long fight with alzheimer’s.
below is a picture circa 1981 – my mom is in the upper left corner wearing the green dress, my grandma marion is next to her in the printed dress, i am the baby seated on the lap of my great grandmother clara, and next to clara is my great grandfather charlie:
and here’s a more recent picture from my grandparent’s 60th wedding anniversary in august of 2007:
the second fire in santa cruz county in the past two months raged in bonny doon this afternoon (a solid 10 miles from our house), but we had a pretty clear view from our backyard. all of our neighbors were outside, snapping pics, complaining about the heat, and feeling pretty amazed at the power of fire. i felt a mixed combination of relief that the fire was far away from my home and sadness for all the homes that were burning and lives that were changing. mike and i walked around a bit to try to snap better pictures, and we saw several empty uhaul vans being driven FAST up western towards the blaze, which we could only assume were about to be filled to save their belongings from being destroyed.
check out more fire pictures here.
while you’re on flickr, check out pics of linnea’s last resident string quartet performance and linn’s 22nd birthday.
this isn’t a real post, my dear readers, it’s just a notification that i have put pictures on flickr from our last two weekends that have been filled with great friends, lots of fun, and even more food, so you should check out said pictures. as soon as i recover from all this fun, i’ll get back to posting as usual.
linnea’s bachelor of music recital on the viola last night was AMAZING!!
pics from the evening are here and mike will be uploading some movies to youtube soon.
congratulations, linn, on such a phenomenal event!
in case you haven’t heard yet, my amazingly talented little sister is performing in her bachelor’s of music viola recital tomorrow, may 8, at 7:30pm in the ucsc recital hall.
linn’s been playing violin since waaay back in 1991 (she started at the ripe old age of 5) and recently switched to the viola. i’ve seen her play on stage hundreds times over the past 16 years but i have never been more excited than i am for this performance!
everyone is invited to this show, so you should check out her flyer below, mark it down on your calendar, and be there tomorrow night!
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