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photo courtesy of starbucks. i think.
My mother-in-law has beautiful gardens that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, deer and grasshoppers. The weather is lovely, so we can sit on the screened in porch and listen to the birds calling to each other as they fight over the cherries on the neighbor's tree. The occasional car driving by interrupts the sounds of nature, and the day is punctuated by the mournful sound of the train whistle as another freight train rumbles through town.
I have been coming to this home in the Midwest for more than eighteen years now and it occurs to me that John and I have now been together longer than he lived here in Ohio. Our time in our Gypsy Wagon together has now been the longest constant for either of us. He left for college when he was seventeen, I left at eighteen and although we've both had stints at our respective homes during summer break or between moves, our home - our constant - has been us. Wherever we are - we are home.
I can't tell you how proud it makes me to see this beautiful shell named in honor of one of our favorite people.
Dale devoted time, energy and enthusiasm to the countless midshipment that he coached, and it's a tremendous honor that they named a shell for him.
Dale will recognize, of course, that this photograph is upside down, but the magic of computer manipulation let me turn it so that you can read it.
I'm not really sure that he's old enough to have a legacy, but it looks as though he's got one anyway.
Very, very cool!
It was a night for Texas in Annapolis when we hosted a Texas barbecue complete with Shiner Bock
Served in a wheelbarrow
And wine, too.
And flowers in big tin cans.
And to top it off we had Texas weather - 98 degrees in the shade and humid. Despite the weather, we had fun!
This shot is a couple of weeks old. I took it as the Angels were flying over the stadium in a salute to the 2008 graduates.