I am still surprised by the ways flags are used. Maybe I am stuck in the 1960s when this would be described as “desecration” and in some quarters lead to a stay in the local lock up.

This tree in front of our old house at 52 Kinnaird was the size of a forearm and perhaps 15 feet tall when we first moved here in 1978. Now it towers over the house at probably 75 feet in height.¶

Here are a few pictures taken with our new toy, a Nikon Coolpix 900 digital camera.
Most were taken at a “brunch” held at 52 Kinnaird on 12/26/98.

Meredith (Back of head ), Karen, Danielle (Dan), Andrea, John

Jonathan and Ed

Andrea and John

Maggie and Parker playing with “GOO”

- where is the picture of Uncle Mark cleaning it up?

Ed and Maggie at the playground…. Parker pulling from off-stage.

Several of the inmates have taken to flight and

landed in this year’s edition of the Yule tree….

Freeway, the albino cat, sneaking up on Neuron, the mouse, with a host of onlookers.