Happy Lammas!

Here we all are, at our Lammas celebration on August 1, 2011.

Merry Midsummer!

We celebrated Midsummer on June 30, and also celebrated Kiel's birthday at the same time.

To see more pictures, click on Midsummer 2011.

Happy May Day!

Happy May Day from Ray, Deena, and friends!

Beth, Bea, Kathy, Demetria, Ray, and Kiel

See more Maypole Dance pictures.

Happy Easter!

Here we are on Easter Sunday Morning, at Brunch.

Aunt Doree is holding the egg that lasted the longest in the Egg Ditching.

For more Easter pictures, click HERE.

Valentine's Day 2011 cont'd

See's chocolates..the best!

very cute things on North By Northwestern:





13 sad, sad ice cream flavors to smother your Valentine’s blues

Beautiful roses, and rose wine

Heartbreak or lovin’? Pick a Valentine fate

Black Kitty enjoys his valentine ribbon

my favorite romantic recipe...from Gourmet, January 1994

 Ray and I prepared our traditional Valentine's Day Dinner, pasta with scallops mushroom, and spinach.

Year of the Rabbit 2011

Click HERE to see pictures from our trip to Chinatown for this year's lunar year parade.

We met Helen and her Aunt Alice for a tasty dim sum brunch at Three Happiness Restaurant.


It was cold, snowy, and damp.  Philip covered the parade for a photojournalism class assignment.

After being outside for a couple hours, we felt chilled to the bone.  We  had to leave suddenly without visiting all the shops because Aunt Doree called to say Aunt Ev's furnace was not working.  

Thankfully we had managed to visit Hoypoloi Gallery, what a fun place!  I love the glass quotation plates by Steve Schlanser.  But I did not see the very cool, very mystical  huge gold one we saw the day we went to Chinatown with Alek and his friend Jeff.


Hot Irish coffee at the Fire House Grill in Evanston made me feel better.  The furnace was easily started by popping a couple AA batteries into the thermostat.

We took Philip back to Rogers House.  The campus is beautiful in the snow.