More Memories...

Setting up Momma's knitting machine...

Tara's handmade owl holds her tools, as he's done for a few decades...

She knit more than 200 Christmas Socks on this machine...

Began teaching me in 2009...

We made 6 together that year - and she added details to her notes...

Her red notebook holds her instructions...

I hear her voice as I read...

Remembering...

Ready to create new memories!!!

It's Always...

With a bit of sadness...

That I leave my Stoddart family to head down the road toward home...

I've been so blessed....

I'll be back!!!!!!

Heading...

Home...

T'was a great trip!!!

Moving...

Packing...

 Loading...

 With help!

Many hands make light work!!!



She Moving Again...

Back to Eugene...

 With the help of TJ & and her dad...

 We've got her set up for another school year...

Gonna miss my baby girl!!!



Tarp Tent...

At B'ma's...Not nearly as much fun as the one at Aunt Tami's!!!

Time to...

Have our last Crooked Creek breakfast together...

Mickey Mouse pancakes.Pack the Explorer in the morning drizzle...

All a bit sad to say goodbye. Then...
Home to TJ's Hungarian Mushroom Soup...

Aaah!

JWG

On the first day of summer...1921...

James Whitmore arrived, welcomed by Verne & Vera Gilbert

Here...about 6 months old guarded by TegSweet boy...about 3 years old
High school graduation
Honeymoon 1945
Father's Day 1949...
with me & Judy

Celebrating 80 years in 2001

My Daddy...

I miss him...and still celebrate!!!

His love and care.

Goodby Crooked Creek

Sooo much fun...all too brief...We'll be back....

Watching

The Hanson-Isaacs TreeTime to transform...

Branches and limbs are coming off...

We are watching...

Waiting....

Awed...

Melancholy...

Focused....

Sad...

Brothers anticipating....

Honoring...

The tree and the process...

As he changes form...

And Grampa watches...

Father & son...ready...

For the final piece....

To fall....

Gracefully....

Joining the others...

A season ends...another begins...

Grampa, dad, sons...ready to create...more!

She's moving to college!

My 'Baby Girl'...

University of Oregon...Barnhart Hall...Room 442.Up...4 floors...82 stairs...carrying 'stuff'!!!!...7 times up & down!
To her new abode...a college adventure!
Transforming a dorm room...into MySpace!
Created by Taylor! She's excited!
I miss her already :(