FIRST ENCOUNTER

KISS ON THE NOSE
KISS ON THE NOSE
40TH WEDDING DINNER WITH FAMILY
40TH WEDDING DINNER WITH FAMILY
SWINGING
SWINGING
ARRIVING IN SANTA ROSA
ARRIVING IN SANTA ROSA
TELLING STORIES
TELLING STORIES
FELIX AND SAMSON FIRST ENCOUNTER
FELIX AND SAMSON FIRST ENCOUNTER
LUC AND FELIX
LUC AND FELIX

It is the first time Luc and Felix, 2 1/2 and 2 respectively have met since before they could walk. A re-union oragnized for our 40th wedding anniversary. Within minutes they were fast friends.

Our adventure this summer began on June 25th in Newport, 15 days driving across the country arriving in Los Angeles a month later driving to Sonoma.

The dinner last night in Sebastopol was the gift was hoped for.

On September 7 the America’s Cup action will resume.

COUSINS

My posts are usually not so personal; but if we put life in perspective, what touches my life most profoundly? Is it the America’s Cup? The Six Meter World Championship?  Or is it friends and family? I am hoping the questions begs the answer. Florence, niece to my wife, is finishing a year at Harvard before returning to Paris, came for the day with her parents, children, and uncle.

After a whirlwind tour of “Chateau-sur-mer”, “Marble House”, “Rosecliff “, “The Breakers”, and “The Elms” ( all properties of the Preservation Society of Newport County) marvels of American interpretations of European architecture.  We returned home for a late lunch of cold lobster and red wine and of course conversation. Florence’s children were very patient with all of us, given that our topics of talk might not have been their first choice.