Introducing Ivy!

Mark and I are now proud dog owners! After many weeks of fencing the backyard and finding “one more thing” that needed to be done, we finally went out to the Animal Protection Society of Durham last Saturday and met our dog. They had us fill out the adoption paperwork then, but had to keep [...]

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Planting Progress – July 2009

When last I updated about making some planting progress in our front yard, I had just put in all the annuals in the large pots next to our front steps. I thought they looked pretty good. Please do go look back at that old picture for comparison, because in the intervening two months the plants [...]

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Volunteer Rose

One more post about plants around our house.  Although one of the first things we did upon moving in was kill all the grass and weeds in the little swath along the street, we were very careful to leave the volunteer rose bush/vine growing right on the verge between the tree area and the useless [...]

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Planting Progress – May 2009

At my friend Hilary’s request, here are some pictures of all the progress I finally managed to make in the front of our house two weekends ago. One of the less nice things about our house is the way the driveway comes all the way up to the front of the house, so any plants [...]

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The Memphis Wedding

Only about a week late, but I’ve finally gotten all the pictures off my camera from my cousin Rebekah’s wedding in Memphis two weekends ago. I’ve only been to Memphis twice before, once before I was really old enough to have very clear memories (I’m told we visited Mud Island, and it was very hot), [...]

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What I’ve been doing

Whoops, sorry, didn’t mean to abandon the blog for nearly a whole month. I’m still around. What I’ve been doing:

Enjoying spring. The redbuds are almost entirely gone and the cherry blossoms are definitely gone, but the dogwoods and azaleas are all out now, so I need to take some more pictures for you. Oh, and [...]

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The Official 2009 Birthday Card

It’s my birthday again! You know how I can tell? Because I got my official Ray & Anita handmade birthday card in the mail yesterday. Here is this year’s card, beautiful as always:

Last year’s card is here.

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I will blame it on the trees

I would just like to say this now: If I have a traffic accident in the near future, it will be because of the trees. On my way to work, before I even make it out of my neighborhood, I have to pass an enormous flowering pear tree and two impressively old flowering cherries. A [...]

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Solstice Train Progress 2008

Well, the holiday season is over now, so Mark and I have to break down the train progress until next year this weekend. This is what was accomplished this year.
First, the tree (my main contribution):

Here’s as far as Mark got with the train set up before he decided the tree had to move off the [...]

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A Few Wedding Pictures

As Mark and I are fast approaching our 2-month anniversary, I thought it’d be nice if I finally got around to posting a few of our favorite wedding photos. There are, of course, hundreds more, and my uncle Ray did a fantastic job taking them all, for which we are eternally grateful.
One of the first [...]

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