Wolverine Lake Cruise

Monique and John

A big storm the day before upended a good-size tree...

Anne Jutte, Wendy's mother, and Brigitte.

Portrait of the Gardener...

And one of her products, this Spring...

Pumpkin Vine

Katie the Beagle

She deserves a pic

All to herself in any
Wolverine display!

Memorial Day Memories

Herewith some pictures from Monique showing the Memorial Day atmosphere and views we all enjoyed at Wolvering Lake, where Monique and John live every day as if it was vacation day. Commentaries by Monique....

Snow in May. Well, you can’t really see it very clearly but if you look closely, you’ll see that the air is full of white, fluffy cotton seeds. Taken May 26 or 27, 2010. The rest of the pictures in this post come from May 29th. Clicking on an image enlarges it a little.

Monique with her new toy, a borrowed pressure washer. Look closely now, one chair has been cleaned and the other, not yet…

John and Lexi testing the newly hung hammock. It was a weekend of getting things ready for summer, and it was a pleasure to be able to do so in such summery weather. Lexi belong next door (there it is, up and left) and to Wendy, whose picture follows.

After a lot of yard work, nothing like a little float… Wendy and Anna floating and Lady about to jump into the lake, again.

Here's one of the back channels of Wolverine Lake. If you look closely you’ll see a duck with her little babies right behind crossing the canal behind me. They were staying in the shade (see them hiding, slightly left of center) so that a better photo was hard to get.

Water lilies and cattails on the canals of Wolverine Lake.

View of the lake from behind a wonderful old droopy tree. I was going to call it a weeping willow but I now see that the leaves aren’t those of a willow… It’s right across the lake from us on that point, past the island.

— Monique

Our Ground Cover

It's name is Queen Anne's Lace.

Hello, Hohensteins!

Here we present at least an introductory collage of the Hohenstein branch of the Ghulf clan: Barb, Hillery, and Hillery's own Kyle and Kobe. Introductory? Yes. These pictures, from Facebook, are a little dated and not very well matched, but we've had some technical problems exchanging photos with Babs, what with our Kodak empire not quite communicating with hers. But rather than waiting any longer for new pics to mature--especially in light of promising new careers demanding copious amounts of time from three of the four Hohensteins--we thought it best to go forward now. Babs has been busy returning to her old avocation in eldercare, this time working for A Place for Mom. Hillery is at the end of her training in the medical field, in nursing assistance. And Kyle is launched on a career in Arsen's favorite military service, the United States Coast Guard. Only Kobe has the luxury, still, of being just a child. Good for you, Kobe! It's the best time of life!

Barbara--who, for Brigitte and me--will forever remain “Babs,” a German shortening of all Barabaras over there and thus deeply embedded in us--is our oldest daughter and, hence, presides over a line in which we are delighted to see three generations into the future: our great grand children. It makes you dizzy to think that the oldest, of two mind you, little Kyle, is is now in uniform. How time doth pass. How they shoot up...