Scenes from Aunt Kathe's really lovely garden which was to be the first setting for reunion activities including the pasty social.
I love this Finnish rug beater poking out of the flower bed.
The children went wild for the ripe sweet cherries.
Aunt Kathe and Gracie chatting with Bea.
The wedding photo of Grandma Margaret's parents Andrew and Hilda Eskelinen. They met and married soon after each immigrated to the UP from Finland. He became a sucessful cobbler and she a mother, housewife, and reportedly eager hostess.
Sent from my iPhone
Added Sept 9, 2011:
Here's where I became dissolutioned with reporting from the road. I could only include 5 photos and no videos in each post sent from my iphone. I also knew many of my photos were appearing sideways or upside down on the web. I decided to live the journey rather than document it and to catch up when we got home. That's what I aim to do now.
We were meant to have the pasty social in this enchanted garden, but Mother Nature had other plans. I think we did a whiz bang job of transforming Aunt Kathe's garage into a suitable gathering space in a very short amount of time.
Of course, it isn't a family reunion without T-shirts and Uncle Alan designed very attractive ones for us. Did you know he's also a master shirt folder?
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