Beautiful, but...
...not the trip you want to make.As Amanda mentioned, Brian's father passed away on the 27th. He was only 57. He had COPD like Mom but that alone didn't take his life. Having an intestinal obstruction and putting off seeking medical attention for some three weeks in his already weakened condition did it. Brian said his mom would have let his dad go a couple of days max before she drug him to the doctor - by the hair, if necessary. But unfortunately she passed away about 2.5 years ago.
An upside is that it was absolutely beautiful in Michigan, and I got to see where Brian grew up. The air was so clean there that the clouds had a dimension I've only ever seen aboard an airplane.
We caravaned back to Georgia on the first of July, stopping in Chattanooga to buy the super cool kinds of fireworks you cannot find in GA (probably because they're illegal, but that's another story).
We did not outdo Ryan & Charles' New Year display, but if we didn't one-up the neighbors, we came darn close. It was good to be back home, even if the air was dirty and the temperatures 20 degrees higher. Here are a couple of other pictures from Michigan (Brandon with the biggest Dandelion I've ever seen, and another shot of a cornfield against a beautiful blue sky).
posted by Teresa | 1:51 PM
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Teresa, please extend my sympathies to Brian and his family. Even though I only met his Dad once, He was really nice. Gary had spoken fondly of him too.
We went to our next door neighbors for the 4th after going to a jam session at another family members hous and while theirs was about as good as Ryan and Charles' display of pyromania, they came super close to igniting another neighbors tool shed. Thank God we had a good rain earlier or that one misfired rocket might have burned half the hillside down!
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