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At Home

These photos are from all through the year. The fruit on the hawthorns: when Dani shoved little sticks in the ground four years ago, I thought nothing would come of it. She was right: the sticks became trees. The fruit, like the plums, finally appeared, this year. A visiting arborist was fascinated with them and said he had no idea what they were. He took pictures after I suggested they are Asian or Siberian Hawthorne. Dani prepared the fruit for eating. We had a fire near our house. We were in the car and far away when it started. When we saw the smoke, we knew it was near our house, and we were a little worried through the drive home. The fire destroyed a very large building. We learned later that it was, of course, a meth lab. This photo is taken from our bedroom window. (The background photo was taken at Johnston Canyon, so technically not ‘at home’.)

One of the greatest joys of this year has been playing cards with my family on my deck. And here’s Mimi, rarely photographed.