Random images - Canada

Summer 2015: I cruised through Canada, from Montreal to Boston on the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Here are a few random images from that trip.

Prince Edward Island-- I've just met Anne of Green Gables.

A chateau in Quebec City. You can see the funicular on the cliff, for transporting people from the lower city to the upper city. (I'm scared of heights, so the funicular trip was done with eyes closed.)

Landing in Montreal at night

Random images - great nieces

I visited my niece and her family in Alabama this summer.  Her two oldest daughters allowed me to braid their hair.

This may seem like an unremarkable event, but really it isn't. I love to braid hair. You would think--given I have two girls of my own--that I've had numerous opportunities to braid hair. You would be wrong.

For reasons unknown to me, my daughters were never particularly interested in letting me do anything frou-frou with their hair. Sigh.

Here are shots of my two beautiful great-nieces. (Trust me, they are beautiful from every viewpoint.)

On the same trip, I saw another niece (still "great" but not in the relative sense) and I braided her hair too. I have my fix taken care of for a while.


I must mention that I've recently had a birthday, and Older Daughter let me braid her hair. Simple gifts are the best!