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Memories of Christmas Trees, the Help of Grandsons & the Overflowing Hot Chocolate of Christmases Past
Written: Monday, December 3, 2018 We, my wife and I, put up the Christmas tree and the outside lights on Saturday. On Sunday, after the 90th birthday celebration of the woman I consider my...
Postcard Story – Notre-Dame-De-La-Garde (La Bonne-Mere), Marseilles – Paul Signac – 1905-06 – The Metropolitan Museum of
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437672 Oldest Daughter – 05/10/21 …the walk along the harbor in the still cool misty air of the morning was full of peace and…life, for the work of...
Postcard Story – Piazza San Marco – Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) – Late 1720s – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435839 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 05/17/21 …well, so what if she lives in Oklahoma City… Oh, it just chafes her butt when they say “Oklahoma...
Postcard Story – Bouquet of Sunflowers – Claude Monet – 1881 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437112 Oldest Daughter - 09/25/20 …and for her they were always evocative of life, of happiness, warmth, joy even, and of course with sunflowers, of...
Postcard Story – Landscape: The Parc Monceau – Claude Monet – 1876 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437107 (Painting not in Public Domain - Photo of painting taken at Met) Second Granddaughter – 10/13/20 ... and with all of these family gatherings,...
Postcard Story – Poplars, Eragny – Camille Pissarro – 1895 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437307 (In Public Domain) Oldest Daughter -10/09/20 …and she always wondered why she, one of her middle children would always wander off, at times,...
Postcard Story – Wheat Field With Cypresses – Vincent van Gogh – 1889 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436535 (In Public Domain) Middle Daughter – 06/17/21 ...and then there was the van Gogh…the first view, and when…perhaps when he was twelve or...
Postcard Stories –View of Toledo – El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) – Greek, 1540/41- 1614 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436575 (In Public Domain) Second Grandson –10/09/14 …and as Prince Treyton approached the town and the castle looming high upon the hill, dark and...
Postcard Stories –The Belles Heures of Jean De France, Duc De Berry – 1405-08/09 – Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg, Franco-Netherlandish, active in France, by 1399-1416 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art – The Cloisters Collection
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/470306 (Go to: Folio 233v. The Duke on a Journey) (In Public Domain) Oldest Grandson – 10/01/14 …and as the twelve year-old boy approached the castle...
Postcard Stories – Washington Crossing the Delaware –Emanuel Leutze – 1851 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11417 (In Public Domain) Fourth Sister – 08/20/14 …and, ha!...what do they know about bravery…and daring? No, even the little dogs know better and...