091231V_Snow Man

100116V_The Heart Remembers

The Heart Remembers
The fires of youth may die away and sink to crimson embers. . . .
The high romantic dreams may vanish --- But the heart remembers.

The heart remembers everything; the buried past is there.
The rapture of loves first delight; the joy and the despair.

The faces and the friendships and the names of long ago ---
Lie beneath a drift of years like leaves beneath the snow.

The sorrows and the happiness --- gay June and grey Decembers.
The music fades, the roses perish. . . . But the heart remembers.

~ Patience Strong 1945 ~

091225V_Christmas 2009

020000V_Sydney's Mission Homecoming

Gina, Gene, Dorothy, Becky, Scott, Sydney, Carrie Vanatter. Carrie's husband Scott Motley.

091205V_Heartland Flier Amtrak

I love the train...2nd level seat with laptop accessible power. Pretty near perfect trip. Four hours through the night on the way to Mom's. Then spending 3 1/2 weeks in the 'snow zone". Fun time. Let's do it again !!

091225V_Sydney is stuck at BWI. Bummer.

091222V_LIFER decendants

Aaron, Leigh, Robert, Tiffany GRIEST, Scott, Dorothy, Gina and Becky VANATTER. They stopped by from Kansas City on their way to Sallisaw, OK. We share the same grandfather. We never met him. We got aquainted about 10 years ago. Leigh, Mom and I do genealogy stuff for fun.