20 June 2014: Friday ... A Gorgeous Day ... Sherry subbed for Pamela ... Home Depot for Draino & kitchen bags ... Skeesha's arrival ... dinner at the Farmhouse

The Farmhouse Restaurant at Loch Nairn, a favorite haunt of ours on an irregular basis. Bruno, the waiter, was there (I'd forgotten his name, unfortunately) but did not serve us. Lisa served us, our waitress and at the end of our wonderful meal I'd promised to share some of my Old Fashioned Strawberry Shortcake but did not. I owe her. It was absolutely fantastically decadent (which was the name of Doug's chocolate dessert).


Reading-glasses positioned prior to dinner. 


Showing off pics from home in Georgia.


Group selfie after dinner. 

9 May 2014: Friday ... Mt. Cuba Center lunch break w/Katia ... Liz & Frank's Mother's Day flowers ... English yew w/docent Dick Cloud ...

Mom gives Liz a Thank You call for the flowers in the background.

An English Yew plant is a beautiful growth. There are two at Mt. Cuba, anniversary gifts to the Copelands from some 80 years ago. They are youngsters but are huge. Our docent guide, Dick Cloud, said they live 100s of years and were used by individuals to fashion strong and long bows for launching arrows. Hard to imagine as the plant's limbs are twisted and short but some have length, so, with age, I imagine, there could be large enough boughs to work up a weapon the height of a 6-foot person.

This English yew is a lot larger than the one at Mt. Cuba.