Tales from Rohan

My Uncle Don died several years ago of Leukemia. He was a painter. This summer, his wife Allie and my cousin Gwen, sorted through a bunch of his paintings and offered each family member to pick out painting. Here are a few that Alex, my cousin Charis, and I really liked.

All three of us picked this as our 2nd choice.

Alex chose this one.

Charis chose this one.

I chose this one.

A few others in the final selection…

Alex and I arrived at my cousins’ house near Asheville a few days early and helped get the house ready for a family reunion. We also helped fetch and split three truckloads of firewood from a tree that a friend of theirs took down in town.

As you can see, making food in my family is always taken very seriously.
Here Popsie, Tressa, Carol, Lynn, Charis, and Krista are making Chinese dumplings, and Dad and Jill are taking a break from husking corn.

Aunt Alice is knitting on the patio

The kids spent lots of time running around outside

They also turned the library into the headquarters of their semi-secret club/society of the “Meeps”

The morning before the biggest gathering, Dru, Ken, Lynn, Alex and I went to Mt Mitchell (highest point in the Eastern US) and took a very short hike to the next peak over (Mt Craig).

I think it is always fun to take photos that have other photos in them. Alex and I were looking through photo albums at my cousin’s house and she snapped this picture. If you look in the upper left corner of the photo album, you can see me and Alex from an earlier era.

Zooming in. Who is that scruffy dad?

In addition to a few ordinary family photos, we took a few family photos including some “Steinbergs”

eating flowers and drinking from the birdbath


hiding in the hollyhocks

3 generations pyramid