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Dan's Thanksgiving visit prompted another gathering of the cousins, this one on Saturday at Cava Mezze in Olney, MD
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Quiche for breakfast on Sunday
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There are lots of poinsettias in the National Gallery of Art during the holidays
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Before the film at the National Gallery of Art, we posed in front of the always-stunning holiday poinsettia arrangement
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We celebrated Dan's birthday a bit early at Gadsby's Tavern in Old Town Alexandria
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Our visits almost always include looking at (and trying to label) photos
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Thanks to Dan's help, the attic is emptier and much better organized
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A pause in the Scrabble game for dinner
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Looking at photos between turns
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A family tradition
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On our last morning together, Dan suggested we write in each other's journals
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The maple paints a spectacular background
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The final days of fall
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A great day for a wander around Dumbarton Oaks gardens with Cindy and her family
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We finished our visit above the pool where someone in Cindy's family captured the glory of the garden that afternoon
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The end of Election Day with the team at our precinct (Brent's photo)
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It's a spectacle when the crows bathe
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It's our annual tulip planting day
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Laszlo reading the Gettysburg Address at the Lincoln Monument
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Gizella and Laszlo as we begin our tour of the monuments side of the DC Mall
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My favorite part of the FDR monument: his wife Eleanor
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Hoping this DC hotdog will be as good as the ones he remembers from childhood in NYC
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While Laszlo and Gizella visited the Air & Space Museum, I watched people in a nearby park
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"Turkish" breakfast on their final morning in the US
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Copied from an old slide and printed to gift to Karen, Karen in Venice during Top Deck tour in March 1980
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Copied from an old slide and printed to gift to Karen, Ruth & Carmen in Venice during Top Deck tour in March 1980
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Copied from an old slide, Ruth and Karen in Footbridge kitchen - March 1980
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Four plus decades ago Karen and I were exchange students in England; now we're having tea once again in Norfolk, Virginia
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Setting out for the Chrysler Museum before the tide traps us at home
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High tide is almost at the Chrysler Museum doors
