Peonies in Denver. They are amazing this year! Must be the cool weather and the inches and inches of rain.

We were there just 3 months prior to the fateful September day when the terrorists hit the buildings with high jacked planes. Wow. Freaky to think about.

Love these beautiful perennial flowers!

More coming soon!

But then, this:

It is like no other. Would that it could last longer than 31 days!

Who saved all her babysitting money to finance a summer trip to Mexico in 1970 to “study Spanish.” Here she is, standing atop a great Aztec pyramid. The first of many travel adventures she would enjoy, but probably the most memorable because she was the most impressionable.

She would keep her souvenirs and pictures neatly archived in a photo album. She only wished she was that organized for all her later trips.

She lived in a local home with a nice family. Three other young American girls were her roommates that very hot summer of fun!

Back then, not all our film pictures came out well, but we kept them anyway.

She took the picture above; she’s not in it obviously.

Her hosts in Saltillo.

The young girl with her assigned student mentor. Her beautiful Mexican bag is behind her. Despite the heat, she decided to sport a short haired wig this day, just for fun.

In my Hilltop garden.

An Italian historian believes he has identified the bridge as one in Rome. Read it here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mona-lisa-bridge-ponte-romito-180982143/