Thursday, December 3, 2009

home away from home


carlyn's apartment


pumpkin pie filling from scratch


manther and her milking boots


carlyn did mama johnston proud


candied yams, willa's specialty


thanksgiving will always be my favorite holiday


our international guests' first thanksgiving


playtime


booptime


courtesy of s. ram


denis and eugen, carlyn's sweet roommates: keep her safe, you two


the rhine


our last stop


pointing to her small town of vallendar


her small town of vallendar


in cologne to visit laura


american invasion


our wonderful hostess...who loves california


lovers' locks on the bridge


our first christmas market, painfully charming


alluring


who can resist

never gets old




miss you already

Vallendar, Germany had a substantial population increase when Willa, Samantha, and I visited our sweet Carlyn to celebrate my most beloved holiday, Thanksgiving. With thoughts of things-missed-from-home becoming more vivid with the arrival of the holiday season, I found my girls' enthusiasm to create an entirely homemade feast fit for royalty incredibly reassuring. And quite the feast it was. Phenomenal, really. For the rest of the weekend, Carlyn herded her little flock around the quaint town and eventually to the big city setting of Cologne wherein our hearts sang as we sipped spiced wine, nibbled on market savories and sweets, and took in the twinkling sights like one big multiracial, jet-setting family. We really could have been together anywhere in the entire world and still have been just as elated. And that is something for which I will be eternally grateful.

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful as always. Whats this with the "lover's locks"?
    I am happy you got to have a Thanksgiving, the essence of the holiday is magical. I did not get to tell you in person this year, but I am grateful for you, you beautiful Flower.

    You will be home this same month! ECSTATIC.

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