The Potgieters in Minnesota – see a small window to our lives below
Mom joins the boys for some Badmington on the back lawn.
The grass and trees seem to compete to see which can come up with the most intense green color.
It was not long and mom also had to assist with getting one of the plumes out of a tree… and guess what, the ball and the plume is still in the tree!
Of course that all means rather hard work! So time to relax!
The beautiful interior of the building where Gina works – I am taking the photograph from an interior garden where she can enjoy lunch even in mid-winter, sitting under the trees.
This is the building from outside as seen from an island in the Mississippi river. (The red brick building.) This was the last week before the trees burst out in green.
It’s a U.S. flag grown entirely of flowers and covering 6.65 acres – 2 1/2 hours north of Los Angeles.
Between the field where the flag is planted there are 9+ miles of flower fields that go all the way to the ocean. The flowers are grown by seed companies. It’s a beautiful place close to Vandenberg AFB. Checkout the dimensions of the flag.
The 2002 Floral Flag is 740 feet long and 390 feet wide and maintains the proper Flag dimensions as described in Executive Order #10834. This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; Each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants with 4-5 flower stems each for a total of more than 2 million flowers. You can drive by this flag on V Street south of Ocean Ave. in Lompoc, CA.
Aerial photo courtesy of Bill Morson
In America photography is very expensive and studio photos takes a long time to reach you. Like this one we had taken when Ouma was still visiting.
A new magic has entered our lives in the shape of Gina’s porcelain Christmas decorations. There is the little Bethlehem village (above our fireplace), the nativity set (to be set up tomorrow) and this, the little American town buildings with a train running round the outside.
Looking out the window we can see the neighbour’s giant lit-up Christmas tree and our own white Christmas lights on our front schrubs and inside in the big window of the stairwell is a big lit up cross and the bannister inside has a rope of multicolor lights wound round it leading up to out own indoor Christmas trre on the landing. Magic!!
You can see he is not a little boy any more…