Lakeshore

Door County, Wisconsin, Spring 1970. Mom considers the building site.

More Sunday Rounds

Suburban Chicago, October 1962. Dad catches Mom again before she heads out to the hospitals.

Sunday Paper: New-Year Edition

Suburban Chicago, January 1962. Mom's in the Master Bedroom.

Gathered

Suburban, Chicago, October 1967. There's a reception under way.

Taste Test

Suburban Chicago, Spring 1973. We're baking cookies again.

Never miss an opportunity.

 

Suburban Chicago, January 1975. Gigi knows Mom's later dinner creates another chance to mooch.

Tender

Near Erlangen, German, about 1944. By the time this woman—a medical-school classmate of my Mom's—gave Mom this snapshot, the woman's husband had long departed for the Eastern Front.

Lesson

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Empire, Michigan, July 1961. I just don't get it.

Put that down and pay attention to me.

Suburban Chicago, November 1984. Meškė persuades Mom to stop knitting.

It's too cloudy to hike.

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1968. We instead drive the Going-to-the-Sun Road.

Pleased

Door County, Wisconsin, May 1969. Mom realizes she and Dad have found the right spot.

Exchanging Portraits (Part 67)

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1937. A friend of Mom's passes along a memento.

Grab a Book: Calm Edition

Suburban Chicago, September 1961. Mom still wears that brooch.

A Visit

Urbana, Illinois, June 1981. Mom and Dad drive down to see me, and Gigi travels with them.

The old place has an antenna.

Near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan, 1961. Mom must be enjoying the view of the lake.

Hikers' Lunch

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1972. We're again headed to Bullhead Lake.

Concentration

Door County, Wisconsin, December 1979. The process doesn't interest Gigi.

Strawberry Patch

Door County, Wisconsin, July 1978. Keep things watered.

There are paintbrushes on the trail.

Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1968. Mom wears Dad's windbreaker (and she's carrying my cowboy hat).

Overlook Reunion

San Francisco, April 1968. Mom and Dad take a drive during their San Francisco trip.