had an OK Christmas

Wish you could pick family members like we do friends

Had ok time w family

Excellent time w friends!

Snowing like it will never stop out there. Hope I don;t have to go out thru a window!

the peonies are floweing
If I weren't such a computer klutz I'd post pics on some of my beauties

Spent 12 days in CA and it was "June Gloom" never broke 70 in SD and it was barely warmer than that in LA.
WTF? Sunny and warm is what I expected.

Back from New Orleans
Was a blast
Met some wonderful women, talked, laughed and drank some wine (we left some)
drank just enough
weather was wonderful and the people so friendly and joyfully positive

could go back in a heart beat

Just came back from LA
Wonderful
Took "local" bus right into beach at S M
AMEOBA IS JUST TO DIE FOR

LA has got evry thing

Went to Detroit for first time. Did not like it, but liked Ann Arbor, feels like Northampton or a Cambridge MA

Love DC, Chicago, San Francisco and San Diego. Can take or leave Boston, but looove exploring NYC. San Antonio is nice in deepest winter. Miss the old hominess of New Orleans.

Prefer southern people, its not that most of us are more polite, its just that most of us know how we can politely and firmly say no and make it clear that we mean "no" without being abusive or mean. And well, then there's southern cooking - uuuuuhhhhmmmm.