Desi In The Backseat
With Julie driving now, this is a recurring visual in the Balla minivans. This past weekend, Julie drove from her grandparents' home down to the Delaware rest stop, leaving me with the rest of the way back to Silver Spring. It sure is nice having a third driver in the car!
Notice, by the way, Desi holding on with her left hand...
~Steve
Canal Quarters
For us, one of the more offbeat discoveries of the past several months has been the
Canal Quarters program.
For years, we have been aficionados of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, biking and hiking its nearly two hundred miles, one section at a time. In all this time, though, we never knew that there are several lock houses along the way, including the one in the attached photograph, that you can rent and stay in.
We gotta figure out a way to do this!
~Steve
Academy Of The Holy Cross Homecoming
Here was Julie and her date Greg Goulding before the Holy Cross homecoming this past weekend.
~Steve
Shanshui In Our Home
One of our good friends in Beijing painted this piece for us, and we managed to get it home unscathed. It is a traditional Chinese landscape (
shanshui) that she copied from a classic painting (a retiree, she is now studying art).
It now occupies a place of honor at Casa Balla.
~Steve
Sodapop
This was Z this past weekend as Sodapop in Georgetown Prep's production of
The Outsiders.
~Steve
White's Ferry
A really cool, really funky place, isn't it?
According to
Wikipedia...
White's Ferry is a cable ferry service operating across the Potomac River. It is located six miles west of Poolesville, Maryland, and north of Leesburg, Virginia. It is the only ferry still operating on the Potomac River. The General Jubal A. Early carries cars, bicycles, and pedestrians between Maryland and Virginia.
~Steve
Scenes Of The Beijing We Love
Until next time...
~Steve
