snow blows

February around here racked up a record 41-point-something inches of snow. Dorcas and the four braved a weekend get-away to our other family homeland, Grantsville, at 2,300 feet above sea level. Forty-one inches was nothing there. Here she and Stephanie stand outside the back door of the motel. In the Appalachian highlands snowfall totals are being measured in feet. A record-breaking 20 feet this winter. Joel photo

wisdom by the generation

Like mother, like daughter. Thirty years separate Dorcas' receiving an MSW and Sarah's. They were virtually the same age when they received them.

If we take the mother-daughter line back another generation, I don't know that the number 30 would yield anything, but it would result in Grandma Miller who did lay social work as manager of the Fresh Air program in Garrett County for a good 30 years.

photo by Joel.