cherry picking

Here's my brother Milton holding his granddaughter Helen. And here's grandma, Lois, after the cherry picking today.

The crop this year is small but deep red. Both trees were swarmed by my sisters Loretta, Anna Lois, and Evelyn and husband Gary, besides the three in the pic and Dorcas and me.

The trees came from the nursery 20 years ago and one is sorely diseased. But, what a family time!

wikipedia must read

Bedtime reading got me this in New York Review. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131 .

Kind of goes with my idea of how humans can help each other out.

Did you know that more people check wikipedia than google?

Plus, wiki is easier to spell than encyclopedia. I've still got emotional feelings about a whole set. My brother and I together won a set of encyclopedias from Lancaster Newspapers when I was about in 7th grade.

I'll see if I can find that photo.

Milton and me at subway

After meeting at the parking lot at noon, Milton and I drove west on the Old Harrisburg Pike to the Subway on Dillerville Road. I'm proud of my new t-shirt from Iowa, thanks to Ryan.


After setting the camera on the trash bin for a timed photo, a clerk offered to snap the picture. I think her thick glasses pushed us off center. We tried again, but got the exact same shot. So here it is.


We had just finished an informal discussion of what to do with the funds in the Lehman Foundation in these times of low returns on capital.

gray day get-away

One thing to do on an overcast, gloomy-weather day in February is to meet your brother when he gets off work at the Cokesbury bookstore at the Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster. Then set your camera (with my new 50 mm lens) on top your car and get a pic.

Milton has given me many good years of brothership, sunny days and gray.