Friday, August 7, 2009

Sisters and Handprints

I love this picture of Susan leading Fever and Zak from the pasture to the barn.

Martha really does not like horses -- she has been afraid of them since she was 12 when a horse ran away with her. But she was very brave and she humored Susan and me and actually rode around a little bit after she got on her horse. Her son told her that he was expecting a photo of her on a horse.

The three of us.

I love this photo of Fever looking through the slats that surround the pasture.

It seems a lifetime ago when dad poured cement and had each of our children put their hand prints in them. They stayed at the house in West Des Moines, Iowa, until Mom died and the house was sold. Susan has placed them at the side of the front of her home in Minnesota, underneath a beautiful tree and bush.


I have hundreds of thoughts and feelings that I want to express in words about the week that I had to spend with my sisters at the barn my sister manages in Minnesota. None of them come to me when I actually have time to sit down and type.