New York visit 2012

The Winery near my mom's house. Was a church and now a venue for concerts and food

the winery was celebrating its 100 years existence and Daisy was playing

View from my mom and aunt's apts across the Hudson-train watching

view of Hudson

East River NYC

one of my morning walks along the East River in NYC

Everyone's favorite, the Chrysler Building

We walked the High Line

Railroad tracks remain in many places along the High Line

At one point you could get a view of the Statue of Liberty

the Railroad tracks which went directly into the buildings where the trains would unload

End of High Line in Greenwich Village

A Saturday's visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. this is the American Wing

Really pretty glass display- all American made!

a beautiful Tiffany stained glass window

The new Islamic section

Some beautiful ceramics. a rooster pitcher

Lots of nice displays

wonderful calligraphy

a very pretty American made piece of glass

great staircase which I believe came from a Chicago bank

U.S trip Part 2 (graduation and more)

convocation day may 15,2012. christopher and his 4 roommates

Ari and Christopher at the cocktail party the boys held for the parents at their house

in christopher's back yard in georgetown

relaxed guys!

at the senior ball Union Station May 16, 2012

ball came complete with parrots

and an elegant upstairs club room

Union Station was all for Georgetown that evening

getting ready for graduation 

walking in with the School of Foreign Service

the President of Georgetown, John De Gioia and the graduation speaker (on left)

getting his hood and diploma

Even the Georgetown bulldog mascot came

a very happy 3 of us, we missed you Matthew!

but some of the cousins made it!

Christopher's extended  proud family

cousin talk

place of residence for christopher

Hank fits right into the college scene at the house

and so does pretty Ashley

brother and sister in front of restaurant where we had the graduation dinner

cousins looking a lot alike to me

we had a great dinner with a great group of friends/family

one of our berry desserts

A very fun graduation weekend was enjoyed by all of us present. SO happy to be there.

best of the the U.S May 1- May 31,2012 Part One

a great day with a wonderful high school friend

many walks on the c and o canal in georgetown

lots of flowers for my birthday and mother's day!

a fun weekend in West Va

pretty scenes near our cabin in W. Va.

dinners on Fran's deck

great to be with friends

Fun walks in D.C.

A visit to the newseum with college friends

our fancy Saturday night dinner with college group and 1 husband!

Had a great month of May in the U.S. Was so much fun to be with friends, to celebrate my birthday and mother's day in the U.S (for a change) and, of course we had a fabulous graduation to celebrate. (those photos are coming)