Lets try again.

Well, this past month has been somewhat of a rocky road, and a big part of that has been things to do with the wedding. The bottom line is that the fastest I can get a visa is late October, which means the June 2 wedding date has had to be called off. You can read about it all at www.letstryagain.wordpress.com. We will be using that blog as somewhere to keep everyone updated about how things are progressing, and how are plans are coming for a Fall-Winter wedding.

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Sara will be here in 2 weeks time!

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A cold snowy morning.

I do.

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Blizzard.

I'm sure some of you have heard about the terrible weather we've been having here in the midwest. We had to travel to central Illinois on Monday and Tuesday for a funeral and we ended up driving in some of the worst of the weather. Most of central Illinois was under a blizzard watch as we were driving on small country roads. We made it home safely. It only took us 3 hours more than it normally does! Here are some pictures from the road and a few picture of my Auntie Mac and Uncle Hubert.

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It's been one of those weeks.

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

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a few more pictures.

I've been having some major computer problems so the promised pictures from our trip have not been added yet. Here are a few, though. I'm wishing I was back on the beach in Florida with Alex. That was so much better than being cold and alone in Saint Louis. Only 30 days, though. 30 days and counting....

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A photograph from Florida.

This is a picture of us with our friends Sam and Carole, who live in the Villages, in Florida. We met up with them for lunch in Ocala in January. The hurricane last night missed their house by 500 yards!

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