Sunday, February 17, 2013

Alan's Tulip Tree! (double click to enlarge)


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  1. GORGEOUS tree, Alan; and all the more amazing when viewed from a white landscape! I very much like the roof and the trim colour too. Thanks for sharing. It's posted full size, so a double-click on the photo will enlarge it considerably. Enjoy!

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  2. I like the tree, the house, the landscaping and the proprietor, lol!

    Bitter cold here today--didn't make it past the mid twenties, and down again to teens tonight.

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  3. Thank you all.

    Good trip to visit with Naomi and do a bit of shopping in San Jose. Traffic was moderately heavy on the freeways at times, both going and returning. Pizza for dinner tonight. We got back about 2:30 PM, and the flowers of the tulip tree had opened more, and the sun was brighter, so it looked even nicer.

    I have been feeling a little "homesick" for Darkover, so pulled out one of the Darkover anthologies. Currently working on a story I have sufficiently forgotten that it is thoroughly enjoyable to re-read. I am certainly no writer, but it occurred to me that there was a certain part of the early "history" of Darkover that had not been dealt with. There was a basic story line that presented itself, but think as I might I couldn't come up any good way to give it the human and psychological interest necessary. Maybe that reflects a lack of creativity on my part…or maybe that explains why there has been no such story published. An interesting way to idle away excess brain cycles, ennyhoo.

    TTFN

    Alan

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  4. Holy Cow---bumbling around on the Internet, I found an association of descendants of the original settlers of the place in York County, Ontario where my mother's father's family came from. Sure enough, my great-great-great-grandfather's name is on the list, together with other families that became related by marriage. Also on a map, where I had deduced his land was. So now I can be fairly sure of the story of how he came to be there; he was a part of a band of colonists recruited from Germany for a settlement in New York who vamoosed to get a much better deal in Upper Canada (Ontario). It might not be impossible to find his burial place…

    --Alan

    P.S.: And now back to Darkover, for sure.

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    1. Wow, Alan! Good for you finding even more about your ancestors!

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  5. Here's the web site of the descendants of my great great great grandfather's group of colonists:

    Markham Berczy Settlers Association [Click]

    Being a relatively small number of families in a very remote place, of course there were many marriages among them--which means I must have swarms of unsuspected (and unsuspecting) relatives, both by marriage and blood, who can be identified borough the association. Blows one away, it does...

    It seems they have a Facebook page. I have avoided Facebook like the plague because of security concerns and my ingrained tendency to avoid anything that is too popular. But this tempts me sorely. I looked through the security settings info online, and they seem extensive if one so desires. But I'm still not at all sure how it works. Aha! I'll bet YouTube has a demonstration. I'll probably do it, just for that one site, with security settings cranked up.

    Alan--

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