Birthday Photos "Our Friends"

Many of our friends, both new and old, joined us to celebrate Ashley and Adam's birthday:

Gardening Update

Much to MLM's surprise, her garden is thriving.  Every night we eat tomatoes and cucumbers.  Every night!  Eggplants and peppers are coming along.  Carrots and peas look like a promising fall crop.  Yes, I used the word "crop".

view from the street

close up of raised bed

asparagus

cucumber blossom

growing cucumber

"flame" eggplant

small eggplant

orange peppers (red and yellow to come!)

strawberry leaves

Brandywine tomato

Lemon Boy tomatoes

more Brandywine tomatoes

raspberries on the way

raspberries have arrived on this plant!

carrots

shelling peas

shelling peas

Birthday Photos, "The Family"

Adam and Ashley's birthday was just a few weeks ago;  we're still thinking about how much fun we had.  There are too many photos to post all of them at once, so we'll break them up into a few posts and keep our loyal readers entertained when the A-team isn't otherwise feeling photogenic.

Today's post will focus on family, who our Massachusetts friends refer to as "those New Yorkers with wicked pissah accents!"

Enjoy!

Say it 10 times fast:  Tsymbals, Zlotoguras, Marchfelds, Shapiros, Riordan and Perico.

This one is harder, fewer vowels and more consonants:  Tsymbals, Zontak, Billahs, Roslyakovs

part of the Noo Yawk contingent

wise advice from Babushka

Papa Marty and Samantha

Cousins and Coyote (see background!)

Cousins and Cake

cutie cousins

Adam and Ashley's Aunties

And the smaht-phone says....

Hahaha!  Cousin Brian is funny!

hugs for everyone

Dedushka Dima (did I spell that correctly?

Cousin Yelena

cousin Samantha checks out the scene

What's the excitement about, Ashley?

Stay tuned for more.