Treasures in Red Boxes

My sister found two red boxes in her basement

They were filled with treasures. Some items were duplicates of documents already in our archives. But many were precious "new" items. 

This is Celia Cathcart Holton's report card from her senior year in high school. It shows the classes she took; gives us her graduation year; shows her mother's and father's signatures. Charlotte Crew was the principal. Later Charlotte married into the Holton family. 

Our lives continue after our journey on earth. Our loved ones on the other side want to be remembered. Sometimes they are involved in our lives here on earth. Knowing them and their stories can sometimes help us as we navigate our earthly journeys. 

Stunning

Nature's Beauty

Sometimes nature's beauty causes me to pause & behold

Paying Attention

Sometimes the children point out the beauty around us

At a picnic the hamburger grilling was creating quite a bit of smoke. A young girl was trying to get our attention and pointed to the sky. When we looked, we saw beautiful rays of light beaming through the smoke and trees. 

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sculpture - Jessica, Jake and Annie by Kate Hiddleston

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

sign to warn beach goers about greenhead flies

Salem - Yin Yu Tang House

Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

Yin You Tang - an entire house brought from China

“During the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), a prosperous merchant surnamed Huang built a stately sixteen-bedroom house in China’s southeastern Huizhou region, calling his home Yin Yu Tang. … home to the Huang family for more than two hundred years until 1982 when the last descendants moved from the village. … The family’s well-documented genealogy and the accumulation of furnishings passed down through eight generations offer the opportunity to understand historical changes in China as they affect individuals in their daily lives and cultures on a global scale.”  https://www.pem.org/visit/yin-yu-tang

entrance

family's genealogy

cylinder on the right was for containing a small child while the adults worked

below - looking into the cylinder - a wrapped hot stone would be put in the bottom to keep the child warm

heat source carried room to room 

 very fancy bedroom

Click here and here for videos of the house

East Coast - Back & Forth

Leaving Seattle

 flying clear across the country

almost back home

flying north looking west towards Seattle

bottom - Kirkland, then Lake Washington, then Seattle, then Puget Sound

Lake Washington - flying south, looking east

Juanita Bay -middle left; Lake Sammamish in distance

Kirkland top middle under the wing

Seattle on bottom right

 

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