New Year's Eve 2000

We spent New Year's Eve with Barbara Butler and Glenn Porter at their home in Delaware. One of the highlights of the evening was a visit to neighboring Longwood Gardens. (A second was Barbara's green chili tamales and a third was toasting the New Year with champagne from Albuquerque!)

We are shown here facing the Orangery inside the 4-acre Longwood Conservatory. Behind us is the Exhibition Hall with 1000s of poinsettias circling a pool. In the background is the Music Room and a 16-foot revolving Christmas tree.

John Doolittle and Ellen Baker,
Christmas 2000

Ellen is a clinical psychologist in private practice and John is a journalism professor at American University. John served on the Lauren Board of Directors at one time or another with both of us. And until a few months ago, Ellen had her practice at the Lauren.

Some time around 1995, we almost had them talked into spending a week or two with us in Mexico. They tried Acapulco. Ellen got sick. And that ended any ideas for future ventures in that direction. In 2001, John published Don McNeill and his Breakfast Club.

Long-Time Friends

Margaret Windus, Nancy Jane Stubbs and Alan Bow in front on Nancy Jane's home on Black Duck Drive in Daytona Beach, FL.

Alan and Margaret drove down in April, 2001 from Northern Virginia for a short vacation as well as to check on a home they own near Sarasota.

Three Friends on an Annual Gathering

Nancy Jane Stubbs, Elizabeth VanderPutten, and Margaret Windus at the house on the Salt Pond near Ocean City, MD

October 1995

Halloween at the Salt Pond

Margaret was the unanimous choice as winner of our "paint a witch's face" contest for the uncanny likeness of her entry to a well known personality. (Left) Brian Larkin, Nancy Jane Stubbs, Elizabeth VanderPutten, Margaret Windus and Alan Bow. 1991

Fellow Hikers

Two of my oldest Washington DC friends, Margaret Windus and Alan Bow in our Shenandoah hiking days.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s we often camped together at Big Meadow.

Clay Cummins

Clay and his wife, Eve, and I have been friends for 20 years. He and I study Spanish together. In 1995 we went to Cuernavaca for a 2-week immersion course. He is shown here in Mexico City. Since 1993, they have gone to Puerto Escondido with us every February.