I hope everyone enjoyed their summer! My summer was very different from what I originally expected. My mother, who turns 96 in a few weeks, had a fall in June and since then has been in and out of the hospital and rehab. We hope she will return home by the middle of August. In addition, I had some surgery in July which I spent the next few weeks recovering from. So this year, I don't have new summer photos to share from my travels, but I will leave those I posted a year ago so you can still get to know a little of me and my family. Some of these pictures (below) are from travels to the mountains in Western North Carolina where my two daughters live.