The above picture is of my husband during calving season.
My husband and I live in South Dakota where my husband is a 5th generation cattle farmer. This newborn calf he is carrying was having trouble. Bill picked him up and brought to the incubator. I'd like to say the calf was fine, but I honestly do not remember, but because he looks as if he was big enough to have survived, I believe he did. Still, if his mama and he got separated for any length of time, he may have ended up being one of the many bucket calves we fed that summer.
The next two pictures are of my mother, Esther and my great-grandmother, Rebecca. And even though generations passed between them, it is obvious that they are related as some features remain part of my family's heritage.
Esther
Rebecca
These pictures are of the sentinel at my great-grandmother, Rebecca Buffington's gravesite. Rebecca loved living on the prairie. She was born in Nebraska to homesteaders in York County and moved back with her family to Illinois when she was 12 years old. In 1906, Rebecca and her husband, Frank and their 3 boys headed for the Dakotas to homestead on the prairie. Rebecca loved living on the prairie and she was buried on her beloved prairie a few years later. My husband and I now look after the gravesite and we continue to add to it because it is special. We have even added a sitting bench so that I do not have to sit on the ground when we visit....the ground seems to be getting harder as I get older!
The two photos below are of my children Adam and Tracy, affectionately referred to as Adam Ant and Butterfly in my poems by the same names. The first photo was taken before they started school and the second one was taken just before Adam headed off to university.
This photo of Butterfly was taken as she drove from South Dakota to Massachusetts to attend university.
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