After things quieted down Dona and I gave Ram and Dawn the present we had brought for them. It was a hand-made thing Dona specializes in.
What is it? | Helping Hands | What every married couple needs ...
a Toaster Oven |
The kids really really wanted to see it. |
It was actually a marquetry box, with dividers on the inside for tea. The design is of booted racket-tail hummingbirds, one of Ram and Dawn's favorites, and something we saw together when we were down in Equador.
Tea Box |
The card Dawn is holding in the photos below was made by a neighbor friend of ours, Angela Bennett, and is an image from a collection of paintings she has done called "Eyes of the Wild." This one was of an owl. Unfortunately, she doesn't have a website, but if you will run across her paintings in various places in the Ovando, Seeley Lake, and Missoula, Montana areas.
Marquetry Box ... | ... and Owl Card |
Happy Couple ... | ... with a Happy Aunt |
Dawn, Dona, and Ram | Happy all over |
Happy all over |