[Leica] Tea Party at the Neighbor's

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Aram,

My favorite is the first picture of Martha, on the others I apreciate  
the life moments

cheers
Lluis


El 11/01/2011, a las 3:54, Aram Langhans escribi?:

> This is Martha, a neighbor of wife, Margie's dad.  We are visiting  
> for a few weeks.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250534-1/tea+party-0260.jpg
>
> We often have tea parties where we sit around, have treats and tea  
> and talk about lots of things.  She is interesting.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250532-1/tea+party-0257.jpg
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250529-1/tea+party-0272.jpg
>
> She and her husband, who died a few years ago, are from Germany and  
> Poland, respectively.  They both lived there through WWII and made  
> it to this country after the war.  They had interesting stories  
> about what life was like.  We can hardly imagine the conditions they  
> had to endure.  She lived in what became East Germany, and lived  
> under Russian rule towards the last part of the war, which she  
> describes as being infinitely worse that the Germans.  Of course,  
> she was German, but the conditions were bad.  This time I asked how  
> she was able to get out and she said the boarder was not quite  
> sealed at that time, but she did have to go through a mine field to  
> get across the border and then make it to the US.  She had to leave  
> her daughter behind with her mother because she and her husband  
> could not afford to take her at that time.  Fascinating stuff.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/250536-1/tea+party-0267.jpg
>
> Comments and criticism welcome
> Aram
>
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