After roaming the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico, we drove to Dallas, Texas and spent a few days with my brother, John Anthony, and his wife Liz, at their beautiful home in University Park. There my sister, JoAnne Anderson, and her husband Chuck, along with their oldest son Jay, joined us for a long-overdue family reunion. Sandie and I had not been to Dallas since 2004. In that time John and Liz had moved to a new home, their two boys Steven and Matthew had grown up and begun careers in distant places, and Dallas itself had undergone some changes – one of which, the addition of a new museum, was of particular interest to me; I’ll cover that in another post.
Liz and John’s house easily accommodated all five intruders comfortably, but parking was another matter. Our cars could all be parked on the street, but Chuck and JoAnne have a popup camping trailer, which had to be parked off the street and out of sight, which meant in the alley, in the small space behind the garage. (Of course that meant the garage couldn’t be used to park cars while they were there, but that was OK.) There was just enough room for both the trailer and Chuck’s truck next to it. It was a tight squeeze, but they managed it nicely. I managed to snap a few pictures of the parking operation in progress. Afterward I went out front and shot a few pictures of the elegant houses in the neighborhood.
Of course, family photos are de rigueur for a family reunion, so we all assembled out in front of the house on a sunny afternoon with our various cameras. I brought my trusty Canon EOS-6D with the 28-70 mm zoom lens to shoot all the pictures displayed on this page. Jay and I took turns snapping photos of the whole bunch of us, first on the porch – or rather in front of it, since there wasn’t room for all of us on it and the shadows were too deep there anyway – and then under a tree in the yard.
The final order of business was to shoot just the three siblings – JoAnne, John and me – again in front of the porch and then in the yard. Since I had to be in the picture, Jay did the photography for all of these.
