Wanderer's:
I know I have pictures elsewhere of previous Wanderer's Trips, but decided to put the latest pictures from the Wanderer's trip to Charleston and Savannah here. We spent two nights in Charleston and two in Savannah. The Wanderer's are an interest group in the Smith Mountain Lake Newcomers, led by Shirley Fry. We can always count on Shirley to take us "down the road" to fun places. She keeps us busy from morning to night . Most of the pictures I took are of people or wild life, and you'll find mostly people here.
Here's our leader, and tour
guide extroadinaire!
Shirley
Fry.
That's
Joan Teller, Shirley's right hand
on the
trip, Shirley, and our wonderful
driver,
Dave.
And I'll try to identify the rest
of the
gang--unfortunately, I missed a few
people.
Bob Caron, Gloria and Bob Simon
Carol Dorss and Jean Hill
Chris,
Howie Aldinger and Jack Rupert
Dottie
and Al Lorent
Carol
Althoff
Evelyn
Blume, Trudy Hakin, June Kingan,
Nancy Woolley
Bob
and Hilda Lindell
Jeanette
and Tom Donnelly
Joan Brackin and Marty Bowers
Here's
Joan again with that ever
present
smile.
Linda
Hasenstab and Pat Harrington
Nancy
and Bob Luce
Nancy
Woolley, June Kingan and
Carol
Dorss
On
the 'train" at Magnolia Plantation-
Dick
and Pat West Jack and Pat Roch,
Linc and
Lila Fish Bob and Gale Caron
and a
few others I can't quite make out.
(Sorry,
you-all)
Trudy
and Andy Hakin and Carol Dorss
No,
they weren't on the bus with us-
but aren't
they pretty? Actually they
pulled the
carriages.
A
beautiful day at the Battery, in
Charleston
If
you look just to the left of the 'point'
there
is an alligator swimming towards it.
We saw
lots of wild life but they all
seemed to
be 'camera-shy'!
Well,
he just wouldn't fan out his
tail for us,
but he's pretty, just the same-
at least
he wasn't bashful.
Pansies
in the garden at Magnolia
Plantation - I
just thought they were
pretty and will go
on a card some day.
OK,
I did take one picture of a sight
that we
visited. The Tybee Island
Lighthouse.
Some of our group
actually climbed
to the top. Not Me.
And
here's the whole gang ready to get on board
for
the Dinner Cruise in Savannah. I have
additional
copies of this (5-1/2 x 8) . Call
me if interested.
Breakfast Club:
One of the Interest Groups in the Smith Mountain Lake Newcomers is a Breakfast Club. We meet every Tuesday Morning at 9:00 a.m. at Camper's Paradise. Our numbers vary from 5 to 15, and although we only meet for about an hour, I can assure you that lots of good gossip makes its way to our table. And as you can see from these pictures, we never know who will show up from week to week.
Here
is the latest picture of our great Breakfast Club, taken the
day they showered me with farewell gifts. What a wonderful
gang and how I will miss them!
Left Photo: Joan Brackin, Judy Hughes, Sue Ward, Elneta Amicucci. Right photo, around the table:: Patti O'Bryan, MaryJo Hernandez, Jeannette Chace, Mary Calpin, Shirley Fry, Helen McMahon Standing: Carole Leary and Gisela Ernandes..
Right: MaryJo, Jeannette, Mary, Shirley and Helen. Left: Patti and MaryJo
Left photo, front: MaryJo, Jeanette. Standing: Carole, Gisela. . Right Photo ,front row: Dot Finger, Gale Caron, Patti O'bryan, Sue Ward Back row: Carole Leary, Dorothy Chaney, Jean Hutchinson, Helen McMahon, Margaret Jamison , Shirley Fry
Left Photo, around the table: Sandy Houck,
Mary Calphin, Mary Jo Hernandez, Polly Hopkinson, Shirley Frye,
Lila Fish, Jean Hutchinson, Betty Lindquist, Dot Finger, Joan Brackin,
Gisela Ernandes. Right Photo front row: MaryJo Hernandez,
Jeannette Chace, Mary Calphin, Shirley Fry. Back row: Carole
Leary, Lila Fish, Gisela Ernandes, Helen McMahon.
The Scarlet Ladies
Another Interest Group in Newcomers is
The Scarlet Ladies. We meet every three months just for
the fun of it. We have no agenda and no rules.
We are similar to, but not related to an international
group know as the Red Hat Society and wear red hats and purple dresses, in keeping with
the poem, "When I'm an Old Woman" by Jenny Joseph.
( If you ae not familiar with this poem you may read it
by going to her web site: <www.jamaree.com/gpage.html>)
Our
most recent function was a "Tea" held at the lovely
home of Marty and Bert Bowers. Members received
invitations to either an Oriental, British or Children's tea
and most of them dressed accordingly. There were three
separate areas of Marty's home decorated accordingly. Bert,
dressed in his tuxedo, served as the butler and directed us
to the correct area as we arrived. The beautiful table
decorations also reflected the themes of the various teas.
Pat Pascuale and Helen Buchanan brought their friends, both the imaginary and the fuzzy kind.
Joan Talbott, Adele Frischman, ?
On
the left is one of the tea tables for the oriental guests. Next
is Joan Talbott and myself. My hat is made of a chinese
take-out box filled with rice and two chopsticks.
Queen
Marty Bowers and her friend greeted us as we arrived. Elneta
Amicucci and Patti O'Bryan
were dressed to the nines for
the English Tea.
Even
the dolls attended the children's tea.
Believe
it or not, that teapot is really a cake
Fran
Burns and Marty Bowers are poised to
cut into it. It tasted as good
as it looked
At a table fot for a Queen and posing prettily areBarbaraPeters,
Sue Palmer, ?, Patti O'Bryan, Eileen Kennedy, Cail Carey,
Dorothy Chaney, Evelyn Blume, Jessie Geise and Valerie Brown.
We
were honored by the appearance of Queen Marty Bowers
and her
Royal Butler, Bert Bowers.
Cute
little girls playing dress-up with their favorite toys are
JoAnn Gardell, Elneta Amicucci, MaryJo Hernandez, Carolyn
Coleman, Ellie Anderson and Pat Pascale.
Ejoying
tasty tidbits on the porch are Lou Mann, Ruth
Raymond,
Maritza Guddridge annd Phyllis Nodland
Some
of these poor little girls didn't have any toys! Seated
at the children's table are Barbara Wright, Dot Esposito
and Nancy Wooley. Behind them are Judy Reap, Jeanette
Chace, Ruth
Eaken, Carol B rewer, Henel Buchanan and
Fran Burns.
And
do we really want to identify
the little girl sitting
there all alone?
Our Scarlet Ladies recently enjoyed an
afternoon on the lake aboard the Angelique.
THE WANDERERS
Another
group in the Smith Mountain Lake Newcomers is the Wanderers,
led by Shirley Fry who plans and executes all sorts of trips
for them. The most recent was to the Biltmore Estates
in Asheville, North Carolina on November 17-18.
These next 8 photos were actually
postcards that I scanned, since we were not allowed to take
any photographs. Sorry the quality is not very good.
This,
of course, is the Biltmore House. When we saw it there
were thousands of luminaries on the grounds in front and
leading up to the mansion.
Even
some of the tables had Christmas Trees! This is the
Breakfast Room. The tree is decorated with turn-of-the century
ornaments, including tussie-mussies and pomander balls,
hand crafted by Biltmore Estate staff for the holiday season.
Many
of the Christmas trees were decorated in Themes. This
one in the Billiard Room was decorated for the Christmas
season with American Flags as befitting the male domain
within the Biltmore House, where politics were often discussed.
The
Biltmore House was first opened to family and friends on
Christmas Eve in 1895. Presumably they sat down to
dinner at this table in the Banquet Hall.
A
roaring fire welcomes guests for a quiet evening in the
Library. What do you suppose Mr. Vanderbilt would
say of our modern gas logs?
The
Music room , like many others, has multiple Christmas trees
to delight the senses.
The
grand staircase is festooned with evergreens and velvet
ribbon. A huge kissing ball hangs beneath the swagged
chandelier.
The
Second Floor Living Hall was a favorite gathering place for
family and friends. Beneath the branches of the festive
Christmas tree are period holiday toys and surprises for
all.
A view of the Biltmore the day we arrived
.Gene was co-o-old on the bus so Shirley covered him with a quilt!
A view of the interior of our bus.
Recognize anyone?
Jan
is checking out the toys.
More
eager shoppers.
In
the center
is Shirley who planned and executed the whole trip. To
her right is Joan who assisted her on the trip and Dave
our driver. Thanks to all three of them.
