Julia's Chronicle

Julia's Chronicle: 11 Years of Age

Dad with his Smilodon skull replica and fish fossil and birthday cake. March 2008

Julia playing violin 1 and 2 at the district's orchestra festival. February 2008

School picture in black and white and in color. October 2007

Autumnal Equinox Birthday Celebration with longtime friends Vicki; Jim, Sue Ellen, Joel; and, Rizzo and Jim. September 2007

Block Party after the neighborhood garage sale. Music by the local (next door neighbor's) Spine Tones. Friends and Neighbors: David, Lori, Mike, Son and Grandson along with friends and neighbors, Anya, Anya holding Ruby and Anya's cousin, Anya's cousin, Anya and her cousin, Anya's Aunt and Lena, Joe's son dancing to the music, September 2007

Grandpa Palmer, the in-patient, recovering from pneumonia. September 2007

Grandma Palmer's 80th birthday party and some friends and relatives in September 2007:

Grandma and youngest great-grandchild Mazie Jo, Aunt Rachel and cousin Brody
Grandma and Bernice a longtime friend from Western Union days
It took some puffing to blow out 80 candles
Buster Bishop and his wife

LoftBed that Julia outgrew and that was replaced with a pedestal bed. September 2007

At the Puyallup Fair: with Ciara on the Matterhorn and on the Hangglider. September 2007

Back to School photo showing Julia packed and ready to spend the first three days of school at Camp Orkila. September 2007

Julia and David Visna, Matt and David Visna, David Visna, and Soretty and David Visna. August 2007

Brenna's visit with lots of sightseeing and visiting relatives in August 2007

Getting the big squeeze while visiting with Aunt Susan
At Pike Place Market with Rachel the Pig
The Elliott Bay Water Taxi that took Grandma, Brenna, Jason and Julia from downtown across Elliott Bay and past Harbor Island to their destination West Seattle Park [note firefighters in the background tending a scuba diver]
Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park with Jason and Brenna overlooking the train tracks, Alexander Calder's Eagle approaching the Space Needle, the birch grove with art installation; Grandma, Brenna and Julia walking in Richard Sera's Wake and viewing Schubert's Sonata overlooking Puget Sound
At the Seattle Center with Brenna and some of the Fun Forest in the shadow of the Space Needle
At Kinnear Park atop Queen Anne Hill looking back at what we had visited over the day--south toward Seattle Center and Mt. Rainier and southwest toward West Seattle and Alki Point
Farewell at the airport

Grandma Jones's surprise 75th birthday party with family (Brenna, Lonna, Marilyn, Susan, Anita, Harry) and friends (Nancy, Mary) to help Evelyn celebrate and blow out lots of candles. August 2007

Julia and friend Carrie wearing tophats and counting booty. June 2007

Social Studies: The Watsons Go to Birmingham, re-enacted by the 5th grade in a jury trial at the local city hall, Judge Mary Telstad presiding. Listening to the prosecution; Julia presenting the defense's closing statement; awaiting return of the verdict; the jury, made up of 6th graders, determine "guilty." June 2007

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