[Leica] Tea Party at the Neighbor's

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Aram,
A new meaning to the words "Tea Party"! (-:
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Aram Langhans <leicar at q.com> wrote:

> 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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