Saying goodbye to cousin Paul

This morning, Ellen and I, jim and Mary, and cousin Paul all got up fairly early, packed up and were all out of the house by 9a.m. or so. Ellen and I were heading back home to Vermont, Jim and Mary were headed to a baby shower in Mary's family in Massachusetts, and Paul was headed to visit his adopted daughter on Cape Cod. So we said our goodbyes this morning, with words, of course, but even more with a kind of ritual of picture-taking in various combinations.

Paul lives in Holt, MI, and we said that the next time we drove west to Wyoming, we might be able to visit him. We like taking new routes. We've gone through Michigan before, and have stayed overnight in Ann Arbor, Detroit and near Camp Miniwanca. But we've never been in Lansing, the capitol, which is the region Holt is in. So......we'll see!