A Trek south on Interstate 35
Photos taken on a daytrip to Ankeny, IA with daughter Kira and her sons Jalen and Xavier, to visit my mother Evelyn Smith. It was a fine spring day for a drive... partly cloudy and cool.
 Sometimes a morning car trip is not thrilling for a 2-year-old |
 Xavier... not happy at all |
 A pretty typical view of south central Minnesota on the freeway< |
 Suppose someone is moving north to Minnesota? |
 A prosperous-looking farm |
 Ellworth, IA, from a 35W overpass |
 Big bubble in the Ag area of Iowa State University, Ames. |
 Just some nice, fluffy clouds |
 Xavier, now looking a whole lot happier |
 Evelyn Smith, age 89, with great grandson Xavier |
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 Jalen and Xavier looking out Mom's apartment window |
 Kira, resting on the floor... |
 but has a smile for the camera |
 Mom watching Jalen playing nosers with a little bird that peeks out of the music box |
 Contact! |
 Mom obviously enjoying her visitors |
 A view of area housing from Mill Pond |
 The front entry of Mill Pond Retirement Community |
 Jalen, plus a tree |
 Xavier and Jalen, plus a tree |
 This tree is going to get a workout |
 Tree as footrest |
 Tree as whose footrest? |
 and so begins the battle for the tree |
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 How about a game of Simon says? |
 Simon says "stomp your feet" |
 Simon says "shake your bootie" |
 Simon says "pull your ear" |
 Simon says "grab your foot" |
 Simon says "hold your head" |
 The ever-popular ice cream parlor at Mill Pond |
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 Kira and Xavier (what's with those Cubs caps?) |
 Grandma Ellen (nope not Evelyn, my mother) with Jay, Kira, and Xavier |
 Seeing double... My mother Evelyn and twin sister Ellen, with Jay and Xavie |
 The boys, playing the final chords of the visit, on the Wurlitzer (or is it a Hammond?) |
 Sunset, on the way home from Iowa |