Am posting this just in case you see it. Your letter from July 15 did not arrive till this past week, so there was for me to get it touch w/ you in writing before you came back to the States. I don't have a current email or phone number for you anymore, so didn't know how else to reach you on relatively short notice.

I don't know that I could make it down to see you at this point- it would have to be on Saturday before you left, and Pittsburgh is 10 hours from Boston, so that's pretty far. But if you see this, please drop me an email (you can use eanja @ livejournal . com if you don't remember the other one), in case something is still doable.

Double happy birthdays to majes and fishstickmarie!

May you both have a doubly good year!

Here are the promised pictures of flowers I saw in Texas. This are all from more or less the Galveston area, and I have no idea what any of them are, and whether they are native wild-flowers, or escaped garden plants. If any of you happen to know, please tell me.

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