Missing Family

This morning Alma woke up sad and crying. She thought her brother Richard, pictured above with her in Europe was supposed to come for a visit. She had her bags packed and ready to go with him (this has been going on for several years-one time about a year ago she brought her coffee maker over at 5am because she wouldn't be needing it at Richard and Glendas.) and was quite disappointed because she was convinced that he had come to Roanoke but did not even stop in to say hello. I could not convince her that he had not been there but I was able to distract her long enough to go through some more of her wonderful pictures. The thing I found the most interesting is that she doesn't really share stories as much as share her perception of the character of each person from the pictures. For example; "Richard is a good sweet boy and his wife, Glenda is so beautiful" she says. I love hearing her take on the people in our life. Some of it is quite hilarious (I'll refrain from the really outlandish statements....for now).

This is Alma's Aunt Teenie, her mother's younger sister, and she still resides in Waverly, Tennessee. Alma loves her aunt and talks about how sweet she is. She said, "Teenie will take in anyone and feed them. She is such a good cook.".  She drove the 8 hours to see Teenie at least twice a year until about 4 years ago, shortly before she stopped driving.

Alma's grandfather, BW Runions, the Barber, and and an unknown man.

Alma talked very briefly about her paternal grandfather, BW. I asked what BW stands for and she said, "I don't know, he's just BW."