why are we still here?

because making the blog private did not go how I expected it to!  So its in the too hard basket for now.  We are home from a fabulous ten days or so in Germany and Austria.  The weather was perfect.  The lilacs were in full bloom everywhere, chestnut trees were in flower and everywhere is so GREEN! 

We stayed in a 600 year old guest house run by a guy Bert went to school with.  People in these parts don't seem to move far from home.

                                                           lilacs in bloom everywhere

                                                   chestnut trees in full bloom