Where I Was From

Family reunion style

So, we threw a bash for Grandma and toured the family farm land in Iowa yesterday. It amazed the four of us in my generation to no end that this is our origin and that our parents, as worldly as they are now, come from teeny tiny Percival Iowa...


Freeman Farms' grain bins for storing corn.


My dad and his sisters.



We grow soybeans.


My sister is really excited about soybeans. Really.



Pinups don't wear flipflops, Nem.





View the full album here.

Now I'm off to the exact opposite place from this: NEW FREAKING YORK! (cue theme from The Muppets Take Manhattan).

Labels: memoir, travel

posted by Leah @ 1:32 PM