Free-Range Peacock

 

At the Franklin Park Zoo. Thankfully, peacocks no longer instill mortal fear in my son, as they did when he was 2.

100 years

Levie van Dam, crossing the century mark.

Levie is my stepmother's father. He still walks and manages his paperwork, though not quite as briskly as he did at 90. Outliving all your friends may have its downsides, but nonetheless, think of all that has passed and changed over the course of those last 100 years.

Snack

 

Reading with Opa