Yesterday was my Grandma's 88th birthday.  Wow!!! Can you imagine living to enjoy 88 years?  I hope that I am able to live that long and do as many wonderful things as she has done.  I can honestly say that she has been one of my biggest inspirations in my life.  She went back to college after the age of 60 and graduated with an Associtates Degree.  She moved from Michigan to Alaska at 55 and started working up there in the winter and coming home to see us in the summer.  Yes, it was a bit backwards but hey, she loved every minute of it or at least most of the minutes.     She fanned the flames of my desire to travel.  She and I have taken several longs distance trips together and I am so glad that I had that wonderful opportunity to share those times with her.  And to this day if she could handle it and I could afford it I would take her again on the Alaskian Highway because she loves to travel as much as I do.  Or maybe it is I love to travel as much as she does. 

     Thank-you Grandma for cheering me on,  telling me to never give up, sharing the wonderful world of photography with me, giving me the love of travel, sharing my love for education with me,  teaching my mother all the wonderful things that she has taught me.  You are an inspiration to many of us kids/Grandkids and we love you more then we did when we first learned that you were so special to us because you were (are) our Grandma!  I love you, Grandma!!  C-----