Beautiful Asian Flowerpots, Cache My husband, Hal and I, Ilona were searching for an Asian Flowerpot, in fact for a pair. We talked about it again on Friday evening, having another glass of wine after dinner. We decided to drive to our favorite place to look in Vancouver, B.C. this weekend. Saturday early we started …
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Ilona Cole, Guest Author, Story 131
Our Friends, Ruth and Kurt Pieper We met the Piepers, Ruth and Kurt, through our dear friends, the Kolosars, Marilyn and Richard. Ruth had in their home in Somerset an art gallery. Mostly lithographs and etchings of beautiful German and French cities, and awesome country sites. My husband, Hal, had to go for his job …
Ilona Cole, Story 130
A Summer Visit from my Sister Friedl That summer day my Hal and I were driving to SeaTac Airport to greet my sister who was visiting us for three months from Germany. I cannot believe that she has been here with us for 4 weeks already. But we have been very busy, so the time …
Ilona Cole, Story 129
A Day Journey to the Pike Street Market It was Easter Saturday during another visit by my sister Friedl. My Hal had to go to his office that day. We had planned to drive to the Oregon coast, Otter Crest, right by the ocean on a high cliff for the weekend. We have to reschedule …
Ilona Cole, Story 128
Another Summer Visit from my Sister Friedl Today was the day my Hal and I were driving to Sea Tac to pick up my sister Friedl who was arriving with Pan Am from Germany. This is the visit we will go shopping to replace her pretty dress. We were not able to find a replacement …
Ilona Cole, Story 127
Our Life-Long Desire, Collecting Art After a visit to the Behm Gallery in Bellevue, we decided to take our vacation in San Francisco this spring. We remembered an Art Gallery near the Ghirardelli Square with a very nice sales lady we shall visit, after we stopped at the Café right by the end station of …
Ilona Cole, Story 126
A Bouquet of Flowers This has been a month filled with beautiful tulips which are my favorite flowers to bring into my home. Though I had never seen them put up like this before. I received them in big glass, cylinder vessels without any soil, just the bulbs in water. The first ones my dearest …
Ilona Cole, Story 125
Gathering Blueberries in West Seattle It was summer of 1963, a beautiful day and my dearest sister Friedl was visiting us here in the USA for three months from Germany. Hal and I had split our vacations to do some fun things with Friedl because for this length of time my sister would be alone …
Ilona Cole, Story 124
Huckleberry Hunt in the Odenwald (Ode to the Forest) It was a beautiful sunny day. The year was 1953 and I had met a very sweet and special American soldier at Headquarters of the US armed forces, General Eisenhower’s Command in Frankfurt/Germany where I worked as secretary to the communication officer since 1948. Being such …
Ilona Cole, Story 123
A Beautiful Ski Resort in the Alpine Mountains “Garmish Partenkirchen” It was to be a cold winter this year and my Hal and I had made plans to be in Germany at the same time as our good friends who went on skiing trips almost every winter to Germany, Switzerland or Austria. We made plans …