Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Tsuru for Good Luck

I finally got a photo gallery of our family reunion posted. It's been held every summer in a different west coast city for the last 30 years, and around eighty to a hundred people usually show up.

Next year my cousin Mari will be the chairman, and the reunion will be held in Portland, Oregon so that everyone will also be able to attend Mari's wedding. She's in the Portland Taiko group and her fiance is a jazz musician, so it could be a very musical event which I hope very much to attend. Mari is talking about sending out wedding invitations with a tsuru (Japanese origami crane) which is a symbol of good luck, longevity, and peace, so I found this drawing I did of a tsuru several years ago.

5 Comments:

Blogger Karoda said...

Pam, such a precious tradition and beautiful photos!

10:53 AM  
Anonymous myra said...

Wonderful pictures! And how cool that you meet every year!

12:22 AM  
Blogger Sonji Hunt said...

Beautiful family. I adore cranes, too and what they symbolize. Fabulous drawing. Quilt coming?

1:48 PM  
Blogger "Maggie" said...

What lovely family pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

3:47 AM  
Blogger Karoda said...

Hey Pam, I just read on the QA digest that your piece won an award from the H-V challenge! Congratulations as this is awesome. My sister has a H-V top of the line sewing machine and girl, it is smooooooooth! When will you receive it?

7:36 AM  

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